# How to monetize a Discourse instance?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-monetize-a-discourse-instance/24316>\
**Category:** Community Building\
**Created:** [Janeiro 22, 2015, 4:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-monetize-a-discourse-instance/24316 "2015-01-22T16:27:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![rubydoob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rubydoob/32/103165_2.png) [@rubydoob](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rubydoob)\
**Post date:** [Fevereiro 13, 2015, 5:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-monetize-a-discourse-instance/24316/12 "2015-02-13T17:50:25Z")

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There are tons of ways to monetize a website. You could:

1. Charge for membership for private areas of the website
2. Affiliates
3. Sell your own products (real or digital like ebooks)
4. Leverage your community to your other online properties that are related
5. newsletters
6. job board  
etc.

The narrower the targeted audience the better in many cases.

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