We’ve just launched our OhioJobFair.org web site on August 5th, 2008, and after a full-day of online viral marketing via StumbleUpon.com, Yahoo Groups, Digg.com, Spicypage.com, Facebook, LinkedIn.com, Upcoming.yahoo.com, and Last.fm, it generates a large explosion of over 12,760 registered job seekers for the Ohio Job Fair 2008, to be held in September 2008 at The Greater Columbus Convention Center in Columbus, Ohio.
Our actual ad campaign (radio and TV) starts on August 20th in all five major cities in Ohio, which are; Columbus, Dayton, Toledo, Cleveland, and Cincinnati. We’ll run our 30 second and 15 second spots on 3 different radio stations (soft rock, rock, and R&B), and one CBS affiliate TV station in each of these five cities.
Forbes recently ranked some of the fastest dying cities in the U.S., which includes; Youngstown, Canton, Dayton and Cleveland in Ohio, with Detroit and Flint in Michigan also making the ranking. They report that this is due to a large fleeing of the population trying to escape the waves of unemployment and barely growing economies.
With so many people out of work, especially in Ohio, and as soon as we start running our ad campaign, we estimate that over 100,000 users would be registered as job seekers to attend the Ohio Job Fair 2008.
However, since pre-registration for the Ohio Job Fair 2008 is free for any job seeker, we don’t actually know who and cannot estimate who or how many will actually come to the Ohio Job Fair 2008 event, even though they’ve registered, that may not mean that they will come, but we hope that those who are registering are those who are actually looking for quality jobs and will actually come and see what we have at the Ohio Job Fair 2008.
Also, we do not promise that any of these job seekers will actually be able to find a job or get hired by any employer. We are simply opening the doors for willing employers and job seekers to conveniently meet face-to-face in one easy central location, The Greater Columbus Convention Center, which may make it even easier for hiring companies to find suitable candidates for their vacancies.
Learn more about the Ohio Job Fair 2008 at www.ohiojobfair.org and pre-register for free to attend as a job seeker or register your company to be one of our exhibitors.
