Hello webmasters.
I would like to ask for your opinion regarding the price of the banner ads space in my forum.
It was started at July and doing quite well. So I decided to start proposing banner advertising campaign to the related companies.
My banner space for specific board (banner appear only inside that board) is RM1k/m and the best banner position (which is visible in whole forum) is RM2k/m.
Before I have any big fish bite on my pole, one of the companies replied and said they would like to sponsor a board, meaning I create a new board in my forum and make it exclusive to them, where they can advertise, introduce, survey or educate my forum members about their product and related topics.
This is definitely a good start for me, but I have no idea how much should I charge them.... any suggestions please?

first of all, sorry i dont have an answer to your question...

however, I'm interested to know HOW do you make your proposition to the related companies?

anyway, in my opinion, if a company is already interested to sponsor a board, that's a really good news! congrats! just get them to sponsor ALL the banners in that board... that shud be enuff methink

'Coz I've got a good niche, and a good result for a young website like mine.
I was collecting flyers and name cards from related companies during some expo, and when I'm all ready, I just email to offer them.

But it seems like they need me to register a business/company to get things work easier....