Niche Blogging: How to make the big decision …
A needle in a haystack is impossible to find. Niche blogging is that needle. If this comparison resonates with you, you can probably identify with how it feels to hop from one search to the next on the internet–without significant direction.
Finding a niche must come from the heart. It is something that makes you smile at the thought of employing it to earn a rich and fulfilling living online.
Moreover, this quest is serious. In essence, You marry a niche. Then, your ability to Live, eat and breath niche blogging with passion is what attracts people to your website.
I remember the house where my grandmother grew up. I loved going into the room that had been her’s. It was a small room, and it had a square shaped, recessed place in the wall near her bed. She told me that she kept personal things in there. She called it her niche—a place that was all her own.
However, since the twentieth century, the word niche has gained a whole new significance. It traveled from the idea of a personal enclave to the specialty meaning of a personal vocation or hobby.
Furthermore, the niche you are looking for now might also be a niche within a niche. Maybe, for example, you are a writer and you love children. So, you decide that your niche is writing children’s books.
Niche Blogging: It must come from my passion
I thought about this symbolism as I was choosing my own niche. When I realized the necessity for soul searching that is involved in the whole process, I began to get more ideas. It’s much like a hobby. The adoption of a hobby involves excitement–looking forward to engaging in it.
Drilling down deeper, it came to me that I also had to have a benevolent reason for wanting to share–my passion, my excitement–with others. It must be a calling of sorts because unlike a hobby, a business requires marketing your zeal for the niche with others.
I had to have the drive to empower as many people as I could because I knew that it would change their lives and mine—for the better.
When I asked myself why I cared about my chosen niche, I realized that I cared because knowing what I know about the ways in which the internet marketing business can enhance a person’s lifestyle—how could I possibly keep it to myself?
It’s like fighting for a cause that becomes a life mission. You have to do it because you can’t live with yourself if you don’t do it.
For me, one of the passions that drive me is telling others about the rise in Celiac disease and gluten sensitivity in the world population; these particular conditions are warning signs of worse things to come. My micro-niche in this area is the overall seriousness of our food chain and how alarming the illnesses (of various kinds) and death rates are as a result.
Niche Blogging Product Creation
The other passion I have is to learn all I can about making a living online, so I can coach others and write posts like this one—sharing what I have learned. In addition, I am always looking for ways to shorten the learning cycle for others.
My micro-niche in this area is product development. I create products that outline every step—before I send it out.
There is so much out there that has been thrown-together and has promised results that are not there. Would be entrepreneurs end up scratching their heads, when they try and duplicate the results the product offers. Why? Because there is often a missing detail here and there. Some people are able to figure it out and move forward, but the large majority get frustrated and give up.
I work to create products in which I present information that goes through actual, realistic steps 1 … 2 … 3 … etc. By the time you get to the last step—you’re done and ready to move on to the next part of your business. There is nothing missing, and if you are willing to actually implement the steps outlined in a given product–you will most certainly get the promised results
Niche Blogging is Sequential…
On a side note: Internet marketing has a peculiar characteristic to it that reminds me of building an automobile yourself. Every piece has a purpose and goes in a particular sequence–including picking a niche. Every piece also has parts to it that must be understood in order to put them in place and implement them correctly.
If you try and create certain parts before others–you end up having to do more work in the long run. You have to go back and fix what you missed.
Even IM terminology, which has been gleaned from various parts of our language, historically meaning one thing, now mean something else in the language of the internet–even though many of these words may seem like relatives regarding function. For example, the term “drilling down,” has been used to drill into the earth searching for water, oil and etc. Now we use that same term to mean going deeper into a topic looking for gems we may be able to use in our niche that will enrich the content we write.
Keep this in mind, when searching your heart for the passion driving you to share in a particular niche. Drill down into those niches you are thinking about, and see where this will take you and your perspective list (readers, clients, friends, etc). As ‘they say,’ “The money is in the list;” but the list is in the niche and how it is marketed.
Niche Blogging: Who reads these blogs …
A niche blog is communication between you and your niche. Therefore, it must be highly relevant; the content has to drive the reader through the information quickly with keyword points that will be of help to them and will stick with them.
In order for content to be vital, keyword searches must be relevant. Relevant is another important internet marketing term. Relevant not only means related to; lending aid or support but, drilling down into the term, it means pertinent; applicable.
For a keyword to be pertinent; applicable, you must use a keyword tool to search the internet with words in your niche topic, trying different “relevant” terms, in order to discover what terms people, around your country or the planet, are using to get information about this niche topic.
Niche Blogging: Where to start searching for my niche …
If you do a Google search on the subject, you will find a plethora of suggested ways to arrive at the perfect niche. Everything from going to Amazon and searching magazines, doing endless keyword searches, going to bookstores and spending hours searching niches, to making a list of everything that you might target for yourself as a passion.
Everyone in the business has gone through these various stages and then some when trying to determine the best niche for their blog. It is not always an easy process, and there can be some serious anxiety with the search.
That being said, it is easy to get off in your head in an attempt to wrestle the perfect niche from deep inside yourself. After all, this is going to be a business or a hobby for you–both of which will require a lot of your time and some of your money. It may seem like it is worth losing a little sleep, but it won’t take long before you start getting over it and decide to start making things happen …which only leads to major stress and anxiety.
Niche Blogging: In this state, how are you supposed to think straight?
No. Instead, from the get-go, sit down with a ready-made list, and start filtering it down.
Great! But, “where is such a list to be found?” you ask. Well, I’m so glad you did ask because just today while I was working on social media, I found such a list for myself. There it was, right there on Facebook. I got so excited about it, I had to write this post so you too could print out your own list.
There is a list, compiled by Facebook as you have made choices during your social media activities; it is made up of a lot of both conscious and unconscious choices on your part; thus these choices are most likely genuinely what matters to you.
Obviously, the list you find will not be inclusive of everything you care about, but it will go a long way toward getting you moving, and if you drill down on some of the topics, you may even realize “the one thing,” to which your heart is pointing you.
Niche Blogging: Choosing a Discovery Method
CHOICE #1: If you want to do this manually, then after printing the list out, sit down with it, and number them from one to ten in order of their importance to you. Then separate them by number. Next, take the list of categories or topics with the highest number, and begin the process again. This elimination process should narrow your focus to the niche that is most important to you.
CHOICE #2: The other choice you have is to follow this link and get the free product I have created. It will help you get through the process more quickly and open your eyes to the choices you unconsciously make during your social media travels. Click here, leave your name and email, and get this free product now.
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