A forum and blog can compliment each other. BUT for a newbie starting with a blog and getting that part down 1st makes sense. You can't even imagine everything that goes into setting up, learning and managing a forum. Setting up a blog and learning all of that is quite the learning curve too.
If you try to do both right away you'll be overwhelmed and have a little bit of each but a whole lotta nothing. FOCUS. Get one thing working, perfect it, drive traffic and monetize it. Then do the next thing.
I wonder if having them 2 domains is wise also. If it's the same niche then you'd be much better off having blog.niche.com and forum.niche.com on a single domain.
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