RegionalHelpWanted.com FAQs

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What is RegionalHelpWanted.com?

RHWC partners with local broadcast stations to design, build and maintain web sites throughout the country. The goal of this partnership and the web site is to capitalize on the fact that most help wanted advertising is local (not national) and to get our unfair share of the daily newspapers' $8 billion in annual help wanted revenues.  Back to Top


What does RHWC want from the radio stations?

In each market, RHWC partners with 2 to 4 radio and/or television groups. We ask for commercial time to promote the site. Specifically you commit to run twenty-four 60s per week per station, on a 24 hour rotation, Sun - Wed only.  Back to Top


What's in it for the Radio Stations?

The broadcast groups split 70% of the net classified revenues generated from the site. RHWC keeps 30%.  Back to Top


How does the web site make money?

Most of the revenue comes from Employers placing help wanted ads on the site.  Back to Top


When do the radio groups see their share of the money?

Checks are sent to the radio partners quarterly. You can check the site's revenues at any time by going to a password-protected portion of the site.  Back to Top


How can someone view a RHWC site?

Check out www.HudsonValleyHelpWanted.com. Based in Poughkeepsie, New York - a market of approximately 500,000 people -- it's our oldest site. It's generating over one million page views and nearly $100,000, per month.  Back to Top


How much work is it for the radio stations?

None. You run the ads and collect the revenues. We do the work.  Back to Top


Who sells the ads to the Employers/Recruiters?

It sells itself. Once employers hear the spots they go to the site themselves and place their ad. RHWC also has an in-house telemarketing sales team to convert newspaper advertisers to the web.  Back to Top


Who produces the radio commercials for the web site?

Dick Orkin's Radio Ranch -- in RHWC's opinion, the best creative talent in radio.  Back to Top


Why partner with RHWC rather than doing it alone?

Time is money. This is a great idea. You can put it together on your own. Or, you can capitalize on what RHWC has learned - it's successes and failures.  Back to Top


Does RHWC work with just one radio group in a market?

No. RHWC believes that in the Recruitment Advertising Game... the "spoils go to the Big Boys". Notice how the Daily Newspaper gets 99% of the Recruitment Advertising revenues... and the Weekly Newspapers just scrounge for crumbs? If RHWC were to work with just one radio group and the site is a great success the radio group down the street starts their own site and then a third group does the same thing. Who ends up winning? The daily newspapers again. By working together we increase the likelihood of winning a bigger piece of the newspapers' local help wanted classified advertising dollars. If you insist on working alone with us... 1) remember we don't recommend it, and 2) we will consider it on a 65/35 split (instead of our normal 70/30 split). However, we truly believe that everyone will make more money by creating the BIGGEST web site in town. And that is done by working with your competitors.

We strive to work with enough radio (or radio and TV) stations to reach 70% of the cume in each market!  Back to Top


There are a ton of Help Wanted web sites. What makes RHWC different?

One word: Local. Go to all the big names (Monster.com, CareerHighway.com, CareerWeb.com etc. etc. etc.) and what you see are high paying jobs... usually only from national companies with locations in your market. RHWC targets the local help wanteds (local employers looking for local employees). Taken altogether these local help wanted ads bring in more than $8 billion per year to the newspaper industry.  Back to Top


Do I need to hire salespeople to help sell recruitment ads on the RHWC site?

You don't need to do ANYTHING. We designed this to be a turnkey operation. RHWC hires Direct Marketers who work from our Poughkeepsie offices. They place calls in your market to convert newspaper Help Wanted advertisers into RHWC advertisers.  Back to Top


So, do the radio/TV partners get 70% of total revenues?

You receive 70% of the Collected Net Classified Revenues. This equals the Collected Gross Classified Revenues minus Variable Expenses. Variable Expenses are: a) transaction costs paid to a bank or other financial institution, b) cost of telemarketing, direct marketing, advertising production and/or Direct Marketer(s), if any, c) cost of monthly fax blasting and/or e-mail blasting, if any, d) Web hosting fees. Variable expenses are guaranteed to not exceed 20% of gross revenues.  Back to Top


The Daily Newspaper has their own local Web Site. Isn't that a problem?

No. Their site is simply a listing of their printed ads. And it's only promoted in their newspaper. Plus RHWC offers many more features to the prospective employer, like free resume searching.  Back to Top


The radio stations have web sites with recruitment ads. What about that?

We know. Many stations have web sites from which they are making some money. But your web site and RHWC are not mutually exclusive. RHWC is a new concept: partner with your competitors to go after the daily newspaper. You keep selling and we will too.  Back to Top


How do stations get started?

Call us at at 845-471-1450 x135. Email us at Eric@RegionalHelpWanted.com. We'd like to meet with the GMs and Market Managers in your area. Once we have an agreement, it's just one month till we are up and running!!!  Back to Top


What groups are you working with?

In various markets, we are working with Infinity, Clear Channel, Citadel, Entercom, Saga, Journal, Next, Marathon, Albany Broadcasting, Dalton, Jefferson-Pilot, and many others.  Back to Top


Isn't this an Internet initiative? Won't I need corporate approval?

No... this is not an internet initiative. Most groups call it like it is...kind of a fancy PI. You run spots, you get revenues. The fact is, this has little or nothing to do with any Internet initiative(s) you may be involved in. It's NTR with no work.  Back to Top