Heroes forum for sale

About the site/why I'm selling:

This is a forum where users can discuss NBC's TV show, Heroes. The forum is 1 year, three months old. My reason for selling is simply that I'm very busy and don't have time to run the forum to my satisfaction. I feel someone with more time would be better suited to run this forum. Moreover, while I still watch the show, I've lost interest in it. Because Heroes is so popular, I see it continuing for several more years. Heroes should return next spring, though this depends on the outcome of the writer's strike. In addition to the forum itself, the forum has a gallery installed with several pictures of heroes cast and characters.

URL: http://www.discussheroes.com

Forum stats:

Registrations/Day:3-4 but 8 - 12 on day after Heroes airs.
Logins/Day: 20 - 30
Posts/Day: 70 - 100 when Heroes airs every week. When on a break, 30-40.
Threads: 1,354
Posts: 11,031
Members: 2,733

Traffic:

Traffic is about 10,500 uniques/month for the last two months and 150,000 pageviews. (Screen - traffic as of December 9th)

Recent rankings (google) for "heroes forums" (#3) and "heroes forum" (#4) and others.


Revenue:

• I made $30 from Adsense in September and a little less previously. Adsense has been growing each month. (Nov, Oct, Sept)
• Averaging $20 through Text-Link-Ads each month.
• $35/month through independent advertisers (I can give you email address of advertiser(s))
• $30 through paid forum subscriptions (3 users @ $10/year)

$30 Adsense + $20 TLA + $35 link sales + $30 paid subscriptions = $115

Total Revenue: $115 last month., approximately $80 for October.

Other Information:

• Domain is registered at Godaddy.
• Vbulletin license not included because it is expired.

Bidding:

I reserve the right to accept any offer at any time or cancel any bid. Preferred method of payment is paypal.

Starting Bid: $100
Bidding increments of $10 only please.
BIN Price: $1200 (or best offer)
Auction End Date: Will set in the next 24 hours.

If you have any other questions or need any other information about the site, please feel free to ask in this thread or through PM.

 

Just a side note...Heroes has to be the best TV show ever on these days. Damn writers' strike.

 

100 for me! with the vb license...
ill renew it.,...

 

any idea how long will the Writers Guild of America strike last?

Lpspider , do you think that it would have any effect on traffic?

thanks

 

well how much is the monthly expence?

 

The strike is breaking apparently. A couple of late night shows were getting their writers back as of a few days ago.

Oh, and as for the bidding, I bid $110.

Thanks,
James

 

I bid 200 for the site.

What are the other expenses?

 

it says the forum has 2733 members.

Does vbulletin have a method to bulk email these members, or is that even allowed, for the forum owner to email the members?

thanks-

 

Vb can do this yes!

 

$210 from me

 

wirescale - it's impossible to say. The strike indirectly would affect the activity simply because no new episodes would be airing.

earnbussi - I spend $0 promoting the site. Up until two weeks ago I had all my sites on a shared host. I recently upgraded to a VPS but that's only because my other sites were getting too large. Discuss heroes could easily be run on most standard shared hosting plans. Aside from hosting, there are no expenses.

benshar - yes, users can be mass-emailed very easily.

jvuonger currently has the highest bid at $210.

I should also mentioned that I implemented Kontera for guests a few days ago. Thus far I've made about $1, plus I've had some miscellaneous sales from amazon. These methods of revenue, as well as others, could fairly easily be improved upon.

I'll set the auction end date in a few hours.

 

$250 here.

 

pcknowhow.com has the highest bid at $250.

Apparently the limit to edit posts isn't 24 hours any longer, as I had thought. The auction ends on Friday at 10:00 PM Central Standard Time.

 

BIN price dropped $400 to $800. Auction ends in less than 24 hours.

 

$260 bid received.

 

$270 here.

 

pcknowhow has the highest bid at $270. Auction ends in about 45 minutes. BIN for $500 or best offer. I'll be on till it ends so feel free to ask any questions whatsoever.

 

I bid $280

 

$300 here weeeeeeeeeeee

 

$305 here.