[carlpicot]

Cool - the next era ehh Warrior guys ?? Lets see how this develops

xxxxcarlxxxx

[Rashvin]

Congrats on this wonderful partnership!

[monopoly]

There are 732,000 Warriors? Amazing work - and more to come, if Freelander is that big!

[Daniel Evans]

Amonst the congrats (which are well deserved!) it's great to see the reasonable input from people and their perspectives since that's what makes a functional community. It's members are a significant reason for its existence and its success.

Hopefully the same people can step up and shed some opinions in the feedback forum too which could potentially lead to an even better community than we have already if new management ducks in and cherry picks any gems they find productive.

[Andre Slater]

Will easily be in the top 100 sites in the world with this merger

[daftdog]

Originally Posted by Grazina Ajana Szewczyk

I have a soft spot for Warrior Forum, lets hope the good things will stay the same.

That is my hope as well.....

[derekpierce]

Congratulations! Excited to see the future of WF

[imkevintan]

Congrats Allen! I'm sure this partnership will grow our community and benefit us, the warriors.

I look forward to see the future of WF.

[Tom E]

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.

We are excited and looking forward to working with you to better support the community.

Allen Says founded Warrior Forum in 1997 and I’ve personally watched the community grow to over 730,000 members, becoming the world’s largest Internet marketing forum.

We will be allocating substantial resources to further grow Warrior Forum! We will be dedicating engineers to build features and customer experience specialists to interact with the community in order to understand intimately what you like. They’ll be working closely with the moderators moving forward.

The most important thing, however, is that we listen to you- the community. We’ll be going through the suggestions section and would love to hear more about your ideas and feedback. I am really keen to hear from you!

Also please feel free to email me at matt@freelancer.com with any suggestions, ideas, and thoughts or just to touch base and introduce yourself.

Effective immediately we are making a few permanent improvements to pricing:
* All WSO listings will now be reduced from $40 to $20
* All current War Room members will have their 20 year membership extended to lifetime, immediately. Moving forward new memberships will be $20 per year.

Thank you for your support of Warrior Forum in the past and I look forward to working with you to take Warrior Forum to the next phase!

Regards,
Matt Barrie

Hi Matt,
Will bumps stay at $40, or will they also be reduced to $20?

[TimPhelan]

Congrats Allen!

[bobsstuff]

Congratulations Allen,
You have created a great community with a lot of positive changes over the years.
Best of luck with all you do in the future.

[Rus Sells]

Troll much? Why bother to respond if what you're gonna say doesn't contribute one ounce of value? Seriously.

Originally Posted by xxjessbabeexx

Another sell out, so poor. Being second best is never fun though

Is xxxx the only decent IM forum left? x

P.S. So he gave me an infraction stating I have multiple accounts? That's a HOOT! lol

[snginc]

congratulations!

[Bill Cousins]

Originally Posted by Mark Hess

A company buys this forum for $3.2 million and what is the CEO greeted with? A bunch of whining, bitching, and complaining.

It's freaking embarrassing to watch.

Congrats Allen on the sale. There's many of us that have profited immensely from what you've built.

With change comes new opportunity.

Some things will NEVER change!

Thanks Allen for giving me a place to get started and hopefully to still keep using in the future!!

My life has totally changed all because of one WSO which became WSOTD which led to more WSO's that became JVZoo POTD and so on and so forth!

As much of pain that launching can be on here sometimes it will always hold a place in my heart and mind and like I said hopefully things will be getting even better in the future!

Congrats! BC

[Nuno]

There will always be people against all forms of change, but optimism is necessary!

[osensnolf]

I think we should be on the lookout for an IPO from FreeLancer.com.

They also bought ScriptLance.com a couple years ago. I was forced to move to FreeLancer and the service has been great.

Hard for any father to give his baby away, but at 17 years old, you reach a point where it is best for someone else to take on the responsibility.

This is great for you and your family and the others who supported you when things may have looked like they were a mistake or would not be successful. Congrats

[Sam England]

Congrats!

Thanks Allen...for the starting point for so many of us...and hopefully the future will be even brighter

Cheers,
Sam

[samd123]

As a War Room member I am glad to hear of the increase to lifetime membership - thank you.

As a buyer of WSO's who has been getting more and more ripped off each year as the quality is getting worst and worst, I don't like the look of what may happen by reducing the WSO listing by half. There's too many fly-by-night shysters dropping any old crap in there in the hope of making some fast cash and gaining a list to market to. Not ideal. Would prefer a strict set of compliance rules before being allowed to release anything - not just a budget to pay a good designer to create a hot-selling sizzle of a WSO page (ad).

