Can You Make Money By Running Your Own Forum?

[Mika]

A lot of people post on forums to make money. These forums can pay the posters only when they are earning. If you are being paid via forums, it also means the forums where you post are also generating revenue. Does this mean you can also make money by running your own forum?

Technically speaking, you can create your own forum and make money from your forum. However, from a practical standpoint, it is really difficult to make money from forums. In order to earn from forums, you need a lot of posters who create a lot of posts every day. It is difficult to have a lot of posters on your forum if you are not offering any incentives. If you are offering incentives to your posters, you need to make more revenue from your site so that you can not only pay for your posters but also pay for site maintenance charges and also make some profits.

 

[Jasmine]

Making money by creating a forum is almost similar to making money by creating blogs. While on blogs, you are the only person to create content, forums need posters because forums are basically communities where the members interact on various topics. The most difficult thing for a forum is to build members. Since there are already a lot of platforms where people can share opinion (social media, for example), it is very difficult to bring users on forums. Even if you managed to bring users, you will have to struggle hard to keep them active. Trendri is an active community, would there be so many active members if the forum did not offer cash rewards? So, if you want to run a forum you might have to offer rewards. Just because you are offering rewards does not mean you will get quality content, there will be people who want to abuse the system.