Honest insight on this potential service

I'm considering about launching a service based my experience as a community manager by creating a forum's administrator/consultation service. However, I wanted to get some insight from other webmaster's with online communities, forums, etc.

I know this is orginal, but was wondering if there is/would be a market for this at all? Would you honestly hire someone to be your 'admin' (or whatever the title may be)?If so, what would be a rate that someone would hire a community manager/admin for? (could be $/hr, $/day, etc.)

If you had a forum/online community, what $-rate would you hire someone? Be honest... I want real answers, so if you would honestly hire someone @ $1/hr or $20/hour then state it as such.

Thanks!

 

Anyone have any opinion or answers on this?

 

Sure, there are a lot of people who have sites but they want it backed by a forum but just don't feel that they care to run it. I doubt you will have a solid /hr rate or even a daily rate though considering forums pay next to nothing unless they are huge. As for myself I would work out a deal where all adsense profit from the forum will go to the admin but I wouldn't pay them. If the forum is backed up by a good site it would make you some money.

 

Thanks for sharing! I understand how forums wouldn't earn much, however I am interested in your idea to have the adsense profit go to the admin...thanks for that suggestion

 

I would not recommend investing significant time unless you target specifically big forums directly. No one running a small forum would be willing to pay for an admin when theres plenty of people wanting "power" for free.

 

Thanks for the honesty... I definitely understand what you're saying, as forum budgets are typically little to inexistent.