Monetizing Your vBulletin (Forums) Community

In a blog post, Chris Raymond gives advice on monetization of forums: "Through the years I’ve been building and managing online communities without really putting a lot of effort into monetizing them until recently due to fear of driving visitors away. My thought process was; the more ads I place on the site the more intrusive it will be for my users and the more visitors I’ll drive away. Don’t let this logic stop you from doing everything you can to increase your revenue. As long as you have good content you won’t lose many users due to your ads, if any at all."