Long-term Planning

Do you have (or did you have) long-term goals and plans for your forum when you first brainstormed and launched?

Depending on how far into the creation of your forum you are, how close are you becoming to attaining those goals?

 

I have had many stuff I wanted to do on the forum as fast as I can so I haven't really have any long-term plan just many stuff to be introduced when I got time and/or money to fix it for the forum.

 

Indeed. Whenever I plan on creating and/or building a community, I always set a series of long-term goals for not only myself, but for the discussion forum, as well. While these goals may not prove to be beneficial immediately (hence "long-term"), they have always become useful as the forum becomes more active and/or ages. Over the years, I've developed a flowchart when it comes to the stage at which these long-term goals come into play.

Planning > Creation of the Community > Promotional and/or Advertisement > Growth and Member Development > Long-Term goals achieved > Growth and Member Development (continued) > ...

... and so on, so forth.

 

I Dont Plan On Long Term, Just As Long As I Have One Forum, And One Forum Only.

 

1. Start a bunch of sites that no one has built before
2. Keep the ones that make money, sell off the ones that don't
3. ???
4. Profit!

 

What is 'long'? In internet time that could be 1 year.


My plans consisted of several tangible items (code/website/forums/members that I knew) and several vague items that could not be predicted. As opportunities arose I followed up on them, several ideas I had did not work and they were abandoned.

I'm fairly close to achieving my 2 year goals less than a year so I think things are doing ok.

 

I kind of do, but they're not really goals that are tangible. If I did have such goals, and I did reach them, I may not be as motivated to keep going.