Just sayin' ...

All the best

from Sam

[sonuinfy]

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.

We are excited and looking forward to working with you to better support the community.

Allen Says founded Warrior Forum in 1997 and I’ve personally watched the community grow to over 730,000 members, becoming the world’s largest Internet marketing forum.

We will be allocating substantial resources to further grow Warrior Forum! We will be dedicating engineers to build features and customer experience specialists to interact with the community in order to understand intimately what you like. They’ll be working closely with the moderators moving forward.

The most important thing, however, is that we listen to you- the community. We’ll be going through the suggestions section and would love to hear more about your ideas and feedback. I am really keen to hear from you!

Also please feel free to email me at matt@freelancer.com with any suggestions, ideas, and thoughts or just to touch base and introduce yourself.

Effective immediately we are making a few permanent improvements to pricing:
* All WSO listings will now be reduced from $40 to $20
* All current War Room members will have their 20 year membership extended to lifetime, immediately. Moving forward new memberships will be $20 per year.

Thank you for your support of Warrior Forum in the past and I look forward to working with you to take Warrior Forum to the next phase!

Regards,
Matt Barrie

Congratulation Matt for the acquisition.

Warriors,
You will find Freelancer.com's team exceptionally user friendly.
I've been with them for 3 years. I started my career with Scriptlance which got merged with Freelancer 1.5 years ago.

I was scared when that happened but Freelancer.com team proved me wrong.
They helped me in whenever I needed them. They are unbeatable in the support. In short, don't worry and be happy for this merger.
Please share your feedback as mentioned by Matt, if any.
I wish all of you all the very best and welcome all of you to the Freelancer.com community.

[Melody]

As one of your original WF folks, and a long time 'HostForProfit' customer (seriously, how many people here even recognize that name?), I am so happy for you! You've been a great inspiration to all of us, and have been directly responsible for the launch of some of the biggest names online today.

I hope you stay involved with the WF - but whatever you do, enjoy it!

Melody

[iamthecoolnerd]

This is going to be awesome. Congrats, Allen.

[Chris Douglas]

I just wish the quality of content and information remains the same. Driving the price down will also mean that you will get a lot more rubble.

[Kay King]

freelancercom

Looking at your posts - I doubt you represent the new owner. Guess the first issue is knowing who is appointed to issue corrections and snark - and who isn't.

The drivel factor is up quite a bit today...hopefully it will quickly be sorted out.:p

[Rus Sells]

I totally missed it but freelancercom sent me an infraction and I didn't notice. From what I gather official representatives will have Administrator under their forum ID.

Originally Posted by Kay King

freelancercom

Looking at your posts - I doubt you represent the new owner. Guess the first issue is knowing who is appointed to issue corrections and snark - and who isn't.

The drivel factor is up quite a bit today...hopefully it will quickly be sorted out.:p

[yoangov]

This is great news! I hope much goods are coming for the community!


Good luck WarriorForum&Freelancer!

[sbucciarel]

Originally Posted by Rus Sells

I totally missed it but freelancercom sent me an infraction and I didn't notice. From what I gather official representatives will have Administrator under their forum ID.

He's an assmonkey. He's promoting BHW

[extensiveideas]

I am member and source knowledge and workforce from both places... Its good news. Hope to see far more growth for warrior forum...

[imranfaq]

Hi Allen..

First of all I really appreciate your hard work and dedication with the forum and its success & Its a good news for all of us, It will be beneficial in the long term for the growth and success of Warrior Forum.

Regards

imRan

[extendyl]

I have already posted a project and ready to hire

Thank you!

[vanillablueskyy]

Originally Posted by Daniel Evans

I've raised concern over this too as you may have noted. I echo your opinion in holding reservation in this regard.

I can only hope that Warriors for Hire will remain and I hope it will remain as an exclusive entity without any undue diversions to Freelancer.com - above all, any form of crowdsourcing.


Daniel

Originally Posted by laurencewins

I am going to reserve my opinion until I see what happens. My biggest concern is how the "Warriors for Hire" and "Warriors wanting to Hire you" sections will work. If we are inundated with people who are willing to work for next to nothing, I will end up losing a LOT of business as I do get a large percentage of my business from that section right now.

I am also concerned with this and I can assure you that all well established sellers like us in the Warrior For Hire section is concerned about this as well. We strongly urge the new admin to preserve the Warrior For Hire section as it is, as it's perfect and no change is needed at all in my opinion.

