[crosshairs]

Congratulations on both the sale and acquisition! Great things to come I'm sure!

[ankur420420]

Hi

Will warriorforum.com be a separate forum or will it be completely merged into freelancer.com and warrior forum won't exist from now on?

Sorry if this sounded silly :confused:

thanks
Ankur

[jasonec]

Can't wait to see how things grow!

Congratulations Allen & Matt!

[Tracy411]

Congratulations, Allen! I too choose to view this change as a promise of great things to come for all involved. I look forward to what is to come, and wish you and the new team over at Freelancer.com all the best

Tracy

[Osman Safdar]

Congratulations! May the Warrior Forum continue to prosper!

[Nuno]

I saw this community changing through all these years, it continues to attract more people interested in IM, and it's still my favorite forum.
I think Freelancer.com can bring a lot of potential, I'm here to help.

[imsirigiri]

Such a great move Allen.

Warrior Forum had been the key player is many internet marketers' lives.

Associating with Freelancer.com will further propel it's social status.

Thanks for taking the right decision.

[James B. Allen]

Congrats Allen!

What cigar did you light up to celebrate with?

- James

[Chris Dolan]

Interesting move. Freelancer rolls forward with another great aquisition. Looking forward to seeing the lower pricing too.

[Ken Reno]

very exciting stuff! I've been a member for a minute now, and can say without hesitation that the Warrior Forum is directly responsible for 95% of my online accomplishments! The resources, the community, the connections...priceless.

Thank you ALL for my success!

[Steve Iser]

Smart move - well done!

[themubeen]

does it effects on Warrior For Hire threads?

[RestlessBlaze]

Congrats to Allen and freelancer.com . What a fantastic decision. Cheers

[C G]

Interesting and exciting info

Can we get more details on how freelancer and warrior forum will work together?

Cheers,

C.G.

[RestlessBlaze]

I wonder how the two will jam together? Isnt both strategically different communities. One is marketplace for freelancers and other is Internet marketing digital product marketplace.

I wonder does this acquisition will effect our main forum in any way?

[peterinperth]

YEP ! -- I'm a big fan of the Warrior Forum. Great to see this happening.

[richardjes]

Hi Allen,

A big congrats to you Sir. Warrior has been an incredible place to learn and interact and you have kept it clean and ethical all the way through which is key for a lot of us.

Well done mate

[Emmanuel Sopitan]

Nice work Allen - Congrats! Looking forward to great things from this incredible community for years to come!
I'm looking forward to seeing the Warrior Forum grow and make some big improvements.


Emmanuel

[andrewpeacock]

Originally Posted by jkennedy

This is a good point. On the flip-side, with more resources available comes more opportunity for better moderation and filtration of "junk" products.

That's what I'm hoping as well.

Should be interesting.

Andy

[maksym]

Wow! Great News!
I love the idea of this partnership and I believe that Freelancer.com can help this forum more to grow with new features.
About the prices for WSO, I also agree that the main issue is not the price, but the quality of WSO products! There are too much of crappy products in WSO section

regards
Maksym V

[TimothyW]

One way to improve the quality of WSOs is to have some way for WSO buyers to
*RATE THE SELLERs* in a permanent way.

As it is, sellers can just pull up the WSO ATM, grab cash out of it, using crappy,
quasi-FRAUDULENT offers -- then they know they can get away scott free. Then they go into hiding, until the heat blows over -- then they return when the coast is clear, and rinse and repeat -- all the while knowing they will get away with it.

There needs to be a way of RATING the sellers.

-- TW

[entrepreneurjay]

wow cool I'm looking forward to see how this goes With $20 dollar wsos your off to a good start looking forward to great things to come

I have a soft spot for the warrior forum as well I must confess definitely my most visited site.

[nik0]

Originally Posted by Alast

That - or it could open your business to new customers, increasing profits. Depends how you look at it, I guess.

I actually never realized that Freelancer is so HUGE, and wonder why I never started to offer my services there!

