How to value a forum with 80,000 members

[aussie]

i visit a forum example www.??????tonight.com that has 80,0000 plus members .
would anyone estimate what a forum would be worth with 80,000 members ?

 

[lzy]

How many active members are there?

 

[Papworth]

Post count.. traffic stats.. referrer details, monthly income.. they all come into it.

 

[aussie]

the website is www.manilatonight.com
the reason i ask the question is because i have a few tonight.coms
vancouvertonight.com
hongkongtonight.com
hawaiitonight.com
and im looking to do a similar thing with those sites
thanks for your thoughts out there .

 

[Mike]

There are a few things to consider upfront:
How active is the forum? How many new posts per day, what's the momentum?
Not just how many registered members, but how many members with an average post count of 1+/day.
Once all these numbers check out successfully, then there's the big one left to ask: How much revenue through affiliates and PPC? Once you've done your positive math on it, you start subtracting: Hosting, Admins/Mods, Advertising, Time Investment from you, vBulletin License and continuous upgrades/support, etc. In the end, you'll arrive at a number that the board would present at this very moment. Voila`

 

[TheBulldog]

Totally depnds on the main topic. I have a forum with a close knit group of people that spam each other, but have a great time.

I am a member of another forum that has 250K members, and it kind of sucks because mods are like nazi's and the topic is old and boring, but people still go there.

I would pay a lot more for the small one if it was a good forum.

 

[peaches017]

You're asking about the worth of the forum. It's irrelevant, as your names aren't developed. Once you get them to that point (not an easy task just because you have the domains), your own personal statistics should make the worth apparent.

Peter

 

[aussie]

You're asking about the worth of the forum. It's irrelevant, as your names aren't developed. Once you get them to that point (not an easy task just because you have the domains), your own personal statistics should make the worth apparent.

yes it is relevant to me because manilatonight.com seem to have the right
formula for a great forum .
and someone needs to apply that to my tonght.com domains .
could be on a winner here .
thanks for the input.

 

[Optinom]

may be, find the value of 1 member and multiply it by 80k.. j/k..

 

[networkmsia]

I guess it all depends on the revenue.

the bigger your revenue, the bigger your domain + forum is worth