How to start up a community site?

[TheShiftyEyedBastard]

NP. I been meaning to do more work with contest sites. My girlfriend is an avid contest enterer (is that a word?)......and there are so many sites/forums out there that I really think the cost of giving something away should be way less than what one would get with many forms of paid advertising.

Something to take a look at, anyway

[Kamilla]

yeah, a site that's interactive is ofcourse the goal. And that will most likely be easy when the site is up and running.
But it's how to get it off the ground that's got me stumped lol

[Dane]

Originally Posted by TheShiftyEyedBastard

NP. I been meaning to do more work with contest sites. My girlfriend is an avid contest enterer (is that a word?)......and there are so many sites/forums out there that I really think the cost of giving something away should be way less than what one would get with many forms of paid advertising.

Something to take a look at, anyway

I've been running some progection models on my mass blogging + adsense/affiliate sites, my regular blog +affiliate sites, ebook/software sales sites, and the idea of a membership type site. Lets just say after running through the numbers I started building a membership site.

[TheShiftyEyedBastard]

Originally Posted by Dane

I've been running some progection models on my mass blogging + adsense/affiliate sites, my regular blog +affiliate sites, ebook/software sales sites, and the idea of a membership type site. Lets just say after running through the numbers I started building a membership site.

Sweet. I've seen quite a few sites (message boards mainly) that were free for a couple years, then switched up to a member system. Retention of forum regulars seemed EXTREMELY high.

Not to mention it cuts down on ads and popups for the sites.

Kind of rough to find an area that isn't already well established though, but I guess all you really have to do is figure out a way to do something better than those guys.