Foums

[JamesBart]

reckon there is much money in these? enough to make a living? anyone had expericene with them

meant to say forum

 

[tomb08uk]

Nope. no money really. Maybe smallo advertisement if can make a succesful site. But so many about not worth while.

 

[dragon2309]

if the site is successful there is a lot of money to be made... advertisement being one of the larger sources of revenue... Also sponsorship deals and hosting events will get you money... but really, unless you have the cash to invest BIG TIME, thend ont bother, a small time forum hosted on a £20 a year server running phpBB sint gonna get you very far

dragon

 

[JamesBart]

if the site is successful there is a lot of money to be made... advertisement being one of the larger sources of revenue... Also sponsorship deals and hosting events will get you money... but really, unless you have the cash to invest BIG TIME, thend ont bother, a small time forum hosted on a £20 a year server running phpBB sint gonna get you very far

dragon

cool man! depends if you hit the jackpot really

yeah ive been thinking of starting one and nothing to do with computers but one in general!

thanks man

 

[dragon2309]

yeh, sometimes you can come up with an idea that is truly revolutionary, and everyone suddenyladores, if that happens then your in the money, also, the domain name, it has to be good ro else your dead in the water before you've begun

dragon

 

[Ben]

cool man! depends if you hit the jackpot really

yeah ive been thinking of starting one and nothing to do with computers but one in general!

thanks man

Would you add a site to it? Like a main page, with other links, and blogs, articles etc, etc. but have a link to the forum? Or is it just a forum.

 

[JamesBart]

Would you add a site to it? Like a main page, with other links, and blogs, articles etc, etc. but have a link to the forum? Or is it just a forum.

tbh im not sure i think it would go the full way and have all of that! do you have any forums etc?

i spend half my life on em so why not make one

 

[Ben]

tbh im not sure i think it would go the full way and have all of that! do you have any forums etc?

i spend half my life on em so why not make one

I used to be an admin for one...But the guy who owned the place was...lets just say, an interesting person

I eventually resigned as admin and left the site, and after that, he just gave up on the site. It was there for only about a month.

One of the problems was that he didn't know what he was doing. period, the end. He couldn't make complete grammatically correct sentences, he didn't do a whole lot helping out the site, and he didn't have very good ideas. So I figured I would get nowhere with this guy. Heck, I just joined the site for kicks

Anyways, best of luck to you. And some words of advice...

Don't give up on the site. It will probably take a couple of months to get enough members to actually start the community, but it will eventually happen if you keep trying

 

[JamesBart]

thanks Halian! sounds a very interesting experience you had and thanks for the advice.

it'l be a music/whatever forum really and its something i actually know about which will help!

what was the forum you were admin for?

now its just getting all of my ideas together and putting the plan into action.

Also a question for dragon how much is serious money to get a forum going and how much knowledge do you need? is it kind of like websites or how is it based?

Thanks guys

 

[Geoff]

yeh, sometimes you can come up with an idea that is truly revolutionary, and everyone suddenyladores, if that happens then your in the money, also, the domain name, it has to be good ro else your dead in the water before you've begun

dragon

I'm thinking that you're kinda hinting towards the infamous XT* forum, as well as many others, where people create a forum and get their friends to join, and thats it. You never really get any new members.

I'm guessing this forum, because of it's domain name, does really well for itself, and I would be surprised if there is quite a bit of money being made.

 

[dragon2309]

Also a question for dragon how much is serious money to get a forum going and how much knowledge do you need? is it kind of like websites or how is it based

I couldnt say a figure on how much money, it also depends on what your costs are, some people manage to bag free hosting from competitions and things liek that, I had adsnese ad's (from google) on a site (not a forum) which only averaged about 10 unique hits every 5 days.... Inthe first month the adsense account was up £25, in this case it didnt even cover the hosting costs, so obviously, you would need a fair few more visitors than this site got to be able to make any money.

I'm thinking that you're kinda hinting towards the infamous XT* forum, as well as many others, where people create a forum and get their friends to join, and thats it. You never really get any new members.

I wasn't, but now that you mention it, that is quite a good example of a small time forum that was never really going anywhere. In the short time i was admin there it was apparent that the other admin (kyle) was only in it for the money, i'm not sure how he stands now, but we sure as hell didnt make any money when i was there.

dragon

 

[Geoff]

It's hasnt changed at all, in fact, it might have gotten worse. There are barely any new posts, and there are probably 5 active members on the boards.

 

[Ben]

thanks Halian! sounds a very interesting experience you had and thanks for the advice.

it'l be a music/whatever forum really and its something i actually know about which will help!

what was the forum you were admin for?

Yeah, it was pretty interesting. Got boring after a while though

Music eh? Sounds like a good idea

The site is gone now, but I would still rather not say...

 

[JamesBart]

yeah thats it i dont want it to get boring TBH.

yeah hopefully it'll be a good idea and from that i could get some work i hope as well

shame the site is gone and there's some forums that dont tell people im part of!cos i would really be laughed at

 

[Punk]

I've been trying to make forums but let me tell you this:

There is almost no way you can have a new forum where there is a lot of members. Why?

Simply because there are TOO MUCH forums on internet. There are forums for any topic, you want to make one in general, well guess what, there are thousands of other forums like that . ( even I have one like that but I only have 5 members...just friends )

 

[JamesBart]

I've been trying to make forums but let me tell you this:

There is almost no way you can have a new forum where there is a lot of members. Why?

Simply because there are TOO MUCH forums on internet. There are forums for any topic, you want to make one in general, well guess what, there are thousands of other forums like that . ( even I have one like that but I only have 5 members...just friends )

yeah i know what you mean! ive been doing some searching and it seems that there may not be a forum like this!

ahh well i might as well give it a go and see what happens