As most of you know, back in November I purchased a sports forum called Sports Evolution from a digital point sale. I had visions of this becoming a “huge” sports site with a large forum, blog, graphics and more. I also wanted to bring my pickemcentral.com contests into this site. Well, that expirement is now over. I sold the site (minus all the blog content, which I get to transfer to another site) today for the exact same price I bought it for 3 months ago. So what came out of this?

The Good:

• My USportsNetwork.com was formed largely because of this site. It gave me the motivation to make it happen. I also met several sports fanatics here that are now blogging for the network.
• Met some great resources. From graphics design specialists, to content writers, to pure sports fans - it was well worth my time owning this site for a while.
• Hammered out tons of sports content! I have the start of a great sports blog now. All posts have been moved over to SportsShare.com and that will start to grow as my general sports blog.
• Learned a lot about forums. Basically, they kinda suck to run
• Learned a lot about creating graphics. Some of these kids/posters are ridiculous with the graphics. I learned some things I never would have learned if it was not for SE.

The Bad:

• I really didn’t make any revenue from the site. Maybe very little but definitely not enough money to make it worth the time.
• Forums are just so hard to keep going. I now know I never want to run one of these again.
• Built some good links and PR to the homepage that now I have sold
• The pickem really took a hit from this move. It will be retired this year!

Ok, so that’s about it. The Sports-EVO days are gone but SportsShare.com is here to stay. Anyone have any comments? What do you think of forums? Did I cash it in too soon?