http://www.jobbountyhunter.com/howItWorks.html This should be HTML text... and lose the chintzy stock photos.

Congratulations on your launch. The concept sounds like a good one. Here are a few comments...

1.) Tighten up your USP on the home page - It's not obvious what you're doing at first glance of the home page. The big blue block of text in the middle is too wordy and hard to read. Try to distill what you're doing down to a pithy tagline.

2.) Emphasize benefits more on home page - I like how you've split up the home page to cater to your two audiences, publishers and recruiters, but the text underneath seems to be more of a feature list or a "how it works" list than a benefits list.

Try to focus more on the "What's in it for me?" question your core audience is asking. "Get access to the smartest and most engaged people" is probably the only sentence there that really speaks to that question.

3.) Emphasize sign-up more - My guess is that your main goal right now is to get account sign-ups. The hand pointing to the button is clever, but I think you could do more to make this stand out. Also the big green "place a job now" image under the recruiter section seems like it would be a button, but it's not. I'd turn it into one.

4.) Building trust - I think my first question as a blogger/publisher would be "What keeps JBH.com and the recruiter honest? How will I really know that my referral was the winner or not?" I'm not sure how you overcome this, but that was my first question/objection and I didn't really see anything on the "how it works" page that helped allay that fear.

Overall I think this is a good concept and I wish you well. It's a tough market right now but there's no time to start like the present, right? Hopefully we all have nowhere to go but up from here.

Best of luck to you.

That's valuable feedback thanks.

It's great to get an external opinion.

the site looks great! i think the hardest part will be to convince bloggers that jobbountyhunter widgets will make more money than the ads they may already be showing and that any money they do make will be rewarded enough to justify cluttering their site more than necessary...

Thanks for the feedback! Hopefully a substantial pot of bounty cash will accumulate, making it more appealing to bloggers and web publishers.

AS

"how it works" is a bit convoluted. Perhaps distinguish between advertiser, publisher and job seeker and explain how your service helps them. The design in general is not as clean as it could be, and the font-sizes on the first page seems random. Maybe you could emphasize important parts and leave out less important ones.

The links in your widgets seem to be broken "post a job" and the image-link end up on the start page, not shure this is intentional.

Apart from design, I think the idea is neat. I am not shure how your payout compares to regular advertisement, but the posibility of a large profit might convince a lot of people to put your widgets on their page.

Great feedback thank you!

AS

The front page was very busy in my opinion for a stealth-mode startup. Keep it REAL simple and lead people to more information.

Also the color, layout and stock photos on the 'how it works' page made me think of one of those pyramid scheme sites.

What is the validation model for the Job Seeker eclipsing 3 months?

Widgets look good.

Thanks for the feedback - its a big help.

Can you clarify what you are asking here ""What is the validation model for the Job Seeker eclipsing 3 months?"" - I'll try to answer.

Thanks

AS