Selling Forum Signatures www.sigsell.com

[bbrian017]

I recently started an auction site dedicated to users that are willing to sell their signatures to advertisers with of course the highest bid. Right now I'm finding that forum owners aren't willing or at least wanting to allow their users to participate in this process. How can I over come this obstacle and how would I convince forums owners other wise. It seems that the responses I'm getting are very mixed but one thing I have found for sure, it's either yes I love it, or no I hate it.

#1. how can I go about convincing forum owners this is good for their users and posting activity

#2. Where should I market this idea and how can I get the most awareness from the least amount of money as I don't have a large amount of resources to launch the site


Thanks and greatly appreciated

bbrian017

[TWD-Tony]

So you want to convince forum owners to let their members have paid for SPAM in their sigs...?
Good Luck with it

[bbrian017]

Originally Posted by TWD-Tony

So you want to convince forum owners to let their members have paid for SPAM in their sigs...?
Good Luck with it

First I must say your avatar sure made me laugh this morning I love it!

Regarding the spam in the signature just won't happen. The seller of the signature will still have to follow the forums rules and guidelines made out at thew specific forum the signature is for sale. Such as max # links text only or whatever the forums rules and guidelines are.

Thanks again for the laugh man thats a good avater

[bbrian017]

Originally Posted by TWD-Tony

So you want to convince forum owners to let their members have paid for SPAM in their sigs...?
Good Luck with it

It will work and is already being done to this day in many popular forums

woot

[fisicx]

Please give the URL of one 'popular' forum that permits your service. I am totally unconvinced that this is actually going to work.

The other thing to consider is that many forums exclude the robots from the signatures.

And I assume you are actually going to put some content in your domains...

[bbrian017]

there are forums you can read inside the sigsell forums. All these forums allow the user to sell their signature links

Yes the content is being developed as we speak and it's dam $$$$$

[peterjhale]

folks in digitalpoint sell their sigs

It's a good idea really. If you can get a regular poster to have your signature you get a lot of exposure - imagine if you got 10 top posters in 10 top forums to have your sig.........

[bbrian017]

Originally Posted by peterjhale

folks in digitalpoint sell their sigs

It's a good idea really. If you can get a regular poster to have your signature you get a lot of exposure - imagine if you got 10 top posters in 10 top forums to have your sig.........

This is the EXACT idea. Some users have over 10,000 posts at namepros and digital point. This is why I bought all the domain names. I plan to do three sigsell environments, ppc, cpm and auction.

A signature from an active user with 10,000 posts would normally go for around 100 USD per month in auction. But that's auction and this is why I will also do ppc, and cpm

[turnerlittle]

I like the Idea, I'm sure the moderators of the forums may not warm to it quite so easily tho... You don't want to get a forum google-blacklisted for permitting this sort of behaviour? It is very unorganic (is that even a word?) , and surely easily spotted?

[fisicx]

Originally Posted by turnerlittle

I like the Idea, I'm sure the moderators of the forums may not warm to it quite so easily tho... You don't want to get a forum google-blacklisted for permitting this sort of behaviour? It is very unorganic (is that even a word?) , and surely easily spotted?

Yes, which is why google just about ignores forum signatures.