Do messageboards make good money?
I feel weird asking this on a messageboard, lol.
I was wondering if they are a good businss model, to bring like-minded people together and eventually charge advertising on.
I used to post on FC (the dot com dead pool) but they pulled their board. And I dont know if it was because of hacks or it was too expensive and the advertising didnt pay for it.
I just dont want to spend time and money promoting one and then later find out theyre not a good venture.
don't have any personal experience.. but giving away prizes for the number of posts seems to work out as you get webmaster retention. The more webmasters post, the more you can charge for companies to advertising on your website.
If you post a very good forum, with thousands of increasing visitors each month, you will be looking at making a lot of money from advertising companies.
oh no i dont mean a webmaster board, I mean like a messageboard about cars or the housing market or computers, whatever.Originally Posted by underwater
I would LOVE That
thanks a lot
underwater, welcome to eWealth
What about general messageboards that have no niche. theyre just an open forum free for all. is that a bad idea? because then you cant target your advertisers.
or is it a good idea because then you get a lot of traffic faster?
Its better than having your own website IF you have the funds to advertise it well. Because like Warrior and DP, they make money everday by its members clicking on thier ads. The more members the more money.
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whats warrior and dp?
No problem, wish you all the best. Find some really good friends that can help you, or give you a hand in setting one up.
How long does it take for a message board to really get moving?
Can I do it fast in say 6 months or does it usually take years and years?
That all depends on you. If you build a forum based on computers, or something that is really popular, you have the chance of bringing in A LOT of new members. It all depends on the hard work you put in your forum, and how many dedicated staff along with yourself you would have. How ever trying to get on top of the search engine would be a real competition, but there are tons of ways to improve your ranking quick, and easily without having to spend any money on your forumm. Good luck.
yep messageboard makes huge money even 10 or 20 posts on your message board on daily basis will lead huge money for you .
Forums are a great way to get free targeted traffic to your site.
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http://www.supertips.com/forums
I'd imagine that they must cost alot to set up at the start though, and they aren't exactly quick movers either with alot of people needing to use paidposters. If you don't have the drive and a fair fiance i wouldn't bother personally.
another nice thing about forums is that the posts tend to show up in search engines...that's how i have found all of my favorite forums, including this one - threads showed up in search results!
You keep your hands off my fair fiance
A big benefit of niching out your forum is that you can sell the lead to some bigger companies.
Say that you have a forum about cars, you can collect all the information and sell it to other big car companies (autobytel.com, cars.com, delix.com, etc.)
You also can hit various verticles (new cars, used cars, car repair, insurance, loans, warrantees)
Going general won't work... at that level (with no common theme) you are looking at creating a Myspace or Facebook.
As always, niching works best... and it will really help you make stronger arguements whenever you try to recruit advertisers.
It all has to do with how many people are actually on the message board (how active it is) and how many advertisers go into business with them. If a forum doesn't have enough people, advertisers won't want to advertise there.
Forums are a good bit of work - definitely an 'active' business model (vs passive income generators). I have a fairly active Internet Marketing forum at http://www.selfstartersweeklytips.com/forum/ that has been online for several years now.
I would let it grow for 12-24 months before expecting any consistent profit. It takes time to grow a solid community, and then to capitalize on that model.
Your regular visitors will be practically "ad blind", scanning past anything and everything to get to the meat of the discussions. The CTR will be lower than other types of sites. Your lurkers and people who click through from the search engines will be the ones to click on ads usually.
That said, a forum can be a GREAT lead generator - and an easy way to build a targeted mailing list (or group of potential buyers). Forums are also easy to get quality links for since they are a resource, and the search engines love the community/content aspect... so it will be an asset to you if you have related sites.
So an effective business model for a forum is to utilize advertising revenues, affiliate program promotion and potentially text link sales (if you make it big)??
Consistent promotion of the forum helps, in as many ways as you can manage: sig lines, blogs (and back again!), regular forum updates to encourage participation.
It's the spammers who cause the most work, it seems.
Dan Reinhold
www.WAHumor.com
No, it's best to have related websites and use your forum to grow a community of people who like you and respect what you offer... and want to check out your other (related) websites.
Like yours for example - you have a book on work at home humor. So a forum on that topic is a great way to attract people who would also be interested in (buying and) reading your book.
i dont know how this gos here, but a good way to get a good amount of people to a marketing forum is to start up a seo contest or other contest.
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