Do I need capital to start a forum?

[Ash]

Do you absolutely need capital for a forum? Not really. But having funds for certain aspects of your forum can help a lot. There are a lot of free options out there for forum software, themes, and plugins so spending money on those are not vital. The things I would recommend spending money on are the domain and hosting plan for your forum because a free domain and a free host is not going to be good enough

 

[Sotherefore]

Yes you need a capital to run a forums because when you are setting up a forums newly it may not be able to generate enough income for you to maintain it and as a result of this you will need a capital to maintain it until it is stable enough to generate money to run its self. That is all I can say it .

 

[Kunkun]

Every kind of business no matter the scale or nature definitely needs capital and funds not matter how small it may be, I'm sure having a forum is also like that, not just funds but the right skills

 

[Sotherefore]

if you're able to program your own forum you may not need much capital but if you do not have any understanding of programming you will need to pay a programmer to organise everything for you,if you're running a paid to post forums you will need some money to pay people until the forums is stabilize enough to generate income.

 

[Kingsley]

To my own understanding, you don't require money to start if you have the other necessary components in place. That includes all the necessary equipment like your laptop , steady electricity, stable internet connection and the required knowledge to program exactly what you desire.

 

[Sotherefore]

You will need a small amount of capital to start up because you need to pay for web designers to do everything for you,money is also necessary for you to keep the forums running until it is mature enough to generate money to run itself and pay members of its paid to post.

 

[cowantussie]

These seven steps can help your forum go from a promising idea to a successful community-building tool.
Clarify your forum's themes. .l
Create a structure.
Develop clear rules.
Promote your forum.
Create some good discussion topics to get the conversation started.
Moderate the discussions.
Solicit feedback and improve as you go.

 

[Setfragil]

You will need a small amount of capital to start up because you need to pay for web designers to do everything for you,money is also necessary for you to keep the forums running until it is mature enough to generate money to run itself and pay members of its paid to post.

In fact, no matter how small the forum is, he will need capital to fund it to standard. He will also need capital to pay those that will help in the management of the the website. For the forum to start to generate money, he might needs to run some paid adverts on other established forum.

 

[Kelly5]

The bottom line is that you'll need a good amount of capital to run a forum. Because as it is going to be a very new forum, you're going to be doing a lot of publicity advertising

 

[Sotherefore]

In fact, no matter how small the forum is, he will need capital to fund it to standard. He will also need capital to pay those that will help in the management of the the website. For the forum to start to generate money, he might needs to run some paid adverts on other established forum.

Yes even with this depending on the type of forums he is trying to operate,if it is a paid to post forums he will need some capital to pay the people that are posting and commenting on the forume until the forum stabilize enough to generate money to run its self.

 

[eLdavis]

I dont really knoe much about this, since this is not actually my field. But i believe you would surely need money to startup. Firstly you are going to need money to buy data subscription, you might also need money to pay for a domain name or something like that. You might also need money to pay for designing a web site.

 

[Razor1911]

Any business will need some funding. If you want to create your own forum, you will need funding for domain, hosting as well as script. After that when your forum will be up and running you have to create the contents which should be useful and informative.

 

[eenya00]

I believe you would need to have a little bit of capital to start a forum, from building of the website, to advertisement and promotions which are needed to effectively run the website, so I believe having a working capital is really important.

 

[Ayokex]

You definitely will need a good sum of capital to run a forum. Because owning and running a forum is as running a regular business that you know. It is an investment

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Of course, you would need capital to start a forum like this. Your moderators would be needing money. You will be needing money to build your site if you don't have the skills.

There is nothing like investment that you want to start that does not need capital. Starting a forum requires some capital because you don't expect to start making income immediately you start and you will need some money to run the whole processes.

 

[Richard92]

You need initial investment and also the money to required to pay your members for posting comments. I am not aware of the exact amount but you may need some thousands for sure.

There is no kind of business you want to start that you do not need capital either a small business or a big business all requires capital and a forum is not an exception of this fact.

 

[Sotherefore]

A new forumy may not be able to generate enough money to pay the people that are going to comment and post in the site,in this case you still need some capital to pay them and to settle some moderators you will be hiring to work in the site for you.

 

[Good-Person]

Yes, you will need capital to start a forum because you would need to hire a web designed and pay expenses like domain hosting and website maintaining expenses. You must also have money to pay members in case you start a paid to post forum. You must also have capital to bear other miscellaneous expenses.

 

[Ralphjoe]

I understand that I need at least a laptop or computer and Internet to install a forum. I have not heard of someone who started a forum with their smartphone.

I think investing in forums can make you money after a short time but I need to hear this from those who earn from operating forums.

My main question is, do I need capital to start a forum, especially if I want to start a forum that pays writers while at the same time hiring a moderator. How does a forum start making you money and how long does it take?

You need a very big amount of capital for you to start up a forum and this forum will become successful if it is in the categories of paid to post forums as this kind of runs seems to be the ones that are being successful.

 

[Setfragil]

A new forumy may not be able to generate enough money to pay the people that are going to comment and post in the site,in this case you still need some capital to pay them and to settle some moderators you will be hiring to work in the site for you.

You are very correct. A new forum might not start to generate capital that will be enough to pay those people that works for you, so you will money to keep paying them till the forum starts to generate money.

 

[Razor1911]

You are very correct. A new forum might not start to generate capital that will be enough to pay those people that works for you, so you will money to keep paying them till the forum starts to generate money.

At the initial stage, you need to invest money on order to develop the site. You will buy domain, web hosting plan, forum script etc. These all will need capital investment.