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Visiting other forums can also help you realize your goal. Even when you already have a goal visiting other forums and engaging in discussion will provide you with knowledge and information on how to reach your goals. As a community owner, you should not only have a goal but also have a clear vision on how to reach your goal.

Zero click searches are becoming very popular but I do not think this is a threat to website owners who focuses on ranking on search engines and getting traffic from search engines. Zero click searches are only for short piece of information. For instance, if you just wan t to know when was Lincoln born, you do not have to visit multiple pages. But if you need more information on Lincoln, you will have to click on search results.

Staff benefit is very important. Just giving a title of staff will not be enough, you also need to compensate your staff with something. Well, you can offer free advertising space, free signature advertising and things like these but unless you are offering monetary incentives, you cannot have staff loyal to your community. You need to either offer staff bonus or allow ti withdraw the forum credits (if you have implemented this option)

First of all you need an answer to this basic question, why do yo want to build a community. If you know your goal, it will be easier to choose a platform. You can choose between social media communities or online communities (forums and discussion boards). You can use your communities to build a meaningful dialogue if the content you offer interest your target audience.

Based on my experience on multiple forum sites on admin and webmaster niche, I can say most of these communities focus on providing information and advertising and marketing platform to other users. But sadly, these communities lack writers who can actually offer useful tutorials on admin/webmaster niche. Likewise, these forums claim to offer marketing and promotion but most of these forums do even have a regular traffic or rank high on search engines.

With the availability of community software, you can launch your community in a couple of minutes. If you spend 20-30 minutes, you can write guidelines, and other important things. The most difficult thing is to build user base and regular activities. If you are new, there will be nothing to attract users. Unless you give a proper reason for your users to post, getting regular activities is very difficult.

The most important thing is bringing early adopters. You need people to join your project. This is also the most difficult aspect of launching your community or a project. Once you have launched and even received a couple of early adopters, the second problem you will face is how to keep your early adopters hooked. Building loyal audience is very difficult.

Even though online safety is of a great concern, it is illusive thing. You are followed by tech giants every where. I hear that Mark Zuckerbergs tapes his computer's microphone and camera before using is. This indicate that it is impossible to remain safe if you use internet.

I am not an expert on any subject or niche. I also do not expect experts to become my community users. Well, having experts certainly is good but I do not think it is easy to have expert on your community niche. Community is a user generated content site and it thrives on the content created and shared by normal users.

You can monetize your community through multiple methods, running network ads or selling memberships are some of the common ways to monetize your communities. You can also use affiliate ads or sell merch. No matter what monetization method you are using, you need a lot of users and traffic on your site.

If you want to become successful online, you need to build an audience, you can build audience through social media pages, your website (blogs, forums), or newsletter subscribers. The most important thing to remember while building subscriber is to create and share content that your target audience will find interesting, useful, engaging, educational and informative.

I voted for I try to be organized when I have to. I do not like to live in a mess but I am also not a freak when it comes to organizing things. I like to work on a clean desk but my desk also has empty coffee cups, and paper cuttings and other things. When I am in a mood, I clean my room but sometimes it is also too dirty.

My long term goal is to build a marketplace in my community for buying and selling digital products and digital services. I want my community to be a platform where people know only find information but also use it for business. Hopefully, I will be able to reach that goal in 5 years.

Just like most people, I am also focusing on numbers, I want more members, more activities, and more traffic. My long term goal is to build a dedicated marketplace within my community.

Admin participation is very important, if you have a small community, that's even more important. By the way do you participate as an "admin" or do you create different account to participate in the discussion?