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Since the middle of January, I've been working my butt cheeks off planning and developing a project that I knew was going to be a success from the very start. Wiredflame launched on March 9th (2007) with a blast. It was an interesting experiencing running and maintaining this great site, but unfortunately, I really need to devote all of my time on a brand new project I am working on, which requires huge amounts of both time and money investment. I spent a ton of time creating content, having the backend php system made, and tweaking the site for the best performance possible.
WiredFlame offers two services. One is the classical Forum Population service where forum owners purchase one of our four plans to help populate their forum. The second service is an unique and new idea a good friend of mine, John Hamman, thought up for me
; WiredFlame Promotion Services. This is for website owners to promote their site through signature links on forums related to the topic of their website made by our writers. Very popular considering that it launched around 2 weeks ago.How much Time Investment is required?
I hired a young individual as a WiredFlame campaign manager, who manages, maintains, and offers support for basically the whole site. I currently pay him $14/day for 1-2 hours of work on WiredFlame.com. He is very dedicated and extremely trustworthy. At times, he would spend extra time helping out programmers to help fix a bug he found. He himself know a bit about PHP, which is another big plus. Not to mention he was selected from over 30 resumes sent to my email from a ********* thread I made
. Total time needed to manage the site is around 5 minutes per day to read/forward/rely the emails, and maybe 20 minutes a week to advertise the site through forum posts/threads.How much Money Investment is required?
Alex, the hired campaign manager gets paid via a paypal subscription every week. The pay is $70. As for the writers who post on the client's forums, they are paid every 14-16 of every month. However, only a handful request a payout on these days. For the month of May, I paid out a total of $410.84 via PayPal to these writers. This is relatively larger number considering we had a lot less writers for April and March. I do not advertise WiredFlame at all except for the 468x60 flash banner I have on adminfusion for $25/month. Total expenses: $645.84/month.
Coding
Over 200 hours of coding work resulted in a beautifully, fully functional WiredFlame. Companies such as inb0x, forumshock, etc uses a third party to supply it's customers with writers and a control panel. WiredFlame has everything coded right on the site with an amazing admin panel, writer userpanel, and a client userpanel. Features are just too many to list. Please view the DOC file for a general list of features wiredflame has coded into it's system.
http://www.wiredflame.com/sale/wiredflamefeatures.doc
Please PM me for demo admin control panel login info. Interested buyers only!
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http://www.wiredflame.com/sale/managejobs.gif
Others
WiredFlame features a custom designed skin. Web 2.0 all the way and one of the best designed sites out there according to DP, NP and DNF members. WiredFlame also features a writer's forum where WiredFlame writers may discuss different matters freely as a community: http://www.wiredflame.com/writersboard. WiredFlame also offers two payment options for clients. Paypal and 2CO (license included).
Included with Sale
- WiredFlame Domain name (domainsite regged. PR4 predicted PR6)
- Custom design and extremepixels phpbb forum skin for writer's forum
- Complete site filled with content
- Custom coded backend including feature-filled admincp, client usercp, and writer usercp
- 2CO License (WiredFlame.com Registered)
- Basically everything you see.
Stats
Clients: 105
Writers: 236
Campaigns (overall):73
Active Campaigns: 36
Completed Campaigns: 37
Revenue Details
Lets see. Between March 09th and May 19th (70 days), WiredFlame earned $3355 ($48/day):
- 5 Fireblast Packages ($240)
- 9 Fireball Packages ($110)
- 12 Ember Packages ($42)
- 23 Spark Packages ($16)
- 10 Custom Packages ($1.50-$18)
- 1 Electric Package ($45)
- 2 Static Package ($20)
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From March 20th to March 30th, I started to record specific stats for sales:
$863 - May 20th - May 30th (10 days) - $86.30/day
- 1 Fireblast Packages ($240)
- 1 Fireball Packages ($110)
- 1 Ember Packages ($42)
- 3 Spark Packages ($16)
- 1 Custom Packages ($38)
- 1 Thunder Packages ($185)
- 4 Electric Package ($45)
- 1 Static Package ($20)
21st - 1 Fireball Package ($110)
22nd - 1 Fireblast Package - 2 Electric Packages ($330)
23rd - 1 Spark Package ($16)
24th - 1 Thunder Package ($185)
25th - 1 Ember Package ($42)
26th - 2 Spark Package ($32)
27th - 1 Custom Package ($38)
*28th - 1 Electric Package ($45)
*29th - Not Any
30th - 1 Electric Package - 1 Static Package ($65)
*Quite a bit of downtime on these days. Server fixed soon after.
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Alright, now if we go with the current stats ($86.30/day), we get $2589 monthly. Now, if you want to go the other route, we get around $52.73/day average from March 9th (launch date) till present date, giving us a $1582/month average. Let's take away the pay to the writers ($410.84 for May - monthly), and we come up with $1171.16/month (overall) to $2178.16/month (present - more accurate) in pure profit! Hows that?
Traffic Details
Uniques/day: 106.65
Page Views/day: 827.13
PageRank: PR4 predicted PR6
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Alexa Ranking: 151,265
Incoming Links: 24,147
Traffic mostly comes from bookmarks/direct type-ins and webmaster forums (advertising threads and signature links). Traffic also come from Google for search terms such as 'Forum Population' (3rd listing). Traffic also come from various blog posts (eg. 5 Get Paid to Post Forums). None of which are paid.
*I reserve the right to select any winner at any time and I reserve the right to reject any bidder at any time.*
Starting Bid: $8,000
BIN: $12,000
Reserve: None
Auction End Date: June 10th 6PM PST
Payment Options: Escrow or PayPal
Thank you,
Donny Ouyang
Kinkarso.com Network
I will update this thread with new sales on WiredFlame.com.
As of now, I just received a custom package of $154.
Woke up today to find one more purchase made on WiredFlame. This time, a Spark plan $16. I'll update throughout the day as new purchases are made.
