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What do you find to be the best way to generate revenue? For me, I find that VIP Members in certain communities is the best way to generate revenue. On my other site it generates over 80% of the revenue I make on the forum.

How effective do you find VIP Memberships on your site? Have you every had VIP members, or paid memberships on your forums?

Who here has purchased domains, or made websites for the sole purpose of selling them. I'm starting to look into it, as I have some high valued domains, and some good ideas for websites. Let me know if you've ever done this, and if so, how has it worked out for you?

Places like BuySellAds, Publicity Clerks, etc. are alright places to go to sell ads. However, BSA tends to decline people and not give them a reason why, making it really hard to get into it. I've been using forums to help promote ad sales, and was wondering what sites do you use to sell your...

What is your favorite hosting company out there? I've used several hosting companies, but my all time favorite and only one I'm currently using, as well as will most likely ever used has to be HawkHost. HawkHost has one of the best customer support I've ever dealt with, not just with hosting...

What is your favorite domain provider? The only domain provider I will ever use is NameCheap, they were the first provider I've used, and has to be the easiest to navigate, and have the best deals constantly. I can buy .com domains for $5 quite occasionally, as well as I've gotten several...

What do you find to be the most effective market strategy?

Who here uses some sort of traffic tracking such as google analytics? If so, how has that helped you so far, and have you ran into any trouble with it? I've been using Google Analytics for a long while now, and I've been using it to monitor my forums production, activity, and monthly views...

What are your feelings on paying for SEO? I personally pay for all of my SEO, on my other site I put in $30-60 a month on SEO at SEOClerks, and I'm ranked on the first page on about 80% of my keywords (The bigger ones for the most part) and the other 20% I'm on page 2-5.

How much content do you think you should have at the launch of your website? Personally, I think prior to launch you should have at least a few hundred posts at a minimum. You need your site to be somewhat active in order to gain members. Having at least a couple hundred posts should show them...

So, I was just over at another webmaster website and I posted in the community showcase area as what is the normal for most webmaster sites, and webmasters to do. For example, this website, webgurubb, TheAdminZone, and a few others. I then got a reply stating I offended the owner by doing so...

When do you feel it is time to open up your forums? Some people tend to open them the same day they make it, others like to get some starting content up, so when do you open it up, and how successful has that been to you?

We all think the grand opening is the most important part of a forum, however, it's the opposite in most cases. What you do prior to opening up your forum can be one of the most important. From content, to getting hype made for your forum. What are somethings you personally do before making...

When it comes to sending out mass emails, how often do you do it? Do you do it manually, or automatically? Do you find it to work at all? I'm reviving a dead forum of mine, and starting out by giving out a free copy of Black Ops 3 as it's a gaming forum. I used the mass email XenForo has to...

How much do you feel an admin should be engaged in the community? Do you think he/she should be active in all the conversations, or do you think the admin should focus on the forum's admin work vs. being engaged in the community. Example, Post less, update more, or post more, update less?

For a HUGE contest, for example giving away $500 worth of prizes. How long do you feel a contest like this should run for. Do you think it should have a specific date, or do you think it should be for an achievement. Such as, this prize will be given out once we reach 10,000 posts, or 1,000...

There are lots of ways to hire members into the staff, including but not limited to; messaging active members you feel are worthy, having the community vote on them, as well as applications. When you hire staff members, how do you go about doing this?

As MV-Tan very nicely put it, I have merged all of my sites into one central website! With this I'll be able to be more active, host better and more frequent events, and focus on the people that matter most! The community!!! With this merge I've added a shop and currency. You're now able to buy...

What is the absolute first thing you look at when visiting a website? Some people may say content, others may say activity, but in all reality the very first thing you notice is the theme. It doesn't matter what site you're on, what page you're viewing the theme is the first thing you see. It's...

Before I go into anything further, let me go ahead and state that @Teg (Apart of the Review Team) has requested that I make a guide/helpful post explaining what I did, and how you could get good statistics such as my site. Another thing, I'm very visual, so I will have lots of pictures. If...