benobo

Topic: A newsletter for Recruiters

I think recruiters are a good target for JobberBasers who want fresh ads on their website. Though most recruiters are busy people, and they don't especially think about your website all the time; we need to incitate them coming back on our JobberBase-powered site.

To do this, we need to retrieve their emails - maybe with a MySQL string SELECT from... (I can't write more, or you programmers will laugh...) to write them a newsletter. This can be a very basic function and simple, but I just don't have the knowledge to do it... I'd be happy if I could program it and share it here to get it improved by your own ideas believe me!

If someone has even the most basic idea, like a MySQL string allowing me to retrieve the recruiters email in a "pastable" format to my gmail, this is even enough for me!

Thanks for reading this smile

PS: I'd also like to send emails to applicants, even though this requires much more work. The post is here http://www.jobberbase.com/forum/topic73 … cants.html

Last edited by benobo (2008-10-09 21:12:33)

matteoraggi

Re: A newsletter for Recruiters

I suggest  to not code all newsletter system but to use phplist with a sync module:
phplist:
http://www.phplist.com

example of sync modules:
http://forge.vtiger.com/projects/phplistsync/
http://vtiger-spain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=autoemail

or maybe this link could help too:
http://phpmailer.codeworxtech.com

Last edited by matteoraggi (2008-12-13 12:29:44)

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benobo

Re: A newsletter for Recruiters

This sounds interesting. I'll definitely have a look into it. Did you implement it into your website?

matteoraggi

Re: A newsletter for Recruiters

I'll implement it in few days-weeks for vtiger, not for jobberbase, i could think to do it maybe with next version of jobberbase that I'm waitin for from august wink

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benobo

Re: A newsletter for Recruiters

Okay. Anyways, it shouldn't be this hard to "merge" JobberBase and PhpList I guess. Thanks for sharing Matt wink

If I succeed to implement the newsletter subscription to the apply form and/or on custom page, I will share my work here. Come back in a few weeks!

matteoraggi

Re: A newsletter for Recruiters

many opensource software are using also phpmailer http://phpmailer.codeworxtech.com

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benobo

Re: A newsletter for Recruiters

It looks nice but I need my associate - who doesn't even know html - to be able to use the newsletter system... PhpMailer looks like it's not really accessible for such a person, right?

matteoraggi

Re: A newsletter for Recruiters

yes, phpmailer is for developers who integrate it in them code system.
to integrate phplist with jobberbase, you could export emails of jobberbase users and import them into phplist by hand first to send an email, it is a very raw way to work, but it is bettr then nothing to start, then in future, we hope someone will develop an automatic sync of data between jobberbase and phplist

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benobo

Re: A newsletter for Recruiters

I might take the challenge to do this man. If I succeed (I'm currently learning php) then I'll share it. I just need time...

But first, yeah, the rough way : like you said, it's way better than nothing at all. Plus I don't have tons of mails already. My concern is about my users privacy : I need their agreement to send newsletters... Otherwise they can consider me as a spammer, which I don't want to act like.

matteoraggi

Re: A newsletter for Recruiters

yes, so you could force users to give you agreement to put job offers to be sure to have agreement from all, as I'm doing on www.lavorohotel.net

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benobo

Re: A newsletter for Recruiters

That's exactly what I'm going to do! So if I understand right, you added those two conditions to your form (privacy policy and commercial content agreements). And now you grab emails into your database by hand when it says OK for the newsletter? Is that how you proceed?

matteoraggi

Re: A newsletter for Recruiters

YES, I just force people to give both agreements, yes, data managing and to send adv, but I don't have done yet step to export emails and import into phplist, but I have experience in import in phplist for othe reasons

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benobo

Re: A newsletter for Recruiters

Okay, I'll give this stuff a shot and share it. Well, if someone wants to take it, please go ahead! But it doesn't seems like a coder is interested yet...

matteoraggi

Re: A newsletter for Recruiters

I have founded this too, for developers: http://www.swiftmailer.org/ this is used also into mailpress plugin of wordpress, withbig success

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redjumpsuit

Re: A newsletter for Recruiters

you might be interested in my new script enabling admins to send newsletter or announcements to employers or job posters, here is a link:

http://www.redjumpsuit.net/2009/07/02/a … employers/

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matteoraggi

Re: A newsletter for Recruiters

you got the right target!
but i'm just ugsing phplist, exporting emails and using them in phplist when needed, i'm managing more of 200 emals an growing up, I need something a lot tested and wth many funcions, a simple newsletter for m is not enough, sorry, but you got a very nice idea, good luck and maybe a day i'll use it, for now I don't need it, also because I sent just  emails and i don't know when I'll send the next for now.

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