A few questions before starting out

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Hello guys, I'm really glad that I found this forum, however, I have a few questions before I'll get myself into this 'business'.
I got a brand idea kinda like 'for dummies' series of books, mine is a bit different but the principles are kinda the same. The new brand would cover two niches, health and relationships.
Now the questions are:
Should I launch it like a 'brand' in which it will be like 'fordummies.com', a blog where people will find 'for dummies' things that are covering the two niches,( they will look kinda unique) later would have it's own ebooks covering the subjects and stuff.
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Should I go with the best sub-niche like 'eating healthy while in a relationship'(this is just a silly example) and got it's own website and write it's own ebook after?

I was thinking that the first option is most viable because I can cover the a bigger area and I can't get 'lost' within the sea of niche. I'll create articles which are having low coverage rate on adwords but are still having the same aim.
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    Neither health nor relationships is a "niche" at all: they're both markets (and two of the world's very biggest markets, at that).

    Maybe because it's just a "silly example", it's not really possible for people to offer you any constructive advice. It would be a brave member who would try to do that, without understanding what you're talking about.

    I'm not trying to be rude to you, but I really think looking up "niche" in a dictionary, or whatever, might help you, because you do seem to have totally the wrong impression of it at the moment, and in a way that's going to be very significant to your income prospects. In general, "covering a bigger area" is likely to be a big disadvantage to you, but you seem to be referring to it in exactly the opposite sense?

    What will you do with the articles? Where will they be published? Who will read them?

    It may help you to appreciate that publishing articles just on your own site isn't really a traffic-generation plan at all: the only traffic that's ever likely to bring you is a little bit of slow, gradual, eventual, search-engine traffic: presumably not something from which you'd really want to try to build a business?


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  • See thats the thing when it comes to niches you need to be in a more narrow niche Health and Relationships are two seperate and very broad niches in the first place. An example for more narrow niches are Healthy Eating for Weight Loss, Weight Loss for women, How to get your Ex back, Online Dating, How to get out of a bad relationship.

    Once you've narrowed down you're niche and done some research and see which one has low competition I would suggest for a newcomer to have products IE Affiliate Products(JVzoo,Clickback, Amazon) or you create your own products like an Ebook or membership site or whatever floats your boat but the point is to Monetize.

    I have had this happen alot where I got into a very broad and cramped market and I built a blog and I pushed traffic to the website and I didnt have any products to sell people just leave. How are you going to keep customers or prospects coming back? Are you going to build a list? Email Marketing is very useful especially if you do a series of Ebooks.
  • Thanks for the responses.
    I'm kinda afraid to make a move for the sub-niches because if I got a 'How to get out of a bad relationship' blog, I'll write articles about it and maybe publish my own ebook, sure the articles will be helping with building the 'community' and with the email list, but for how long?
    The second thing I'm 'afraid' of is that if I got myself launching, who will visit my website? Alexa said that if I got my site visits only from the low covered keywords of google which are to be found in my articles regarding the subject isn't enough. Let's say I'll use clickbank for the ebook, will that be enough?
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      I didn't say "enough". "Enough" is looking at it quantitatively.

      I said that I imagined/hoped that search-engine traffic isn't the kind of traffic from which you'd intend to try to build a business. I'm looking at it in qualitative terms (sorry - should have been clearer about that, above, than I was! ).

      Enough for what?

      How does which payment-processor you might use to sell an ebook relate to your ability to attract traffic and to build a business?


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  • Finding this forum is usually a good thing, but can some times be a bad thing with the amount of available disinformation.

    The dummies type of book would have been a good thing a few years ago, but it's old rope now and you can get digital versions of this for free on a few ebook type sites.

    Your enthusiasm seems to be fine, but the things you've mentioned like eating healthy and writing articles are saturated and to make any inroads in to these areas are going to be very difficult

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    Hello guys, I'm really glad that I found this forum, however, I have a few questions before I'll get myself into this 'business'. I got a brand idea kinda like 'for dummies' series of books, mine is a bit different but the principles are kinda the same. The new brand would cover two niches, health and relationships. Now the questions are: