Have you any of you guys tried paid advertisements on other forums to promote your own? Any success with it? I know we all host forums based on different niches, but I'd like to hear what's worked for people overall. I'm seriously considering doing a "Sticky" advertisement on Offtopic.com's forum and do the 1 month offer for $400. Their forum is pretty general, but with the sheer amount of traffic coming from their site I think the ad would convert well into users/clicks/signups. I'll have to beef up my site's content before downing that $400, though.