Is Your Content From Personal Experience?

If you have limited knowledge, learn about the knowledge that you dont know about, and create the product and marketing materials. No need to be Mr. Humanitarian.

Most people that work in the IM industry at one point knew nothing about the niche that made them successful. They found a niche that made money and they became experts in that field. So, if you know nothing about your field right now, but it's making you money, then learn all you can about it.

You should use Eben Pagan as your inspiration. Here's a guy that started out as a real estate agent. He started writing books in the dating field. He became one of the most successful early internet marketing gurus, later on branching out into other fields.

40 or so years experience in biz

my KNOWLEDGE is all I write about personally

I still got a pick up book on the drawing board

I've dated a bunch of teen pornstars over the years

haha

how to pick up teen porn stars

I figure all the pics of me in real life with them will be testimonial enough to sell a bunch of the books

with 40+ years experience 'dating'

I can honestly say it all boils down to

women (for the most part) are like moths

Money is like a flame

Moths flock to the flame

AMEN

Hii,

Nobody is born an expert in anything else and God does not anoint you as an expert in anythings. There are many people that are experts but not necessarily having the credentials that make them experts in the beginning. Is more of like an experience kinda of thing.

Hope that helps.

Much of my content is from my own experiences and knowledge. HOWEVER, content doesn't just have to be about your personal stories or experiences.

As long as your content sets you apart from everyone else and adds value to their life someway, somehow, then you're good.

This value doesn't have to be the kind of value that many people think about like long drawn out blog posts, or technical write ups, etc.

It can be 1 sentence... and that 1 sentence could be something that makes someone laugh, or think about their situation, etc.

ANYTHING can be written about and brought back to your niche at the end... just takes a bit of creative thinking.

The problem with taking content from people on forums is a lot of the people posting are people who like to start giving advice before they've even taken action.

For e.g. I'm a newbie to IM but it would very easy for me to post on another thread saying 'Yeah, if you do x,y and z that will work.'

So it's probably best to figure out who are the most respected posters first.

Joe

You don't have to be an expert in any niche to write about them, just don't try and pretend you are an expert. You can include your own experiences in your writing, if you have enough. You can also become a kind of a commenter or curator by adding thoughts and opinions to other peoples work (not stealing it).

If you can get access to an expert or someone who has had experience in your niche you could interview them, much the same as a television interviewer would do with a chat show guest. This can be recorded and reproduced as a written article, or even a video or audio recording.

Personal experience will always help you write on a topic, else you're just writing blind for a topic or niche. If you're reading from other content online and rewording what you've read =- sometimes that information turns out a bit like chinese whispers. So what was originally personally written by someone gets rehashed and rehashed and the quality dips a bit.

As a graphic designer, when I take on projects - the mindset is through the research on a big project, become an 'expert' almost on the industry / company you're working for

I'll throw in my two cents about health topics. I think that much of the health information you can buy online is total junk and I think it's written by unscrupulous people who would sell their own mother for a paycheck.

They not only don't have experience but some just copy and paste other people's content, put it through a spinner, and sell whatever rehashed and perhaps dangerous junk that comes out. All the while they don't care who they are potentially hurting as long as they get their check.

This goes for health information for sale, information put on an AdSense site, affiliate marketing, CPA offers, or any other money making efforts that plays with people's lives.

Look at a legitimate website like WebMD.com. ALL of their original information is written by a physician or reviewed by one.

Learning a health topic for a year may be better than what many people do but as you mention, you have to be careful of your sources.

In my opinion, it's probably best for most people to avoid most health topics unless they truly are an expert (not just a forum reader for a year types), they get the information reviewed by an expert, or if it's based solely on things they personally have tried. Best yet would be if all 3 conditions in place.

Mark

PS Malcolm Gladwell is an example of a well respected (real world/big companies) and very successful author that is NOT an expert on the things he writes about.

The best articles are the ones that are based on personal experience. So in order to write killer dating articles, you'll have to hit the streets, and get involved in the dating scene. Then write about your experiences.

Google and research is the way to go if you need extra knowledge for the topics you know and for topics you know nothing about. I have written a lot about topics I know (health) and about topics I don't know and I find it's not difficult as long as you know how to do your research properly.

An alternative to reading books and studying would be to go out and get some experience.

You say that you're in the pickup and dating field, which is great, because you can literally go out right now and get some experience that you can write about. Or you can reflect on some of your past experiences with pickup and dating and write about those.

Your experiences will set you apart from the other dating experts because your experiences will not be exactly the same as another person's experience.

If you don't know your market as well as you'd like, learn quickly. Would you buy from somebody or see them as an authority if you thought they didn't know more about the topic than you?