More and more people are building their own web sites and working hard to make their sites popular, so they can get revenues from advertisements. Since a forum is one of the most popular means of getting ad revenues, new forums are born here and there. How do they compete with each others to get a good share of the market?
By paying their members for posting.
Paid-to-post forum isn't a new idea. Many such forums have existed since several months ago, even in the beginning of the year we have just passed (2006). At those early days, members are usually paid between 1 to 2 cents for a post. However, since it was the beginning of paid-to-post forums, the business model of many forums were not strong enough to prevent them from collapsing after a certain time.
Now it is different. Many forum owners have come with many advertising means, starting from contextual ad systems, banner ads, signature ads, even being the official payment processor of a forum. Rates for a post have increased, and members are now more selective in choosing the forum they want to participate in. A forum that pays 'only' 1 cent per post is considered not worth joining, while a forum that pays 3 to 5 cents per post will be crowded by new members everyday. We have seen this phenomenon in the newly born Mylot and GoldAge .
Since the newer business model proved to be strong, many forums are born lately to get their own chunk of the market. Some forums that are brand new include got-paid-forum , and Betlik .
Now, only time will prove whether they will really last like the big players MoneyMakerGroup and TalkGold or end up biting the dust.
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