After blog services, spam blockers, search engines, media buyers and people blogging for a specific professional purpose (painters sell their paintings, headhunters recruit, free-lance programmers look for contracts, politicians grab potential votes, etc.), one more business enters the blogging industry: job boards.

Unlike many job boards which are just non-updated CV databases, Problogger Job Board, is built upon an interesting concept. Here’s the letter I received from its founder in the generic newsletter sent a few days ago:

“Dear ProBlogger Subscribers,I just wanted to shoot you a short note to let you know about a new feature added to ProBlogger in the last few mintues – ProBlogger’s Job Boards. Eric Allam and I have been working hard on them and would now like to invite you to stop by and be among the first to see the finished results.

Every week I am asked by companies, networks and individual bloggers where they can find good bloggers. I’ve often tried to set people up but these boards are about providing a space for bloggers for hire and those looking for them to meet – sort of like a blogging dating agency.

If you’re a blogger lookign for work there are already 10 jobs advertised and more on the way. If none of the first round of jobs are up your alley you might like to subscribe to the RSS feed so you can be notified of new jobs as they are posted.

If you’re looking for a blogger - take advantage of our opening special price of just $50 US for 30 days of listing your job. It’ll be seen both on the boards, the RSS feed and also the top right menu box at ProBlogger.net where it’ll be seen by thousands of readers (most of them bloggers looking to make money from blogging) each day.

I’m really excited about this new roll out at ProBlogger and hope you find it useful too. Let me know if you have any feedback on the boards – this is just version 1 and we’re looking forward to adding some interesting new features in the coming weeks and months. ”

Could you picture yourself as a professional blogger? I personally couldn’t, never. I blog for fun, and for you. But maybe our children will consider in some time blogging as a natural career option.

I’d really like to have your opinion regarding professional blogging.

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