How much to charge for Ads or sponsors??

[Guidster]

6 months into this endeavor, I am ready to move to a dedicated box and am hoping to be able to peddle some apace to some sponsors to defray my costs. Trouble is, I have no earthly idea what to charge??

I have thought about a strategy where I could have premium spots like on the homepage, coupled with rotational banners for those with smalle budgets. What will the market bear???

I would like to secure a 1 yr term so I do not have to rely on cash coming in each month, but I guess I could offer a higher monthly cost as well.

Help guys!

Thanks

[Chris M]

$5 a month for a rotational premium spot
$3 for a rotational spot located elsewhere

Its not much, but you will get alot of people wanting to have their banners

Satan

[RDX1]

I just had a guy that wanted to advertise on my forum, i am curious too, btw it is www.sexualforums.com

[Tigga]

Why move to a dedicated server? Your site doesn't really look active enough to warrant the need.
I usually charge $20-$40 per month for rotational ad banners and guarantee 300,000 exposures during the month.

[Guidster]

Today at 03:55 AM Tigga said this in Post #4
Why move to a dedicated server? Your site doesn't really look active enough to warrant the need.
I usually charge $20-$40 per month for rotational ad banners and guarantee 300,000 exposures during the month.

I am contemplating the move to dedicated as the shared space that I am currently occupying has been getting loaded up as of late. My site may not warrant the space to myself, but I believe others on the same box do and I am being impacted accordingly. I frequently see the loading at 12-15 and I am afraid that if I get too many more on when this happens that things may get dicey. Maybe I will hold off a little while longer....

Thanks for the input!

[Tigga]

You're talking about your server load, right? You might want to try to find another host instead. Ditching vBportal would probably help as well (the script's horrible and generates a LOT of queries). One host I can highly recommend is Pixie Host. I've had more than my fair share of problems with hosts and server loads and I would have to say they are the first that's been able to handle my site. 3,600 members, 370,000 posts, average of 40-50 users online at one time and the server load rarely rises above one. Right now I have 53 users online and the serverload is 0.26.

Not to mention they're VERY cheap. 5 gb of storage, 50 gb of bandwidth, cPanel and all that good stuff for $35/month.

[lifesourcerec]

it all depends on your traffic. We currently charge $10/month for personal sites, $25/month for corporate and $100/year (personal), $250/year (corporate). 2 free months if paid annually.