[IMarkterLinda]

Awesome news - it should be interesting to see how this all unfolds Good job WF

[Daystar11]

Congratulations, and welcome. I am looking forward to this.

[IMKing]

Congratulations...Also do some more changes to Market Place section..separate sections for Link Building, Article writing etc.,

[Stuart Stirling]

Sounds like we could see some interesting things happen
to both of those sites as you merge them. Definitely a
great way to go. Congrats and thanks! All the best for
making the Online marketing community better!
Stuart

[Alaister]

Originally Posted by IMKing

Congratulations...Also do some more changes to Market Place section..separate sections for Link Building, Article writing etc.,

I'd love to hear more about the changes you'd like to see. Feel free to send me a message or email.

[GlenH]

Originally Posted by stoltingmediagroup

In all honesty, I'm not so sure that lowering the prices on WSO's is a great move that will improve the quality of the forum. The $40 price point eliminates just about the right amount of crap being posted. I also imagine that with the new $20 lower fee, a WSO post will also disappear from the first page even faster than they already do. Not very attractive for advertisers. Just my 2 cents.

Hi Matt,

As a big user of Freelancer with over 30 projects having been completed in the last few years, I'm hoping you guys will be definite positive impact on the forum.

I also have to say that I totally agree with Arnold on the points he raised.

I realize that lowing the WSO posting price will boost your revenues, but at the same time a drop in price allows the potential for more 'crappy' 'WSO's to be posted.

And that's a real concern, because members can easily start shying away from buying WSO's if a lot of inferior quality products are being put up.

That then has a big negative impact of members who do post quality WSO's

So you really need to watch this very closely Matt.

[Martin Salter]

Well I have to say its a "makes sense" move for sure and congratulations to all involved in the deal, I think its an everybody wins scenario.

I have made money on the Warrior Forum and from products created via Freelancer.com (I actually joined them originally when they were called getafreelancer.com) and its been fun times along the way.

I wish you every success in your joint ventures.

[gregweir]

As a long term Warrior, this will be an interesting thing to see develop.

[Jesus Perez]

Incredible news! I'm looking forward to the merger and updates.

Congrats, Allen!

Originally Posted by GlenH

Hi Matt,

As a big user of Freelancer with over 30 projects having been completed in the last few years, I'm hoping there will be definite positive impact on the forum.

I also have to say that I totally agree with Arnold on this.

I realize that lowing the WSO posting price will boost your revenues, but at the same time a drop in price allows the potential for more 'crappy' 'WSO's to be posted.

And that's a real concern, because members can easily start shying away from buying WSO's if a lot of inferior quality products are being put up.

That then has a big negative impact of members who do post quality WSO's

So you really need to watch this very closely Matt.

Agreed. The only reason it was raised to $40 was to clean up the poor quality WSO's....and it worked pretty well for the most part. Reducing it to $20 will definitely bring back some sub-par sellers.

[TimothyW]

Personally, I'm nervous.
I've seen WAY too many good things out there be "improved," then find out the "improvements" really make the original MUCH WORSE!

Fingers crossed this won't be one of those times!

-- TW

[nik0]

Originally Posted by stoltingmediagroup

In all honesty, I'm not so sure that lowering the prices on WSO's is a great move that will improve the quality of the forum. The $40 price point eliminates just about the right amount of crap being posted. I also imagine that with the new $20 lower fee, a WSO post will also disappear from the first page even faster than they already do. Not very attractive for advertisers. Just my 2 cents.

There sure will be an increase in bumps / sales threads but I don't expect that it will be twice as much so in the end you're still cheaper of.

Unless the forum gets heavily promoted to the 10 million users of Freelancer.com, that's a lot of new competition!

[Michael Thorsett]

I fear change. (I know, I'm totally in the wrong industry for that, right?)

That said, I know that change is inevitable.

But please, I beseech you, please don't change things just to be changing them. Improve things to make the community better.

Like others have mentioned, dropping the WSO price is most likely not a good move.

I'm also a bit worried with the switch to annual fee for the War Room; but I can totally see the reasoning behind it.

All in all, congrats to Allen, welcome to the Freelancer.com crew, and let's keep making this the best marketing community online!

