| | | BUSINESS FOR SALE ADVERT DETAILS | | | ADVERT VIEWED : 114,225 TIME(S) BUSINESS REFERENCE : 7987 / RightBiz RECRUITMENT WEBSITE FOR UK JOB SEEKERS OVER 50 YEARS OLD | | | | | | Targeting experienced workers, the website is sold as a business asset. Suitable for someone wanting to reach this audience with an established website with high search engines ranking (saving the time and expenses to build the website and advertise it). | | | BUSINESS LOCATION: | Undisclosed Relocatable UNITED KINGDOM | | BUSINESS SECTOR: | Miscellaneous | | TRADE TYPE: | IT & Internet & Computing | | SALE: | Private Sale | FREEHOLD: | £7900 | | | | | | | | | | | BUSINESS DETAILS: | Business Description:
This sale is for an online job board targeting experienced workers over 50 years old and those looking for part-time and work at home opportunities in the UK. The website is sold as a business asset. It is suitable for someone who wants to reach this target audience with a website already set-up and with good search engine ranking (saving the expenses of building the website and advertising it).
Since launch, we have built extensive links with UK websites targeting online users over 50 years old. As a result, we achieved prominent positions on the main search engines and traffic to our website increased by 284% on a month per month comparison (Google Analytics – January 2007 v. 2008).
Google.com:
- 1 out of 271,000 “jobs for over 50s”
- 17 out of 57,900,000 results “jobs working from home”
Yahoo.co.uk
- Rank 2 out of 8,450,000 for “jobs for over 50s”
- Rank 6 out of 444,400,000 for “jobs working from home”
Google.co.uk:
- Rank 1 our of 77,5000 “jobs for over 50s”
- Rank 19 out 305,000 of “jobs working from home”
We have similar high rankings on MSN and other search engines.
This website has been taken to the point that it is now ready for someone to take it to the next level to create revenue as until now it has existed as a free-to-use site purely to gain page rank and start to build a database of users.
Monetization prospects include targeted advertising, charging a fee to employers for posting job ads or commission on affiliated services such as CV-writing or products geared towards the over 50s.
Developed using asp.net with mssql database, this website has extremely low operating cost and can be run from the home or office anywhere in the world.
It includes: a good admin backend, a content management system to enable you to manage registered users and companies posting job adverts and a payment system (using Paypal) ready for monetization.
Location: A UK internet-based business, which can be run from the home or office anywhere.
Expansion Potential: Properly managed, this website could be sold to an existing recruitment company or to any organization interested in reaching the over 50s. Potential to build a national franchise model around the website by allocating UK territories to commission only sales people responsible for selling advertising space/job placements.
Competition: www.skilledpeople.com, www.aged2excel.co.uk and some brick-and-mortars recruitment agencies targeting the over 50s, although some are also using our website to publish their job ads.
Reasons for selling: The owners are pursuing other opportunities and do not have the time to develop the website into a fully-fledged commercial operation. | | | | | BUSINESS STATUS: | FOR SALE | | | | | SELLER: | Confidential - Members Only | | CONTACT: | Confidential - Members Only | | REFERENCE: | 7987 / RightBiz | | ENQUIRIES: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |