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Well, to start off, I'd like to first say that I'd appreciate some guidance. I see a lot of threads from new members here that start off with the basic "How do I get started making money with IM?"...often followed by a lot of members patiently trying to figure out what they want out of IM and why they think it's even the right field for them. I want this, and I want it bad...but I need some direction and hopefully you guys can help.

-My goal is to bring in $100 a day. Until I reach that goal, the amount of time I have available to invest is about 5 hours a day.
-My skills and experience are decent. I've built and maintained dozens of Wordpress sites, primarily for artists and musicians, once for a small business (which is where my experience with SEO began) complete with e-commerce functionality, and once for the sole purpose of generating ad revenue (I made about $230 in a year. fail.)

The aforementioned failure had mostly to do with the fact that I was blogging about something I was truly passionate about, (renovating a late 19th century home I had just purchased) but I had no real idea how to convert traffic into money.

The greatest PR I reached with the small business site, and the house blog was 4. I was pretty impressed with that. I sold ad space to some swedish insurance company who approached me, and brought in ~$2/month with AdSense.

Guys. I have the skills to build a site, I'm down with providing content and copy, but I guess what I'm lacking is the creativity to come up with a niche market and a product to push. Does this mean IM just isn't for me? When I was 12 years old (28 now btw) I signed up with a CPC site called adgrafix. I dont even remember what the deal was, but the concept of getting paid a percentage of money anytime someone clicked on hypertext gave me the most futuristic boner and I've wanted to make the internet work for me ever since. Maybe I'm just dreaming. Anyway, any guidance would be super appreciated, or hey, maybe someone wants to take me under their wing. Thanks for reading, guys and gals.
 


It doesn't have to be a creative niche, you can just do something that others are doing already.

For example, home renovation is a huge niche. There are probably dozens of subniches and various types of sites. There are various types of products to promote/ways to monetize. From ebooks on how to build a shed to amazon products to adsense to god knows what. Since you have already done a site about home renovation, perhaps you can do something in this direction.

Go to Google Adwords Keyword tool. Make sure that you have it set on [Exact]. Type in various seed keywords that come to your mind. Find more keywords, check how many searches keywords get per month. This way you can get a feel for what people are searching for.

Do Google searches of various keywords that you find and look at what types of sites are ranking. See what they are promoting, how they are monetizing.

Original idea or super creativity is not required to make money, even to make really good money. Ideas and creativity can help, but are not necessary. In some cases people have way too many "original ideas", spread themselves too thin and get nothing done.

Just copy others, until you gain your own experience. Also listen to all, but know that nothing is set in stone, so don't believe anything as an absolute truth.
 
You don't need some genius niche idea, just pick something you know well enough to write a ton of articles about and go for it.

EDIT: Listen to Andrey.
 
I like the idea of keeping with that topic. Fortunately that site is still backed up with my host, so I can do a big revamp on it and rework it a little as I go. I suppose my next dilemma is how to go about finding a product to push or an affiliate to work with. Suggestions?
 
chrislovessushi said:
I like the idea of keeping with that topic. Fortunately that site is still backed up with my host, so I can do a big revamp on it and rework it a little as I go. I suppose my next dilemma is how to go about finding a product to push or an affiliate to work with. Suggestions?
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Any reno's you need to do on your own place, or a friend who is? Talk about easy way to get things going. Video your stuff, throw it YouTube. Post pics on your site. Every time you head to the store for a product, research it and all it's micro niches for available offers to sling. It's always about content. If you can actually go through some DIYs and throw em up for everyone to see, with GREAT detail....riches.
 
c4yrslf12 said:
Any reno's you need to do on your own place, or a friend who is? Talk about easy way to get things going. Video your stuff, throw it YouTube. Post pics on your site. Every time you head to the store for a product, research it and all it's micro niches for available offers to sling. It's always about content. If you can actually go through some DIYs and throw em up for everyone to see, with GREAT detail....riches.
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Yeah, I'm actually only halfway through this renovation and I've documented (visually) everything I've done thus far. The site was originally setup as more of a renovation journal, focused more on images with a brief description of what's been done. I'm thinking ill rework it to feature full image rich articles and in depth tutorials and instructionals for more content. But how do I go about finding affiliates? Like say I did go to the hardware store, and porter cable has a sale at lowes, how can I get in on that action?
 
Don't focus on the broad niche of home renovation. Drill it down to something like floor tile or even drill down to something as specific as travertine floor tile. You can go broad if you want but it'll be a lot easier if you drill down.

There are a lot of tight niches that get a lot of interest from search. You can monetize quite nicely with adsense, especially if there are a couple big brands in the niche, and you can also monetize with things like Angies List and Renovation Experts.
 
I agree with you, But whatever the niche may be - just keep posting high quality unique articles with user searchable titles.. I hope that will brings more traffic.. Wish those traffic converts into some bucks :) All the BEST OP

badgolfer said:
Don't focus on the broad niche of home renovation. Drill it down to something like floor tile or even drill down to something as specific as travertine floor tile. You can go broad if you want but it'll be a lot easier if you drill down.

There are a lot of tight niches that get a lot of interest from search. You can monetize quite nicely with adsense, especially if there are a couple big brands in the niche, and you can also monetize with things like Angies List and Renovation Experts.
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Well, if you are doing craft things like renovating, etc... see those:

Write Epic Shit

and (of course)

Blind Ape Seo | Deep content

for ideas on how to set up content.

Seriously, tho.. if you know what you are doing, having a camera to take pictures (tons) and videos (hundreds) of the process is not a bad idea.

Round it off with tutorial videos and product reviews (drills, mortar brands, screwdrivers, whatever.)

Monetize

::emp::
 
Stop looking for some angle, or the perfect niche. Think about what you already know.

You know how to:


  • Renovate houses
  • Build Websites
  • Write Content

You can make $100 a day from any of those three things only working 5 hours a day.

So if that is really your goal, stop lurching around forums or worrying about building a website and start your business.
 
you have 2 most demanding qualities in u
1. content is king so its a good earning source
2. website building is again a most demanding field and off-course good earning
start biding for projects on elance, odesk like portals
 
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