Dilemma..Hoping you guys can assist

[swimmom]

Ok, My husband and I have so many great things we would like to do as far as blogging..There is one in particular that we keep coming back to but not quiet sure if there is a market for it...We are searching key words and such, and trying to find affiliates that would be associated with our Niche so to speak...On the other hand, I have a great idea for something else I can do with my best friend, and 1 that dh can do...We have domain names for all these sites...We would like to make all our sites interactive as far as people being able to comment on our blog and get to really know our readers..With our main Niche I dont know if that will work so we are a bit hesitant..

Any Suggestions?

TIA
Staci

[russell]

Well, I would always recommend doing what you like doing best.

Odds are you can find a way to make money in your niche, but you may have to think outside the box a little.

An example would be...A friend of mine is a fly fisherman, and he wants to make money doing what he likes, but he doesn't feel teaching people how to fish or tie flies is where its at, so we were brainstorming, and thinking about the ways to monetize his knowledge.

One of the things we came up with, was a was to show other fly fisherman to start up a blog, or to build a list or something like that.

It was kind of a mix of a couple niches, but it was way off the beaten path, but still in fly fishing with some make money thrown in there too.

So maybe you could do a hybrid of both niches.

If you want, you can give some hints about your niche, and we can provide some feedback...

[swimmom]

Russell that is great advice :) My kids are swimmers and compete in short course meets and will be swimming long course meets as well...my oldest is a freshman in HS...and also swims high School

[russell]

Ok, cool

I think there could be something there. Ill have to think about it a little, but maybe if it doesnt deal with swimming directly, you could expand a little into a parenting or time management or busy moms niche, and include after school sports as a broader piece of the puzzle.

Maybe you should write down a list of pains that you and your fellow swim parents have, or had at one point.

Then try to list out what has solved those pains, or what makes the pains easier to deal with.

From there you could go into possibly creating a product to solve one of the major pains in your niche.

[swimmom]

Ok, cool

I think there could be something there. Ill have to think about it a little, but maybe if it doesnt deal with swimming directly, you could expand a little into a parenting or time management or busy moms niche, and include after school sports as a broader piece of the puzzle.

Maybe you should write down a list of pains that you and your fellow swim parents have, or had at one point.

Then try to list out what has solved those pains, or what makes the pains easier to deal with.

From there you could go into possibly creating a product to solve one of the major pains in your niche.

Yes I like these ideas :) We were thinking more on information for people who are looking or dont have knowledge of swimming, as well as training whether it be dryland, or working out nutrition of a swimmer. as well as articles on the sport...tips of the week for maybe some strokes..again Just not sure if there is a market for it :) There aren't alot of people posting, blogging on this Niche although we have been sitting on this idea for 5 months now going back and fourth...should we or should we not?

Id love to find affiliate programs that we could also get involved with, trying just think what would be relevant to our Niche other than Working out and such...

Again thank you for your replies...

Staci

[swimmom]

We are looking to do Content and Information as well as a comment section, affiliate marketing but again there isnt alot of content out there on our Niche which might limit us..

[Lynn Terry]

The best place to start is to just do what you love. Start blogging about it, do videos on it, guest blog and do radio interviews, just get excited and share that with the people who love to hear/read about that kind of stuff.

The money will come. Sponsors will come out of the woodwork if you create a fan base or a loyal responsive following. Period. You just have to make sure there are merchants and money in your market - the rest is easy.

[Lynn Terry]

To give credit, I'm reading Crush It! by Gary Vaynerchuk and recently heard him speak on this very topic at the Underground Seminar 6 hosted by Yanik Silver. Keep an eye on http://www.clicknewz.com for my review of the book - and the opportunity to win one of 8 copies I'll be giving away ;)

[swimmom]

The best place to start is to just do what you love. Start blogging about it, do videos on it, guest blog and do radio interviews, just get excited and share that with the people who love to hear/read about that kind of stuff.

The money will come. Sponsors will come out of the woodwork if you create a fan base or a loyal responsive following. Period. You just have to make sure there are merchants and money in your market - the rest is easy.

Exactly Lynn we have been trying to figure out if there are merchants and money to be made this particular market/niche

We really dont want to spin our wheels as we have a few other niches we would like to tackle as well...

thank you
staci

[russell]

One way to see if there is a market for something, is to look in amazon for related books. If there are a few books on the subject, you can see the sales rank, and odd are people buy them.

If there is a market for the books, it usually indicates people will buy an ebook for considerably more.

But like Lynn says, if thats what you like, go for it, and the money will work its self out.

[swimmom]

One way to see if there is a market for something, is to look in amazon for related books. If there are a few books on the subject, you can see the sales rank, and odd are people buy them.

If there is a market for the books, it usually indicates people will buy an ebook for considerably more.

But like Lynn says, if thats what you like, go for it, and the money will work its self out.

Russell your the best..Ok I went to amazon and looked it up..for instance one book sold 57,775 copies..and another one sold 275,000 copies would that be...good or bad?

Now we also use clickbank to see the Gravity of the product and was told if its over 100 it could be a good one to sell..However on our niche there are very few with a high gravity and referal rate....

[Lynn Terry]

Is it an info product niche - or a physical product niche? Does it lend better to reaching people who buy ebooks, or who buy real tangible products?

[swimmom]

for our site it would be both tangable and ebooks and informational as well...

[Lynn Terry]

Tangible books only, or also other physical products?

[swimmom]

Tangible books only, or also other physical products?

well Lynn we changed our theme and wont be doing Swimming unfortunately not enough to blog about and not alot we can monitize....However we are going to use my husband's 1st idea and see how this goes..It will be a blog all about business and marketing..money/careers and entrepreneurship and we will be offering affiliate ebooks and hopefully newsletters etc...Looking into affiliate marketing programs as well as we dont want to bank all our eggs on 1 business...The biggest dilemma right now is a new domain name...which we cant seem to find one that would compliment our blog...