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Start Making Your phpBB Forum Profitable

by Mark on June 6th, 2007

How do you feel about getting into the code on your phpBB forum to plug in profitable advertising?

If you’re like me, its not quite what you want to get into. I would if I had to but, I don’t have to, thankfully.

Of course, if you are able to edit your code, once you’ve inserted an ad, what’s next?

  • Booking advertising slots
  • Maintaining a scheduling system
  • Accepting payment
  • Preparing the ad
  • Posting the ad on the agreed date
  • Making ad changes if requested
  • Handling cancellations
  • While negotiating with the advertiser at various steps

Have all that time? If you don’t here’s something for you. ForumAd Manager. Once you set up the advertising rates on the system, do you know what your responsibilities are?

Nothing, nada, zero. Go ahead and read about it but first here are

10 Great Reasons for Choosing Forum AdManager

  1. Your advertising revenue will DWARF the typical PPC ads such as AdSense.
  2. Forum AdManager is FREE.
  3. You can have it installed for FREE.
  4. There is NO RISK - you can stop whenever you like.
  5. Work involved in running the system … NONE
  6. You’ll receive the free guide ‘Getting Advertisers’.
  7. If an advertising slot is not taken your own Default Ads will show.
  8. You will be eligible to join the Affiliate Program paying 15% of the TOTAL AD REVENUE generated by each forum you refer. Your target audience - 40 million phpBB forum owners worldwide !
  9. You’ll receive the free guide ‘Getting Customers’ to help promote the affiliate program. But note, you can earn commission passively - just from the ‘Powered By’ affiliate link at your forum.
  10. You can offer Free Coupons for ads - a great marketing tactic.

No, I’m not using an affiliate link for this…

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POSTED IN: Affiliate Programs, Online Money, Revenue, Webmaster Tools

1 opinion for Start Making Your phpBB Forum Profitable

  • Matt Keegan
    Jun 12, 2007 at 2:37 pm

    I recently sold off a site that featured a PHPBB forum and although I am a fan of Open Source, this program did require a lot of work. I could never get the ads to always show properly, but at least there was some clicking through that brought in measurable incomes.

    FYI, I doubt that it would be a whole lot easier with vBulletin, plus I was too cheap to purchase a license!

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