5 Reasons Why You Shouldn't Start A Forums!
Lets face it, everyone wants to be a part of something bigger then themselves, some people choose sports, others choose gangs but you are a part of a forums. The human mind is always looking to accomplish more, so why not try to start a online forums? I mean how hard could it really be. Here is 5 reasons why you shouldn't start a online forums.
#1 - Do you even have the funds?
To many times I see people run into a forums project with little to no funds. They will buy some cheap hosting and a domain and they think they can get everything else for free, sure this is true if you are a internet marketer, webmaster, designer and a overall internet super hero but usually we are not. Let's take some things into consideration.
- Domain - 10-30 dollars
- Hosting - 10 dollars per month
- Decent Theme - 300 Dollars
- SEO - 100 dollars
- Advertising - 100 dollars
520 dollars to just get started. Now there is going to be other fees down the road such as DDoS protection, or maybe you need someone to do some modifications to a plugin. You need to think out everything.
#2 - Are you dedicated?
I hear so much that people are "dedicated" it sickens me. I was talking to someone last week and they told me they where 100% dedicated to there forums and that I should fuck off. I look at there forums this week and it has 80 posts and it looked like it hadn't been touched in a few days, most likely he came to the sad truth that he had no idea what he was doing, and gave up. There is a certain level of dedication needed.
#3 - Are you knowledgeable in the topic?
So a while back I was browsing a programming forums, I look at the C programming section and I guess the owner didn't know that C++ and C# are completely different things, even funnier he mixed up Javascript and Java and put them together, the main line is make sure you are knowledgeable in the topic of your forums.
#4 - Are experienced in administration?
Now sure, you could hire a management team to do everything for you, but what fun is that? This also ties back to the money situation. Do you have the administration skills, I am not talking about the one time you made a club penguin club in school, I am talking about having the skills to handle problems correctly and knowing how to deal with situations. The worst thing is when I see a admin give in and then there forums is trampled on by people who disrespect them.
#5 - Are really going to go through with this..?
I hope by this time, you realize how hard it is and how much work it takes to really build a forums. There are tons of people who try to make forums everyday and fail miserably, the worst part is those people cannot troubleshoot the reasons why they are failing and think its just because you had bad luck. Everything that happens to your website is because you allowed it to happen. Remember everything I said, when you go on your big adventure to attempt to create on of the hardest websites to manage on the net.
Good luck!