[admin]

Hi everyone,

I started Warrior Forum back in 1997 with the goal of creating a community of like minded internet marketers to share ideas, learn from each other and build their online empires. 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. I’ve spent a long time thinking about what the best next step should be and I feel certain that Freelancer.com will be able to provide Warrior Forum with the resources, energy and time required to continue the community and improve it to make it even bigger and better.

Freelancer.com is the world’s largest outsourcing and freelancing marketplace with a community of over 10.8 million skilled professionals from all over the globe. They are growing quickly and have participated in forums just like you and I.

Warrior Forum will remain independent to Freelancer.com and will have a separate dedicated team to better support you. I know they are excited to be joining our great community and will be working alongside us to take Warrior Forum to the next level. You’ll receive an introduction email from Freelancer.com shortly.

I look forward to this exciting new phase of Warrior Forum and hope you can join me in welcoming Freelancer.com!

- Allen Says

[JeffMitchell]

I think it is a great idea. 2 great communities with 1 goal is going to be killer for everyone involved.

Thanks,

Jeff Mitchell

[admin]

Originally Posted by JeffMitchell

I think it is a great idea. 2 great communities with 1 goal is going to be killer for everyone involved.

Thanks,

Jeff Mitchell

Thanks Jeff.

I think so too.

[Rus Sells]

This is awesome news! I look forward to seeing how things evolve in the near future for this community!

[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

[Grazina Ajana Szewczyk]

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

[santacruz]

It is going to have a big thing happen here, so excited about it

[J Bold]

Huge news! Guess this the main thread as I posted in another one.

Congratulations and interested to see what will become of this in the future.

[J. Barry Mandel]

This sounds exactly like what's needed!

It'll be very interesting to see what improvements happen

[Sarevok]

Congratulations...

The goose laid a massive golden egg.

[Alaister]

Congratulations Allen!
It's great news.

I've been a member of the forum for years and love it.
I also work at Freelancer.com - I'll be working with the team and making sure Warrior Forum stays awesome

Don't hesitate to message me or email me alaister@freelancer.com

[AlmightyGreg]

Umm. Nice.

[RootShell-vb]

Congratulations Allen, and great idea

[jkennedy]

I'm extremely excited to see this partnership. I love both Warrior Forum & Freelancer.

I've been making money on WF via WSOs for over 5 years now. It's wonderful to see the WSO price drop. What an excellent way to provide immediate value to the core members here.

It's also exciting to think about the possibilities on the horizon from this partnership.

Matt, you posted your personal email... that really shows a lot of character and let's us know that you actually care about the people in this community.

Thanks for the update Allen, can't wait to see how this grows!

Jeremy

[twister85]

Things just getting better over Warrior Forum, I know this decision is taken after a lot of consideration and thinking. If its just going to make the community better, why don't support it?

Go ahead and Good luck!

[blueraykhazana]

Congratulations. Really Nice Idea Warrior.

[Jack Humphrey]

Allen,

17 years already? Congratulations old man. You going to be buying "The Island" now?

Seriously, wow! We should catch up on your adventures of late and planned. Would be awesome to chat.

-Jack

[peconicpaula]

Nice one admin...things are getting better and better

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

WEW! Great things are cominggg...

[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

[AskKim]

Congratulations Allen - and to the WF Family

[moneylover1]

Great news and Great success allen. I love this forum and i wish you all the best. I also love freelancer awesome company.

[stoltingmediagroup]

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 *

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.

[natethegreat7037]

Interesting, indeed!

This could be something quite special if executed properly.

Besides, I think I've put off not being a War Room member long enough, anyway.

[FreddieMixell]

Thats really cool news, I'm interested to see where this brings the WF in the future!

[Brad Gosse]

Congratulations man

[jkennedy]

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.

This is a good point. On the flip-side, with more resources available comes more opportunity for better moderation and filtration of "junk" products.

[Brendon Zahrndt]

Having an exit plan.

