Forum Know How
July 5th, 2007 by William A couple of good things are going on in the world of forums. First Robert Puddy, who lives close to me in global terms (about 50 miles away I guess) has launched a decent Internet Marketing forum that you have to pay to join. This immediately qualifies its members as serious and likely to make positive contributions.
It’s the same old story, make something free and people feel it is valueless. Make ‘em pay and they respect the product.
The forum is called “Forum Know How” and the quality of contributions so far is good and, just as importantly, the attitude of contributors is positive and helpful. If only all forums were like that….
The second thing is a neat advertising system designed for phpBB forums. Many phpBB forum owners know that AdSense doesn’t always work terribly well as a revenue generator. So Harvey Segal and Adrian Ling have developed a script that effectively allows forum owners to sell and manage advertising space on their forums automatically. It processes payments with PayPal and let’s your visitors buy space and time from you without you having to do anything.
It’s a great way of boosting your automated income and it doesn’t cost anything to get it up and running either although Adrian and Harvey take a perfectly reasonable small percentage of your sales in payment for their development investment.
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