Make Money Online from Digital Point Forums

Shawn has added a new option for DP members — paid accounts.

The new paid accounts come with a few privileges:

• A new private forum
• Storage of up to 5,000 PM’s
• Storage of PM’s for up to six months
• Bold usernames
• Bold usertitles
• Editable usernames
• The ability to continue to have 4 signature links
• Customizable user profile page
• Automatic sticky-status for B/S/T threads during their first and last two hours
• Special colors for threads in the B/S/T forums

This is a great start!  vBulletin has a lot more features that can be enabled for premium users, but this is a move in the right direction.

Unfortunately, this move was accompanied by a sudden restriction of “normal” forum users by reducing the number of links in their signatures from four to two.  This caused enormous troubles for people who had sold signature links and now cannot deliver what they had sold.  This is costing a lot of forum members significant amounts of time to renegotiate closed sales, as well as lost revenue from refunds and decreases future sales.

The costs of premium membership are:

• 1 month – $25
• 3 months – $50
• 6 months – $75 ($80 if non-recurring)
• 12 months – $125 ($130 if non-recurring)

The signup page is here.

If Shawn can sign up only 1,000 premium members, it will raise between $10k and $25k a month in revenue which can then be used to improve the forums.

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