Start work on that picture.
Edit: Oh by the way I love the concept!
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Start work on that picture.
Edit: Oh by the way I love the concept!
My advice would be to concentrate on the SME market, to sell into the enterprise market requires sales people and a much higher price.
You could target your enterprise product to freelance recruiters though.
Also if you're going for small companies it might also be worth offering pricing on a per-job rather than time basis.
Also my gut feeling is that the pricing is wrong, talk to your customers and find out how much they save by using your product and use that as the basis of your pricing.
Website critique:
The features list looks a bit of a mess, rather than talking about features (of your product) talk about the benefits (to your users). Accepting CVs in JPG format might be a feature for you product, it's not a benefit to your end user though.
The features list should describe how you fix the pain-points the user is currently experiencing.
Title tag of front page should probably be "DropJobs | Keywords Go Here" rather than "DropJobs | Tagline"
Search for the word "features". Features do not sell software. Benefits sell software. You mention benefits, but only briefly, and they're given short shrift.
Similar to Google Analytics, simply copy and paste the DropJobs widget code into your company's existing website and we do the rest.
People with hiring authority typically don't use Google Analytics, and "easy installation" is not what pushes the PHB's buttons about this feature: it is that it looks like their software, on their website, with their branding. Many of them also think this actually means the data is on their Googles instead of on your Googles, and what they don't know won't hurt them.
Screenshots of software -- particularly software which is not visually inspiring -- do not push the reward receptors in the brains of people who do not make software for a living. Show a representation of the hiring manager achieving success instead. Your software will make him the hero, get him the promotion, get her home to her kids faster, clean up this effing mess in the inbox, whatever the value proposition is.
However, this isn't a problem the IT department are likely to search for, and this isn't the type of thing TechCrunch is going to be buzzing about.
I'm guessing your business model is predicated on a self service solution where people click on your Google ads and sign up. I don't think this will work well for you.
I'd increase your pricing to $xxx/mo upwards, and make cold calls all day to HR departments pitching them a cheap and easy solution that will help them post ads without involving IT to constantly push new HTML to their website for each job.
You won't be selling the HR department in isolation. On your sales call, you need to convince them it's a good idea and to arrange a follow-up call to get the person that manages their website into that call. Only if both HR and IT are convinced will you achieve a sale.
If this model works, hire more sales staff to pump up sales volume.
You definitely need a tour page where I can take a closer look at your software without using it. Something like http://basecamphq.com/tour/ or http://supportbreeze.com/tour (to put in a personal plug). I can't get a really good idea of the app from the text; show, don't tell.
Your pricing is at 5 jobs for $20/month, 20 jobs for $50/month. I think you can increase that pricing. Maybe sometime down the line.
You've got aliasing in your rounded corners that you should fix. (Sorry, couldn't resist.)
Show me an example page that I would see if I were a job applicant.
Your site has too much small text. Condense your copy and make it bigger.
Otherwise, great work! Best of luck :)
something like jobqueue sounds better to me.
but, now, it's probably too late for this.
But remember that just because you're not the first, doesn't mean you have to jump ship. Good luck!
This is a good niche to be in. Like some of the other comments mentioned, I would target technical recruiters and hiring managers since their the ones whose lives you're trying to make easier.
Couple of points
* "Accept applications and resumes autonomously" doesn't scan very well.
* You desperately need an 'example' section, so I can see how it would look on my site for applications, and so I can see what my UI experience would be as an employer
2) FAQ link does nothing for me on Chrome. I don't care if anyone has actually asked the questions - but several popped into my head while looking at this page. (What do you mean by "X Jobs" - do you count open positions or just posted? If I post a job in one month does it count against next months quota? How do I post jobs? How do I review resumes? How do I select a resume for interviewing? Am I always billed or only when I have positions posted?)
3) I am also in the "Where is the demo page" category.