AndrewJ

Most reseller hosting packages come with billing software plus a domain reseller account. Andrew

Wordpress seems to be the most popular by far, but thesere are some other good like Typepad and Squarespace. Andrew

Well they do have nice icons! Andrew

A lot of sites now have email subscription forms for their feeds. eg feeddburner subscription forms.

I suggest spending a few minutes making unique versions of the article before submitting it. Andrew

I've been using e-junkie for a while and I think it's a great service. Andrew

I suggest you get at least a VPS hosting account because its' likely you will need the extra server resources with 1000+ members. Andrew

Submitting to search engines is the slow way to do it. You need to get a few links from active sites (eg forum signatures) and let the search engines find your site that way. Andrew

You can outsource much of the technical work at places like rentacoder and elance. Andrew

That's a great PR site. Thanks. Andrew

Most forum software generates rss feeds so you could go to feeddigest or similar and group the feeds into one single feed. Then burn the feed at feedburner. Andrew

Another benefit of adding a blog is that you will have an rss feed which can be submitted to rss directories and pinged at pingomatic. Andrew

You need to use one or more scripts which provide the functionality of a portal. The best place to find these scripts is at [url]www.hotscripts.com[/url] Andrew