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  1. #1
    Great opportunity in a very interesting market. Parenting and pregnancy are always hot topics. People will always have babies and need parenting advice. Parenting and pregnancy forums offer great opportunity to make good money via advertising or by selling related products. The domain name is of high quality. Descriptive, informative, easy to remember, 15 characters.

    Domain Name: Smartparenthood.com
    Domain registered in April 2005 and is good until 2007.

    Website Information: Parenting and Pregnancy related forums. The website was started late last year and has been steadily promoted. The forum is not extremely busy yet. Lot's of users are just reading or lurking around though. Every once in a while it gets a spike of visitors and activity increases without any need from me to do something. Then it is quiet again for a few days, before activity goes up again. The forum was part of another website first and I then moved it to this domain name in February or March.

    Threads: 383, Posts: 1,450, Members: 373 (as of 7/22/2006) (some of these member accounts were created to promote activity in the forums / majority are real users of course).
    Member registrations in general are encouraged by showing Google ads to non-members only. Ads are not shown very aggressively to allow the forum to grow without turning visitors away.

    Software: vBulletin (owned license) with VBSEO (owned) installed

    Earnings: so far (3/14/2006 - 7/22/2006): $25.10 (Adsense) (again - I have not really tried to monetize the forum at this point)

    Google Page Rank: 5
    Google does not show the number of backlinks for whatever reason (used Marketleap.com), but if you search Google for "smartparenthood" you will find all different kind of sites that have links to the forum. Several paid directory listings are in place, too (Kingbloom, Abilogic, and others).

    Pages in Search Engines
    Screenshot taken via Marketleap.com

    Traffic:
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    Reason for selling:
    Time. I do not have enough time available to actively promote the forum and to increase activity within the forums. I have been trying to make postings every day, but with a full-time job + my own small business and a high-needs baby at home it is just not working out for me.

    What is included?
    vBulletin license (need to check how the license can be verified)
    VBSEO license (need to check how the license can be verified)
    Domain Name: Smartparenthood.com
    Free push at Enom.
    Existing website of course
    Link from Firsttimepregnancy.com (Top Menu Bar) for 3 months with an option to buy the same link for a reasonable fee

    Price (Auction):
    Starting bid $500.00
    BIN: $2,500.00
    Payment via PayPal (confirmed PayPal users only!!!). If buyer wants Escrow, fees will be paid by buyer.

    Thanks for your interest.

    Christoph
     
    nsusa, Jul 22, 2006 IP
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    lordmenace Well-Known Member

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    #2
    How much for just the license (both vb and vbseo)?
     
    lordmenace, Jul 23, 2006 IP
  3. nsusa

    nsusa Peon

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    #3
    Thanks for your interest. The minimum bid in this auction is $500.00. This sale is not for software licenses.

    Anyway - current highest bid is $500 via PM.

    Please use increments of $10.00 for additional bids.

    Christoph
     
    nsusa, Jul 24, 2006 IP
  4. paul7777

    paul7777 Guest

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    #4
    Hi,

    When does the auction end?

    Also if i bought the site is it a straight forward process to transfer everything over to me?

    Do i need the licences etc?

    Thanks
    Paul
     
    paul7777, Jul 24, 2006 IP
  5. nsusa

    nsusa Peon

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    #5
    I am planning on closing this auction in the first half of this week. Depending on how things work out tomorrow night or Wednesday at the latest.

    The site should be easy to transfer - especially if you are on Cpanel with your hosting. I will assist with the transfer of course.

    The licenses are included in this deal. You do not need to buy anything. I will initiate the transfer once the deal closes and the payment has been made. If for whatever reason a license transfer gets rejected (I would not know why though), I will refund the price of a full purchase price of a license, so that you can buy it yourself. But this is only for the unlikely case a license transfer gets rejected by VBSEO or VBulletin.

    Christoph
     
    nsusa, Jul 24, 2006 IP
  6. nsusa

    nsusa Peon

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    Current Bid (via PM): $600

    Thanks.

    Christoph
     
    nsusa, Jul 24, 2006 IP
  7. nsusa

    nsusa Peon

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    #7
    The auction will end at 8.00 PM Mountain Time tonight.

    Christoph
     
    nsusa, Jul 25, 2006 IP
  8. nsusa

    nsusa Peon

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    #8
    After receiving interest in a lower BIN via PM, I am lowering the official BIN to $900.00.

    Last official bid is still at $600.00.

    Auction will close at 8.00 PM Mountain Time unless I receive an offer for BIN price.
     
    nsusa, Jul 25, 2006 IP
  9. explorer

    explorer Well-Known Member

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    #9
    Sold at BIN.
     
    explorer, Jul 25, 2006 IP
  10. nsusa

    nsusa Peon

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    #10
    Thanks. I replied to your PM.

    Sale pending.

    Christoph
     
    nsusa, Jul 25, 2006 IP
  11. nsusa

    nsusa Peon

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    #11
    Sale complete. Payment received. Site, Domain Name, and licenses have been transferred to the buyer. Thanks. :)

    Christoph
     
    nsusa, Jul 26, 2006 IP
  12. RoadRash

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    #12
    Nice site! I wish i would have saw this earlier.
     
    RoadRash, Jul 26, 2006 IP