Always a good business decision.

[Kenster]

Congrats guys...big news!

[deessell]

Great News! Although, as a new member I'm not really sure if this will have any impact on me.

[Alaister]

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.

Hey Arnold, thanks for your feedback. You make a good point. We'll certainly be constantly monitoring this to see what impact it has. We'll also be making sure the moderation process is suitable. They've all done a great job so far!

Feel free to let me know if you have any other suggestions or feedback.

[Tom E]

Although change can be a bit scary, especially one that can affect ones business, I'm going to embrace this change with the attitude that things around here will go from great to even better. As long as you guys on the freelancer.com team have your hearts in the right place, I'm sure this will be a wonderful change for everyone!

[TakenAction]

So what other aspects will be changed besides those pricing changes?

I just get really worried seeing this because this is such a great community of such great people that really provide a lot of value to others (free and paid value) and I just don't want to see anything that would jeopardize that. With that being said I believe the Freelancer crew has good intentions.

[Anton Nadilo]

Congratulations man!

I will be watching closely to see how this develops.

[DianaHeuser]

Congratulations Allen.

Just as a matter of interest, does this have any impact on Bryan's Kindle Book Club section?

Thanks
Di

[SergioFelix]

Can't wait to see the changes, congratulations guys!

[ahew]

Sounds awesome! Nice to get grandfathered in for life too Congrats, Allen!

[VENAXIS]

This is some big news. Congratulations!

Will there be any changes because of this? (Pricing, forum sections, ... etc)

[Josh Anderson]

I've been a member of the Warrior Forum for 11 years and created my first software product on Scriptlance a decade ago.

Now Freelancer.com owns them both... I guess I'll have to take a closer look at them.

Allen, thank you. It's been a great ride and it's been very fun watching you navigate this amazing ship. Membership in this forum is one of the great resources that helped me launch my business, build my reputation, and succeed.

Congratulations. Well deserved.

[yako]

You should write a WSO on that!

Congrats, my best wishes for the community!

[Tyke]

It'll be interesting to see how this pans out.

Good luck to one and all!

[Assignmentwriter]

This is a breaking news for all members of warrior.

[AlexCN]

Nice work Allen - Congrats! Looking forward to great things from this incredible community for years to come!

Alex

[Robert Carbine]

Very exciting news!! I already love the pricing changes and am excited to see what other changes are in the works.

[Dennis Gaskill]

Congratulations Allen! I hope I get an invite to that island.

And congrats to you too, Matt. It will be interesting to see where you take the place.

[Mike Hill]

A HUGE congratulations Allen... And a sturdy welcome to Freelancer.com

[Alaister]

Originally Posted by TakenAction

So what other aspects will be changed besides those pricing changes?

I just get really worried seeing this because this is such a great community of such great people that really provide a lot of value to others (free and paid value) and I just don't want to see anything that would jeopardize that. With that being said I believe the Freelancer crew has good intentions.

Hi there,

I love Warrior Forum and am passionate about the great community. I'm actually working in the team at Freelancer.com that will be driving Warrior Forum and I'll be ensuring the community continues to provide huge value to everyone.

We want to work with you guys to improve and grow the forum. Let me know if you guys have suggestions or any thoughts.

[ryanbessling]

Great job Allen!

I am excited to see how well the merger works out.

[Ryan Shaw]

I'm looking forward to seeing the Warrior Forum grow and make some big improvements.

It's where I got my start with Internet Marketing with countless others here I'm sure.

I'm happy to help by offering a few suggestions.

[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

[Alaister]

Originally Posted by Ryan Shaw

I'm looking forward to seeing the Warrior Forum grow and make some big improvements.

It's where I got my start with Internet Marketing with countless others here I'm sure.

I'm happy to help by offering a few suggestions.

Hey Ryan,

It's awesome to hear that you've gained so much great value from Warrior Forum.

I'd love to hear your suggestions and ideas. Feel free to email me alaister@freelancer.com