BlogExplosion has been Sold !!
| We are pleased to announce that BlogExplosion has been sold to Stephen Sartain and a group of private investors this weekend. We had competitive bids all through last week and finally was decided on Saturday afternoon. |
Stephen has bought two sites from us previously with great results and has extensive experience running sites like BlogExplosion. Our final closing price was in the six figures and well beyond our minimum bid of $100,000. We also want to extend a huge thanks to Jeremy Wright for doing an amazing job brokering the sale of BlogExplosion for us.
This will be my last post on helpmeblog.com as Lewis aka Orangehairedboy (one of our lead developers) will be taking over as we make the transition to the new ownership group.
There are a flurry of new features already scheduled to launch over the next few weeks as the development group has been working this whole time in preparation for the change. BlogExplosion will be launching BE Experts where experienced members will be helping new members with any problems they might come across, a new support ticket system will be implemented, tutorials will be updated for newbies and the blog approval system will be re-vamped as well. This will make it easier for members to get the information they need on a timely basis and make BlogExplosion a friendlier site to use.
Now that the new management team is in place, BlogCharm will now confirm sponsors and advertising deals that will be shared by all participating members. BE will also look to offer value-added services such as podcasting hosting with a deal close at hand and other features that will make an immediate impact moving forward as well.
Thomas and myself will be taking a short break now that BlogExplosion has been sold and then looking at new projects that we will be launching by the end of the summer.
BlogExplosion has definitely been a very rewarding and interesting experience since we launched back in September 2004. We never imagined that BE would become so popular or develop such a devout following. We leave BlogExplosion as one of the leading blog communities on the internet and a top blog destination website. We want to thank all of our members for the support and encouragement to keep us going each day as we met some truely amazing people along the way. There is no way we could have done it without our loyal members and again a sincere thanks to everyone that were always there for us.
Congratulations Steve and group and we wish you the best of luck in the future! Blogosphere out!
Sincerely
Thomas and Jeff