I recently started a car forum and im trying to plan and prepare for how i am going to deal with sponsorships and vendors.
Ive been researching for a while now looking at other automotive sites and their advertising kit usually includes a rotating 468 banner for a certain fee per month. In my opinion those ads are really useless nowadays since there are at least another 3 advertising banners from other sites on the same page. I wanted to do something unique for my site and better converting so everyone is happy. Ive been really going out of my way to just be different and so far the community is liking it.
A couple ideas i have for monetizing the forum
1. Create a vendors forum for dealers/manufacturers to list groupbuys and sales. This would require a monthly subscription in order to post in this forum.
2. Sponsorship that are forum based like for example sitepointforums
I also dont have any idea how i am going to deal with vendors/manufacturers who give me car parts ? How should i reward them ? what perks should i offer them ? Most of these car parts sponsorships involve some sorta exchange and i dont want to give them lifetime advertising on my site for a product is only a couple hundred.
Thanks in advance, any help would be appreciated.
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