Advice required please

A business around animal and landscape images? You could sell posters, prints, create a blog that has pictures and inspirational posts and thoughts.

You haven't really described anything that is a business or a niche directly. But you could certainly take your interest in pictures and use it in a niche.

But you described what you liked to do - look at pictures.

The thing is- it doesn't matter what niche you choose, your work will not be looking at inspirational pictures.

Your work will be building a blog, updating a facebook page, maintaining an autoresponder series and engaging your audience, etc.

If you prefer looking at pictures to working it may be a tough haul.

Photography and inspirational pictures are very popular in many niches and with many people. You don't have to find a niche about "looking at pictures".

If your interest is imagery and photography then look at other sites that have similar interests but in different niches.

You may find a ski photo blog that you really like and take the same concept and apply it to animal or landscape photos.

Blogs like "Humans of New York" use images to connect a city or people. You could use the same idea around people's love of inspirational pictures.

There are many 'inspirational picture' blogs so look at some of them. See how they present their content. See how they monetize.

What are they doing on facebook? Are thy building a list? Sign up and see how they communicate.

There are a few tumblr blogs around these themes.

If you wanted to share images you love then I suppose you can make a blog or maybe build an social media following or something?

You have to dial into one niche and stick with it. Not many people who look at animal pictures will also be wanting to look at children's book illustrations.

Either way these niches are extremely tough to monitize.

Hi Andrea,

I was thinking about your idea and came to my mind a website where you could buy on demand famous art paintings and beautiful pictures and photos, choose the frame if you liked, and see all the related pictures that could be bought as a package.

You could sell your favourite images as digital and/or physical products.
You should pay for each work's royalty but if you start with art paintings that are older than 70 years, you do not have to pay any royalty for them.

You can then build traffic in different ways, but since you're still looking for a niche why not trying to use Google Keywords Planner, type your favourite kind of images and see how many monthly searches there are on each area? You could also be inspired by all the related keywords and monthly searches that Google Keywords Planner suggests.

I like your starting idea, and I would be glad to help you more.
Feel free to PM me if you're interested in an online business coach !

Carter Boatright,

The problem I have is in deciding what niche to go with along the lines of what I'm interested in. Wouldn't children's book illustrations be considered art though and there are surely some artists who sell images like these or perhaps they can be found in the public domain?


OnSubie,

I really like your ideas and wonder how I can attempt to build something like those examples you gave? All I know is that I really like looking at images whether they are paintings, photographs, and illustrations in children's books, especially the animal, landscape and children ones. I also like inspirational quotes and thoughts and I often read them when I'm looking for advice. I think some of these types of sites monetize with adsense and others link to posters and so on. I'm confused about knowing what to do. Whatever, I like your advice and if you have any more, please know that I'd appreciate it.

JakeStatler,

Yes, I realise I would need to build the traffic somehow and decide on a way to monetize the website. I haven't really decided how to turn this idea into an online business. Appreciate your advice.

Steve,

I like those images you linked to. I am not an artist so I would have to become an affiliate of someone else's art. I'm stuck though on choosing a direction to go with the interests that I have. Thanks

DigitalLightHouseCoaching,

I like your ideas. I'm not sure if I'd know enough about art to sell physical products along those lines. If I did that, wouldn't I need to go purchase them myself and sell them for a profit? I think I would prefer to be an affiliate.

Any more ideas and advice is appreciated. I look forward to your reply.

Good question.

There are several high-income methods related to art.

- CPA
- Reselling
- Uploading

My best advice is to either dig around the forums or look around for guides on the step-by-step approaches.

GRM

If you have an artistic talent and enjoy drawing (especially Childrens Book illustrations) - believe it or not, there is an EXTREMELY HIGH demand for this on sites like Elance, Odesk and Craigslist.

I've made a ton of money outsourcing someone else to be an illustrator for a book, and then selling it on higher to my client.

But if you can draw and enjoy doing it - even better!

I enjoy looking at all types of images and that especially includes children's illustrations, paintings and photos. However, I'm not an artist but I still appreciate other people's works. I'm wondering if having a website that has a mixture of photos, paintings and illustrations with inspirational quotes or words is a way to earn an income online? I was also thinking of placing adsense and promoting art through an affiliate programme?

Hi,

Wondering if anyone else has any advice to provide regarding building an online business around public domain images and adsense?

Thanks

onSubie,

I like your advice that you provide on combining two niches. I'm still having difficulty in narrowing it down though. What if my interests are in animals and landscape, will any type of quotes go with those? Or should I be even more specific? I can't seem to decide on anything.