Harry and the Snitch ( Niche )
Everyone has been very, very helpful but the light bulb has remained dim. Please allow me to try your patience a little more.
I don't want anyone to do the work for me. No free ideas. I'm not a fisherman nor a poacher.
I totally understand the" follow your interests or passions". I have lived my life that way, for better or worse, but, unless we're talking about a specific product, I don't see how the interests are linked to selling for affiliates. In my mind my interests don't directly correlate with selling any products. Even after drilling down.
For example, if I write content about acting or Shakespearean acting or Filmmaking or Psychic Phenomena or Baseball or Sherlock Holmes etc, even after drilling down, how do I make money from that? How do I translate them into the paradigm exhibited on the "Making Money" Template( Lesson 3 (?)) where people come through your website to buy something from Amazon,e.g., that you recommended to them? Is it just the limited nature of my subject matter interests or am I missing something else here.? Unless I want to just sell some books or sporting equipment.........
I also understand that if you find ANY niche that is greatly needed AND under-supplied, one can learn more about the subject as one pursues the revenue but I see that as a little more advanced. I would like to start with something I love to talk about. I would like to stay "fired up" in my own juices for now. I am a very passionate person. Anything less is difficult for me.
I am also gifted both verbally and on the page but you probably can't tell from this missive. My confusion permeates my ramble. I sound tedious to myself. But that's all I have for now. Any help, as always, is appreciated.....Thank you for listening.
John T.
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This comment is probably far too late (you posted about a year ago), but with your acting experience I would sell that.
Acting lessons - film. TV and stage
How to audition lessons
What to expect from a casting director
Acting for children (if you want to go there)
Sell online acting courses and ebooks pertaining to the above.
Your site is probably done and dusted now, but the above may help someone else down the line:)
Cheers, Caden
Thanks, Caden. These niches are very helpful. I DID put up a website after I left WA a year ago. www.actingcoachtimmons.com But it's invisible. I like the content. I spent a lot of time on it. But I still don't really understand SEO. and it's not "niche-oriented. It's just acting coaching with an emphasis on Shakespeare.
Great, you're providing those services; you're Branding yourself within the niche of acting.
So rather than pushing ebooks or whatever, you have to promote and sell yourself.
So what makes you different?
Why would someone in LA go to you rather than the 1000s of other acting coaches there?
You mentioned Shakespeare - so, again, what makes you different? What's unique about you that others will recommend you?
Once you've branded yourself then people will come to your website by word of mouth (also flyers, business cards, ads in papers, etc)
Of course, when your movie is a great success, people will flock to your site and will pay you a fortune to have you coach them.
Good luck John.
Is it Kosher, desirable, or even doable to include services or products on the website that are not necessarily directly related but only tangentially related. e.g selling a sports product on an acting site or a food product? Do affiliates only hook up with viable sites or do they use a "scattershot" approach?
You can affiliate Amazon baseball cards on your Sherlock Holmes site if you like. It's entirely up to you. But tell me, if you landed there as a customer, what's the likelihood you'd be in the market for them?! Best. Rich.
If you dont have a site yet I would say try squidoo or hubpages so you can see how they rank for their content. I do have some sites I use just as landing pages that have unrelated products but Im not trying to rank those.
Hi John.
I tried to answer a similar conundrum a few days ago here: https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/chelc/blog/what-the-niche
A quick search of the current Amazon product list reveals:
Acting: 22,793
Shakespearean Acting: 1,649
Filmmaking: 144,209
Psychic Phenomena: 9,721
Baseball: 123,251
Sherlock Holmes: 15,015
Hopefully you should be able to find a few items in each category that you are happy to endorse and you'll be comfortable promoting!
Best.
Rich.
Well, take Shakespearean Acting, There are several movies available, a couple of PBS series on Shakespeare, multiple options for purchasing copies of the plays both free on Kindle and hardcopy. These can all be made available to your readers as you either review the efforts of the various actors or discuss the merits of the various Plays. All from Amazon.
Film-making has several books and some courses available for sale. These may be good or bad. You might promote or review some of these.
The point is to connect with your audience, identify what their interests are. Do they want to learn to make films or documentaries. Are they wanting to get into Hollywood behind the scenes? Only you can make the determination as to what it is that your reader's are trying to learn or find. When you have that level of connection, make your site the place to go to get the answer. You can promote other's products or even create your own.
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Thank you, Caden. I Appreciate you.