Something will keep me busy today!

[Alessandro Zamboni]

Being a user of the two services, and referring at Freelancer.com as THE freelancer community, I can only say this is really a big move!
I'm curious to comprehend better what this will bring to Warrior Forum, but it's definitely a very good combination!

Thanks so much for the great news!
See you soon,
Alessandro

[Vendor-Lock]

After all the years of learning skills and making a living selling my products and services here on the Warrior Forum, I am grateful you are always finding ways to expand the WF.
Thanks for the forum, and thanks for your efforts Allen. I'm sure this idea will be a
good move for everyone involved.

cheers
Jeff Noyes
Vendor-Lock Hosting & Software co.

[mubashar542]

I am working on freelancer.com since 2009 as a successful Internet Marketer. I'm glad to know that Warrior forum is also part of Freelancer community now. Thumbs Up for all.

[ratracegrad]

Congrats man!

[Jamie Charles]

Congratulations!

Looks like a win for everyone involved

[Shaneman]

This is very interesting news - sounds like the Warrior Forum is on track to reach 1 million members in the future.

Thanks for making the wso price lower - this really helps members which is great.

[philmeyer]

Congrats all round, Allen and Matt! I look forward to seeing Warrior Forum grow into the future.

[TrishOleary]

Congrats to Allen and Freelancer.com . What a AWESOME combo

Cheers,

Trish

[powerofschool]

Congrats to Allen and Matt.
It was nice to see the best forums website in the world has joined in the family of Best Outsourcing Company Freelancing Company.
I am really excited to see ASX Announcement as below

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[Asif2BD]

Good to know. Lets see how it works.

[Paul Myers]

I didn't want to comment until I actually had something to base comments on. Just spent some time on the phone with Alaister, and was suitably impressed.

My thoughts on this...

First, Freelancer has the technical staff and experience to scale up and optimize hardware in ways that could reduce or eliminate a lot of the server and database issues that have caused intermittent access problems for a while. That is, by itself, a huge potential benefit.

His experience in dealing with buyers and sellers through Freelancer translates directly to a lot of the challenges of setting policy and moderating in marketplaces like the for sale sections of this forum. It would be very hard to overstate the value of that.

For the folks who were worried about heavy-handed changes... I don't see that. At all. Despite the occasional mentions of his relatively low post count, he "gets" the culture and standards here.

Some things will almost certainly change, and that's appropriate. New owners can make new rules, after all. I don't see anything in the works, though, that's anything but good for the members.

A couple of reminders... The idea of a ratings system for WSOs still faces the same hard problem it always has: Limiting access to only those people who've actually bought the products they're rating. The forum is still not a party to those transactions, so there is currently no way to verify who bought what product.

Without that capability, any ratings system could be too easily gamed.

Also, the notion that the price of listing a WSO has any impact on quality of offerings is not, and never has been, accurate. That's been discussed to death for as long as the forum has charged for WSO listings, and it's been pretty well demonstrated that it's not a factor.

Some things will probably change, and a lot won't. Be patient with both possibilities.


Paul

[simondoddmarketing]

Congratulations! The WF was one of the first places I started to learn about this crazy world all those years ago and I had my first success by launching a WSO on here as well! Unfortunately I have also seen it go a little bit downhill recently with a lot of people coming on here to just complain but there are still some golden nuggets of information to be found.

I hope the guys at Freelancer.com can bring back some of the magic that was here when I first joined.

Congratulations to Allen and the team over at Freelancer.com, looking forward to seeing how things develop from here!

[wajahath]

This would bring in the much needed freshness to warriorforum, i hope it brings happiness to all of the WF members. All the best

[Mou]

Originally Posted by Paul Myers

I didn't want to comment until I actually had something to base comments on. Just spent some time on the phone with Alaister, and was suitably impressed.

My thoughts on this...

