[michaelmac]

Hey Allen,

I got to say buddy that this is where it all started for me in 2007...now i work for myself and enjoy a life i could never have before!

Thank you so much for all you have done for me...you rock!

Mike

[successmonster234]

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,

I notice to BUMP a thread in WSO section is still $40 yet a new listing is $20, is this how it is going to be?

[AffiliateWaves]

Originally Posted by taskemann

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


Jimmy

Ohh means freelancer owners will now manage Warriorforum too .I guess now serious reviewers here will get paid heavily for their posts .

Freelancer has acquired many business in recent year and most of them have been merged to their website like limeexchange and rentacoder i guess.

So Warriors get ready for new type of business

[netcash4u]

Originally Posted by mattbarrie

Thanks Jeremy!

I'm interested to hear any other feedback any of you have on how we can both grow Warrior and make business for you easier here.

Regards
Matt

Hey Matt,

My feedback is to keep WF live and less downtime.

Better yet, no downtime.


Ken

[Michaelocity]

Great News! Congrats to Allen and the Entire WF Team! Looking forward to future greatness from the combined WF/Freelancer Team!

[skorpland]

This is an excellent news Allen. It will surely help Warrorforum to be at new heights.
Cudos!

[Pierre]

Hey,
I wish you all the best in this transition with Freelancer.com. Should be a great time for all.

[MA Robinson]

Congratulations! Freelancer has always been a great community in of itself.
I have had the pleasure of working with some very experienced and skillful freelancers.

Great move and I look forward to better things to come.

[Shannon Herod]

Congrats Allen!

This forum helped launch my first business and I am grateful for the help I received here.

It was interesting to see this forum evolve.

Shannon

[Xfrazer]

Very exciting news. Congrats Allen!

[Jack Blankenship,RN]

One thing that is certain in life is change. I wish you well in whatever you will be pursuing Allen.

It is cool if you think about. Being right there at the beginning of the dawn of the internet. Starting this forum back in 97. Seeing it grow and change in ways that you probably never dreamed that it would.

Flash forward to now. A simple idea has produced (albeit in a slow fashion) big payoffs and now you are rewarded with an even bigger end reward. Not bad for just starting a little forum on marketing. I guess patience really does pay off in the end and slow and steady really does win the race.

People were asking for suggestions about how to improve the forum. I, for one, would like some type of system that would NOT allow those sellers who ran out on their products and buyers, to be able run any type of WSO's in the future (I mean forever), unless they are able to rectify their problems and actually stand by their products. Im my book, lifetime updates and support, mean just that......LIFETIME, not one time!

That would really improve the perception of WSO's and create more certainty for the buyer, thus improving the overall buying experience.

Anyway , congrats!

Jack

[leonardos]

I was thought the $20 fee for WSOs had already been implemented but it seems like it's not. I just tried to post a new WSO and got a PM asking me to pay $40 as usual.

Can anyone from the freelancer.com team please confirm when the new fee schedule will be available for us?

[Blu]

Looking forward to the merger. Seems like things can only improve. WoW no price increase, lifetime membership, and a great idea.

Thanks again....

[nRehman]

Dear Allen

Hi, thanks for sharing, it feels like not even mine but success of whole community of warrior forum that we are celebrating with you.

Congratulations and best of luck.

[BrianMcLeod]

Originally Posted by leonardos

I was thought the $20 fee for WSOs had already been implemented but it seems like it's not. I just tried to post a new WSO and got a PM asking me to pay $40 as usual.

Can anyone from the freelancer.com team please confirm when the new fee schedule will be available for us?

Welcome to the jungle, Freelancer.com LOL

(Just making a joke, not picking on you, Leonardos!)

I'll just add my 2¢ to say that some of my most favorite human friendships and business relationships in the real world have happened through the WF.

Allen Says deserves a Lifetime Achievement Award for all of the careers he's spawned in this business. Fact.

If you haven't come away from your experience at the Warrior Forum richer for it, the problem is NOT with the forum. Just sayin'...

With gratitude,

Brian

[BJ Min]

We will miss you Allen. Congrats and thank you for creating this amazing site for so many of us. It really has impacted my life and many people's lives in a positive way.

I wish you the best in your future endeavors!

BJ

[nRehman]

Originally Posted by Jack Blankenship,RN

One thing that is certain in life is change. I wish you well in whatever you will be pursuing Allen.

It is cool if you think about. Being right there at the beginning of the dawn of the internet. Starting this forum back in 97. Seeing it grow and change in ways that you probably never dreamed that it would.

Flash forward to now. A simple idea has produced (albeit in a slow fashion) big payoffs and now you are rewarded with an even bigger end reward. Not bad for just starting a little forum on marketing. I guess patience really does pay off in the end and slow and steady really does win the race.

People were asking for suggestions about how to improve the forum. I, for one, would like some type of system that would NOT allow those sellers who ran out on their products and buyers, to be able run any type of WSO's in the future (I mean forever), unless they are able to rectify their problems and actually stand by their products. Im my book, lifetime updates and support, mean just that......LIFETIME, not one time!

That would really improve the perception of WSO's and create more certainty for the buyer, thus improving the overall buying experience.

Anyway , congrats!

Jack

Dear Jack, nice points; in addition to your suggestions, every seller should have an external link, preferably his/her own website to interact.

[Jeffery]

Allen,

Thanks for everything you and the Mods have done for me and my family over the years and a special thanks for making me a better person. Wishing you a prosperous future.

Jeffery 100% :-)

[Richard HAN]

One thing I would like to see (and warriors selling their services in the Warriors For Hire section won't like) is a hold payment service (or otherwise known as escrow service).

Does freelancer.com hold payment until both seller and buyer confirm that the job is completed satisfactorily? I know Fiverr.com does this and that's where I've brought most of my businesses to, after 2 times disappointed by "warriors" here.

