The best advice I can give you as a new niche blogger is to stop trying to hit every single niche project out of the ballpark. You aren’t going to hit a homerun on every project. It is silly to assume that you are. When you don’t know what you are doing, chances are you will screw something up without even realizing it. Then your sales process won’t convert and you will be left scratching your head. Instead of focusing on one project like it is going to earn a million bucks, you need to just focus on getting it done as soon as possible. Then go back and work out the kinks.
This business is a game of inches like everything else in life. You need to focus on completing one task and one project until it is done. You will be tempted to bounce around and get many things going at one time. That is foolish and a waste of your energy. If you bought a domain because you had a business idea for it, then you owe it to yourself to see that through before you go invest in another domain for another business idea. Suppress the urge to get the ball rolling on too many things at once.
Stop spending tons of money on tools that promise to provide shortcuts to making money online. These tools are only going to help people who really know what they are doing. The people selling the tools make them sound like they are ultra-simple to use. They might be simple to use. I guarantee you that they aren’t simple to use properly though unless you understand what is happening with it. This is the big fallacy in most of these tools.
Don’t waste your money on guru programs to make you rich until you really understand how to manually build niche websites. Learn how to do things the hard way first. Unless you understand how to do them the manual way, you will never fully understand and never fully harness the potential of someone’s system. There is no way that person’s system is going to work for you. Trust me on this one.
There really is no shortcut for hard work in this business. It is work you can do from the comfort of your home, but it really is work nonetheless. You need to accept that fact or your failure is guaranteed. There is no free lunch. If you think you can spend a few hundred on tools and programs that are going to make this business really easy for you, then you are a sucker and a fool. There is no substitute for hard work, focus, determination and persistence.
If you really want to learn this business, you need to study it like a dedicated college student studies her course material. You need to absorb as much of the knowledge that you can from other people. You need to read between the lines. You need to watch what other people are doing and not necessarily what they are saying. If you can really apply yourself to learning all of the little details about what you are doing, then you will slowly discover shortcuts that allow you to accomplish some of these little things much faster than you are currently doing them. Over a period of time, you will develop your own system for doing things.
New people in this business have a dream that they are going to be making good money in a couple of months. That is laughable and unrealistic unless you have a ton of experience building sites already. In that case, you really wouldn’t be new now would you? Until you realize how much there is to learn about this, you won’t understand why the thought of making good money in a few months is so laughable. Very (very) few people are going to accomplish that. The ones who do will have been extremely (extremely) lucky or they will be outright spammers. That is the truth. A new person working by herself will take a long time to learn this. By long time I mean at least six months if not longer. It took me longer than that and I had a teacher.
