Earning €125,000/Year From His Job Boards

💬 Wouter Meens tweets…

Over the past year, my job boards generated around €125,000 in total revenue, with a profit margin of approximately 95%. About 85% of that revenue came from my two largest job boards.

He doesn’t name them but one is likely sustainablejobs.nl, a niche Dutch-language job board 🇳🇱

How Wouter started that…

for about 9 months we send out messages on Instagram (this was 2021) to organizations in sustainability and offer them to post unlimited amount of jobs for free. 

That way we received around 250 job posts in the first 9 months. Which gave a boost to website traffic via Google for Jobs, gave as content to share in socials (so the followers started to grow) and job seekers became more inclined to sign up for the jobs newsletter. 

then after 9 months we changed to paid job posts only.

The tough thing about this business model 👇

Job boards are two-sided marketplaces. No jobs = no candidates. No candidates = no jobs. It can take 2–3 years to grow from scratch.

A shortcut? Buy a job board with existing traffic and clients.

Sure, it costs money — but you skip the hardest part: the cold start.

Try Acquire.com or Jobboardsearch.com to find listings.

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