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Established Forum with Plenty of Potential for Sale

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    Established Forum with Plenty of Potential for Sale

    Hi all,

    I am here to notify you that I am beginning to look for offers on a forum I set up in late August 2008. The forum is called FMStyle - and is a forum for members to discuss all incarnations of Football Manager, a game by Sports Interactive. The link is FM Style - Football Manager Forum (FM09 & FM08 Forums)

    I have the following licenses/hosting/etc:
    VBulletin Leased until August 2009
    VBBlogs Leased until October 2009
    Please note that these cannot be transferred to would have to be upgraded to the owned versions - we can discuss how best to do this if you are interested.
    1 year of the silver hosting at dream-hosting.co.uk until January 2010. [Note - this is to be renewed in the next week, I will renew it but if you want to move the site to your own host let me know and I wont renew my hosting]
    VBSeo is owned by a friend called Marc who helps with the technical side of things, so you would have to get in touch with him regarding the purchase of that.
    The domain name fmstyle.co.uk, registered until August 2010 with 123Reg.

    Forum Stats:
    Threads: 1,157, Posts: 19,510, Members: 1,333

    Adsense:
    This is the area which I think we have not taken full advantage off.
    So far we have earned about $23 dollars. This is not very good, but someone with more expertise I feel could certainly make more from adverts.

    Stats
    We average around 10-20 users per day and around 600 visits per day. 62% of our hits are from search engines. Please ask and I will show you more stats.

    THis is my first time selling a forum, I have not got a definitive price but I do have a figure in my head that is what I am looking for.

    I will be putting the site up on Sitepoint in 10 days so if you want to get it before the rest hurry up

    Please PM me if you have any questions.

    Regards,

    Jack F.
    Last edited by jackfranklin; 01-21-2009 at 02:34 PM.

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    vBulletin leased licenses cannot be transferred, same goes for the blog license that is attached to it.

    You would need to upgrade it to Owned in order to transfer it, so including it in your advertisement is slightly misleading to the viewer if they aren't aware.

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    Apologies, did not know that. Will update the first post.

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    No problem.

    It's all part of the learning curve when it comes to selling things like this.

    I'd probably also suggest a couple of things:

    1) In your advertisement, tell people what you are selling. In your post, you say what you have, but none of it can really be sold (lease licenses, hosting accounts etc). You could probably sell the rights to the domain, and the database that contains the vB data.

    2) When offering a sale of something, confirm that you can sell it.

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    Hey, how much are you looking for for the site?

    thanks

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    Hi vibe,

    Thank you for your interest. I have sent you a PM.

    Regards,

    Jack.

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