I am placing my beloved forum on the market ........

www.Designcrowd.com

Designcrowd - Established Freelancer Jobs Forum - 1830 members and growing each day. Dont be fooled as this is not a normal jobs site. It is quite unique.

Age of site August 2004

Income -
Subscriptions (to date) $230 a month
Banners and ads - $50 a month but all up for renewal (I undercharged so much more can be achieved)
Google - $30 a month

Total monthly income = $310

Page Ranking - 5

Members - 1820 - 3 - 10 new signups daily with no advertising

Subscribed members - 46 paying $5 per month each

Unique daily visits used to be 500 but since I made it subscription its around 170 - 230 - stats proof upon request. Difficult with the Paypal as I have other sites going thru the same account, I will try though and post as soon as I can

Excellent Search terms top spots with MSN (details if requested)
Partner links with Deviantart as well as others
No advertising costs whatsoever
Great Domain name

Reason for selling - other site interests as I am moving to France

Comments
This is not your 'run of the mill' type freelancer site - please take a look to verify. I ran this site for a long time as a free site but decided about 6 weeks ago to make it subscription based. Of course only a proportion of serious members have joined and more come on each week. But it is still growing and I do not see any reason why a new enthusiastic owner will not churn out decent profits. I do not advertise anywhere so all is word of mouth and search engine. It has excellent placement in MSN - 5 top search terms come in on the first page - one at number1. Requires about 1 hour updating daily

This forum is not a posting forum nor is it a chat forum. Members come on purely to browse the updated projects each day.

This is a serious business for someone to take forward and I will regret selling I know it!
I also have a duty to my members so I need to know the new owners intentions. I will stick around after the sale if required to transit smoothly.

Bids from $2000
BIN $3500

I would be happy to answer your questions by email or pm

Thanks
JohnT

John (Wordsmith), please do not attempt to work around forum guidelines when it comes to creating signatures.

Sorry I feel dumb - really not sure what you mean web? Can you pm me and explain?

Thanks

I am sotry to hear you are seling Designcrowd, hope new owner will care of it like you did

Thanks Grafit - I will make certain it will be looked after.

John

Site sold on sitepoint

Thanks
JohnT

Glad you did it

Thanks for the up Graf

JohnT

Congrats on the sale! Thread closed.