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Hello everyone. I just want to say how excited I am to find a forum with such wealth of knowledge. I am currently about to get started searching through the forum and soaking in as much information I can. I'm a stay at home mom (not by choice). I hadn't been able to find a job, and now that my unemployment has run out..I'm looking at other options. I have a 16 month old and over the last year I have bought and taken back so many baby related items it's sickening. I'm pretty much a pro at knowing what works and what doesnt. I was thinking of starting in the "baby" niche. I know saying it's over saturated is a understatement. Do ya'll think it would still be worth it? My husband is a web designer / illustrator. So getting a web site done will be the easy part. I want the site to be a review site of various baby items, where I could then gain income from amazon. I also want it to be a blog of sorts, where I can post baby vitamix smoothie recipes, etc. Is this a good idea? Or am I headed in to something that has been done a million times and hard to break into and make money?
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  • Profile picture of the author tofrar
    Do some keyword search and see what it bring to you. I´m sure there is niche in this like in other section.
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  • Profile picture of the author retsced
    The question is not whether it has been done a million times - it's whether your unique approach to this market has been done a million times. You obviously have experience and valuable knowledge that can help others avoid the pitfalls you have gone through. The best way to approach this is to have a blog where you connect with mothers looking to learn from your expertise.

    Make sure your goal is to help people, not to just promote anything and everything related to baby products. Ask yourself what kind of information would have helped you before purchasing all these crappy products you said you bought in the past. Relay that message to other mothers and build relationships.

    Best of luck.
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    • Profile picture of the author momnatl
      Originally Posted by retsced View Post

      The question is not whether it has been done a million times - it's whether your unique approach to this market has been done a million times. You obviously have experience and valuable knowledge that can help others avoid the pitfalls you have gone through. The best way to approach this is to have a blog where you connect with mothers looking to learn from your expertise.

      Make sure your goal is to help people, not to just promote anything and everything related to baby products. Ask yourself what kind of information would have helped you before purchasing all these crappy products you said you bought in the past. Relay that message to other mothers and build relationships.

      Best of luck.

      Thank you. That's exactly what I want to accomplish. To make it a sort of "authority" site on all things pre and post pregnancy. I have talked it over with my husband and he has agreed to do the design and wordpress implementation. He's not all that knowledgeable with SEO though. So he gave me a budget of 400.00 to jump-start the marketing, once the site is functional. I have been reading so much, that my head is spinning. PPC,Adwords, etc...I don't know where to start. Building relationships with other local mothers would be easy, but I'm a little lost in the internet world. Where would my start up money be better spent? Taking into consideration I have no design costs (website, banners, flyers, etc).
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      • Profile picture of the author momnatl
        Also....What makes more sense? Doing one catch all site...product reviews (amazon), food/smoothie receipes..etc. Or two separate sites. One for the products reviews...and the other as a general blog?
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  • Profile picture of the author Karen Connell
    It really doesn't matter if it has been done loads of times before, just make sure that you are offering something just a little different.

    Set aside a little of your budget to pay for a reliable autoresponder to collect email addresses of your visitors. Building a list will help you to make more money from your blog when you have built up a relationship with your readers.

    Whatever anyone tells you, building an authority site takes time and work.

    Best of luck and keep at it.

    Karen
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  • Profile picture of the author rising_sun
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    It's a great idea congratulation for you idea,
    congratulation because you are not lazy,
    congratulation because you wanna do something.
    You can also do data entry job from any reputed freelancing site.
    By the way at first promote your site by seo,strong resource,using social media etc.
    Then stick with it till success.
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    • Profile picture of the author momnatl
      Originally Posted by rising_sun View Post

      It's a great idea congratulation for you idea,
      congratulation because you are not lazy,
      congratulation because you wanna do something.
      You can also do data entry job from any reputed freelancing site.
      By the way at first promote your site by seo,strong resource,using social media etc.
      Then stick with it till success.
      Thanks. Yeah I find my self literally waking up in the morning and it being the first thing on my mind. The last few days, i have been going over designs. What do you all think is better? Using a Facebook commenting system? or a regular wordpress one? Does either affect SEO one way or the other?
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  • Profile picture of the author fmnely1
    everything explained by you concerning the latest development and to the progress of your life is good ...mind you even if some one or many has being into this you can still do well too as a saying that not how far but how well ...let your husband give a kind assistance not just designing but development aspect ...i which you a good luck dont give up
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  • Profile picture of the author fmnely1
    for someone doing this a million times is even the best reason and assurance that you will do well if you want to compete is better to do it with the best by given the alternative to their standard ..i mean it you will do better
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  • Profile picture of the author Jeannie Crabtree
    Take a look at other mommy blogs, baby blogs and toddler blogs on the first two pages of Google. It will give you an idea of what is working for others. And what their website designs are.

    Also note they seem to help each other out a lot with talking about each others blogs, backlinking back and forth a lot, if you are able to get in with the right groups.

    Jeannie
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  • Profile picture of the author IMAnthony
    Do you have something in mind specifically?
    Do you have written your report or something like that? I know some sources that could generate some targeted and buyer traffic for your niche.

    Send me a PM if you want some kind of JV.

    -Anthony
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    • Profile picture of the author momnatl
      Originally Posted by IMAnthony View Post

      Do you have something in mind specifically?
      Do you have written your report or something like that? I know some sources that could generate some targeted and buyer traffic for your niche.

      Send me a PM if you want some kind of JV.

      -Anthony

      I'm sorry Anthony. I don't quite understand what your asking.
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      • Profile picture of the author IMAnthony
        Originally Posted by momnatl View Post

        I'm sorry Anthony. I don't quite understand what your asking.
        JV = Joint Venture. I mean if you could write a report on a specific topic, I could promote it, send traffic to your site and split profits 50/50 or, you can make a PLR report on a specific topic within this niche and sell it with Private Resell Rigths.
        Send me a Private Message if you are interested.

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        • Profile picture of the author momnatl
          Originally Posted by IMAnthony View Post

          JV = Joint Venture. I mean if you could write a report on a specific topic, I could promote it, send traffic to your site and split profits 50/50 or, you can make a PLR report on a specific topic within this niche and sell it with Private Resell Rigths.
          Send me a Private Message if you are interested.

          -Anthony
          Oh ok..I understand now. I will reach out to you once I have the site up and running.
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