International Fashion Modeling And Photography Website For Sale

Business description

This is a professionally developed international fashion photography and modeling website which has been developed in 8 months with 2 programmers and a designer. The codes and design have been made inhouse and completely unique. The website has a professional look and has been developed using the latest technology. The website has been live only for 7 months and we already have 35000 photos uploaded by over 4500 members. It also has over 20.000 Facebook fans and 5000 Twitter followers. We also have 150 articles so far on the blog section of our website which are all unique, modeling related and written by experienced writers. All the codes, design, content, database, Twitter and Facebook pages are included in the sale.
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The domain name is a 14 years old premium .com domain that has been valued at £10.000 ($15.000) by Sedo. (Sedo appraisal certificate will be provided on request). It also comes with some similar domains which are also premium domains to redirect to the main domain. One of the side domains (fotomodels.com) is valued at £2500 ($4000) by Sedo. Total value of the domains included in the sale are above: $20.000
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The website is a meeting place for models, photographers, fashion designers, hair stylists, modeling agencies, publishers and other members of fashion. It is a social network where people in fashion signup to and start networking with eachother, post status updates to their networks, follow others, send messages etc.. Members can also create casting calls and others can apply.
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We currently have around 145.000 page views, 20.000 visits per month. When we run Facebook or Google ads, this number goes up rapidly. With the right advertising budget, the website has potential to become huge. It is hosted in Rackspace cloud which makes it expandable as the traffic grows. The website has a professional look and it has been developed with PHP+MySQL+Ajax. We have also used the latest Facebook, Flickr, Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo APIs for people to combine their account with the information they have on that webites.
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Website comes with an admin section to manage the content and members. It usually takes an hour a day to manage the website.
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Feature List:
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•Free and Paid member registration system
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•Messaging system and an internal message box for every member.
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•Networking system where people can add each other to their networks and share updates with each other (like Twitter).
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•‘Follow’ system that members can use to follow activities of each other.
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•Member directory where people can search for models, photographers and members in other areas of fashion.
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•Studios section where people can hire studios from other people or post their studios for hire.
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•Modelling agencies section where people can post their agencies or add agencies to their networks to be informed when there are new castings from the agencies in their network.
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•Casting calls section where members can submit their casting calls and fashion related jobs and others can apply.
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•Blog section where people can read daily articles about the fashion world.
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•Integrated with the latest version of APIs of Facebook, Flickr, Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail for members to combine the information on their account with information on that sites. Ex: Members can chose to transfer their Facebook or Flickr photos to their profile. Or they can show to invite all their contacts on Hotmail, Yahoo or Gmail to join their networks.
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•Affiliate system where we ask people to link to us and we pay them per click or per signup.
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•Competitions section
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•Photo tagging system where members can click on different places on a photo and tag different people. It then sends an email to everyone that has been tagged.
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•Photo upload: 3 different forms to upload photos: Basic uploader, multiple uploader, Facebook/Fickr uploader where you login to your Facebook or Flick account and the system transfers your selected photos to your profile automatically.
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•Create favourite lists feature that people can use to bookmark works they like. Ajax rich functionality.
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•‘Like’ feature that people use to Like others works and profiles.
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•Admin area with a CMS to manage the website, approve, delete members etc..
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•Full networking features informing people when someone starts following them or requested to be on their network.
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Revenue
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The website has not been properly monetized yet. there are paid membership plans which are active but will generate more revenue when the website reaches 20-30.000 members as the members look for enough people to network with to upgrade to a paid membership.
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The domains included in the sale are:
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photomodel.com
photomodel.org
photomodel.co
fotomodels.com
fotomodels.net
fotomodels.org
fotomodel.co.uk
foto-model.co.uk
foto-model.org
foto-models.org
foto-models.co.uk
fotomodel.co
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Please find Google analyics for 6 months below:
http://www.photomodel.com/pmstats.zip
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Clicks we get when we share interesting articles on our Facebook and Twitter pages:
http://www.photomodel.com/article_clicks.jpg
http://www.photomodel.com/article_clicks2.jpg
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Admin section video tour:
http://www.photomodel.com/backoffice.avi (156MB)
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For more information please send us a message.

Property information

Location:

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Website:

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Home based:

This business can be run from home.

Relocatable:

This business can be relocated.