How much should I spend on advertising?

[Dinoo_]

Context
My server (a small eco survival server) has gotten to the stage where I feel it is making enough stable income to have some form of advertising budget. We currently peek at around 15 players and have just over 110 Discord Members I know it’s low and are trying to expand and so I’d like to get some information on where best to spend that budget along with also how much to spend. We currently use voting sites along with XBox Game Lounge to attract players yes it sounds strange but it works for us.
We currently make around $100-150/month profit and spend nothing on ads.

Question:
How much would you recommend spending for effective advertising? And what would you recommend spending it on?

 

[ajl]

buy server list slots maybe.. they are pretty cheap

 

[hgbf]

buy server list slots maybe.. they are pretty cheap

Some going for thousands a month is not what I would consider cheap tbh...

 

[ajl]

Some going for thousands a month is not what I would consider cheap tbh...

Really? I saw one for $3

 

[Dinoo_]

Really? I saw one for $3

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Some going for thousands a month is not what I would consider cheap tbh...

Any advice?

 

[ajl]

Im talking about the super small ones

 

[hgbf]

Im talking about the super small ones

The only visitors on those are other server owners trying to promote their stuff.

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Any advice?

Not an expert on this, but maybe try finding youtubers?

 

[Dinoo_]

The only visitors on those are other server owners trying to promote their stuff.

Not an expert on this, but maybe try finding youtubers?

I’ve tried but none of them play survival[DOUBLEPOST=1577929765][/DOUBLEPOST]

When you have a small server like yours you shouldn't look at the month revenue as profit, it should always feed back into the server till you're bigger all that "extra" money should be helping improve and advance the server! just stating from past experience hope all goes well for you... and Happy New Year!

Thanks for the advice

 

[Dinoo_]

There's plenty of sub-5k youtubers that play survival and provide a good price to players ratio.
Maybe some smaller twitch streamers as well, as engagements on streamers tend to be higher & they're all in an organised list on the twitch website.

I’ve not had any contact me. I’ll look into twitch