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How can I find a good niche?
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blackbeans
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When it comes to finding a new blog niche, I ask myself four key questions.
Question No. 1 - Am I personally interested in the niche?
You have to understand that even if you're going to be outsourcing the actual production of your blog content, you personally have to have some skin in the game.
There has to be some level of personal interest on your part.
Otherwise, it would be too easy to abandon your project.
Remember, according to the New York Times, more than 95% of blogs are eventually abandoned.
That's a high failure rate, and I strongly believe that a lot of that can be tied to the fact that people were simply just blogging and were not personally emotionally invested in their blogs.
Question No. 2 - Is the niche or sub-niche commercial enough?
At the end of the day, your blog has to have a good shot at making money.
I don't care how personally excited you are about your niche.
If there's no money in the equation, then it's not worth doing.
You could be doing so many other things with your time.
Make your blogging time pay off and pay off big in the future.
I'm talking about passive income.
If, in the back of your head, you know that there is no money in your blog, eventually, you will lose interest.
You can take that to the bank.
Blogging is not easy.
It's a marathon.
It's an endurance game.
And if you know for sure that you're not going to be really making all that much money with your blog the moment you hit these long stretches of writer's block or you face some sort of technical challenge down the road, that's the moment when you start thinking of quitting.
Question No. 3 - Can I scale up my niche?
I suggest that you start with a sub-niche.
Don't start with your main niche.
Start with a subsection of that niche.
The reason I suggest this is because you don't want to fight your enemy right out there on the battlefield, where he is strongest.
You're going to get slaughtered every single time.
Instead, you have to look for a specialized audience within the general niche that you will eventually try to target.
So for example, if your intended market is "kid's baseball gloves," you may want to start out with "baseball gloves for grade school kids."
Look for long-tail keywords in that sub-niche.
Start ranking those keywords with your specialized content to boost up your domain authority.
At some point in the future, when you have enough pages of those long-tail keywords ranking within the top 3, then you can start moving closer to a more competitive segment of your target sub-niche until you eventually go out to the main niche that encompasses your sub-niche.
Question No. 4 - How diverse are my monetization options?
When picking a niche, you need to pick a niche that can support a wide range of monetization strategies.
You know you're going to be in trouble when your blog can only make money by showing AdSense or affiliate network ads.
That's not going to cut it!
It would be best if you had a monetization strategy that is deep and can take care of you long into the future.
So the more monetization options (and I'm talking about courses, channel or page sponsorships, webinars, booklets, books, Patreon, and all sorts of other options), this way you increase your chances of making decent money on a passive basis with your digital asset.
Question No. 1 - Am I personally interested in the niche?
You have to understand that even if you're going to be outsourcing the actual production of your blog content, you personally have to have some skin in the game.
There has to be some level of personal interest on your part.
Otherwise, it would be too easy to abandon your project.
Remember, according to the New York Times, more than 95% of blogs are eventually abandoned.
That's a high failure rate, and I strongly believe that a lot of that can be tied to the fact that people were simply just blogging and were not personally emotionally invested in their blogs.
Question No. 2 - Is the niche or sub-niche commercial enough?
At the end of the day, your blog has to have a good shot at making money.
I don't care how personally excited you are about your niche.
If there's no money in the equation, then it's not worth doing.
You could be doing so many other things with your time.
Make your blogging time pay off and pay off big in the future.
I'm talking about passive income.
If, in the back of your head, you know that there is no money in your blog, eventually, you will lose interest.
You can take that to the bank.
Blogging is not easy.
It's a marathon.
It's an endurance game.
And if you know for sure that you're not going to be really making all that much money with your blog the moment you hit these long stretches of writer's block or you face some sort of technical challenge down the road, that's the moment when you start thinking of quitting.
Question No. 3 - Can I scale up my niche?
I suggest that you start with a sub-niche.
Don't start with your main niche.
Start with a subsection of that niche.
The reason I suggest this is because you don't want to fight your enemy right out there on the battlefield, where he is strongest.
You're going to get slaughtered every single time.
Instead, you have to look for a specialized audience within the general niche that you will eventually try to target.
So for example, if your intended market is "kid's baseball gloves," you may want to start out with "baseball gloves for grade school kids."
Look for long-tail keywords in that sub-niche.
Start ranking those keywords with your specialized content to boost up your domain authority.
At some point in the future, when you have enough pages of those long-tail keywords ranking within the top 3, then you can start moving closer to a more competitive segment of your target sub-niche until you eventually go out to the main niche that encompasses your sub-niche.
Question No. 4 - How diverse are my monetization options?
When picking a niche, you need to pick a niche that can support a wide range of monetization strategies.
You know you're going to be in trouble when your blog can only make money by showing AdSense or affiliate network ads.
That's not going to cut it!
It would be best if you had a monetization strategy that is deep and can take care of you long into the future.
So the more monetization options (and I'm talking about courses, channel or page sponsorships, webinars, booklets, books, Patreon, and all sorts of other options), this way you increase your chances of making decent money on a passive basis with your digital asset.
leechesBleechin
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I know this threads a bit old but used that pdf, made a random picker for anyone who wants to use it to give a little spice to their niche picking life.
Just download the pdf and run this python code, choose the pdf.
Python:
import tkinter as tk
from tkinter import filedialog, messagebox
import PyPDF2
import random
def random_line_from_pdf(pdf_path):
try:
with open(pdf_path, 'rb') as file:
reader = PyPDF2.PdfReader(file)
number_of_pages = len(reader.pages)
# Choose a random page
random_page = random.randint(0, number_of_pages - 1)
page = reader.pages[random_page]
# Extract text and split into lines
text = page.extract_text()
lines = text.split('\n')
# Choose a random line
if lines:
return random.choice(lines)
else:
return "No text found on the selected page."
except Exception as e:
return str(e)
def open_file():
file_path = filedialog.askopenfilename(filetypes=[("PDF files", "*.pdf")])
if file_path:
file_path_label.config(text=file_path)
random_line_button.config(state="normal")
def display_random_line():
file_path = file_path_label.cget("text")
random_line = random_line_from_pdf(file_path)
result_text.config(state="normal")
result_text.delete('1.0', tk.END)
result_text.insert(tk.END, random_line)
result_text.config(state="disabled")
# Create the main window
root = tk.Tk()
root.title("Random Line from PDF")
# File selection button
open_file_button = tk.Button(root, text="Open PDF", command=open_file)
open_file_button.pack()
# File path label
file_path_label = tk.Label(root, text="", fg="blue")
file_path_label.pack()
# Button to extract random line
random_line_button = tk.Button(root, text="Get Random Line", state="disabled", command=display_random_line)
random_line_button.pack()
# Text widget to display the result
result_text = tk.Text(root, height=4, width=50, state="disabled")
result_text.pack()
# Start the GUI event loop
root.mainloop()imperialhustle
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Research and identify your interests, skills, and passions. Consider what makes you unique and how you can use that to create a niche that is profitable and provides value to your target audience.