Forum Revenue?????

[tommydreamer]

For those of you sprinting a forum, what approaches have you establish to be most effective for increasing revenue?

[Steve Powers]

communication,forum signature and using market area can do good to your business.

[diymonkey]

Don't forget that the members in your forum are also a mailing list - that has all the power that a normal mailing list has, and even more. So you can make revenue by offerring paid service, paid upgrades, affiliate offers and so on.

[CrowdA]

Try ad revenue sharing with the members. They might like it.

[blue]

communication,forum signature and using market area can do good to your business.

I understood forum signature, but what did you mean by "communication" and "using market area". Do you mind explaining.
Thanks for your explaining in advance.

[grim]

Trying inline ads now, see how it goes

[lagym888]

Aside from forum signature, I guess what is important is you post your comment in a nice way and it really relates to the topic.

[howinfo]

Don't forget that the members in your forum are also a mailing list - that has all the power that a normal mailing list has, and even more. So you can make revenue by offerring paid service, paid upgrades, affiliate offers and so on.

I got over thousand spammers emails addresses over four months or so. I wonder if they are in buying mood and what sort of product and services they are interested in.:headscratch:

[webcosmo]

See how other successful forum owners are doing it. It seem to come down to these: premium members (paid), ad networks, offering service related to the forum.

[Aimhigh]

Trying inline ads now, see how it goes

This is the first time I've heard about inline ads but I understand it now when I google it.

[grim]

This is the first time I've heard about inline ads but I understand it now when I google it.

Not making a ton off of it, but you don't know until u try

[carolpratts21]

I never thought about treating my visitors as a mailing list.

[probafix]

I don't have a site open right now.. But I have always found the best mix is using Adsense and Adbrite. They work well and are both customizable to the forums...Also getting sponsors is good to pay cost if your getting enough hits...The most I ever made a month off of a forum was about 800 bux..But that was with steady sponsors. And we were getting about 10K uniques a day. It had about 30K members. But ive made close to 500 bux on smaller forums with like 5 to 10k members.. It just depends on your forum and the subject matter..Though advertisers love stats... So if you wanna start making ad money I would suggest keeping detailed stats to show as proof..Maybe awstats...I always liked their layout.

Though as always just my opinion...But if your subject pertains to local business..You can easily find someone to talk into sponsoring you for 100 or so bux a month..They just write it off when comes tax time...Just have to get out and talk to people and hustle

Also..dont forget about extending some type of service to your members and have donation buttons...Are the best way I have always found are card draws...You raffle soemthing off costs you maybe 100 dollars pertaining to your forum..And then sell 52 cards at maybe 10 bux each...thats 520 bux - 100 for item 420 dollars to pay for hosting and such..Just have to be creative.. But raffles are great too

[vasilisa]

Hi)
affilitate marketing, forum signature must help to earn some money...

[steve123]

You can make revenue by offerring paid service & paid upgrades.

[zendoo]

I have tried various techniques to increase the revenue. I am succeeded well in doing it. Posting the content in relevant topic will bring traffic.

[iggysick]

I have tried various techniques to increase the revenue. I am succeeded well in doing it. Posting the content in relevant topic will bring traffic.

I guess he's talking about forum owners and you talk about making money out of forums like a forum poster. That's two completly diferent things

[Nicols]

Thanks a lot for the post. I really appreciate it.

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