From Martin Reed of CommunitySpark.com, a community building blog, that shares tips and advice on how to build successful online communities whether they are forums, blogs, chat sites or social networks.
While not every one of the ten ideas is applicable to your sitatution, I especially like numbers 2, 3, 7 and 10.
Many people complain that online communities can’t make money – they are wrong, though.
In this article Martin will briefly cover ten ways you can make money from your online community. There are a number of ways you can make money with an online community – he has only covered ten methods in this article. He’s sure he’s missed some, and knows there is a lot of additional detail excluded (this article is already over 1,500 words in length!). Martin merely wanted to show that there are more ways of making money with your online community than just slapping up some Google Ads.