I know a bloke who lives near me who's got a few tradesmen forums. He makes about $3k per month from adsense + ads
Making money on forums
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everyone always knows a guy. why cant the guy that actually does it be here so i can copy him
everyone always knows a guy. why cant the guy that actually does it be here so i can copy him
He rates it's taken him 3-4 years to build it up, he's got quite a few forums like. Just normal forums with adsense. Just takes time he says. I've seen his adsense account and channels so I know he's not BSing.
He's not on here cus he's to busy making money, no time for rotting on forums
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To set up a forum is very simple, there are a lot of tools that there that will help you.
But growing it, that where the work come in. I will suggest you use paid to join or post to get quick members if you have the money. just pay them cents to join or post. It worked for my local forum. Cheers
But growing it, that where the work come in. I will suggest you use paid to join or post to get quick members if you have the money. just pay them cents to join or post. It worked for my local forum. Cheers
I've heard many times that forums are not profitable... but I don't believe it anyway. It must be like with any other kind of site that generates traffic and traffic = money, if you know how of course. 
You must be doing something wrong.
It takes a lot of time to get it all going, but once you establish yourself as the biggest forum in the niche, things really turn around. (The trick is to pick the niche that's small enough to dominate, yet big enough to grow.)
Access to the audience is the most important thing. Product, copy, logistics, payment processing, etc. -- all that shit is of secondary importance. Having access to the people is what counts.
Of course, building a forum takes a lot more time than pure affiliate marketing (grabbing a product, creating a lander and buying some traffic), and I'm sure a lot of people ball like mad doing just that.
But with forums, once your revenue gets to a point where you can live off of it and continue reinvesting for growth, then you have one of the most stable business models that the internet has to offer.
I made $11,200 last month (September stats) off of adsense on my forum. That's not including e-books, other pitches, and inhouse promotions. (A good promo brings me $10k/week, but those are hard to come by.)
Whoever says forums don't make money simply doesn't understand how to run a forum.
The trick is not to diversify, like a lot of wannabe gurus say. On contrary, you want to put all your time and money into one project. But you need to make sure that your project has redundancies in place when it comes to acquisition and retention. And running a forum is a good example.
It's not the most lucrative business model out there, but it's definitely one of the most stable ones... if you know what you are doing.
I rely on three methods of promotion: seo, ppc, e-mail marketing.
If tomorrow, my ppc accounts get shut down, I'll be just fine with seo + e-mail.
If tomorrow, my site (around 250k pages) gets dropped from search engines, I'll be just fine with ppc + e-mail.
If tomorrow, my mailing box gets blacklisted on all e-mail isps, I'll be just fine with seo + ppc.
Well, you get the picture.
And if all of those three methods get shut down on the same day, I'll be fine with just repeat traffic. At the very least, the repeat visitors will sustain me while I'm fixing problems with the marketing channels.
With pure affiliate models, while you can make a lot more money, you have to hustle non-stop because you never know who or what is going to fuck you in the ass tomorrow.
