A couple months ago I was approached by a good friend (we will call him Sam) who was taking a job with a large company with strict IP rules. Sam owned a free classifieds website that he had been maintaining for years but he needed to get rid of it due to the IP rules at his new company. So I purchased it in full for a very nominal amount of money.<p>The site is located at http://www.frimp.net and it currently has 5k registered users, 17000 postings and 25-30k hits per month. The current operational costs are about 45.00 per month. It is not stellar but I was thinking it was better than starting from scratch.<p>Does the community at large have any words of advice or suggestions on how to turn this web site into something valuable?<p>It is written in Java/Spring and I am about 75% through with a rewrite of the existing functionality in python/django.<p>Any help will be very much appreciated.