My niche is NOT my passion

To increase the credibility of your website, yes you need regular content and blogs. It's very difficult when it's not your passion and just makes the work that bit harder.

If it's not too late I'd find a niche your passionate about and go for that

If you don't like your niche, go ahead and choose an new one which you like more.
It's much easier to motivate yourself for a niche that's your passion.

The newer your website is, the more often you need to publish content. Going into a niche that you're not passionate about is not necessarily wrong. It just means that it will be more difficult to stick with. If you're going after money, it makes sense to go into a really profitable niche. After you get money coming in from that blog, you could start a blog in a niche that you're passionate about or work on them at the same time if you have time.

Joey

If you haven't established anything yet: blog, website, product, traffic sources, budget...then there's no point in staying in a niche that you don't like. Every niche is profitable. Don't feel like you need to stay in a niche because it's popular or there are a lot of marketers already in it. Often times the most profitable niches are the ones that haven't been tapped yet.

We have a very successful longtime Member here at WF who has made a very nice Living out of selling vacuum cleaners. ( among other profitable ventures)

Do honestly you think that vacuum cleaners is his number 1 passion in Life ?

I do not want to speak for him but I have a suspicion it is NOT !!

However, I imagine he has a passion for running his highly profitable business which in this case revolves around vacuum cleaners.

Do you see my point here ??

If you are still waiting to publish your content, I would recommend to get it out there as soon as possible. If you are planning on using SEO as your primary method to drive traffic, you would need to constantly need to be producing content.

When you create content DO NOT write for the search engines, but instead write for your target audience first. Once you do this, publish your content then come back to your content once the search engines have indexed your article and then do on-site optimization. This will help in the long run. The search engines reward those web sites with high rankings to those that put the reader first by providing valuable content.

There is nothing wrong with operating in a niche that doesn't interest you as long as you are knowledgeable. However, if you are already asking about how much work goes into long term success, that tells me that you are already bored with it (because you have no internest in it).

For that reason, I tell people to stick with things that interest them.

Can you find a niche that you do have passion about? It will make the work easier. I know I recently did some search engine evaluations analyst type of work for Google. I learned a lot about SEO, but I hated the work. Consisted of reviewing site by the 1000s. It was boring. I lasted 6 months

Having a passion for your niche is not necessary, but it sure helps you stick with it when things are not looking good and you need some inspiration to keep you working at it.

Although it's also not necessary to constantly create new posts, I would think in the dynamic and constantly changing games niche, old reviews are going to get stale very fast. Your readers are going to want to find out what your next hot review will be.

Seriously?

Name one successful game review site that is not constantly adding new content?

YES...You need constant updates in that niche. Games come and go. New hints, cheats, backdoors, and rumors are constantly coming out in gaming. To be relevant, you have to stay up to date.

There's no one right answer to this. You have to decide what's right for you. A lot of people make a lot of money in niches they have no personal interest in at all. A lot of people also fail to make any money in niches that they are very passionate about.

Now as far as a game website, that absolutely needs to be kept up-to-date if you want to continue making money from it. Gamers are serious about their games. If you have outdated info you will be written off immediately. You don't personally have to write the content for the website of course. You could hire someone. You can also research and write it yourself even without any personal involvement in gaming. If you don't want to do either of those, then yes get out of it.

This is not the type of niche that you can put a few articles up one time and leave it and have it continue to make money, if it makes money at all in the first place. Although any website should have new content added from time to time for best results, there are certain niches that require more frequent updates than others. This would be one of them, just like electronics, mobile phones, apps, etc. Things are constantly changing and being updated and you have to keep up or be dead in the water.

Decide for yourself whether the money you can make is or is not worth your investment in keeping the website updated properly. Different people will have different answers to that. You also didn't say whether there was something you are passionate about that has a good income potential. If the answer is no, then you will have to work in a niche you don't care about anyway or you will have to get out of this business altogether. If the answer is yes and you've done the research to make sure it can be significantly profitable, then devote your time there.

doesnt matter pal, even i dont like my niche, but so far i am making good money from my niche, coz my niche require a lot of research and people generally hire me, to do their part.

My niche isn't a "passion" but it's definitely something I'm cool with writing about. The problem is if you're writing about something like banking and you don't know the first thing about it and find it horrendously boring. In that case you need to hire writers, and not from iWriter or Fiverr unless you want some crap spun with WordAI.

