Social Networking Website Partnership needed

I have designed a website http://friends2us.com/
It currently has 6439 members and 3478 active members.
There are Daily 80-130 signups.
I am looking for partnership.

1. Me (Owner/founder) - 60%
2. Partner #1 (Main Investor) - 20% - 1000$
3. Partner #2 (Coder) - 10% - (General Coding of new ideas)
4. Partner #3 (Designer) - 5% - (Layout of new ideas)
5. Partner #4 (Marketing) - 5% - (SEO, SMO, Press Releases)

The site is not monetized, so no current earnings.

Alexa - 643,203

If you wanna become a partner, pm me.

is it wrong that i laugh at this??. i mean really almost 4000 chinabots,, really? and it is for sale?

I hope no one gets too anal about this and tells you to post it in the jobs section, because I am actually in favor of posts like this, and would like to see more of them.  I have to say though, that your site looks mediocre at best - looks like you haven't done much more than an install in fact.  Do you think perhaps it is a bit early to be asking for investors?.   I could do an install also and then ask for $1000 bucks.  

Your 100 users per day sign up, but maybe that is just what happens when you put up a site with immediate profile activation and no email confirmation?  I know I spend a great deal of time deleting junk profiles and Chinese spam.  I'm just sayin...

Indeed.  It looks like most of your "members" and daily sign-ups come from a certain country.

 He has almost 200,000 spam blog posts. One of this partner positions should be "Moderator".

this is prolly most ridiculous thing I saw in my life. Man ... are you really serious ?  YOu got 200.000 spam blogs on your site and thousands of spam members. What u wanna partners for ?. You will be lucky if maybe 0.5% of your total members are real members and not spammers ... If  i was you I close down whole site and start again from scratch. If i give same conditions on my test site I would have currently maybe over 10.000 members :-)

Sorry for being sarcastic you prolly dont understand situation. YOur site is spammed big time. Basicly nearly all your members are spammers ...there nothing to sell or get a partner for now.... as I said, delete everything and start again...my 5 cents

i found it funny that 1000 dollars only buys you 20%   so just for installing it he gets 1000 and 60 percent this is CLASSIC!

 Maybe the only thing you have on the site that is not straight off the standard install is the games mod, and thats a free trial version with branding on!

If this is a serious post, and your not just hoping that someone here will give their money away, then you have lots of work to do before you can even consider asking for an investor...

1 - Clean up the spam members, which will leave you with very few members.

2 - Block the spam members - otherwise you will go back to 1!

3 - Get some content on the site thats not created by spam members. You cant just offer a social network site and expect people to put content on for you. either you're facebook, or you have to offer something else...

4 - Pay for a boonex license. No-one will take your site serious if you still have the 'powered by boonex' link at the bottom, which says 'I cant afford $99 to own my own site'...

5 - Get a non standard template so your site is different to the 'clean install' version of DOlphin

6 - Spend time working on your site, make it niche and interesting enough for some real members to want to be on it. There are countless bog standard SN sites out there now, you have to have a niche attraction to your site. Otherwise, do something else as you will waste all your time...

7 - Forget about asking for 'partners' to basically do all the work for you!  (Coder - Designer - Marketing - what do you do? Install manager?)

8 - Dont ask me to invest my money, unless you can offer a return on it. If you have zero income streams in place, zero members, zero content, what do I get for my $1000???

9 - Work hard at all of the above and MAYBE you will start to see some sort of result...

10 - Be ready to change all of the above to make things work!!!

It is funny because they are chinabots, but at the end of the day it is still a good concept - just that in this case it is not viable. Lets face it, this is an expensive game that we are all enterig into, and anyway to reduce costs and gain knowledge in exchange for percentages is a good thing. There should be much more co-operation on here.

I have invested a HUGE amount of money into my site. We have genuine members - but only at 5 per day or so at present. We have made contatacts with top industry professionals within the market sector we are entering, and these people will open the doors that we could never dream of opening that will allow our site to grow into what we want it to become. We know our weakness is SEO, and so we too are considdering giving away a percentage of our business in exchange for an SEO expert. This is not set in stone yet, as we are looking at all possibilities, before we commit.

But I do think this kind of business model has a place within dolphin. Lets be honest - You can probably count the sites that are making anything like decent money on one hand, so helping shape a site even if it is owned by someone else, to the point where it can turn an income is a good thing. 10% of somethig is better than 10% of nothing.

