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It's not a money-generating site. This one's for fun, but it's a great feeling nonetheless, being creative, different and building an interesting and varied community site that people actually feel is worthwhile joining.
The web rocks. And it's not always about making money. There is personal satisfaction that you did something good to be had.
Long live the www.
TJ
Sid
I myself have failed at least 10 times, trying to get a forum up..pathetic.
I think, looking back, we had a bucket load of lucky breaks that made it happen. So I can't really take the credit for the forum being a success (although we did build a nice site) - we just got the right people at the right time, so had some very high quality posts from the outset.
Doing well in google was a big help of course, and that one is 100% down to Brett. This site is a "Steps to a succesful site in 12 months using google alone" to the letter. Thanks Brett!
So I don't think failure to get a succesful forum is pathetic, just unlucky. If the rest of the site has good content and is well designed, all you can really do is cross your fingers and make a few good quality posts yourself - then just hope people pick up on them.
We're now averaging 4 new members a day, so I think this one could get quite big in a couple of years.
Our AdSense account runs on it, but only really covers hosting costs. Shame it's not really a monetizable subject matter. Always the way isn't it!
TJ
