Is anyone making any money using Dolphin?

Hi there,

I am just wondering, if anyone is making any money at all. Would appreciate some ideas. I know there is advertisements and some sections can be only for subscribed mentioned.

I am thinking of starting a dating site and obviously, since this would be new. I don't want to charge members to join.

Thanks folks for reading my post and replying..

cheers

10.000 dollars a month. Main income comes from advertising, audio software reviews and membership subscriptions.

There are 101 wars to make money out of dolphin..... unfortunately the only ones that are, are some of the adult sites.

With dating sites i'd image you'd have to spend fortunes on advertising before you could actually get anyone interested. That market is kinda flooded now.. Nobody is going to join a site to find partners with 5 or 10 people unless you have a dating niche.. which are pretty much already taken up.

Just my 2 cents

I am sure Dolphin based porn sites make a ton of money. Dating in the west is saturated but in Asia, if one understands the caste and community matrimonial traditions, I think there is a huge market.

Thanks Rolf_V for the inspiration. Can you share your site?

Cheers

Ive made some money, only really focused on Dolphin as part time, but moving towards full time hopefully 2013!

no adult stuff, no advertising...

Niche markets. 

Have had some sports related sites that sell downloadable instruction videos, at one point was earning enough to go full time.

Have also had a listing based site that showed very good potential, set it up for local area first and bought in £3000 in the first month. Had me out selling the site to businesses though which is not my thing (sales). 

Guess it depends on what sort of site you are looking at, what sort of market it is, and also if you are looking at quick money short term, or slow growing money long term... depends if you want to run your site long term yourself also!

When Dolphin grows, the work load grows also... you have to have personal interest or reward from a working site as there will be some months when the money is not there!

Stick with it though and anything is possible... 

Thanks Daihlo, I am inspired now.

I used to make $60 to $80 a month off ad clicks on just my Dolphin sites alone but then I upgraded from 6.0.X to 7.0.X and Google kicked me to the curb. I'm still making $100 to $200 a month on my plain html and Wordpress sites though. It doesn't sound like much but it's not bad for passive income, I don't think I've changed anything on any of the sites in over a year.

An approach that has worked well for me...

build up a niche community. Something for people who have a common interested.

Make it free to join, lots of good free content. 

Allow users to post media etc related to that niche, plus forums etc..

Then once you have a good base of customers launch a premium members area and charge a small fee to access.

I normally add things like chat rooms, premium content areas (depending on site type), additional features such as contact member direct etc just for paying members.

Ive stayed away from adds, if people feel like they have ownership on a niche community, paying a small amount for premium justifies keeping a site ad free. 

Works for me, take time to build up the initial core members etc and make the site quality for them.

I fine members dont like adds so much. They might bring in a small amount of money, but Ive found members are willing to pay a small amount to keep them away, also with additional content being thrown in for those who pay extra!

Not all sites have worked that Ive made, but some have stood out. Depends on your niche market though, also what you can provide for them to make your site stand out from others...

 What do you mean 'Google kicked me to the curb' when you upgraded to 7.0x