Anytime you start asking the question about What’s a Good Niche for Me, you get a lot of people spewing the same *crap* answer. Pick something you like and build a site about it. Let me explain..
That’s how I got started. I chose a niche I had some interest in at the time, and I built a site around it.
Yea it made money. Within the first month I’d made my first sale. About the 5th or 6th month I started building a list, which I can still use today.
But after a while I lost interest in the niche. Today I absolutely HATE writing articles or doing anything at all with that site.
So I turned to setting up sites in a different way. Sites that were focused around keywords with traffic, and potential of big $$.
This was a little more my speed, because I was more interested in making profit than I was blogging and emailing content about a niche I’d lost interest in.
Most of the sites I set up in this phase today although they’re well ranked and getting traffic are quite lackluster. Most only bring in a pretty small amount every month, and none of them are anything to be proud of.
Most, probably 95%, of the content was outsourced, and to be honest I really don’t care at all about those sites.
Turn to today. I’ve started building a site and setting up multiple income streams in something that I’ve been passionate about my whole life. Self-employment. No, not just “making money online”, but actually working for yourself and living that good ‘ol American dream of self employment.
In highschool, my friends were all in shop or auto class, but I was in the marketing club. After high school I started my own business and had fun with it for a few years before moving on.
I’ve done sales, although I’m a HORRIBLE sales person, I understand the ins and outs of how it works. I’m just not pushy enough to close the sale. I’m just not one of those “sell anything to anyone” type talkers.
So I’ve always had a passion about working online for a really long time, and finally I’m able to step up and share all of the information that I’ve been gathering year after year of having a passion for the niche.
You see, it’s not just something that I LIKE, it’s something that I LOVE.
The amount of attention I’m putting into this passion project is way more than I think I’ve ever put into all my other sites combined, and I’m still in the start up phase!
So for the longest time I considered the find something you like approach to be a cop out, but today I understand why it’s so important to pick a niche that you’re passionate about.
If you can enjoy the work that you’re doing online, you’ll be more likely to get tasks completed and follow through with your endeavors. At least that’s what I’m learning for myself, and I’m sure many of you would agree with.
Where did you get started online?
