If you want to start a forum.

Forum making is very easy if you have some money to invest, but the challenge comes when your forum get live on web and you need people to come then register, then post and then come back again with other friends of there to join them on your community, I am writing some points well not in detailed but can be helpful for beginners to start and dev there community forums.

Idea: Idea can really change your life, think something unique, useful and attractive..get advise from your very very near ones and graph it on a paper, forums are many, with many common subjects and theme..think how you will stand with something new and different than others?

Patience: I advise not to start dreaming about having a big forum community of you dont know the word patience.

Write: "Content is the key" This word is repeated in most of the articles written by some great forum Admins in every admin boards, without content your forum is like a tummy without food, content is the energy of your forum so keep on writing, It will be best if your contents are original and if you copy paste than dont forget to give links to resource or you could be in problem somewhere.

Read: Keep doing research on different things which may help you to make your forum more active, read articles, discussions and resources, Google it and get it.

Signature Trick: "You will give you will get" start posting good quality posts on other forums of your interests, register in more than 5 big communities and put your forum link on your signature and keep on posting, make it in your schedule and see the results in 1 week, google it and see how many back links you generated by this.

"You can sell anything if you know to talk" a very famous phrase from marketing world, this can be helpful to promote your forum, talk to people around you, your friends, relatives, colleagues..These are the people who will going to give a good start up to your community.

Dont loose confidence when see your board going dull after a start, any forum will take minimum 3-6 months to get a proper start so keep on doing the things which is written above ;)