Increasing Revenue

[Martee]

How do you increase your revenue flow on your forum/site/blog?

Do you use incentives such as VIP membership for a couple dollars or do you use up some of the space for paid advertisements.

Personally, i would use VIP memberships if I had enough to offer them. I would use ads, but i'd keep them to a minimum as I hate ads and I'm sure others do as well.

If you were to offer decent benefits for VIP membership and your site was big enough, I believe you could pull in some serious revenue though, I've seen huge sites charge $150 for a rank and alot of people bought it!

What do you do though?

 

[Sam1]

I think you want to keep ads to a minimum for as long as possible. It depends on the site. A blog has multiple ways to generate revenue: affiliate links, private ads, in-content links, adsense etc. A forum really only generates anything decent from private advertisers, which usually barely cover it's costs. Premium membership is a good idea, but as you have said- you need something to offer them....

 

[Martee]

Well, I see that you have a VIP membership here. So you must have something to offer them? You also have those 3 ad spots down the side, but they won't cause any trouble.

 

[Sam1]

Well we're going to eventually add premium membership but that will be some time away when we have more to offer them. VIP membership recognizes that you are a contributer and you helped to build this forum when it was young It has all the same privileges as premium membership...

 

[Alex1]

I have premium membership for those who would like it. I try to make the benefits worth getting, but nothing that regular members can't live without.

In addition to this, I put Google AdSense up in various places, all of which don't become too bothersome.