Starting a forum is no easy task, trust me I have built several. Yet if built and maintained correctly they can bring you in massive amounts of repeat traffic, which you can use to make money from Google Adsense, or sell advertising space, and at the same time you are building a list of members that you can sell other products to.
First of all you can create a forum on just about anything you can think of, from knitting advice to gardening, to how to build rockets. If it exists on the internet then there will be a forum for it.
That said you can break into a market with a new one, but make no mistake it is not an easy task. For a start in the early days there is dealing with the spam, and trust me the auto-bots out there will throw spam at an un-guarded site like it is going out of fashion. So before even settling on a platform to build one on, do some research about which ones offer the best anti-spam modules to add as plug-ins.
If you set up the anti-spam the right way at the start then your life will be a whole lot easier when it comes to moderating your forum. Get it wrong and you will spend every morning and evening moderating your board.
Now you may pick out your forum software, and if you are competent you may install it yourself, but it involves setting up a database and you may often find that a professional installer can get it done for you in a fraction of the time. Often it is worth paying someone to do this task.
You then have to set up your message board, select the theme (Colours etc) that you want it to look like. Now you may have spent some considerable time doing these things and think it looks great on screen and that people will come flocking along to sign up - wrong! Now you have only done around five percent of the work towards getting your forum running successfully.
The hardest work is yet to come, as your forum is empty and so nobody will sign up to it, so you will need to begin to sign up under multiple names and post a lot to make it look like it is an active forum before people come across it in the search engines and start signing up and posting. You may want consider forum boosting or recruiting the help of a few friends with to get the ball rolling, or offer a prize for the post of the month to incentivise people to join. The hard work is not in building the forum itself, it is in building the membership!
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