I'm not a big fan of gimmicks. I think a good product sells itself. But there's a fact of life that, except for a few special cases, people don't like to be the first to do things. We're creatures of habit and social inertia. This presents a catch-22 for a job site. How do you get people to visit if there aren't any jobs posted? And how do you get jobs posted if no one ever visits? This isn't Field of Dreams. If you build it people may come, but that doesn't mean they'll add anything to the site. And a job site without jobs or people is...well, not that useful. Sure we could just siphon the same job database that plenty of other job sites out there use (usually ones based on the newest fad CMS), but that's not the point of Workchest.com. First of all, we want to get away from that type of reliance on big companies for job postings. Second we want to offer a community, and you can't build a community from a bunch of stale job postings that refer you to some other site.
The result?...
To help get over the initial hump and get some people registered, we're offering (at least) $1,000.00 to (at least) one lucky user if we meet 1,000 registrations by mid-March, 2007. If we get more than that we'll keep adding winners and prizes $500 dollars at a time. So if you haven't already, head over to the site and register, it's absolutely free. Odds are that your chances of winning $1000 will be somewhere around 1 in 1000 with no cost to you at all. How many times have you had that good of a chance of landing $1000 without really doing anything?
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