ok, i know there are plenty of car forums out there. but I want to start a new forum for my country, India.

Currently we have only two forums http://team-bhp.com/forum for cars and htt://xbhp.com for bikes. both of them are HUGE forums so no way I am competing with them I do not even exist

But I believe as there are only 2 forums, there is enough space to start one more.

I would appreciate if you can visit these two forums http://team-bhp.com/forum and htt://xbhp.com and give me some ideas, for starting a new forum in same space i.e. Car for Indian Consumers

Looking forward to your replies

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you have absolutely no idea how many forums are there for biking and car enthusiast in India. have noticed 3-4 car forums even though i am not a car guy, major one would team-bhp and overdrive

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thank you for your comments yogesh. I do have idea about Indian forums. As you are running a bikes forum, I would appreciate if you could share some insights on how I can kick start

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I think there is always room for more.

But, you need to make yourself unique in someway. Take what they have currently and improve on it and do something they are not.

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Sagar I am not running a motorcycle forum, I am running a touring forum. As for a car forum you would need to entice people to your new forum which will be hard since Team Bhp is managed wonderfully by the current management and you would be hard pressed to find a fault with it and add to that they have 10,377+ members, 17,452 threads and 341,145 posts and that membership base is there even though that forum is open and people can browse it even with out logging in and they have VB SEO implemented and they are a vary closely knit community as far as I have seen. So unless you can offer some thing that they cant like expert advice from respected motoring journalists or some thing else most will feel there is little to gain from joining a new community.

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Yogesh, thanks for your opinion, but I am sure if I fully agree with your views. With this login only board which would have exited are Big Boards and companies like VB, IP would have sold just few handful of licenses.

Whether I succeed or not, only one car forum for a population of 1.1billion with 300million middle class...I think there is quite a room for couple of more forums

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Sagar I am not saying there isn't room, what I am saying is that if you want it to succeed and make it large then you need to offer things which aren't offered at Team-Bhp. Some thing which is only possible if you are genuinely interested in cars and have connections with people who are interested in the same and will be willing to contribute in the beginning to give it a good start. Believe me starting a forum is easy but making it successful is a tough task.

It is easy to say that there is such huge number of people out there, however one also has to think on how you will reach that audience. For instance in your shutterweek forum you are lacking activity at this moment since only three of the thirteen registered members are currently posting. This lack of activity is unlikely to entice people who are needed for making the forum active. So either you have to have a huge budget or some thing special which will be advertised in a right manner to make people join your forums.

Rest I can't comment cause I don't know you so I don't know if you have a good knowledge of cars and car communities and know car enthusiast well enough that they will be willing to join an empty forum when they can join a larger forum. Most of the registrations on my touring forum has come from the reputation I have in biking fraternity in India and abroad. My 2 cents would be to right now concentrate on your shutterweek forum and make it big and when it is successful use it as a launch base for another forum.

In the end if you do decide to launch a car forum right now, then I sincerely hope it becomes a successful forum and adds value to the car scene in India.

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thank you so much yogesh, I was looking for such a detailed opinion

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There may be lots of car & bike forums/sites in your country but i think imo that there is always room for more, same with the united kingdom i know of lots but i still went ahead and made one, your forums have to have a unique style diffirent from other's that will stand out and be noticed by members, Make it diffirent to those you have seen, make sure you have an idea of modifications you want to do to the forums, forum rooms you want etc and go for it, i don't see why it won't get some members.

weehuggy.

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weehuggy, thank you for kind and encouraging words

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