What programs should I join?!
 

I started up an amateur bulletin board and wondering what I should promote to make money off it. Ideas?!

http://www.TheUncen.com

BTW, promoting pay sites doesn't work. I already tried it.

Man don't say that, I'm getting back into paysite promo and need soem cash.

It really depends on YOUR users. For me, I never got a single join promoting a pay site on my bulletin board.

have you tried things like www.MoreNiche.com?
or www.adbrite.com?

Those are middle men. I'm looking for something specific to promote.

I put a banner to fast size up the other day. No sales yet. My stats so far are 141 raw, 122 unique, 2 join page, 0 sales.

Have you tried any of those dating/meeting sites, like DatingGold and etc.? Failing that, i can only really think of some AdSense alternative, but as you said, they will be acting as middle-men (although AdBrite admittedly acts more as a broker than anything else).

Maybe you could just smack up a copy of phpAdsNew and sell advertising space off to interested parties, at least until you come up with a specific product to promote. :2 cents:

Here is the truth. You build a site that you like and making money will be the side effect. Its hard for websites to support themselves and its hard for them to support you as well.

Your truth is wrong. Not only is it extremely easy for me to make money off a website, but I've made a business out of it for the past 4 years.

BTW, I build websites to make money and I've gotten really good at it.

[QUOTE=JoesTraffic;11639628]Your truth is wrong. Not only is it extremely easy for me to make money off a website, but I've made a business out of it for the past 4 years.

BTW, I build websites to make money and I've gotten really good at it.


Hey man, you asked... I told you. If you make websites for a living and are so successful. Why did you post that question. Anyway- no worries.

You didn't answer my question.

And to answer your question... because I'd like to see what others are doing. I'm already making money off the site, I'd just like to make more.