Up On Main Street

In my other post for items to look at for niches, I had a few sentences in there that talked about finding a problem and then solving it.

Easier said than done. But looking around the Internet enough at different forums you will see the same questions asked over and over again. Can you take those questions and create a website around them. Sometimes you may be able to, it just might take a lot of thought and seeking more information on the answers unless you are already able to answer the questions because you may have expert knowledge to be able to answer the questions that people have.

If you want to have an ecommerce website, take a look at eBay, Yahoo and Amazon and see what the hot sellers are. The only problem I see with trying to sell a hot seller is that many, many other people are also. Can you take a few of the hot sellers and see if they are continuous sellers? You don’t want to create a website or ecommerce store with ONLY the latest hot sellers as you will have to keep changing all the time and trying to keep up with the market. This can be very time consuming.

When you build your website, you definitely want to be able to add to it on a constant basis but I don’t think you want to have to update it every single day.. Heck, you can do that with a blog.

So then your thoughts may wander and you may need to decide if you want to actually create a site or just a blog to start out. You can make money using either one as there are many people that are doing that (making money blogging that is).

Even if you decide you want to blog to make money, you will still need to get traffic to your blog. The search engines do like them as they are updated (usually) very often, but you still have to put time into it.

If you think you can throw up a blog or website and make money right away, think again. Yes, you may be able to make a couple of dollars here and there, but if you really want to generate income on a regular basis you need to treat your website creation or blog as a business. Not necessarily a J.O.B, because if you enjoy working on your site or blog then it is not really work.