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Backwards. Confused. Or Just Wrong

BobHarris1

Published on October 23, 2017

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Well, I woke up this morning thinking that I have just gotten this whole thing backwards. I don't know that I ever grasped "niche" and I can see that my attempts at building websites -- while affording me the laboratories for everything I have learned so far -- have been about MY interests and not about seeking to define a niche.

My first dilemma is this: will I be able to narrow down a group of people into a niche in order to make my initial efforts worthwhile? In other words, am I "On to something"?

My second question is this: is my ROI for the time and energy I have put into a site (when I subtract my elbow grease and my learning through the certifications) going to give me a good place to move forward from (and I had ending a sentence with a preposition -- the least of my worries)?

Today I just put everything aside and starting listing the arenas in which I have some expertise. And so, my blog is a question:

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Should I begin -- now that I have a better idea of what I am doing -- with an arena in which I have some expertise? Should I begin with an arena in which I know there are some great, definitive niches which I know something (actually alot) about? Or should I begin with a problem?

I know, I know...all of this has been covered in the training. And I am going to return to my training so far and see where I have missed something CONCEPTUAL while I was all wrapped up in something TECHNICAL.

Have I been moving backwards? Am I just confused? Or have I just done things wrong -- or the wrong things?

But the office is open for comments.

(And whether you have something to add or not, I just want to say that this WA Community is truly one of the best groups I have been a member of in a very long time).

Bob

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