Selling Established Acrylic Nail Technician Forums $160/mo

PM me if interested.


SITE:
http://www.nailforums.com

DESCRIPTION
Nailforums.com is forum dedicated to the discussion of everything about acrylic nails, nail care, and nail products. The target demographic is women from their teens and up. Members of the forum can discuss acrylic nail and gel nail techniques, nail art designs, and related products.

This forum is a PR1 site which I created in April, 2010. The forum runs on vBulletin 3.8.7. A vBulletin Classic 4 license is included, although I choose to run vBulletin 3.8.7 instead. Also included is a VBSEO license.

Features / Plugins
1. Runs on vBulletin 3.8.7.
2. VBSEO for search engine friendly URLs.
3. vBAdvanced Integrated - Sidebar widgets through site.
4. Automatic Media Embeder - Automatically parse links with thumbnails/embedded videos (i.e.: YouTube, Break, Amazon, eBay).
5. Automatic Thread Tagger - Threads are automatically tagged based on keywords from the thread title.
6. Advanced Registration - Reduces spambot registration with unique questions/answers system.
7. Permissions based on Post Count - Reduces spam, restricts ability to post links based on post count.
8. Expanded Signature Options - New users cannot create a signature until a minimum post count is reached.
9. VB/Forum Ad Management - Ad management system.
10. One Touch Ban & Spam Clean Up - Easily ban and delete all posts/threads made by a specific user.
11. Rewrite eBay Links - Rewrites all links to eBay with your ePN affiliate ID.
12. vBExperience - Rewards system to help stimulate activity amount members.
13. vBulletin Tweet Poster - Automatically tweets new threads on Twitter.
14. Newsletter - A daily double opt-in newsletter is mailed to members containing new activity on the forums.

Initially the content on this site was scraped from Yahoo! Answers. This helped jump start the forums with content that our real members would reply to. This feature has been turned off and all current activity on the forums is purely from real members. Yes, the content is duplicate content, but our members have replied to those threads adding unique content to those pages. Some people may be concerned with this method and it's relation to the Google Panda update. But I haven't seen a dip in traffic. The users that were used to create the Yahoo! Answers threads are saved in their own user group and are not mixed in will regular users.

This forum currently has 9.2K users, with 400 being actual real members, and another 100 that need to confirm their email.

TWITTER
Along with forums comes its own Twitter account. The Twitter account has over 2.4k followers. The Twitter account is fully automated and helps generate targeted traffic. New threads created on the forums will automatically be tweeted to Twitter with a bit.ly link to the thread. Also, I setup the Twitter account to retweet other tweets by real Twitter users based on keywords. Those users see their retweets and are more likely to follow nailforums and visit the forums. Random questions without any links are also asked on the Twitter account. These Tweets are pulled from Yahoo Answers. This method generates organic @nailforums reply tweets from other Twitter users answering those questions. Which in turn, also brings traffic from the members answering those questions and their followers seeing their answers to @nailforums. These features are extremely unique and were only possible using a combination of the Twitter API, Yahoo! Pipes, Yahoo! Answers, Twitterfeed, and bit.ly.

The Twitter account is a very intricate and automated method of generating extremely targeted traffic to the forums.

You can see the Twitter account here: http://www.twitter.com/nailforums

A bit.ly and Twitterfeed accounts are also included.

WHY NO ADSENSE?
I am not running Adsense, because I do not have an account. My Adsense account was 'bowled' years ago, in which someone copied my Pub ID and placed it on a German site about Adsense tips, which was clearly in violation of the TOS. Adsense contacted me about the violations coming from that particular site, with a threat to ban if they weren't removed. I replied that I didn't owned the site and couldn't remove the ads numerous times as I didn't want to be banned. I tried contacting the site owner to remove them and Adsense again many times explaining my situation, but received no response, only a ban from Adsense. I tried to appeal, but was unsucessful. Since then, no Adsense.

WHY I'M SELLING
Nailforums.com is a great site, but I would like to focus my attention on a new project I am starting. I won't have the time to focus on numerous projects and would hate to see this site not get the attention it deserves.
Revenue Details

REVENUE
Nailforums.com is currently only being monetized with ePN. With an average EPC of .25, with 645 clicks total, for a total earnings of $162.35 for June 2011. Currently for the month of July 2011, from the 1st to the 17th, the current revenue from ePN is $112.47, with an average EPC of .53 and 223 clicks. The forums include an eBay RSS forums, the links generated are rewritten with my ePN link using a plugin. Your ePN affiliate ID can easily be inserted for quick switchover of monetization. No other method of monetization was used. Previously I been using Amazon Associates to monetize this site, but switched over to ePN with great results.

There are many ways this site can be monetized, here are a few below:
1. ePN - Using the Rewrite eBay Links plugin, any link made to eBay will automatically be parsed with your ePN affiliate ID.
2. Adsense - Insert your Adsense blocks forum wide, easily with the vB Ad Management System.
3. Amazon - Insert your Amazon banners forum wide, easily with the vB Ad Management System.
4. Commission Junction - Sally's Beauty on Commission Junction would be a perfect program to advertise on this forum.

Remember I only used ePN for June to monetize the site. The full revenue potential has not been tapped!

This forum has great potential of becoming a huge money maker. It has a huge growth potential of members who would also be buyers. These members would require supplies, including acrylic powder, nail polish, nail art supplies, etc. You can monetize this need through many different ways using ePN, Amazon Associates and Commission Junction. Pair with Adsense, this site is capable of bring in a substantial increase in revenue. As the site grows, your profits will to.

I can't make any claims as how much you can make if you added Google Adsense or other affiliate networks to the site, but I assure you that the addition will increase the amount of money this site can earn.

Traffic Details

TRAFFIC
All traffic is either from organic search, direct type in, or from Twitter. For the month of June, Nailforums.com received 14k unique visitors with 23k page views.

I just installed Google Analytics, but here are my current traffic stats from statcounter.

http://statcounter.com/project/standard/stats.php?project_id=5866633&guest=1

 

Can you verify that you are the owner?
Also, no one but the seller can see your "Revenue Details" link.

 

I verified the site. As for the revenue link, I cannot edit it, but you can see the details on my flippa auction here: https://flippa.com/2631393-acrylic-nail-technician-forums-160-mo-from-epn