How much are you making from your forum?

The more niche you are in, especially the expensive niche, the higher it pays. It's also up to how you set it up.

Exactly, all 3 of my forums are in extremely small niche markets. As such the companies in these markets pay top dollar to advertise on my sites.

Each of my sites has a pair of paid admins who run the site for me, and organise the moderators (unpaid) and feed back to me what the users want. I do all the technical (install / code addons, features ect) and business side of things with the advertisers.

I am just negotiating deals for a 4th forum which I am going to set up soon with magazine publishers to get the message out there and part of my promotion to get the forum buzzing quickly will involve a competition for an all expenses paid trip to Japan for a week :)
 
I don't know how much I specifically make off my forums, but from all my websites combined I bring in about $1,800 a month from Google AdSense.
 
Why do you guys use AdSense over something like AdBrite?

I tried using AdSense... but google would delete my ad modules after a week... after about the 5th time I said **** it and moved to AdBrite... I've tried using AdSense again, but now my account is broken... When I try to log into my AdSense account, the system tells me "you dont have an account, click here to create one", then when I try to create it says "you can't create this account, as it already exists"... all using the same Google Account... And of course, Google doesn't have anything in terms of "customer service", so I can't get it fixed.

AdBrite has been very good to me, and the customer service responds to my emails within an hour.
 
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