Job Board for Lobbyists
eujobs.co
eujobs.co
I'm hoping that I can sell them a resume filtering service at 1000$ and be the recruiting service for lobbyists (and hopefully more later) - so "You give us the resume we find you the job" type thing - practically a marketplace for job seekers and posters.
Right now I've been desperately trying to get more clients. There are 3 competitors in Brussels and London (where I'm focusing), they charge 2000$ 1000$ and 400$ per job posting and make about 2 million a year each.
What I'm doing. 1. emailing everyone who posts a job on their website (title: why post on x website when it's free on my website) 2. begging all my friends and quite frankly anyone I meet (I'm a ex lobbyists) to post their jobs on my website 3. trying to improve my SEO by getting people to search my website when they ask me "What do you do" 4. writing articles (Huge thanks to the positional.com guys - they were so soo sooooo generous with their time - thank you Matt!!!!!!!) 5. posting QR codes to my website on stickers everywhere (GOD, PLEASE DON'T MAKE THE POLICE FINE ME FOR THIS!!!!) 6. commenting on any post I see that offers a lobbying job (post on eujobs.co it's free etc...) 7. I'm not going to write all the desperate things I do... BUT PLEASE DO GIVE ME IDEAS!!!
I lowered my basic tier to free because I need market share, but dang it's hard to see so much money go down the drain (potential paying posts).
Also please don't tell me to apply to YC, did it like 4 times and I think it just doesn't make sense for me - right now I'm just in survival mode (it's a joke on founder mode, hope you got it).
My main doubts are: - Did I fuck up doing a free tier? - Am I unknowingly demoralized? I mean initially I was trying to make a SaaS to compete with FTI (a huge lobbying firm with a market cap of 2billion), now I'm making a job board and worrying what my mom will say when I turn 30 (very soon). - Did I fuck up making multiple websites (Zurich, London, and all the other lobbying hubs), my thought process was "it only costs 10$ to buy the domain" - What other things can I do to get clients (I found some lists of things that don't scale but another one would be helpful - I even made one) - Should I pay for a press release? Like einpresswire or something like that? - How are my competitors kicking my ass. They have no SEO (literally zero keyword strategy), the website is not mobile friendly, they don't use stripe so payments only with a bank transfer, they even did job.euractiv so they don't get the seo benefits from their newspaper, and so many more things... I thought in 3 months I'd be rolling them.
Anyways, Thanks a lot HN! And sorry for my mega rant - it's 3:52 in the morning here.