[taskemann]

Originally Posted by mattbarrie

Effective immediately we are making a few permanent improvements to pricing:
* All WSO listings will now be reduced from $40 to $20
* All current War Room members will have their 20 year membership extended to lifetime, immediately. Moving forward new memberships will be $20 per year.

Thank you for your support of Warrior Forum in the past and I look forward to working with you to take Warrior Forum to the next phase!

Regards,
Matt Barrie

Hi Matt,

Congratulations to both Freelancer.com and Allan Says.

Sounds good and I hope you and the company you represents keep your word on that as I don't have any good experience with takeovers, especially not when the target isn't that significant for the acquirer in terms of revenue and profit as it would be for the founder who has put a lot of time, money and effort into it.

So I really hope WarriorForum will stay as it is or become even better and I really looking forward to working with you.


Best regards,

Jimmy

[Elmer Hurlstone]

Congratulations, Allen!

Thank you for having and bringing to fruition your vision. Directly and indirectly WF has enabled me to make money I otherwise, very likely, would not have made.

And, while that's a good thing, because of WF I've met, online and in real life, a number of people I'm proud to call friends. People whom I care about and who have demonstrated, more than once, that they care about me.

Through the years I've laughed, out loud, at more than one post and mourned when a respected member left us for good.

I've had serious and not-so-serious questions answered. I've answered my share of the latter and, hopefully, helped a bit on the former.

Based on the stated intentions of Freelancer management I'm looking forward to more of the same.

Best of luck to you, Allen, and again, thank you,

With warm regards,

Elmer

[TelZilla]

Originally Posted by admin

In 17 years I am proud to say that our community has grown to over 732,000 members strong, making us the world’s largest internet marketing forum.

Today I am happy to announce that Warrior Forum will become part of the Freelancer.com family.

Sorry to see you sell Allen, it's been a lot of fun the last 10 years I've been hanging around here.

I'm looking forward to the changes Matt and the Freelancer family bring in...

[AffiliateWaves]

:confused::confused:

an any one can answer what it means to me .Is Freelancer giving some gifts to WF members

Waiting for their email

It is good news but still confused how stuffs will work now

Thanks

[sbucciarel]

Originally Posted by AffiliateWaves

:confused::confused:

an any one can answer what it means to me .Is Freelancer giving some gifts to WF members

Waiting for their email

It is good news but still confused how stuffs will work now

Thanks

No they're not giving away gifts. Works the same as before at the moment.

[taskemann]

Originally Posted by AffiliateWaves

:confused::confused:

an any one can answer what it means to me .Is Freelancer giving some gifts to WF members

Waiting for their email

It is good news but still confused how stuffs will work now

Thanks

Freelancer.com have bought WarriorForum. But it will stay at it is. There are only new owners.


Jimmy

[LaunchGal]

Congratulations Allen
Looking forward to the evolving WF.... all the best to you in your next adventures

Jane

[Ged3]

Congratulations Allen,

the Warrior Forum is my favourite forum, I hope the merger works out well.

Best Regards
Ged

[cbean]

Here's hoping everything remains the same....

[Karen Blundell]

congrats on the successful sale, Allen.

It would behoove us to copy Allen's example: build a huge resource (authority website) make it successful - a real good money earner - then sell it years later for 6-7 figures -

sounds like a plan to me excited to see the changes -
onwards and upwards, Warriors!

[VegasVince]

Congrats on the sale Big Daddy......thanks 4 all the help you provided me over the years. Continue 2 Stay Legendary!

Vegas Vince

[SeanSupplee]

Awesome and congrats Allen! I am sure the site will be in good hands and as always a bright future.

[RosuC]

Hmm, this movement can make me write again here

[Marcus C]

Congratulations on the sale guys.

I believe this merger/sale will have a positive impact on the forum as a whole and I'm looking forward to seeing what lies ahead for this great community.

- Marcus C

[Donald Truehart]

What a great deal for 3.2.m

[NBG]

So Freelancer.com bought Warriorforum?

Why?

Freelancer.com = Jobs
Warriorforum = Business ideas, SEO, reports, ...

I dont see any advantage!?

[merkado]

I am a fan of both websites and very excited to see the new things soon.

[Darryl Smith]

Change is inevitable - this maybe was too.

I joined freelancer a couple of months ago, I maybe had a feeling...

[ramohr]

I look forward to the fusion of two great forums

Congrats

Don

[bluecoyotemedia]

Allen

Congratulations!!! how ironic because I was just going to ask you to lend me some money