Niche Wars
I know I need to stay on track. Drive traffic to my site. Write content, add information to my site. Write articles, research and add affiliates, get a schedule together. FOLLOW that schedule. Continue training, read the blogs I bookmarked, watch the training I bookmarked. Etc., etc. etc.
I have a growing list of things that need to be completed to make my first site successful and profitable but there never seems to be enough hours in the day for me. (Of course, when a minor thing like, my job gets in the way, I guess I have to work around it!) Yet, now I've run into a problem.. I feel like I have gone in the wrong direction.
I think I'm at an impasse. Do I continue with something which I know well enough, which I can easily write about? Although, the direction I went in seems to be wrong, saturated, and, one that I really wasn't looking to hit. I know there is a different niche within my industry that is not tapped into, but do I start a new page? A whole new site? Link the two? Transition this one towards that niche slowly? Although, this one seems to be coming along well. Connected to Facebook, I have a few followers, I know if I get my schedule together, and write more articles, I can get more traffic, and get it up and running. Yet, I think if I add a different niche I may be able to "advertise" or get a small plug out to a much larger audience. (This is just a taste of the war in my head. The questions abound me!)
I like to try and foresee the big picture and what comes in the end, and it's ok if I have to work and change things to get the correct result in the end. But, I truly hate second guessing myself.
The plans here work. I have read enough success stories to see that they do. I just need to go back over my plans and see what is working, what is not, and keep following the instructions. In the end, it will all come together.
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This happened to me sometime back and it was confusing but what i did was to start a new niche that i really really have interest in along side and i realized that i was very good at my new niche cos i could just sit and right and enjoy very well as well as my followers. And I keep falling deeper and deeper in love with my niche day in and day out. To me, though you can do well in any niche that you choose, i prefer doing something that you love doing. Good luck
Thanks! It seems I hear a lot about having passion, and loving your niche. That's one of the key steps in the training. And, yet another question or statement that passes through my mind everyday. Am I doing it because I love it, or because it's what I know. Ah, yes, that it the big question. Being good at something doesn't necessarily mean you love what you do. But at some point I did. Thanks for your words of wisdom!
Hi Nancy you are welcome, my personal experience being an IM'er is that at some point in time I need to be creative or innovative. Its a lot easier doing that if I'm really into what I'm doing. Some people do a particular work for various reasons, some because they need to survive, some because they have a passion for it others for reasons only known to them. Which ever way we can be very good at it, the bottom line is studying. We can learn anything and be very good at it but its just the time frame and enjoyment that will be different and that is where passion and love comes in. In loving something that we do, it naturally takes away most of the stresses and difficulty we face along the way cos we get so caught up in it that we sometimes forget we're doing something and its even sometimes difficult to get bored with it. But the basic truth of the matter is, we can succeed in what ever we want to do if only we're ready to learn about it and sometimes it even become a hobby and we love it more than anything. You have all you need to succeed right there in you so just bring it out and you'll be surprised about the things that you are capable of. All the best your endeavors.
I am currently in the same boat as it were with one of my sites. After a lot of muddled thinking of what to do, I decided that I could only make the sort of decisions facing yourself by gathering as much information as I could so any decision would be an informed one.
So I sat down and started a review of all the aspects as per the training courses, and reviewed the competition. Decided on the improvements I must make to the site.
Next steps review keywords, choose new ones for next articles, do a completely new update of key pages, posts, based on time since starting original approach, and decide way forward based on these findings.
Reason for still going forward - it's a niche which is a passion and I know there is much more I can do there, and my first efforts were done at a stage when I was very new to IM. Also I hate to throw away a lot of good effort when with a bit, maybe a lot of tweeking I can make a go of it.
Hope this helps, and I will let you know how it goes for me,
Have a great Christmas,
Regards
Hudson.
I agree with you, any decision made, should always be a well informed decision. Which is why this is such a great place to gather information! Thanks for your advise. I too, hate to throw away a lot of good effort, and I know that everything can be used to our advantage somehow. Good luck revamping your site, I'll keep in touch to see how you're doing!
At last - someone put the questions running through my head into print. So I am not alone. Thanks.
I knew it!! There had to be more! :) What good would war be with only one soldier?! I'm sure we're not the first (as the previous comments prove) and we're not the last! The good thing is, there are plenty of people here to help us win the battle!
i struggled through all of those questions until one day i decided to just do one thing and do it right - now it's a question of what to do to make it better - i think all of these questions are less bothersome as we get more experience
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I hate those little voices in my head. Most of the time I just plow ahead and ignore them. The med's help also....lol
LOL! You're too funny!
Yep, I am much better now........ :)