Minecraft Server Advice

[Kuo]

Hello there,

I am asking for the community’s opinions for creating a minecraft server. I use to own 2 Garry’s Mod servers that was very successful and made a lot of money with what I offered, so I know part of what to do. I am just wondering these few key ideas:

What would be a good budget for marketing (YouTubers recording on the server, server list ads and more)

What would be a good budget for maps and builds? (Spawns, Hubs, Gamemode builds and more)

Where would be the best places to advertise my server?

Thanks for reading! Hope to see some good feedback below

 

[call911]

From my personal experience, here is what you gotta do:
- Don't reach out for big content creators, it's almost impossible to do it without a media manager, And they overcharge. Reach for smaller YouTubers, And send emails in large quantities with a professional signature and buisness email. You'll get few of them to respond, DONT rely on YouTube content to give you a playerbase. Players may leave when the fellow YouTuber leaves.
(20 out of 100 YouTubers responded to our emails within a month)

- Voting websites are a good way, even if it's considered old fashioned advertising. Have your server listed on 3-4 of them. Choose the best ones by checking their traffic

- depends on what you're doing, Some servers require 1-2 builds, some require 10-15, I personally believe that using non-exclusive builds is completely okay at the start. And they cost barely anything. But if you're gonna get exclusively built things, you'll pay 100$-200$ per Hub, 40$-100$ Per spawns, and 5$-50$ per minigames maps, it's expensive. Try using non-exclusive builds on the market, players most likely won't care.

- don't rely on yourself only to advertise. Give invite rewards, Wether it's in-game or discord, you'll end up paying 10-20$ for rewards a month and it works. People will start doing advertising for you.

Don't be embarrassed to talk about your server everywhere, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, to your friends, other discords. As long as it isn't annoying.

The hard part will be keeping those people entertained and make them stay. That's what makes a server fail or succeed. If you don't believe me, add a player count plugin to your hub. And see the unique players joining, my server has 300k unique joins and only 100 average players.