First, Freelancer has the technical staff and experience to scale up and optimize hardware in ways that could reduce or eliminate a lot of the server and database issues that have caused intermittent access problems for a while. That is, by itself, a huge potential benefit.

His experience in dealing with buyers and sellers through Freelancer translates directly to a lot of the challenges of setting policy and moderating in marketplaces like the for sale sections of this forum. It would be very hard to overstate the value of that.

For the folks who were worried about heavy-handed changes... I don't see that. At all. Despite the occasional mentions of his relatively low post count, he "gets" the culture and standards here.

Some things will almost certainly change, and that's appropriate. New owners can make new rules, after all. I don't see anything in the works, though, that's anything but good for the members.

A couple of reminders... The idea of a ratings system for WSOs still faces the same hard problem it always has: Limiting access to only those people who've actually bought the products they're rating. The forum is still not a party to those transactions, so there is currently no way to verify who bought what product.

Without that capability, any ratings system could be too easily gamed.

Also, the notion that the price of listing a WSO has any impact on quality of offerings is not, and never has been, accurate. That's been discussed to death for as long as the forum has charged for WSO listings, and it's been pretty well demonstrated that it's not a factor.

Some things will probably change, and a lot won't. Be patient with both possibilities.


Paul

Thanks for your Post Paul

I'm sure like me for many other warriors comments from your end is much more reassuring than Alaister whom hardly anyone knows about (no offense, just stating the fact as it is).

Whatever the changes are, I hope it is best for the community including the buyers and sellers of "for sale" sections of this forum.

~Mou

[packjack]

I hope we have more features in the upcoming days.

[Vincent Abrugar]

I knew this was coming. Congrats!

[imfusa]

Can't believe that Warriorforum values only 3.2 million USD. How could you have sell it for that amount?

[laxmankafle]

Originally Posted by mattbarrie

Hello everyone!

This is Matt Barrie, Chief Executive of Freelancer.com.

I am pleased to announce that Warrior Forum has joined the Freelancer family.

Thanks . You are Always Great. Thank you very much @Freelancer : Niwomb1

[SGWarrior]

Great things can only happen when two excellent communities come together. I am looking forward to witnessing it.

[GIahGroup]

Nice work Allen and congratulations on closing the deal.

Freelancer picked up a pretty good deal at just over $3 mill,
but Matt Barrie is a pretty savvy dealmaker.

Glad to see W.F joining a great stable of Australian based businesses.

[Gene Pimentel]

Exciting things ahead I'm sure! Congratulations Allen and everyone involved.

[DoubleOhDave]

Change is good - and I welcome this whole idea. I feel this will kick things up a notch for everyone!

[Tania Edwards]

This is good news that both the two Big Names became one.
I wish to see both communities grow further and keep all the good things moving forward.

[Frank Donovan]

I knew that something big had to be happening when I received the first broadcast email from Allen since I don't know when. That fact alone demonstrates how the owner of "the world's largest internet marketing forum" has always resisted exploiting the members for his own immediate gain. How many marketers would have been able to leave such a huge and targeted list relatively untouched during all this time?

The changes that have been made to this forum, at least from my own point of view, have always been made with the overall benefit of the members in mind - and I trust Allen to have made the best possible arrangement for the future of the forum, and its members, with this deal.

So, congrats, Allen, of course. But more than that, thanks for looking out for us all these years. And good luck with whatever you plan to do now.


Frank

[bakerhut10]

Congratulations! What a great move!

[webunited]

Congratulations Allen!
It's Brilliant news.

[RedHat39]

Wow, I'm impressed. I always knew that some day Allan would turn the reigns over to someone else as one of the chief things I've learned in business is to always be thinking of an exit plan. Congrats Allan on making yours.

That said I'm excited to hear the news. The WF has been the main vehicle for my success online since I joined back in 2007. I love this community and look forward to seeing it grow even more now that the userbase could possibly expand tremendously.

Again congrats Allan and thank you for diligence throughout the years. This forum is and always will be the greatest.

--Rick Roberts