Best thing to do is to choose a topic you don't mind writing about.

If it's taken you months to get the thing "almost" up and running...

...I don't think it's going to be a winner.

Why has it taken so long?

Have you used that time to attract some core commenters who love the games, and are ready to provide content by sharing their ideas, opinions and facts?

No one said you have to do this alone.



Your passion doesn't have to be gaming, or these games.

Your passion can be broadcasting a good idea (that's one of mine, for example).

It could be getting a little fame in a crowd.

It could be running a nicely-laid out blog that ticks along like a machine, producing fresh content and fresh money.

Passions come and go.

When I was 6 I had a passion for DINOSAURS. Man I loved 'em. Brontosaurus (damn them for changing the name; Apatosaurus sounds incredibly stupid to me), Allosaurus, Stegosaurus...I was gonna write a book and illustrate it from the source material I had available...Day in day out, that's what I talked about. I even had a tub full of plastic toys and a volcano.

A few years later, that passion had faded. I didn't become a paleontologist.

However, I do retain a "geological mindset" about the passing of time, as friends have pointed out over the years. Here in North Carolina, I like to think about how darn NOISY the bugs are...how for millions of years, this land was free of human beings, and chitters and caws and thunderclaps filled the air with no person to hear...

Passions pass.

Basing your business around an INTEREST...something you've kept for a long time...is probably better.

I'm interested in broadcasting great ideas.

I'm fascinated by what makes people tick. Why they do what they do. What the ACTUALLY DO, in contrast to what they say they're going to do.

And that makes for a great foundation of a Conversion-based business. Everything I do is about conversion.

How can you adapt this to your business?

What is it about getting a crowd of people already interested in your topic together, giving them more to talk about and a platform to discuss it on, and making money there, that gets you excited?

If you start making money with it, I can bet it'll become your passion
Well, you'll definitely look forward to updating it and learning as much as you could about it. Outsourcing if you need to.
But if you're making no money from it and you find it super boring, it'll probably fall to the wayside eventually.

So you've been at this for a few months and don't even have your content published yet.

I'd say the problem isn't the niche . . . it's you.

If you can't get motivated to get a new site up and at least running with some content after a few months, there is a problem with your business execution. Many people successfully run profitable businesses in niches where they have no interest.

But you're having trouble just showing up for the dance.

Steve

It's easier when your niche is your passion because you'll have more motivation to work on in because you enjoy it. It's better, but it's not necessary.

Ideally speaking, we should all be passionate about the niche that you are targeting.

After all, if you're passionate about something, you will find the energy to keep going.

This is really important because if you are serious about making money online, you got to remember that everything is not easy when you're trying to make money online.

In many cases, it's very easy to lose hope.

It's very easy to get discouraged, especially if you put in a lot of work and time and spent money and you have very little to show for it.

This is where passion comes in.

If you're really passionate about what you're doing, you will find that energy to get over those temporary setbacks.

You will find that store of energy that will push you through until you achieve success.

With that said, there are a lot of online entrepreneurs that focus on niches that they're not passionate about.

Thanks to outsourcing, the only thing that you need to be passionate about is your business.

In other words, your passion is about establishing a solid online publishing business and outsourcing the rest.

The good news is that there are lots of writers and content producers located in India, the Philippines, and elsewhere who would be more than happy to help you with your online publishing empire.

These people are passionate about the topics they write on.

You may not be passionate about your niche, but I'm sure you can outsource the work to somebody who is.

Not all wrong unless you rethink on the business model for the niche you have chosen.

You can produce a quality and useful content only when you are well versed with a particular niche and are passionate about it. Ultimately your readers must get some value from your content. This will not happen if you choose a niche just for the sake of profitability. You may get little or no results as you desire now.

Instead, if content marketing is your preferred model like blogging then better you start and work in a niche which you are comfortable with to produce content regularly.

However, with a little extra study and dedication, you may become a go to guy in a different niche that is a profitable one. But for that purpose you have to opt for a different business model like list building.

Time is more precious than money. You need to utilize it properly along with your other resources.

Even if it were your passion there is no guarantee you would stay passionate about it forever. You can always hire writers for the content if your site is successful.

