Is there decent value in an almost 7 year old car forum?

Discussion in 'General Business' started by phjohnso, Nov 27, 2006.

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    I am entertaining the sale of tbirdforum.com, I started this site in early 2000 and its developed on its own naturally since them. There have been many interations of the forum over the almost last 7 years.

    the last year of stats can be found here.

    http://www.corvettestrader.com/tbirdforumstats.htm

    The site for sale is http://www.tbirdforum.com

    The site doesn't make any revenue as it has been a labor of love for me all this time. Perhaps the new owner would think differently of how to monetize it.

    Just this last weekend I spent the time to update it to vbulletin 3.6.4 and then put the vbenhanced portal on it. So I think it has a much better look and feel now.

    I'll need to keep a few email address from the site until I can transition them to something else.

    So I don't have a value for this entity but I can tell you that I made $3600 a few months ago from some azoogle ads that I emailed the membership on a free hdtv giveaway.

    I hate to let this go but I have 75 other sites that I am deciding what to do with so I'm starting someplace.

    What could one expect to get for a site like this.....
     
    phjohnso, Nov 27, 2006 IP
  2. Judd

    Judd Active Member

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    Well, the site is 7 years old and only has :

    Members: 2,950
    Threads: 2,355
    Posts: 7,995

    Thats really low numbers for a forum that old. On my forum that is less than a year old that is car related i have 27902 posts.

    Your site is only worth what someone else is willing to pay. However leapfish had it listed at 25k :)
     
    Judd, Nov 27, 2006 IP
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    • you will get some value if you promote it and get some more members
    • optimize the website well , i am sure it could top the search engines
    • old is gold :) so make the most of it
     
    forumrating, Nov 27, 2006 IP