Blog

In steering this ship on the quest for the first $10,000, I have charted a course to an online only venture. There are lots of sites to help you sell doodads or do drop shipping. In fact, the online only venture does end up with physical products, but that’s the icing on top of the cake of online content creation.

There are moon bases on the dark side of the Moon!

Well, not really. But the dark side of the moon– is unknown to us. We look at the moon almost every night but we never see the dark side of the moon. The same is true with the world of audiences and niches.

A website is effectively a subject. EBay is about selling. BoingBoing is about geek chic. Huffington Post is about news. While sites can rely on a lot of data, charts and links to videos at their core they are published works similar to newspapers, comic books, novels or magazines. Each of those publishing ventures choose a topic. None of them cover everything. They all specialize. For your idea, you need to figure out your topic and the audience it will attract. What do you want to write about? It breaks into two sets of qualifiers, then clusters of idea sources.

I am not a CPC or PPC or CPA or (three-letter with C and P are in there somewhere) kind of a guy. I build sites for others who then populate their site with good data.
Still, the lure of this approach: build a site, people flock to it, and you reap the revenue. Lots of online marketers talk about this field. They always miss out some key detail that makes you need to buy their product. But you should buy their product– it’s so easy to make $700/day! If it were, then everyone would be making $700/day. Likely, they are making their $700/day from you falling for their claims of fast money.