Free Membership vs Paid Membership

What kind of benefits and disadvantages can one face when switching a free community to a paid community? Anyone willing to share their experience? What kind...

After running the site without e-mail activation for few months, I am slowly pondering turning it back on.

Two main reasons:
- I would like clean e-mail addresses to keep in touch with registered...

Interesting thread.

Growing a community is hard work. I thought it would be easy, but learning there is a lot more to it. Dani does a great job of staying in touch with her community and getting...

I haven't implemented this system, but I do believe it serves a good purpose. One of the reasons forums are so successful is that they promote information exchange. A reputation system allows new...

I have had the same problem as you. The best advice that was given to me was to promote my board in other forums and communities by becoming a good contributing member of those forums. Post good...

Check out the link to my site in the signature. Then go to the tutorials section and click on a tutorial. I think this is what you are looking for. If it is, you are going to have to learn how to...

I've looked for a good CMS to integrate into VB, there aren't many that meet the requirements i have. I found it much easier to just learn how to hack VB and create custom pages. v b u l l e t i n...

Dani's advice is sound. Forum's aren't the most lucrative of sites and you will have to differentiate yourself in the market.

If your up for the challenge, a good community is very attainable.

The idea of paying someone sounds nice, i've contemplated it before. But it's just not the same.

Is 35 forums too many?

What is the ideal number of forums to start an online community with?

tripled . . . . congratulations.
Sometimes more than anything else . . . sites just need time to mature. We constatly think why we are not getting as much traffic as webmasters.

Patience is...