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messikecil
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Share Your Earning From Your Forum

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Hello everyone
Im just curious how much your earning from your forum? And how you managed it?
Thanks :)
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We use affilate banners and have arrangements with different companies that sell products that support our subject manner'
Original we were just hoping to cover hosting costs,but it's now gone well past that.
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messikecil wrote:how much your earning from your forum?
Nothing
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david63 wrote:
messikecil wrote:how much your earning from your forum?
Nothing
Exactly the same as I do. What a coincidence :lol:
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I earn just exactly the same amount as I make for writing mods/extensions. Absolutely zero.
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david63 wrote:
messikecil wrote:how much your earning from your forum?
Nothing
Same here. My forum is an advert free zone and will remain that way. Nothing makes me back away from a site faster than not being able to see the content for the adverts.
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@all: why? but you want to earn money from your forum right?
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messikecil wrote:@all: why? but you want to earn money from your forum right?
Wrong. I don't feel the need to turn everything I do into a commercial venture. Some things I choose to do for fun, they're called hobbies.
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I earn nothing, I do on the other hand not have any costs, other then the domain, either as it is right now.

I don't really care about earning money from my forum, it's more of a hobby at this stage. In all honesty it is not even a widely used forum, with little to no activity at the moment (I don't really spread the word about it around so I don't really expect to gain users in a near future either).
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messikecil wrote:@all: why? but you want to earn money from your forum right?
Wrong
Pond Life wrote: I don't feel the need to turn everything I do into a commercial venture. Some things I choose to do for fun, they're called hobbies.
Agreed
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oh i see
is there anyone who get money from their forum? actually i want it, at least for paying the hosting :)
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david63 wrote:
messikecil wrote:@all: why? but you want to earn money from your forum right?
Wrong
Pond Life wrote: I don't feel the need to turn everything I do into a commercial venture. Some things I choose to do for fun, they're called hobbies.
Agreed
The 3 'real' fora that I own are:-

1) My Extensions
2) My Music and HiFi forum
3) My wifes 'friends' forum

1) is done for fun (if you can call swearing at lumps of code fun :roll: )
2) is mainly for music recommendations. (so I get as good as I give)
3) Its for friends.

Like others have said, not everything has to be 'money making'. Some people like to buy beer/women/drugs for their fun. How much does that cost compared to hosting a fora of two? (my 3 fora, one test forum, several static sites including family history costs me ~£0.26 a day. Less than a chocolate bar/coffee/newspaper. Not bad VFM IMHO
messikecil wrote:oh i see
is there anyone who get money from their forum? actually i want it, at least for paying the hosting :)
So is the purpose of your forum just to pay for it self?
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messikecil wrote:oh i see
is there anyone who get money from their forum? actually i want it, at least for paying the hosting :)
Yes as i stated before we make money out of it,what is your forums subject ?
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My forum subject is general and my goal ofcourse to have a big forum and i can earn money from this :)
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messikecil wrote:My forum subject is general and my goal ofcourse to have a big forum and i can earn money from this :)
That makes it a bit hard for me to suggest what you could advertise,our forum is for cannabis growers,so we have arrangements with different seed companies,our members are always buying different strains,they pay no more by using our links(Sometimes pay less) and we get a commission from the sale.
2 months ago we got a check for just under a 700 euro's,normally we average 300-350 euro's a month
And we only have less than 500 members
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