Did you hear? WAHM.com has been sold to Internet Brands.
I’m shocked and disappointed to see the site sold to a big company rather than to another WAHM. I’m sure Cheryl Demas got a pretty penny for the sale though and I can’t fault her for making the decision that brought her the most money.
You can read her announcement here.
WAHM.com has been the Mama of all WAHM sites for so long as far as age and notoriety and it’s huge work at home mom forum. While we’ve all referred someone there for the forum at one time or another it’s never been much an authority site as far as sending someone there for information. I wonder if we’ll see many changes there in the coming months.
Hopefully the new management will recognize that they have a tremendous responsibility on their hands.
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Good for Cheryl. It’s amazing to watch deals like this. I guess the only thing I’m wondering is why would a WAHM site be sold to a non-wahm? In a nutshell, it’s her baby, so I’m sure she thought long and hard about her decision. Best wishes to Cheryl and WAHM.com.
She says she sees it as a good fit. I really don’t. I think it’s a pretty much a big opportunity to advertise junk to a huge following of WAHMs that aren’t even interested in those types of things when they visit the site.
I personally stopped visiting the site a few years ago because the quality overall was lacking for a true WAHM or a serious WAHM beginner. So, I’m sure it won’t affect me anyway, but it is still sad to see something that many WAHMs enjoy and would give their right eye to be a part of handed off to a company in corporate America. Seems hypocritical. Big companies don’t have the first clue what a WAHM wants, needs, searches for, or depends on in their daily life. They can try, but I doubt the succeed in becoming anything other than another magnet for work at home scam opportunities.
I got the impression that Cheryl is sticking around short term for easier change of hands, not as a partner long term, and certainly not as someone that will have any say in how things will be handled to ensure it is a valuable resource to it’s TARGET MARGET.
’nuff said.
I hope it stays the same!
I think Cheryl has spent many years providing a fantastic service to the wahms out there. I’m sure the transfer of the site was not a spur-of-the-moment decision. I would love to have seen it go to another wahm but things don’t always work out like we think they should. Best wishes to Cheryl and hopefully she’s smiling all the way to the bank. She deserves it!