Last night I put my webmaster forum for sale on the buy/sell section at webcosmoforums.com and few others. Most of the readers at my forum immediately realized its a April Fools joke. People are indeed smart at my foum for sure.

At other forums only one person realized it was a joke. Then I got quite a few PMs asking for more information; some people offering a price as well. It was fun to see how much people think the forum might sell for. Highest price offer I got was $300.

I think there were several lessons to learn from this for me:

• It let me somewhat see how much my forum was worth to them. I wasn’t happy with the prices offered of course.
• Showed me how much people would be interested in the forum. That actually signifies the marketing aspect of the forum, if it has a market value at all.
• It shows me there are lot more work to be done to have a selling value that would make me happy. But for a 11 month old forum it wasn’t that bad, considering there are tons of forums being sold for less then $100.