What's My Niche?

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Well,I've finally come up with a subject about which I have enough to say that I can actually create some site content. Woohoo!

My Initial Choice

I did realize that whatever niche I blogged about at first wouldn't really matter much. It was more or less just for the learning experience. Still, it had to be something I had enough interest in to stick with from a blogging standpoint.

I thought I had my answer. As a hobby, I like to make cheese. Not just any cheese, but bourbon infused cheese! Imagine the absolute best burger you've ever had. Then imagine it dripping with a thick slice of melting, smoked, white cheddar that had been made with Basil Hayden's 8-year bourbon and aged for 12-18 months! After you've had one of those, finding anything that compares becomes a very difficult challenge.

Why It Had To Change

Alas, my goal with this Wealthy Affiliate adventure is to create another viable income stream. Making exotic cheeses is great fun, but for me,it is just not scalable enough to accomplish my goal. A site built around making bourbon infused cheese may come in the future, but for now my desire to blog about the subject just isn't there.

What Led To My Chosen Niche

Another business I own centers around investing. People often approach me in that field asking for direction, how to get started, etc. I offer whatever help and advice I can, but 99.999% of people just don't follow through. I always thought it was just them. Or maybe the effects of the entitlement attitude that is so prevalent these days. It occurred to me though, what are the odds that I would remember everything from a 15-minute conversation with a stranger about a topic I had little knowledge of? I would need reminders. If I got stuck in the mud, I'd need someone to help me push. Then a wonderful idea struck me; a concept for a free educational program to coach people who are starting with nothing.

Over the next few weeks I developed a classroom-based, 13-month, course that would meet once a month as a group, and twice more with each individual. I even had a win-win solution built in to make significant revenue while keeping the course free.

Sadly, I never did launch that program. After realizing the amount of work it would take, I just didn't have the energy at that point for such an undertaking. Maybe someday I'll circle back to it.

Now The Good News

I still get excited thinking about that education program and I refine the concept from time to time to keep it current. While going over it a couple weeks ago, the thought finally struck me... “This is what you should build a website and blog about!” It is a bit large to be considered a niche as a whole, but I can break it up into specific, niche-sized, pieces and build multiple sites, thus giving me the scalibility needed while maintaining the niche blogging approach, create a network of websites that feed into one another to leverage traffic generation, and develop a marketable brand!

My first site will focus on side hustles. (You can find the URL in myprofile.) One of the most common issues I find when talking to people about finances is they have zero money left after paying bills, so how can they invest in anything? The short answer; cut expenses or bring in more money. The more detailed answer... You'll have to checkout my site for that and follow along as I build it out. ;D

Best wishes to you all, and happy blogging,

Dwayne

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Nice! Keep moving forward...you will find a way to do it in bite sized pieces for people!
Oh, and the cheese. OMG. ;)
~Nanci

*** Very well written prose! ... All the very best to YOU for every Success in your selected niche ... cheerio .... :) ***

and that bourbon-infused cheese -- sounds divine! ... lol ...

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