How do you get sponsors for your website

[Deleted member 8254]

I run a forum and i looking to get some sponsors. But as i am a beginner i really don't know what to do..

Kindly help me.

 

[Nebulous]

You need traffic for people to want to contact you directly for an ad spot. Another thing to try would be adding Google AdSense to your site. Also you could accept donations from your members. Perhaps give them a special rank and rank color for "sponsoring" your site.

 

[Deleted member 8254]

So without a big traffic, finding sponsor will be of less use you are saying?

 

[son_nguyen28011993]

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[Thomasss]

So without a big traffic, finding sponsor will be of less use you are saying?

From experience, yes. Unless you find a sponsor that has some guts to give money to a new forum in a world where it seems like forums drop ever second, you're going to have to prove that not only you can bring something to the table, but that the sponsor knows you're not just going to give up. Most people don't leave their forum if it has a ton of traffic.

That, and why sponsor a site that doesn't have a ton of traffic? It'd be a useless investment. It'd be like buying a giant advertisement on a blimp that's only going to fly over the artic.

 

[Gizmo]

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I would say if you start off small with ad spots in the way of cost you may find some regular sponsors. You really need to have big stats for someone to spend big money though.

But with the ongoing activity throughout the forum someone may be looking for a $1 or $2 ad spot.

 

[Deleted member 8254]

As Yoda said, i was for initial period thought of giving ad spot for low price. I will try it and see how it works.

Thanks Thomasss, Yoda for your reply.

 

[WHE Tom]

Id presume traffic would be your biggest draw to getting sponsors for your forum. Maybe try and promote it until you can get enough traffic it would be worth the investment.

 

[Forces of Steel]

Never in a million years for me. My forums are blessed by having NO advertisements plastered on the index pages, other than affiliates.

 

[Cierra]

You could reach out to companies or other sites in your niche to see if they would be interested in sponsoring you, or when you have enough traffic and activity they'll come to you. All they can say is no so it's worth a shot if that is what you are interested in. Probably try to contact companies around your same forum size in terms of activity and popularity.

 

[Winston]

Let the company know exactly what they are getting