Money-making options for a website
Subscriptions
Personally I don't like obvious subscriptions too much. Always leaves a bad taste with the audience asking "what's gonna be next they'll charge me?".
Instead I would build themed interest areas for free newsletters and promise great detail about the topics covered. Of course you would have to deliver on the promise but as you do you can enrich the content very nicely with affiliated content and services (bring it into strong context of your theme) and other related sales (your own products and services, bundling or new promotions).
I'd do them with Autoresponders that you could even chain up so there would potentially be a never ending stream of messages (not more than 2 a month) as long as they stay subscribed. But content and relavancy are key here.
Nice about this: take top paragraphs and re-use for more pages, teasing for the newsletter details, getting more subscriptions in. Use the same teaser paragraphs for your forums with similar topics to feature on top and again tease for subscriptions to the newsletters.
An additional approach to build valuable subscription based service would be to ask a little fee for news delivery on the above mentioned themes and topics. Lookout for someone who provides these reports and such (like industry coverage) and ask for syndication, re-syndication, database utilization and commission on directly sold reports off their web site.
The workload could be minimized using autoresponders and databases wherever possible but if you want to do it right and cover interesting areas you would need one FTE to bring it all to live and maintain, add-up, update, entertain + grow partner network etc.
Basically you don't collect for an obvious subscription but do it in the second and third row of using the newsletters for free, people love free stuff, especialy if it's content-rich and relevant, supportive to their field of interest.
Affiliates
Once you know what drives CTR you can branch out and find great potential affiliates, that you can limit to top performers (ask them to re-use some of their content, I haven't met any partner yet who would refuse if you can show dedication and wave with serious traffic). You will need to limit anayway when you don't go with a network.
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Once you found a great partner to work with do your keyword research and buy a new domain where you build a niche for them, re-use their content, enrich with what you can offer and ask your users to participate (thus grow the site and add value).
Syndicate
Having many users interested in content-heavy areas you could consider to syndicate content to their company sites as well.
You would have to build a content stream yourself first though: this is how Epinions started out, they just built a web site structure and it was filled by willing users to be paid and motivated by the writers competition and voting psychology. Epinions just watched and the site grew. After growing you could offer this very content for a fee.
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Commerce
Quality classifieds (you need good offline support not to be considerd another weak me-too) and to build their own store, selling stuff from your site, if done right and simple, this is where the money is, especially when combining the two.
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