There are several things about creating a forum that nobody in general will tell you and you have to learn the hard way.
Firstly you need to decide on what forum software you want to use, there are free to use open source ones, as well as paid options e.g. you buy the software to run your forum.
The open source forum software is great as it is free to download and install, however in the event of any problem there is nobody to phone up for help, although posting on one of the user run support forums should help you get most problems sorted out. In addition you can get someone to install it for you very cheaply if you are not up to the task of installing it your self.
Or you could buy forum software, and at the same time you can pay to have it installed, although this is rather expensive when buying it from the supplier directly and you would save a lot of money by buying a forum installation service from a third party.
If you choose to buy your forum software rather than using free open source forum software, then you can also take out a telephone support contract. This is probably advisable if it is your first installation.
Also when building a forum you need to think about moderating it. Whilst you may have been on forums and seen relatively little spam, that is because someone will be working in the background to combat it - If you own a forum it will be down to you to do this task so do not underestimate how much work it takes.
Also you need to think about how you are going to pre-populate your forum, as you can have the best niche in the World, and the best looking forum in the World but without any posts, no one will join or begin posting. So you need to think about how you will go about doing this.
One option is to ask people you know off of other forums to help out and do a few posts, the other option is to get your friends to help you out with posting. However both of these methods offer no guarantee of the number of posts that people will do. So your other option would be forum boosting, whereby you employ a team of professionals to help create posts and threads in order to jump start you forum into life.
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