Social Network Marketing Tycoon

**Jason** · 02:15 AM

A friend of mine is selling his hobby forum with just under 1500 members and just under 14,000 posts (including threads) I'm interested in buying the site but said make an offer. The site is ran on IPB but the license is not included as I will be switching to vBulletin.

I volunteered to moderate the forums and noticed the site doesn't get much traffic nor posts. Out of 1500 members only 50-70 members has over 30 posts. What offer should I make?

The site opened Nov. 2006

Thanks

**chrishirst** · 06-10-2008, 07:03 AM

A usual guesstimate would be around 2 1/2 times what it earns.

**kinkarso** · 06-11-2008, 09:34 PM

I agree with Chris, although it may be worth a bit more than just 2.5x monthly revenue.

Another way of 'guesstimating' its worth is by how many active members the forum has. I would say a forum in a good niche would be worth around $1/active member. Active meaning the user has visited in the past month.

Good luck!

Thank You,
Donny