[webworksbd]

congratulations! Allen ... Also Thanks Matt to give support to this great forum. We hope that soon we will able to see some Cool features. All the best.

[Matthew Anton]

Does Freelancer have any plans on integrating with the Warriors for Hire section? See a lot of synergies there that could help lower cost and find truly solid vendors.

[Alast]

Originally Posted by nik0

There sure will be an increase in bumps / sales threads but I don't expect that it will be twice as much so in the end you're still cheaper of.

Unless the forum gets heavily promoted to the 10 million users of Freelancer.com, that's a lot of new competition!

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

[Sarevok]

It's my hypothesis that warriorforum.com could grow massively with this new acquisition.

(Freelancer.com has a massive userbase, so this is a really fascinating turn of events).

Only time will tell... Honestly excited over the potential...

[Alaister]

Originally Posted by Matthew Anton

Does Freelancer have any plans on integrating with the Warriors for Hire section? See a lot of synergies there that could help lower cost and find truly solid vendors.

We want to intimately understand the value you guys gain from the Warrior for Hire section to make sure we do improve it and add more value.

I'd definitely be open to suggestions as to how you see us integrating with that section.

[pbxphone]

Is there a deadline for the War Room memberships for those who have just tuned in or sitting on the fence? Wondering if I have just missed the best WSO ?

[Kay King]

Don't forget - WSO's were free some years ago. A charge of $20 improved the situation for a while - $40 did the same - but only for a while. That section is sometimes a victim of its own success.

Change is good and the timing feels right. I think Freelancer will be a great match - and Allen can go have some fun (like that's something new).

kay

[Kurt]

Originally Posted by Mou

Congrats Allen!! It has been a great journey. Hope Freelancer.com can take this forward.

What happens to the paid section like Bryan's Kindle Club and Kurt's Video Club?

Also what about the sections "Warriors for Hire" , "Websites for Sale" etc.?

~Mou

Thanks Mou...You took the words right out of my mouth...

[WinsonYeung]

Wow that's awesome!

Cost of WSO reduced back to $20! Thanks for the changes!

[hussain553]

Welcome and Congrats.

[Cal8]

I think you don't have to worry too much about prices being too low. A certain amount of free speech or free expression is desirable. The Warrior Forum moderators have done a great job of keeping a good "balance" here on the Warrior Forum. The moderators will be essential moving forward.

As the world’s largest outsourcing and freelancing marketplace, I am very hopeful that Freelancer.com will make outsourcing opportunities both "easily accessible" and "less expensive" for Warrior Forum members.
(1) Is it fair of me to hope for this for Warrior Forum members?

(2) Exactly how will moderators and "moderation" be affected moving forward?

(3) How will the quality, quantity, and pricing of WSO's be affected?

(4) The Warrior Forum has functioned as an outstanding place to connect newbies with inexpensive opportunities and with truly successful Senior Warriors who wanted to give back to the world by helping newbies. How will this function be affected moving forward?

[Joan Altz]

I would like to see some kind of "Team WSO" section developed whereby marketers and workers of different skill sets would have the opportunity to join forces on WSO product creations and be able to share the profits as JV partners.

So instead of the Joint Venture forum, where someone is begging for help or offering to pay for a split, you'd have different marketers and workers with a variety of expertise who would apply to be a part of a team effort to create something outstanding, promote it, support it, etc...the team accomplishing something that each member by himself/herself could not do alone.

Warriors who want to collaborate would have extended profiles, listing their areas of expertise, and you would have project leaders who have a certain degree of credibility as marketers already who would be the "Initiators" of the proposed projects.

These could even be paid-for positions and team proposals.

Too many people here are riding it out alone and going nowhere. It's tough if you have limited funds, because the learning curve to truly get a handle on everything needed to turn a profit is actually very high. Then you have people with particular skills who are great at one or two things, but not good at others, and those weaknesses keep them from getting over the hump to success.

[ak azad]

I heard a lots about Warrior Forum. But didn't know why the forum is largest and famous. Now I know that the Administrator has lots of great ideas on his brain. surely this step cuts a lot.

[Alaister]

Originally Posted by Mou

Congrats Allen!! It has been a great journey. Hope Freelancer.com can take this forward.

