Best Way To Earn Revenue

In your opinion, which is the best way to earn revenue on your forums to help pay for the hosting, software, mods & styles, etc. and why?

 

From my experience, selling adspace has been the main source of generating revenue. I make enough from it to pay for all forum related costs. One mistake I see admins making is selling adspace while their forum is new.

They dont seem to understand that no one will purchase from them because it will just be a waste of their money, and they wont get any traffic. They have to work hard to build their site and wait for it to grow and then sell adspace, surely people will buy then.

 

I agree, also selling Premium Membership is always a good idea too

 

Its good, but I havent been really making much from it.

 

maybe you are not offering enough, to make it worthwhile?

 

Not that, just members much rather keep their money. lol

 

Selling adspace, text links, banners and buttons.

But if you receive a decent amount of traffic use adsense and you can make some pretty good money.

as far as selling premium accounts it doesn't work to well depending on what niche you are in. Normally you have to offer a large special incentive such as special access to new tools, images, links, special codes accounts etc.

If you're unable it to make it worth their wild they wont jump for it, as they can to the same stuff without paying.

 

Selling ad space and getting donations are how I've made most of my money through my forums.

 

From my experience - adsense, and selling ad space. You can also run kontera or infolinks for guests.

 

Adbrite is pretty decent as well, I have received payments from them in the past.

 

What type of forums did you run it on? How much did you earn?

 

On AdminBB during it's first month. I recieved like $30. it was only for a month then I took it off.

 

I would say the best way would be is to either sell adspace or use Adsense or Adbrite.

 

Usually if you have established a decent amount of traffic and even if you don't have a large amount but you are still looking for funds for your site you can offer ads for very very cheap, like myself, and people will usually jump all over it cause I offer extremely cheap ads for 6 or 4 month periods and traffic could increase greatly between now and then.

So yes offering ad space is one of the greatest ways to earn revenue.

 

Same here, I sell adspace for very cheap compared to other forums with same amount of traffic. Its always best to start of low, but once the demand grows you can higher the price.

 

Selling adspace is a way to gain money to pay for things that is the best I think.

 

I agree thats how I have made most of my income from.

 

Thanks Kaiser I like your alert system forum promotion should have something like that.

 

Well its thanks to xenforo, FP uses phpBB thats why. Xenforo has great features, a license is only $140

 

You sure do stay active on the forum here. That's amazing. lol. I guess I didn't know this community was active with people.