Its a great tutorial. However, its a lot of putting the cart before the horse kind of logic. All these are great ideas. Mostly old school but all good ideas that work. But YOU FIRST NEED TRAFFIC AND LOTS MEMBERS LONG BEFORE YOU WORRY ABOUT HOW YOU ARE GOING TO MAKE MONEY.
This is called the investment stage. If you don't have the cash to make the investment and take the risk then you need to find it or find another game. This is where you make nothing for a long time until you have enough members see more and traffic you can start sticking some ads and other offers to try and make some cash. Don't even worry about any of these ideas until you have a min of 5K members. Critical mass for building your community will not even begin until you get somewhere between 5K and 10K members.
So stay focused on building members and members that revisit over and over again so your traffic soars..! DO NOT scare them away with to much in your face advertising to soon.
To make money online you cannot jump to quickly to how you are going to monetize your site. Focus on how you are going to market your site first...! Find as many ways as you can to gain traffic SEO both PPC and Organic and there are thousands of other ways. You just need to RESEARCH RESEARCH AND RESEARCH and TEST TEST TEST TEST AND TEST AGAIN..!
This tutorial is good but mostly old school news. As my grandfather used to tell me the guy that makes money does not tell you how he makes it or you will be making his money:-) He also used to say the guy who tells you how to make money you need to pay close attention to that guy to see if that is indeed how he is making his money. If not then he may not be the best person to take advice from for making money:-)
This is called the investment stage. If you don't have the cash to make the investment and take the risk then you need to find it or find another game. This is where you make nothing for a long time until you have enough members see more