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Getting Started Online: Choosing A Niche

October 7, By Connie Ragen Green 3 Comments

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A man who has been on my list for almost a year emailed me yesterday. He told me that he was still not making any money online and wanted to know what I would recommend. I receive emails like this one on a regular basis, so I answered him the same way I answer everyone.

I asked him what his niche was and where I could take a look at his blog.

Most of the time I never hear back from the people who write to me. I’m not exactly sure why that is, but that is how my business goes. In this case, the man did respond back to me rather quickly.

He told me that he is a perfectionist and couldn’t possibly choose a niche or start a blog until he had done considerably more research.

I wrote back and told him this:

You must be working on something in order to have something to perfect! Perfectionism is a huge problem for many people, and even was for me when I was just starting an Internet business, but you can break yourself of it if this is something you truly want to do.

Start somewhere. Anywhere. Choose a niche that interests you and start blogging about it. Give it about thirty days to see if you can ‘find your voice’ in this niche. Then start doing your research. That’s right. Wait until you know that you will be interested enough in this topic to work in it every day. If this is not the case, it will not make any difference whether it is a lucrative niche or not. It will not matter if there are many great affiliate products or not. It will not matter if there are tens of thousands of hungry prospects ready to buy products.

If you do not have at least a modicum of interest in this niche, it will seem like a chore to get started and become profitable. Entrepreneurship is a choice, so choose wisely. And, as for being a perfectionist, get something started so you’ll have something to perfect.

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  1. Kelli Smithgall says

    October 7, at 11:54 am

    “Choose a niche that interests you and start blogging about it. Give it about thirty days to see if you can find your voice in this niche.”

    When I first started, I wish I would’ve “just blogged” about my first niche for a month or so, and tested the waters, before I bought a domain, etc. Although I learned a ton about the whole process, I still feel like I wasted way too many months with that first niche on something I wasn’t truly passionate about, and tried to force myself to become passionate. It was definitely a chore. I kept hanging on because I didn’t want to throw in the towel.

    “Entrepreneurship is a choice, so choose wisely. And, as for being a perfectionist, get something started so you’ll have something to perfect.”

    Love this Connie! Perfectionism used to get in my way big time. In order to move to the next level you really have to work on getting over it. Am I still perfectionismly-challenged at times? (I know it’s not a real word) Of course I am, but I just remind myself, to get over myself about it.

  2. Connie Ragen Green says

    October 7, at 12:10 pm

    Thanks so much for your comment, Kelli. I appreciate your candor.
    Connie

  3. Cheryl Major says

    December 12, at 12:39 pm

    Hi, Connie,

    I have been a residential real estate agent for 25 years and before that was a teacher. Didn’t love the “stuff” that went along with teaching, so didn’t hang in there very long. I do a lot of teaching in my style of real estate practice, however.

    I am trying to find my niche as an online marketer. My passion is dogs! I love them…have been a volunteer at a local shelter for over 10 years and am now on the Board of Trustees. Have done live TV spots for them on local news channels and speak on behalf of the shelter whenever asked.

    If I could find my work in some capacity with dogs, I would be in “dog heaven”! I’m just not sure what to do. I’m not a vet, not a trainer; in fact, I have no formal training with them. Just a lot of hands-on experience.

    Any suggestions?

    Thank you.

    Cheryl

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