When I used to make forums here and there, I always set a goal for myself. For example, if you wanted to open a forum revolving around the internet, think about DigitalPoint and it's success. It's just a simple philosophy of mine. Motivate yourself, get your forum big and don't worry about getting money until you are well into the development of your forum and community.
So i get see what proplem is.traffic is come value of course everybody knows that.But if you have lot of traffic then what?Just need traffic into profit but it sounds easy.First of all,need product and need to build a email list.If could be advertise be good valuable,then no problem.So i think big problem is how to choose niche.I can suggest you best niche(money&success) you can learn something while you make traffic.That is keep learning process which needs skills that relationships as who like to buy from friends.
I would be involved with the industry you are a trying to create the forum for before. If you could get a surge of sign ups at once it will much easier. The problem with starting a forum is that if it is a ghost town others will not want to post. I would become an influencer in your field first.
If you know how to play marketing strategy you can earn from forum. Also other source of income in forum is by affiliating to such advertisement company, sample is this "adsense"
Currently, i'm working on a website, which is affiliated to some company. Since i need to build my community, I didn't create yet a forum community.
How do you know that when you claim to have no experience in running a forum!!!! You should not be posting advice on things that you clearly have no experience of, yet alone any expertise in.
Indeed, the creation and promotion of the forum will not bring a lot of money. It should be considered as a hobby, but not as the main income.
If you are going to create your own forum through hiring developer then yes you need. But if you want it for free then contact that Geni support " https://geniduturf.com/ " they offer free of cost support. this offer is for digital point users only.
Well if you succed to build up a succesful forum you can make a lot of money but guess what its not easy at all to do this
You can make money from a forum, however, it takes a lot of time and patience. You won’t make money quick from a forum. You’ll have to build up the content and market it & get good traffic before it starts earning.