Managing Multiple Forums

[Heatman]

When it comes to being able to manage multiple forums, it's all about how free you're with your daily routine or schedule. Also, it depends on the kind of activities that's going on in those forum. When you have a tight or a very busy routine every day, with your forums being very active, you're going to be lacking in your communities.

 

[Grant]

I have managed a few forums at once before. These days I don't have any forums, at least not right now. But I do have sites that I build up and then sell when they start to get good traffic. I'm thinking about starting a forum again, but might just focus on one.

 

[Heatman]

If you want to stay economical, do it yourself. Don’t rely on people for important tasks. Learn new things and become skillful. With YouTube around it is not hard.

Well, there's a very good chance of being able to learn most things about how to manage multiple forums from watching YouTube channel videos. There are definitely informative videos on YouTube that's going to be very helpful but there's always going to come a time when you need the practical knowledge.

 

[Ja sa bong]

I've not managed multiple forums but I've worked on multiple forums and blogs as a staff. I have only one forum, I don't own any blogs but I'm working on starting a blog soon. If I have a forum and blog, it would be regarded as managing multiple forums.

 

[linux.poet]

Well there are a few ptp forums working for a long time now, so surely there are methods to make them sustainable over time, for example Beermoneyforum or Forumcoin.

The most common way to make them sustainable seems to be to take in high value ad revenue, which amounts to ads for gambling platforms and scams of various kinds, and pay posters pittances that aren't enough for them to earn a living wage on. This gives the posters dopamine for each pittance they earn, which attracts precisely the online gamblers and people who can be taken in by scammers.

I'm not saying that Beermoneyforum or ForumCoin or this forum employ that exact methodology, but it's probably kind of behind most paid-to-post forums.

Organic forums attract users because of community value (people get emotional support from the community, feel like they are friends and at home) or because of informational value (the site contains valuable information that the users want to ask each other for). Allowing buying and selling between users can increase community value, and providing information about business creates informational value - that's how this site is still online. Organic value is the only real benefit a forum website can truly give to its users. You can't pay people enough to get over the lack of organic value without compromising your ethics, because the user can almost always earn more money doing something other than posting on your forum.

If you want to stay economical, do it yourself. Don’t rely on people for important tasks.

This is bad life advice, and it doesn't work in any money making arena. It is somewhat true in website development, but also not true, for we rely on other human beings and cannot escape doing so. If you go to YouTube, you are relying on the YouTuber for information, if you go to a book, you rely on the author, if you go to college, you're relying on college. Your actions are only as good as your information, and eventually you will let yourself down.

Life is not about becoming self-sufficient, but rather knowing who you can rely upon and who you can't. In the case of managing multiple forums, this quote is especially bad, because you need to delegate tasks and rely on the staff and moderation teams you've hired for each forum in order to survive.

 

[saoussen57651]

You are really trying. I cannot even manage two forums at a time. It may be very stressful for me. I cannot do it.

There will be a lot of moderation work on both of them. It needs to hire moderators or staff to help you to do the work. Rare people can manage multiple websites and not reverse.

 

[Heatman]

I have no intention of creating a PTP forum because I do not think that would be a sustainable method, at least for me. However, I like hiring paid posters frequently.

When you don't have adequate means of getting the money to pay those who are working on your paid to post forum, it is a project that is not going to last for a long time. This is because it's practically what a lot of paid to post forums passes through. Within a short period of time, most of them will disappear because the owner can't no longer keep up paying since he or she is not making much money from the project.

 

[saoussen57651]

When you don't have adequate means of getting the money to pay those who are working on your paid to post forum, it is a project that is not going to last for a long time. This is because it's practically what a lot of paid to post forums passes through. Within a short period of time, most of them will disappear because the owner can't no longer keep up paying since he or she is not making much money from the project.

It is not question of money, a forum needs for example from admin to take a look from time to time, because there is a lot of spam content and moderation work, moderators if they find admin not interested will lose interest for moderation work, and little by little you still just pay for hosting and nothing else and project fail.

 

[Shortie]

I at the moment own one forum and I co-own another and with those on top of my freelance work as well, I feel that is more than enough for me at least at the moment.

I would love to be able to run more but I feel I would need to get them to a point where they were somewhat running themselves for it to be manageable for me.

 

[Heatman]

It is not question of money, a forum needs for example from admin to take a look from time to time, because there is a lot of spam content and moderation work, moderators if they find admin not interested will lose interest for moderation work, and little by little you still just pay for hosting and nothing else and project fail.

Well, in the case of running a paid to post forum, it's all about the money in 90% of what's needed from the forum owner to succeed in in keeping the forum up for a very long time to see his monetization pay off. Without having the money on ground to pay your members when you're yet to start making money from the forum, no one is going to post a thing in your forum.

 

[saoussen57651]

Well, in the case of running a paid to post forum, it's all about the money in 90% of what's needed from the forum owner to succeed in in keeping the forum up for a very long time to see his monetization pay off. Without having the money on ground to pay your members when you're yet to start making money from the forum, no one is going to post a thing in your forum.

It is not only paid to post forum since even non-PTP forum order posting package means not only the people could enable reward program by posting but could let this disabled and order posting package.

 

[Heatman]

It is not only paid to post forum since even non-PTP forum order posting package means not only the people could enable reward program by posting but could let this disabled and order posting package.

Non-PTP forum will definitely need ordering of posting package to get a decent level of activities on the forum. It's totally a different thing from how a purely paid to post forum work. The owner of paid to post forum can equally hire posting packages or even paid posting services.

 

[Kane]

If you have a lot of activities on your forums, it is not possible to do it by yourself. You need moderators. Having moderators can be a costly affair especially if your forum is not earning. I see a lot of forums hiring moderators for free but when you are not paying, it is also not possible to make them dedicated.