Body Building Forum Good Idea?

No matter what niche you try and break into, there is always going to be someone bigger and better than you that you cannot compete with, unless you have a couple of $100k to help get you going. Starting forums is always incredibly difficult. Why should they go to your mostly empty less popular forum when there is another that is bigger, more popular and offers a tonne of better content.

If you seriously want to start a forum, to be able to compete against the bigger competitors you have to bring something to the table that attracts users to yours instead. If you have the drive and the passion to succeed, then you can create tutorials, guides and some great content and build you forum around that. Eventually people will create accounts to ask you questions and to get help, and at that point you just keep the ball rolling until it picks up pace.

However if your plan is just to pop a basic forum up and simply wait for people to come to you, I would say don't waste your time.

I had some experience with other kind of forum. To be successful in this niche, there has to be a authoritative person who is well experienced in fitness industry who can provide inputs to questions asked by make guys and gals.

Secondly you can provide them special discount coupons for various supplements by directly getting in touch with suppliers. Let your users share their experience of discount shopping they got from you on fb etc.

If you yourself into fitness, upload some videos of exercises, show exercises meant for all age groups.

Point out special exercises for ailments which can be cured with exercises rather than visiting a doctor. In this way you will have lot more visitors.

You can recommend products. Give local gym, spa and massage coupons if you can have tie-up with local service providers.

Much more you can do to get lot more traffic and visitors coming in for your forum.

Let me asking you something...do you have a lot of knowledge and passion for bodybuilding ?

It seems you just picked it out because you thought it might be profitable.

Especially with a Forum, I believe you should be eating ,sleeping, and farting bodybuilding if you want to succeed long term

Forums are a tough nut to crack. It can be done . But you must have long term commitment



- Robert Andrew

Bodybuilding isn't only a forum either, they are the largest website for supplement reviews, training plans, and many other fitness aspects.

I think the biggest mistake people make when building forums is that it's the first thing they do.

You should build an audience first around a blog or email list and then launch a forum for that audience.

The biggest problem people with forums have is not having people on the forum, this solves that problem.

I've never launched a forum, and am by no means an expert on making them but I wouldn't launch a forum in a niche unless I had 40k+ people on my list for that niche

Well do any of you have any evergreen niches I could do to start a forum? Like something that is not real popular but can be.

It 's a good idea I think so. But it belong much to how much experience you have on body building industry. Because the high quality article will be required

You have to find a niche inside bodybuilding niche, a sub-niche: ie: Pecs bodybuilding

Because you can't compete with the famous bodybuilding forums

Investment is the main source for developing anything, forums require a lot of funds to get active members and need a good domain or buy an existing forum that has a couple posts.
It takes time to develop a forum with decent investment. Any niche works and to compete anyone when funds are available to invest.

What about a forum not anything specific. Like just a forum that has everything in it that people can join and talk about stuff. Idk if that made sense but ya. Basically freedom, talk about anything forum would that be good?

I think whoever said to build a list first had the right idea. It's difficult to maintain a sense of community in a forum when posters are basically wandering in one by one.

On the other hand, the good news about Body Building as a subject is that it has long-term potential. Getting in shape, building muscle, dieting, supplements, and all the rest of that requires quite the time commitment. Even after getting that fit physique, there's maintenance involved which means that you won't have your posters finding what they need and dropping out right away.

As long as you've got a solid gameplan (like the aforementioned list-building strategy), I don't see why a forum like this couldn't work out.

Have you thought about offering your members something that other forum doesn't? It might be a good starting point, if you're afraid of competition.

think you'll need to go deeper down the niche rabbit hole than "bodyBuilding" to get noticed.. maybe "german Bodybuilding" or "vegan bodybuilding" etc..

From the looks of it my friend, you're not quite sure what you really want to undertake. Can a Bodybuilding forum be successful... yes! However you will need to put in a lot of work to build the momentum for the forum.

Will you be successful at creating this forum.. I dont know but you cant be ready to jump ship at the first negative response you get. Study what other forum developers have done to launch their forums and get traffic.

Take action on developing your forum, see what works and make adjustments. Google or youtube how to create a forum and get information regarding how to get started.

All you do... be sure to research your market... find an angle that will work best... study it.. take action and tweak.

gl my friend

Body building seems a good niche to me. IMO there aren't lots of people targeting this niche. It will take time to establish your forum but be persistent! wishing you well

Narrow down your thinking.

You could create a bodybuilding forum for men over 40...or for women over 40.

Baby boomers are a massive market.

Pick the one that you personally have interest in to start. It will make content creation easier and you will be more driven to continue.

If you have good content and are serving a community there is a place for everyone!

Good Luck!

I do have a plan to build a fitness instagram and pentrest. Try to get atleast 20k follows then advertise my website to the targeted traffic on my instagram and pentrest. I believe that will bring a bunch of organic traffic to boom of the start your thought?

For a market so competitive for what you are doing, although it is not required, it would be absolutely helpful to actually have some type of advertisement budget, otherwise this may be a long up hill battle.

It is not necessarily the fact that you are in the weight loss market that's the problem, its just that you are going against a very established authority, so by necessity it requires more time, effort, and monetary resources to be reasonably successful

I wouldn't make a forum. BodyBuildingForum already has a LOT of members, and basically owns Google for body building related searches.

I would find a sub-niche inside of body building and try to be an authority on that subject.

Bad idea. Will never compete with big names. Not even close.