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Hello, My name is Marnie, I am 55 and I am GONNA start a blog about….
Now, there lies the problem. My first step must be researching some blog topics. How about, “A day in the Life of the most boring 54 year old ever” or “how to live gluten free?” What is gluten free, anyway. I need to find a company that is willing to pay me to travel the world. Then I can write a travel blog for them.
So what the heck is a NICHE and why would I need one?
Hell, there goes an hour I can’t get back. I did learn some things. First there are blogs and there are money making blogs. It’s that kind of what I want to do? I want to be able to quit my dead end job, and travel the world (I have mentioned that twice).
Back to what is a NICHE and where the can I buy me one?
Webster didn’t help me with it’s definition:
“a place, employment, status, or activity for which a person or thing is best fitted. “
Merriam-Webster
So where does that leave me. What I am best fitted for? So off to do some more research, and now I have a list of how to figure my niche out. Now I have made my own list of things from reading several 100,000 dollars a month blogs. These bloggers must be the experts, right? Blog lingo, another google search in my future.
Make a List
I do love to make lists, most of them I don’t ever complete, but I am the person, that does something then goes and makes a list to add it, then scratch it off.
- Write a list of interests, passions or something you have lots of knowledge about.
- Place each of these into the trendiest blog niches catorgies. (Webster, do you have a definition for “blog niche?”)
- Find two or three sub topic for each found possible blog niches
- Maybe list my strengths and weaknesses?? Always good to know, and would make a great blog entry/topic… Lingo, ugh.
- Find out if there’s an audience for said niche.
- Study the competition
- Is there a market for this niche, doesn’t matter if it’s saturated, plenty of room at the top.
- Start developing a brand, test your niche, and finally GROW your NICHE
So I am off to write my first blog post (I like that lingo).
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