[timpears]

Most people have trouble adapting to change. I am reluctant to change, and have difficulty adapting. I have not seen anything in the Freelancer post that will be difficult to adapt to so far. Time will tell.

I wonder what Alan is planning doing. Just taking his money and retiring maybe? Probably not, that is not the way of entrepreneurs. Who knows?

[Jason Freeman]

Congrats Allen, this is exciting news. Good luck with the new business.

I agree with someones prior post that it would be nice to have categories is the WSO section.

[mikefilsaime]

Congratulations Allen. You deserve it!

[SteadyPath]

WoW! This sounds like a winning combo!

[alfa_375]

Warrior forum earned me my first $$, and great motivation to my online business. I am lucky to be part of it. Of course it is a great thing happen to join the freelancer family.
Thanks Allen and Mat....Cheers

[mello]

Change is always a challenge. Have faith that Allen and Matt will make sure their teams do justice to the legacy of WF. Here's to a bright future .. and I suspect an onslaught of WSO's!

Cheers and congrats to those involved in this acquisition.
Mel

[07]

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

I have just paid for the wso thread and it costed me $40, not $20 as advertised. I was bumping the thread. Can you please explain? Thanks.

[ultimatehustler]

WSo for $20 That is great, I Like You already Matt
Welcome aboard

[clintonsmith]

This sounds like a good move. Looking forward to seeing the new changes transpire.

[Tim Franklin]

Great, LOL, everywhere I go Freelancer.com ends up between the sheets, but I think in this case its a good thing, Allen I hope you got Stock Options, )

[Alaister]

Originally Posted by leonardos

I was thought the $20 fee for WSOs had already been implemented but it seems like it's not. I just tried to post a new WSO and got a PM asking me to pay $40 as usual.

Can anyone from the freelancer.com team please confirm when the new fee schedule will be available for us?

Sorry about this Leonardos.

We're still getting a hang of how it is all set up and we're looking at the WSO listing fees right now.

[Alaister]

Originally Posted by Richard HAN

One thing I would like to see (and warriors selling their services in the Warriors For Hire section won't like) is a hold payment service (or otherwise known as escrow service).

Does freelancer.com hold payment until both seller and buyer confirm that the job is completed satisfactorily? I know Fiverr.com does this and that's where I've brought most of my businesses to, after 2 times disappointed by "warriors" here.

Hi Richard,

Great suggestion. Thanks for your input and ideas. This does happen on Freelancer.com. We have a milestone payment system which protects both the employer and freelancer. The freelancer doesn't start work until the funds are in milestone and the employer doesn't release funds until they have received the work and are 100% happy.

[EzamMarjan]

Excellent milestone. Congratulation!

[Shane Dolby]

Congrats Allen..I have been here since the very beginning and have seen all the changes this has gone thru..Take care and don't be a stranger. Gotten use to you being around after 17 years.

[Slate Marketing]

Congratulations Allen and welcome Matt!!

[Ryan Rush]

Wow I definitely didn't see that coming, but I am glad and excited because Freelancer.com is an amazing website and I know their team will take good care of WarriorForum. Plus lowering the cost to post a wso is a really great move, can't wait to see what the future holds for this great forum

[networm]

Congratulations to both WF and Freelancer.com. Hoping to see a better WF from this day forward.

[rajivkumar900]

congratulation allen, warrior forum was great place to startup things and hopefully it will remain same , it played really important role in lots of marketers life..

Thanks for creating this valuable community.

[mkirchho]

I welcome the change and think the lower WSO price will enable more marketers to put up their own WSOs. Sometimes a little thing is all that stands in the way of opening a door to opportunity. Ready for the new Warrior Forum.

[nobluff]

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.

To be fair the CEO only has 2 posts which means he cant even get a review copy of a WSO

[jtrag]

WOW! This is awesome! Thank you Allen and Matt! Can’t wait to see what greatness comes of this! WooHoo! I felt like jumping up and down when I saw this! Actually, I think I will! lol

[Lateef Olajide]

I've been imagining this for some time. I congratulate Allen for good job. And congratulate freelance.com for joining the community.

[miguelaraujoseo]

very good idea, thanks for do this more good

[kelseydeshaz]

Thank you and congratulations to both parties...looking forward to what ever changes may come

[Alaister]

Hi everyone,

I can confirm that both the WSO listing price and the bumping price has been changed to $20.

Let me know if you guys experience any issues with this.

[KnightOnboard]

Congrats Allen!
Thank you for having us together in this awesome community.
Your legacy of hard work and support to all warriors will be always remember.
Cheers !!

[noorahmadmughal]

its a great step i really liked that we are part of freelancing family

[StayFrosty]

Congratulations! I look forward to seeing how the brave new world compares to the old.

[jaggyjay]

Epic News man! Progress is a good thing

[tallstreet]

that's awesome!

[NetMan]

As a member of the Warriors since 1998, I've seen MANY GOOD AND EXCITING THINGS have been going on throughout the years with this membership. For example, many of nowadays Famous Internet Marketers, and even not so famous , came to life and were "born" in this industry thanks to Allen Says and this membership. Many would even be very startled at who they are, really. Many are multi-millionaire gurus. However, many fellows are just not millionaires yet but make a decent living thanks to this forum and the multiple, not to say endless, possibilities it offers. Let's hope the Warrior Forum will still be the fountain of opportunities it has always been, and let's hope this "merge" will be for the better.

Regards,

Andre Foisy

P.S.: It took almost an HOUR for me to wait for the forum, trying to reload it several times, to be back online, or available, and post this. So, let's some hardware and network resources will be added to make this forum MORE available ONLINE than it has been in the last year or so... I guess many sales may have been lost for paying advertisers (me), because of this