Originally Posted by Peter Avey Then think of someway to charge a subscription monthly

No offence but that sounds like a rubbish idea. There are better ways of making money than turning away a large proportion of the key demographic, teenage freelancers. For example a larger emphasis on advertising, more opportunities/benefits of donations, premium content etc.

Other than that, some of the contest idea's weren't bad. Problem with contests are that they are a little useless to run unless you have an active community because you'll get 3 people sign up and they would all win something.

Contests should come when you have a larger database of regular posters and you get those by improving content, better moderation and investment into the community.