Paid Membership Modernization

[Shawn Gossman]

I'm no stranger to paid communities.

I have an active Patreon page for my YouTube brand. I make over $150 a month with that.

I'm the Community Manager of Copyblogger which is a paid community. I get paid as an employee of Copyblogger for that.

I think forums need to upgrade their standards and strategies in regard to premium membership plans if they really wish to utilize these features for earning an income with their forums.

For starters, set a monthly fee versus a low annual free.

But the benefits have to be upgrades as well. A custom user title and banner isn't enough anymore.

How do you all feel about this subject? Have any of you modernized your premium membership? If yes, has it been successful at all?

 

[Allan]

I have always struggled with what to offer for members to pay money to be on my forum. Is a special forum area and name title enough to justify a charge. Some niches could possible offer more but probably not much, I would rather donate to a forum myself.

 

[Lord Saru]

Roleplaying forums are the best to offer paid memberships.

 

[ConradBleu22]

I'm no stranger to paid communities.

I have an active Patreon page for my YouTube brand. I make over $150 a month with that.

I'm the Community Manager of Copyblogger which is a paid community. I get paid as an employee of Copyblogger for that.

I think forums need to upgrade their standards and strategies in regard to premium membership plans if they really wish to utilize these features for earning an income with their forums.

For starters, set a monthly fee versus a low annual free.

But the benefits have to be upgrades as well. A custom user title and banner isn't enough anymore.

How do you all feel about this subject? Have any of you modernized your premium membership? If yes, has it been successful at all?

What do you offer for paid membership benefits ?

 

[The Cat Lady]

This is something I'm thinking of doing, however, I'm planning to do this with my blog if I'm going to do it.

I've written some literature and I plan to sell them on my blog.

But I'm looking to explore other things I can offer on my blog for a paid membership.

 

[Nomad]

I have tried selling membership only on one forum but sadly no one bought membership plan.