buttercup
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- Sep 28, 2008
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I wanna comment now too
cguru:Otto14's post was brilliant. Added content to this forum that is on topic to its purpose and pushed forward the conversation - good for this forum, good for the user who is asking. The only thing I could say was missing was choosing a topic. And of course, that is usually the biggest problem for most people who are trying to begin marketing online without any previous experience in marketing or sales. SO, about that.
Picking a Niche
All you gotta do is start writing down the things you love and know about. If you can't, note them any time you are talking about something and informing someone - it might be your expertise enough to slap your face on it.
It's important for you to love what you do - this is work no matter what you do. I think you said you only want to make a little money because you know you can scale it once you can cross that first thresh and know it's possible. As was mentioned, that isn't the best mind state.
You'll find lots of tactics on this board, but for something that lasts, even if you only need an extra 100 bucks a month genuinely, you need to love what you are doing. It will show in your content and it will attract your readers. So it goes a bit further than being sure you'll still want to do it down the road. No one starts a job at McDonalds and plans to be there until they are running it (I hope), and you probably shouldn't start doing this unless you want to become akin to similar sites of your topic.
Pick your top visited sites and forums, whichever one has the most different sites that you visit for the same topic, you probably found your topic or niche. There really is a lot more to look at and consider, but you've been pointed greatly in this thread, and you were even told the most important 2 words in IM (funny how consumers think that means instant message. Can't unsee the mindphuck
): Take Action.Get behind something, become active, whore your links. If you chose "video game fansite based on popular IP" and you lurk at some forums or forum subcategories about it at a few other sites, hold off on your posts. Wait until you've "coincidentally" just blogged about that very thing. Post and the forum traffic flows into your site. Maybe it will motivate you to offer quality content, thus you get return visitors. Then you get juice.
So yea, that's the dirty tactic for making money right there, and the secret which is to love what you do, for both you and your potential traffic. Mingle with the public online about your subject and spread your word - one link in a post is there "forever"... Loving what you do ensures it stays there and doesn't look fake.
You face a daunting journey, one that you can fall on and off of just as often as a "real job" - and it is a real job. If you ever get a check, you Will have worked for that shit
