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Running Costs · **Released**: 09-02-2007

For those with big boards how much do you spend a month on content/advertising? if any. and how much did you spend on on building/designing the forum at first?

Do you think your initial investment was worth it and are you making enough profit to live on?

hotcouponworld · #2 09-06-2007, 07:05 AM

Content is free on our board. We have a very active user base who populates the board. As to advertising, in 14 months, we've only spent $250 and then if you count buying VBSEO, then a bit more for buying the SEO software. The rest of our advertising has been organic, word of mouth type stuff.

We have about $3K into forum, software programs, and design work, with another $1500 this month going out. But in 12 months, and even with lots of server upgrades, we were profitable and covering costs.

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