What happens to the paid section like Bryan's Kindle Club and Kurt's Video Club?

Also what about the sections "Warriors for Hire" , "Websites for Sale" etc.?

~Mou

Hi Mou,

We'll be keeping them as is for now. I know a lot of you guys gain a huge amount of value from those private paid sections as well as those marketplace boards.

I'd love to hear about how you think we could improve them.

[joekyut]

This is great news Allen. We sure hope this will continue to get better as we go forward

[promo87]

Ohoo... yes this is just so exciting !!

[George Tee]

Just curious how much did freelancer.com pay for warriorforum? Would love to know even if it's just rough figure? 7 figures?

[melvinsh]

Wow this is very good news as it should benefit both networks. Its combining a marketplace and a forum of experts. Great partnership.

[Jack Humphrey]

Given recent events, I'd like to announce my forthcoming WSO entitled:

"How to start the web's most successful, most popular internet marketing forum and cash out in just 17 short years!"

[MrShabir]

Congratulations Allen..!

[tchavez]

Congrats Allen! Looking forward to what the future brings to WaFo.

[blogers]

Congratulations Allen on this new way the forum
It's great news for alls

[LifeLikeLife]

Congrats Allen!

I'm happy I finally chose to pay for War Room today, good timing.

[andrewm]

Looks like very exciting time ahead. Good to be grandfathered in for life as a War Room member. Thanks Allen.

Andrew

[arpitagarwal82]

Congrats Allen..

[KenThompson]

Great... now all the people here who want world class writing for 5.00 per 500 or 1000 words can flood the other place.

Nothing like dragging down the neighborhood.

I reckon this post will be deleted.

[KenThompson]

Well it's nice to see my critical but short post was deleted. Paul?

Unfortunately, the owner of Freelancer had little idea of what he was getting into with this deal. And to the owner of Freelancer, I just recently joined your site a short while ago. I feel it may become a short-lived relationship.

Oh well... plenty of other places to find clients.

[dotgirish]

Looking forward for the new changes , thanks to Allen for your great support

[Omar White]

Hi Allen ,

Huge Congratulations. and a WARM Welcome to Freelancer.com

[Daniel Evans]

What will this mean for those who are selling services in Warriors for Hire?

Will there be an clash of interests?

[LeoTran]

Congratulations

[Nick Logan]

Great news. Nice to see that WF is moving forward!

[serpexperts]

Congratulations Freelancer & WarriorForum.

[JazzyB]

Originally Posted by mattbarrie

* 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.

You might want to update the pricing in this thread.
http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-...ml#post1137742

[nocturnal911]

Thats a good step, but freelancer please don't commercialize the WF.

[IamFurqan]

WOW Congrats... What a big news, best of Luck Guys

[Mou]

Originally Posted by Alaister

Hi Mou,

We'll be keeping them as is for now. I know a lot of you guys gain a huge amount of value from those private paid sections as well as those marketplace boards.

I'd love to hear about how you think we could improve them.

That's good to know as many of us here gained/learned a lot from knowledge shared by old time Warriors like Kurt and Bryan

Regarding the Marketplace ( my personal experience with - Websites for sale, warriors for hire) inspite of Paul doing a great job , there has been incidents where people break the thread bumping rules . Hopefully this can be improved for benefit of all buyers and sellers.

~Mou

[Alex Blades]

Agreed. The only reason it was raised to $40 was to clean up the poor quality WSO's....and it worked pretty well for the most part. Reducing it to $20 will definitely bring back some sub-par sellers.

On paper it looks good, but it really didn't get rid of the crappy WSO's. If anything, it discouraged the llttle guy from starting their own WSO, and made it easier for the season marketers to have more time on the first page.

You can raise the WSO price to $100 and the cons will always be glad to pay it. The quality of WSO went up, but the results are the same. All the $40 WSO fee did was make the graphics in WSO section prettier

The $40 fee discourages the little guy, who may have a 5 page ebook with methods that works, in favor of guys who can make the WSO as shiny as possible, and basically sell rehashed stuff.

The Warrior Forum should encourage people to come out with their own products, not discourage them.