How many forums do you manage at once?

[Heatman]

For some people who are full time webmasters, they can easily manage more than one website at once because it's their means to livelihood. All there investment is on several website which pays them in return.

But for those who aren't into website management as their full time job, how many forums would you be able to manage at once?

 

[Phabbyfundz]

I know someone who has atleast 5 forums currently and I was once moved one time to ask how they cope with all that amount of forums when I don't even have a single one at the moment.

It takes determination and if forums is something you enjoy running then it wouldn't be too much work for you to handle multiple forums at a time.

 

[Heatman]

I know someone who has atleast 5 forums currently and I was once moved one time to ask how they cope with all that amount of forums when I don't even have a single one at the moment.

It takes determination and if forums is something you enjoy running then it wouldn't be too much work for you to handle multiple forums at a time.

I'm guessing that the result you got from the person who's got five active forums to manage was that it's his or her full time job because managing all five of them will be very demanding. Unless, they are just small forums with less activities to deal with.

 

[Cory]

I've been a staff member of a handful of boards in the past at one time, but right now I only manage one board on the Jcink forum software.

 

[Nomad]

I have 4 forums, my three forums are fully functional and one forum is a work in progress. have not been able to bring early members to build content. Apart from forums I also have over a dozen blogs. in the past, I have managed as many as 20 websites.

 

[ClicketyKat]

I own 1 forum and am Admin on 2 others that are more active. I also go to a friend's forum every day to post and she comes to mine to do the same so that we keep those forums looking busy. I don't think I would want to have any more sites than that.

 

[Shortie]

At the moment I currently co-own and run one forum with my boyfriend and with other things going on in my life that is enough for me at the moment. I have in the past though run 3 forums at once, but I found that got too much for me and I found it easier to just merge them all together into one forum rather than having separate forums that I needed to work on. That forum now is unfortunately no longer around as I had to let it go when hosting got a lot more expensive, and I was unable to afford it.

 

[Reverie]

I honestly could only run one forum or even be staff at just one forum. I used to be admin at one and moderator at others and I just got so overwhelmed I just disappeared. Balancing life is super important.

 

[Ravenfreak]

I currently own a few websites, one is a blog and the others are forums. I merged three of my communities into one so I had less websites to manage, the other two forums may eventually be merged with my main one but for now are standalone communities. It's best to not overdo it though, you don't want to get overwhelmed.

 

[joelr]

A better question to ask:

How many forums do you need to be successful? Just one.

It is HARD to be successful with forums. You need to be into marketing, promotion, social media, content creation, moderation, user engagement, and a myriad of other tasks. I think most admins would be better off improving their skills so they can focus on one forum rather than try to stretch themselves over several mediocre forums.

 

[Ken]

I only manage one forum and one is enough.