Jelsoft's future
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For those interested in a quick profile and executives at Internet Brands, Inc...
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I'm interested in hearing the selling price as wellComment
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I think that vBulletin architecture that was built into the software already aims at allowing other people to develop fully-fledged add-ons for it, which means it's in Jelsoft's favor to encouraging it not vice versa.
I'm predicting that Jelsoft, & according to IB's range of services, will enter into markets of providing solutions to Real Estate, Cars Dealers & grand-level eCommerce products. There's much excitement in the words of James in the original announcement that can trigger optimistic hunches.
Let us hope for the best times of Jelsoft.You're spending millions of dollars on a website?!
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Wayne Luke
The Rabid Badger - a vBulletin Cloud demonstration site.
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I'm excited to see what will change and so forth.
Challenge and Change
using vBulletin since April 2001...wow....Comment
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Lets see... my largest competition (www.doityourself.com) now owns the very software I use to run my sites.Comment
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Jelsoft err Internet Branding is going to have to work there ass off to get me to buy anything from Jelsoft. Major concerns of mine are:- How will our private data obtained by Jelsoft be handled?
- The $160 for vBulletin is the absolute max I will pay
- I refuse to pay for any major version upgrade in addition to the annual members area access
- I refuse to pay anymore the the $30/yr members area fee
- I will pay for add-ons that are developed to enhance vBulletin
- I will drop vBulletin like a rock if they encrypte any part of the php files and importers avaliable for view at present
- I will drop vBulletin like a rock if more calling home features are put in the code and or code that collects data on my forum
The $160 price point is the sweet spot. With money being invested into marketing, the increase in sites using vBulletin and the add-ons will rise off-setting and yielding greater profits then if the prices were raised and less people bought vBulletin and the add-ons. If 100.000 people who didn't use vBulletin bought it thanks to the new marketing at $160, that is $16M in revenue, now raise the price (as allot of people say do since it's worth more) to $200, but only 20,000 people buy it thanks to the new marketing that is only a $4M. By keeping all the prices the same, developing add-ons tying into vBullein that will yield far greater revenue as more people will be able to afford vbulletin. At $50 per add-on+$20/yr members area access, that's a nice revenue stream is on average each board has 1 add-on. That means Jelsoft has effectivally increased the annual fee by 66% from $30-$50 without raising the annual fee at all. Also with the average person having one add-on that is $210 per license. Again a price increase of 31% without having raised the price.
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Good luck for your new parternship! I hope it would help you far more than damage your development cycles. If the original vB team will stay as is, I won't be worried for a bit... It really felt like you need something refreshing to continue your expandings. Does the old owner still own any part of the core?Comment
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I think I read enough and will go back to help answering threads.
I agree with Mac Write, that addons are what makes money in any product. I do not want to see any increase for yearly upgrades. I do hope they hire more staff for both Countries.
Just a bad thought, will we have to purchase the script again? I dought the name will stay the same or it may, but just wondering cause I heard this happening before.Comment
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It is said that when Internet Brands purchased DoItYourself.com they screwed a lot of people over and caused a revolt among their moderators.
I hope the same don't happen here.Ken Iovino
Full Time PHP, Ruby and iOS DeveloperComment
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