Making a Decision About Niche Site Products
I am in a research period in preparation to creating my next online business in which I will be going in a new direction (and unfamiliar territory) than my first two. I have been reading a lot of stuff online but I would love to hear ideas and recommendations from here so that I have a way of filtering all that info.
My niche will be a physical, handicraft product. I have a personal passion about it. I intend to make a boutique-y feel to the website. I will blog, offer some sort of goodie, start building my email list [community] (with a newsletter or something).
Previous to this I have been packaging digitally so what is new for me is dealing with a physical product(s). (I don't want to be the order fulfiller.) My long term dream would be to be able to directly connect with established manufacturers and artists around the world and have a place for them to showcase and sell this one type of product. But I don't have the chops for that yet--nothing to show. I think a mid-term dream would be to reach out to etsy artists and give them (another) place to sell. (I would get some kind of percentage or flat rate in both these instances, not sure yet.)
To begin with though, I am thinking I want to do Amazon (affiliate) products as I have checked and they do have a wide selection of what I have in mind. My question is--is this a good way to start on my way to the longer term idea? Or if I start with Amazon products, is that going to not mesh with my future idea very well and shoot myself in the foot? Has anyone gone on that trajectory? Or has advice for me that I haven't even thought of the question yet?
Besides this top of mind question, I welcome anyone who would like to pass along any "primer" advice for creating an Amazon affiliate site and/or affiliate product niche/authority site.
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