How A Forum Site Grew Monthly Revenue From $400 to $400,000
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Re: How A Forum Site Grew Monthly Revenue From $400 to $400,000
#2All I get is a box with:
Type your comment here.
Re: How A Forum Site Grew Monthly Revenue From $400 to $400,000
#3Seems to be a teaser. Feels dirty/sploggy.
Re: How A Forum Site Grew Monthly Revenue From $400 to $400,000
#4All I get is a box with: Type your comment here. Am I missing something?
Works for me
Re: How A Forum Site Grew Monthly Revenue From $400 to $400,000
#51. Start a forum.
2. Invent some certification program that doesn't make a lot of sense for people running sketchy businesses.
3. ???
4. $400,000/month!
Re: How A Forum Site Grew Monthly Revenue From $400 to $400,000
#6executive summary:
build a forum community, talk to the community about what they need, build something around their needs, and sell it to them. they don't want to buy it? ask why not, and fix it.
Re: How A Forum Site Grew Monthly Revenue From $400 to $400,000
#7All I get is a box with: Type your comment here. Am I missing something?
Re: How A Forum Site Grew Monthly Revenue From $400 to $400,000
#81. Start a forum. 2. Invent some certification program that doesn't make a lot of sense for people running sketchy businesses. 3. ??? 4. $400,000/month!
actually step 1 for him wasn't even starting the forum, he bought it from someone else.
Re: How A Forum Site Grew Monthly Revenue From $400 to $400,000
#9Nice headline, but not really an accurate portrayal of what really happened. Definitely a "marketing" story more that sounds a lot nicer to tell and hear than the nitty gritty that actually went on. If you look at the stats of the forum they get very little traffic (relatively), and the forum itself is pretty barren.
Therefore, I highly highly doubt that the majority of the revenue is coming from the community itself. Rather, it sounds like the forum is a legitimizing component that is essentially a front for the money making schemes behind the back.
This happens a lot with affiliate and domain sites.
You have some lucrative affiliate relationships that you can hardcore SEM against, however you need a site that looks good if the advertisers ever check you out. So what they do is usually purchase a respectable site, has the air of a community, looks good, etc. And then they have this shadow site that runs off the same domain that they arbitrage against with pages that are super ad/affiliate heavy and make tons of money.
Combining a legit domain/site with an SEM shadow site is also useful for making sure your AdWord rates stay lower. If your domain has more authority and natural SEO traffic/PR then it seems like Google won't charge you as much to get higher SEM listings.
It's actually a "simple" model and can be EXTREMELY lucrative. However, it doesn't really add much value to the world, and they can go out of business in an instant if the CPC rates change in any direction.
Re: How A Forum Site Grew Monthly Revenue From $400 to $400,000
#10The forum site does not have that revenue, the product sold to the members of the forum does.
The original title is a lot better.