Someone in the group asked last night, what can a forum with 600 people online every day be used for? My answer is to make money.
I imagine there must be many friends in the above situation. They have a very popular website, but the income they receive is not directly proportional to the popularity of the website. Why is this? I think this is just because of the lack of a profitable idea. So how can we have a profitable idea? First of all, of course, it is to observe good websites, forums and the like made by others (here refers to the ones with good profits), but observation alone is not enough, because the profit-making ideas and models belong to others and are suitable for other people's websites. You still have to rely on your thinking to transform this profit-making idea and model into one that suits you.
Now let me talk about some profit ideas that I know, I hope it will be helpful to everyone.
What the Internet advocates is free, that is, connecting all computers in the world with the World Wide Web to achieve resource sharing. So it is almost impossible to make a profit by simply charging under this theme, unless your product is unique and indispensable in people's lives. So what should we do if this is not the case? In fact, you can use value-added services, which is currently the most popular way to make money on the Internet. Let's think about it, is there any charge for using Tencent QQ to chat? There is no charge, but if you want to use Tencent’s other functions, such as membership, or you want to make your space more beautiful, or you want your QQ show to look better, these things will be charged. This is the value-added service I mentioned earlier. There are many cases like this on the Internet, such as 360 Security Guard, etc., and they all use this model to make profits.
So if others can use this model to make money, why can’t you? Let’s take the question at the beginning of my article as an example. A forum with 600 people online stably every day is considered good. You can open a VIP area in the forum and put some valuable content in it. For example, if the theme of the forum is about technology, you can put answers to some common questions at work, or you can open a special area for instant answers. There are dedicated staff to answer user questions. Of course, this is just an example, and there are other methods, but these methods all revolve around one center, which is value-added services.
Let’s take the question from the forum above as an example. In addition to the above value-added services, you can also make money through training. If the topic of your forum is about SEO, you can divide the members in the forum into different levels through various sections, so that different training courses can be set up for different levels. In this way, others learn knowledge, and you also make money in this way. It can be said that you kill two birds with one stone.
Then you can engage in group buying. Those who have the supply can sell goods, and those who don’t have the supply can sell virtual goods. You can also negotiate with other merchants and let others list the goods on your website to attract users. In fact, there are many ways to make money online. I have just given a few examples here. The key is that everyone should open their own minds so that they can find a way to make money that is suitable for them.
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