Reading through the pages of this forum it is obvious that lots of folk are on a budget, some are pensioners or students, some are handicapped or wheelchair bound or unemployed...£5 a month!!!
The more popular the forum becomes the more advertisers will be prepared to pay but if you make the subscription biased toward the better off folk you may well loose members!
I help to manage a very large forum & we also struggle to make ends meet but, so do all the popular forums & there are plenty to choose from!
We offer a yearly renewable subscription of $10, this offers the members a highlighted name, an additional thread dedicated for subscribers only, where they can benefit from special offers only available to the subscribers.
We also have a shop & sell T shirts mugs etc but the main income comes from advertising, of course the subscribers dont get the adverts flashing across their screen.
.A few years ago we had hundreds of subscribers but now out of a 30000 membership we have less than 100 paying subscribers!
The more popular the forum becomes the more advertisers will be prepared to pay but if you make the subscription biased toward the better off folk you may well loose members!
I help to manage a very large forum & we also struggle to make ends meet but, so do all the popular forums & there are plenty to choose from!
We offer a yearly renewable subscription of $10, this offers the members a highlighted name, an additional thread dedicated for subscribers only, where they can benefit from special offers only available to the subscribers.
We also have a shop & sell T shirts mugs etc but the main income comes from advertising, of course the subscribers dont get the adverts flashing across their screen.
.A few years ago we had hundreds of subscribers but now out of a 30000 membership we have less than 100 paying subscribers!