Do you make money from forums?

[welington]

I am making money in 6 months life my forum.
It all depends on the content you are going to manage on the forum.
My content is related to electronics (notebook, desktop), about my profession I make a living from electronics, I have a store.
When I decide to take everything seriously and create a forum, the result will be great.
The investment is really big, my goal is also big.
I do not use advertising, all expenses are paid privately.
my dedication in posting files, 4 hours I spend posting files.
Those who have a goal can be robin or profession, it will be great.

 

[Max Fridman]

Do you make money from forums,

Yes.

especially newly created ones?

It depends in how much time you spend on them and the strategy behind it. If you planned your community and your monetization before, analyzing trends, ROI, etc. you can monetize a community in her first 100 days probably. Basically "your mileage may vary".

You can do a lot of research on a topic before opening a community about it. So you can understand where others have failed or succeeded.
You can plan a user acquisition strategy, a way for business to interact with your community and where they can find value doing so...etc etc.

Anyone could create a forum, but not many can strategize and make it profitable.

You can also write exactly how much you earn if you want?

It depends from the niche.

Is it profitable?

Yes. Costs are very contained if you know how. And you can manage the most by yourself.

 

[steven s]

I used to make enough money to pay for my hobby. A few track weekends a year. It hasn't paid much in the past 5-10 years. I was relying on site supporters to cover the hosting fee.

 

[cdub]

Do you make money from forums

Technically yes. My sites (well technically one site that makes the others possible) makes thousands of dollars per year... But I spend most of the money it earns on developers and writers putting it all back into the site. I have zero ads - all my income is from user upgrades... but the user upgrades give access to exclusive data and bonus articles. It's not just for silly forum benefits.