I have stopped laughing now. If you ask me, it is a desperate plea, and I know how desperate to get our sites up and working and running and in profit we have all been.

I for one have already picked out sites that I intend to help if and when I make a decent profit from my own efforts. Sometimes, its just good to do the right thing.

Agreed, it makes sense for some site developers to team up and work together. Ive been helped by some people on this forum before and have helped others get their sites going also.

This case though is pretty much a clean install with no real viable site in existence!

If at least some of the steps had been taken that I outlined to make this site somewhere along the ladder of being a working site, then it would be more plausible to  look at others investing time into it. As it is though, its jus a bare bones dolphin install with zero content other than spam. 

$1000 will go nowhere in getting a site going, you'll be lucky to pay for any mods you need plus template, and then a VPS before thats gone! 

Also, what will the site owner be doing with the $1000 for the 'main investor'? 

No indication of what it is needed for.

Maybe there should be a skill share forum on here, or dare I say - a Dolphin site dedicated to new Dolphin sites! 

Newbies can get some help, and figure out if their ideas are achievable, and developers - investors etc can keep an eye on up and coming sites that might actually go somewhere! 

As you know yourself, it can take years of working on a site just to get it to the up and running stage...

 i agree with you on everything except the "no one will take you serious" with the boonex banners. i have invested alot of money in my site http://www.thegettogether.net/  but most of it went to server fees and google and fb ads,, i had a plan from day one to build it to a working site for the first year, i started mid February and been ironing out the bugs and stuff, my members are all real and we just passed 4600, my chat sees numbers over 40 at peak time of the day. Im saying this not to brag but to say i see it as in the first year it would be better in my eyes to blow every extra dime a person has to get the word out about the site, ads and such. on my 1 year anniversary  date i will buy the licenses but i figure if you have the free banner at the bottom it really dont matter much if you pay to remove it if there is no one coming to the site to see it anyways.

I would think that if you actually had a plan from day one to build your site to a working site, the first investment would be to purchase a license and work up independently instead of riding on Boonex . He/ she is right, “No-one will take your site serious if you still have the 'powered by boonex' link at the bottom, which says 'I cant afford $99 to own my own site'.

 well that is how YOU see it,, Boonex actually likes people to have their banners at the bottom it is part of promoting their software.  may i ask how your site is doing?.. trust me the people who use my site really dont even think twice about the banner at the bottom. saying "no one will take your site serious" makes no sense at all. a site is judged on content and traffic, not the bottom banner or weather or not the first thing they did was blow 99 dollars just to hide the fact of what software they use. I think most people that pay to pull the banner only do it so that other people dont see that they too can build a site like the one they are on, i on the other hand welcome the competition it makes me work harder at things that matter...

i am really confused,  how to know which members are china bots.

You can usually tell if they have really random names, odd profile descriptions, or come from... China.  It looks like all your blog posts are spam, so there's another way to identify them.

 I now agree with you :)

I like this post its a good idea to look for partners here.. maybe soon i will post something similar but hopefully our site has more substance in get better response 

When I said along the lines of no-one will take your site serious with the boonex link at the bottom, it was in ref to the original post being aimed at investors, not at site users as you are referring to.

Ive worked with investors, and have invested and if I was presented with a site that is still displaying the 'free use' links, lets just say it would not be a bonus to the case for investment as it looks 'not ready' to launch.

It doesnt take much to remove the link, $99 to present a site as 'launch ready' remembering the objective is to ask for another persons cash as a business venture - is not a huge step financially, but makes a big difference to the presentation.

Yes, you can 'look past it' but most investors would also 'notice it'.

Aside of all that, the site is pretty much also as I pointed out, just a clean install, the only 3rd party mods, being also free trial versions, also with 'pay to remove' banners on them...

Dont get stuck on the one minor point of the license link, focus more on the other stuff.

Looking back on the whole post, Im not sure the request for investment was actually serious anyway? The actual post had links in it to go to an offsite advert!!! Is it actually a spam post in the first place???! 

 ok then i can see that,, i was the first to laugh at this guy asking for investors my site http://www.thegettogether.net/ is paid for my me out of pocket,, and like i said i gave myself a year to get all the kinks ironed out before i went in paid to remove the banner and stuff. I wanted a good foundation first and to make sure it was worth going on in with, so i guess technically i gave myself a year before i "launched" .. far as the goof ball who did this original post i think he might be on crack.

