Here is my 2crnts got what it is worth. For my first 3 months I was here I was all over the place going thru the starter courses, that is when Bootcamp started ipand I jumped right onboard hot and heavy on this awesome training. It taught me how to promote WA and the reason this was a very good idea it made me think of how I can cover my cost here at WA. My cost of $47 plus pro Jaaxy was visiting me $66 so I told myself get just 3 premium sign ups and that would be $67.50 wala that was the ticket. Plus the training in Bootcamp is the best there is out here yo teach me how to create awesome content and way better web designing with everything Google is looking for. After I accomplished this it took a whole lot of pressure off of me so I can now put all of my attention on other projects that can create a lot more income.
Good luck and try it you might like it as much as I am reviewing all of the get rich quick schemes out here.
Tommy

Hey Richie, I've seen your site and I love the work you put into it. Don't be discouraged by the feed back your getting... turn it in to positive. Not everyone will like our website or the work we put into it... but hey, if you enjoy doing what you do for sure it will reflect with your works and you never know you might hit the jockpot:)

I will tell a little story, when I try to open my business 15 years everyone were against it; my accountant, the bank, my instructor no one was on side but me. My accountant said your have only $30 on your account (which is true, I'm single with 2 kids and newly graduate). My instructor said "you need to have 5 years experience to work on your own" again it was true I had no experience , lastly...the bank said come back in 3 years. I told them I don't need you in 3 years. I was really disappointed and no one turn too, no family here except my kids.

I told myself you have to prove to these people they were wrong... and I did. 15 years later I'm still here standing and working with the same job I am passionate about.

Don't let anyone full you down...I wish you all the best...Nenita

You're site header and colours are perfect for your niche Richie. I know that you've been questioning for some time, your niche and website. You are having doubts, but are they doubts of "hey I'm new and feeling a bit overwhelmed" or "I don't think I'm enjoying my niche topic as much as i thought I would"?

May I say this, if you really REALLY love your niche, then stick with it. Go over the training again if you want to. I go over bits and pieces of training all the time. If your gut instinct is telling you that you're not comfortable doing this niche or if you are getting to a place of dread over thinking about it, then it could be time to move on.

You are right you do need lots of pictures with your niche, but some words as you already know are necessary. Just a thought, how many sites are you going to be an affiliate for? There will be work in keeping up with them, as products,etc change. I see that you have a vision of where you want your site to be in the future, that of being a centre point with everything in it. How bad do you want this? Bad enough to push through the frustration and to know that it's going to take time to get it done, but that you will succeed regardless?

There is no shame if you don't want to pursue this niche and start over. Better now than later. Perhaps the answer may be to keep this website up and running and add to it slowly, but that is like a hobby niche. However, you could then start up another niche website. Then you have to ask yourself will I "upkeep" my psychedelic website? What products do you want to make your money from. Only you know what is in your heart and what your instincts are telling you.

Richie I know I've given you more questions, but I'm not trying to confuse you. Just make you look at things a little differently. I hope I've been somewhat of a help, but I'd say other members have given you other good advice too.

Hey Richie. I'm a fan... I love your work! Very cool. Also, I think you logo is awesome. I have not reviewed the entire site with regards to ease of use, etc... but its looks like a great idea. I would focus on writing... its your stuff so you need to brainstorm avenues with regards to content. You can do this as your creative already. Cool domain name. I wouldn't easily let this go....

You are the one that has to develop your website, write the content for it. I am going against advice you got by saying if you find it difficult to add content, you may consider starting another website. I was surprised by the amount of writing that goes into a website, myself. I am glad I chose a niche that I find relatively easy to write about. You picked a cool domain name. I like it.

don't take this too offensively but being a ADHDer those pics are scarey...lol

But have you thought about writing some descriptions? like for the art, write a little about the artist and such?

I am in the same position, I have a niche I am passionate about, love it to bits, but it is turning into an expensive hobby. Well time consuming hobby anyway. If I am to have a hobby like that I have other things I would prefer to do. (not really niches at this time if you are wondering.)

Do I get a new niche or sort out the problems of the current one? Can they in fact be fixed?

You need to put a dollar amount on what you want from your site. How much do you want from it and how are you going to get it. How are you monetising your site?

If you want $100 a week is the way you are monetising going to work?

For example...( and my math might be a bit off )

You want $100 a week.
Your affiliate gives you x% which works out to say $2.50 per sale. ( you'd need to work out the average sale, do people buy more than one thing ? etc)
You need 40 sales a week to get your $100
At current percentage of say 10% of people who click on your affiliate link you need 400 to click on it
At say 10% of visitors click on an affiliate link you need 4000 visitors a week.

I think 10% may be a bit high too.

So can you do that with your niche?
Do you need more visitors?
Do you need a different way to monetise? Your own product seems the way to go when you can, but maybe a bit later on.

Lots of the big guns here have burnt their way through various niche sites and others have multiple sites they work on and put aside and come back to later etc etc.

I think you can make it work but the key is how much work is it going to be and could that time and effort be better spent on a different more profitable niche.

G'day, Richie! Yes, you've picked an interesting and challenging niche, which is obviously your passion. The world of IM revolves around and around keywords and latent semantic indexing and hummingbirds and all that sort of stuff. Finding 27 different ways to say the same thing is how it often appears to me!

Your challenge or mission, should you accept it, is to brush up on your language skills and simply DESCRIBE all the intricate patterns and colours on your T-shirts, rather than just posting an image. Make your words create psychedelic images in their minds! You could put images in a special sealed section... People are supposed to like looking at pictures rather than reading a whole bunch or words. Maybe not so?

Seriously, as someone who enjoys the visual side of communication, I'd hate to see you shut down your site and move to another niche due to pressures of having to write more and more keyword rich content rather than present images of what you sell.

Answers? No, I don't have the right ones. I'm planning on setting up a photo gallery site. Right now, I'm working on my descriptions of landscapes, seascapes, flowers, people etc., so that Generalissimo Gugle can rank my pages highly, rather than my having to put up any of the images. Or have I well and truly lost the plot?

:) george

I may be incorrect, but I could swear that Kyle has said or written in either a blog post, training or in a video that a person can be successful with pretty much any niche. I would go with your gut and your passion. Now I keep my niches to myself from other IM'ers, but in the past I have asked for opinions and NO ONE liked my niches and I was discouraged from proceeding, but I went ahead with what I enjoy blogging about and what I love even if talking to people offline.

Needless to say, the people I sought opinions from were wrong. This was pre-WA, so it was no one here. Anyway, I DO have traffic and searches for my niches from other people JUST LIKE ME who are passionate about my niches. They are out there because the internet is a huge place.

Keep in mind that you do need actual content, especially for an authority site. This can mean blogging about your opinions or industry news or whatever. You do need content no matter what and of course having an image for each post is great because people love images. If you cannot come up with stuff to write, then I would choose something else. I could blog endlessly about my niche topics.

I'm fairly new myself . I like your site and I think it has a lot of potential. I do think now you just need to concentrate on writing some copy. Testimonials and reviews of your own maybe.