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how do forums make money?

Discussion in 'General Business' started by adrian88, Apr 29, 2007.

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  1. #1
    how do forums make money?
    how can you use your own forums to boost your other e-businesses?
     
    adrian88, Apr 29, 2007 IP
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  2. ResaleBroker

    ResaleBroker Active Member

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    I imagine that money could be made selling adspace or contextual links like Adsense.
     
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    D_C Well-Known Member

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    Pretty much the same methods other websites use, only forums generally have more space for ads. Usually higher impressions also.
     
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    Well, some sell subscription and sites like sitepoint.com offers paid listing option.

    Use forums are used as a platform to promote the company's products and services thus creating awareness where there was none or low visibility.
     
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    Forums make less money compared to other sites since visitors are less likely to click into advertisements. If a forum is established enough though, it could try and sell ads directly to advertisers CPM.
     
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    D_C Well-Known Member

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    Right, a good sized forum can make a good bit of money from CPM.
     
    D_C, Apr 29, 2007 IP
  7. adrian88

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    like digitalpoint :)
     
    adrian88, Apr 29, 2007 IP
  8. D_C

    D_C Well-Known Member

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    Well, I mean the lesser more average sized forum, because im sure Shawn could of quit his day job a long time ago!
     
    D_C, Apr 30, 2007 IP
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    Adsense normally does not perform well in the forums.. Most forum charges the members for some exclusive features like accessing their VIP areas. Check out DNForum can you will know what i mean ;)
     
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    Adsebse and sometime donating members also help out..All depends on the type of community you get, some places have very generous members, which in the end becomes a way to make money, along with adsense..
     
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    Adspace, and programs similar to AdSense.
     
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    Arkserver Banned

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    We place ads on our forum and paid membership.
    I suggest you try it out on your own forum/site and see how it goes. you can always remove it if you dont like it:)
     
    Arkserver, Apr 30, 2007 IP
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    Dakuipje Peon

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    There are some good ad rotating script on the web.
    Some forums also offer paid memberships :)
     
    Dakuipje, Apr 30, 2007 IP
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    D_C Well-Known Member

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    What benifets would you give a member if they got a paid membership anyway? What would the insentive be?
     
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    Dakuipje Peon

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    Well sometimes a premium membership grants acces to other else private forums. Maybe some other powers such as custom title and stuff like that. Mainly it is used to open sealed forums
     
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    D_C Well-Known Member

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    I can see that put to use in my near future =p thanks
     
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    Dakuipje Peon

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    No problem.
    Thnx for the rep

    Do be carefull you dont want to rush into premium memberships. Wait to you have a few thousand members then only you will benefit from it the most. Else it may scare people away.
     
    Dakuipje, Apr 30, 2007 IP
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    We are developing a forum to get visitors to our main website.. :)
     
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    go tribalfusion for forums.
     
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    I make a lot of money from the google search engine on forum www.cyclingboard.com .
    A lot of people come from google and if they are not happy they just look forward through my search engine :)
     
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