Anyone who joins and has a link in the "about me" or posts a blog or ad with in a link in it is a spam bot. The links are always to sites with words in them like "replica".

Oh the other kind of person you want to look for is anyone with anyone with the world "love" in their screen name that tries to email all your members with something that starts off with "hello dear". Their profiles will normally have "I'm a good girl" or "I'll tell you later" in their profile description.

These are just two common types of spammers. You get to the point where you can spot them without a problem.

 i have also found you can tell by what email address they use to join, i can spot em quick now they are @tom.com and @168.com and @shou.com

put it this way,, if they join, no pic, post a blog, then leave... 99% chances are it is a bot

picking out members will take a lot of time is there a automatic way like by a module

I can clean out the spammers for you.

$1000.00 paid up front. I guarantee my work.

 lmfao!!!.. tell him you also want 20 percent ownership

It seems like this person is really serious. Instead of laughing and pointing, think back to when you had a dream but didnt have the know how to do it.

Since this is obviously your 1st website or may I say 1st real website...

First you need a plan and a marketable name. Think about what kind of people you want using your site regularly and focus on what those types of people enjoy. Then make your name ATTRACTIVE to those type of people. After you have your name figured out you need to structure your site content around the name and the users. Your structure is what business partners will want to look at and a good structure will always land investors and partners. Make sure you include the ways you are going to generate income. EVERYONE LOVES FREE, but unfortunately servers and hosting is not FREE. Make sure your 1st focus is generating enough income to pay your bills, this way nothing comes out of pocket and secures the future of your website. Then think of ways to generate profit. profit is where your investors and partners will get their pay back. After you got all this you need to figure out how much initial investment your going to need to get started. Start small and build up, one thing about community users is they like to see development, some change can be good if it gives more to the site, but RESTRUCTURING A SITE can fail miserably if not done right, so be careful.

One thing i will say that you have going for you is the way you are covering each area with a different person. The bad thing is the Partner #2 is fitting most of the bill and getting very little out of it. No one in their right mind would agree to this.

Start off by actually buying the dolphin key. I have been using dolphin since dolphin 4. Lots of changes since way back then. Back then I did imaging and design (theming) for a gaming community called pwnzjoo. Dolphin is great software you cannot go wrong with the $99 investment and it is so universal if this idea fails, you can use it for something else.

Personally right now my only advice to you is do some reading about running websites, what makes a successful website and take yours down for now. Take your time, do not rush or you will only regret it later.

Oh and easy way to notice spammers in blogs, skim through the blog itself if you see stuff that doesnt match like blog is supposed to be about michael jordan retiring but you keep seeing cheap gucci shoes everywhere. Yah delete blog, go into admin panel ban the user who posted it, then go to IP Blacklist and add their IP to Blacklist.

 I have to agree with mlquickel.

Why not try giving some good advice instead of making fun ... that is if you have any to give. If you have nothing useful to contribute then why post anything at all?

@ sidant I think you will also have to look up ways to stop spammers/spam bots from joining your site before removing spam accounts. Unfortunately the Boonex Captcha no longer blocks them so it is up to you to figure out.

Here's a good place to start:

http://www.boonex.com/forums/topic/China-is-invading-help-me-with-form-field-validation.htm

But you might want to search for other useful Topics as well.

i think he pulled the site,, i cant hit it now

Thank You mlquickel and bengunn

I havent pulled the site my hosting account has been suspended i have got a person who can make changes to the robot.txt file for spam block and i am exchanging the boonex captcha  to recapcha

All the best.

 Robot.txt doesn't have anything to do with the spammers, it only effects search engines (and even some of those ignore it). Recapcha doesn't really work either. It's been cracked plus most of the dolphin spammers sign up manually. You can stop most of these guys by blocking the "spam farm" email addresses like @163 and @gmx.

Here's a good thread with some tips that will help:

 http://www.boonex.com/forums/?action=goto&search=1#topic/spam-spam-spam-spam-IDEA-.htm

Are you on shared hosting?

You can also if you want block whole countries from viewing your site like China & Russia.

I as well am pretty much starting. I read a lot here and it's cool how you all stick together and help each other out. That means a lot in a community.