It is not necessary for you to post some information on the blog everyday, you can update your information in 2-3 days, remember the content is the most important part

Take a look through any yellow pages or local business listings and you will see some pretty mundane businesses. How can anyone have a passion about drain cleaning or welding rods? It obviously helps if you have a passion about something, especially if you have to be creative and create content but its not totally essential and if you have the resources you can outsource content creation.

I've done a job for 20 years that I have no passion for and the thought of doing that for another 20 years is motivation enough to get out of it and get my ass into gear each day.

Hello friends, Im wondering if I can find a Niche for what I love doing which is Fitness, Exercise Training and strengh and muscle increase with Nutrition. Where can I make a Niche to be off value

There arw crazy many games reviews or any websites with really deep insign, I am a gamer and just few sentances I can feel your website is a spam then just leave.

I feel that passion helps in motivating yourself but it does not mean you will fail if you are lacking in it. I have a friend who owns a window cleaning company and is very successful, but i can assure you window cleaning is not one of his hobbies.

If you have vision and determination to drive yourself to get the results you want, you can eventually get to a level where you are driven by your own success and results from that niche and not solely rely on a sense of passion as your only source of motivation.

Is not necessary that your niche is your passion. but If you want traffic without spending on a PPC campaign you need to post every days for the first period (6 months if it is enought).

You should also integrate with social networks pages!

My passion is making money, so I don't care about the niche as long as it brings home the bacon. Right now I don't have a "passion" for any "topic" or "niche" I'm involved with...but I love making sales, researching and testing to find what works. I'm passionate about the process of making money online, regardless of the niche.

But if you're doing the actual writing of the content for the niche you have chosen, then obviously you'll need to learn a lot about it to be convincing and to offer content that provides value to the readers. Some genuine interest in the niche would help.

Gotta find something you have a burning desire about in relation to your business.

It could be teaching in general, video games, or creating the type of content you are creating...something has to make you obsessed enough to drive 110% with every spare minute you have to grow your business.

I suspect the very fact you are asking the question means you have enough concern over being able to do that.

More than ever you have to be able to continually read your market, produce massive content, connect with your audience on a personal level (even gaming reviewers do this - the top ones do it very well)

Jeff

Sometimes selling products in a niche that ISN'T your passion is the best thing. That means you have no emotional attachment to it. So if it's not profitable, then you can instantly close up shop and hop into another niche.

If you have *feelings* about a niche that is your passion, but ISN'T making you money... i advise you to start looking for another niche where total market research has already been done, and entering it is highly favorable.

If you can find a niche that actually interests you and is just as profitable as a niche that doesn't interest you then it's pretty much a no brainer. Doesn't sound like you invested much in the gaming site yet, I would spend some time and find your ultimate niche, it will serve you better in the long game. Good luck!

Very interesting topic. I went to an entrepreneur Meetup last night and met a guy who is successful who owns a sofa store. He said he doesnt have a passion for it, but he recognized a market no one else was catering to and decided to get into it. I see signs for his business all over town and on the sides of trucks. He's doing great it seems.

I met another guy who sells shower heads and says he doesnt have a passion for it. He just saw a some keywords with low competition and went for it and supposedly he's doing great too.
And another guy who is dong great with Football statistics predictions (I dont know the details).

I followed one of my passions the last 6 years and now I hate it. Im so jaded with my customers I dont like them anymore, I HATE logging into my website because when other members see me they all ask me about their problems and complaints. I dont even like it when they send me nice messages lol. And the income from it has really gone down to where i need to take a job soon, from so much competition

A friend of mine is a writer and VERY christian, so I made her a Christian wordpress blog with a good name and put adsense on it. I told her she can have a nice little business if she blogs. She barely touches it because once she starts to research, she ends up reading and reading other blogs and barely wants to write anymore lol

Mark Cuban says Dont follow your passion, follow your effort Dont Follow Your Passion, Follow Your Effort | blog maverick

I started 2 new websites with niches I'm kinda interested in.. I dont LOVE any of them, but theyre OK enough for me to do the work. hth

Do effective off page seo techniques like blog posting and submit quality content to get target customers and website ranking.
Use social media network to get website traffic.

If your niche is your passion, what you do won't feel like work. If it isn't - it will feel like very hard work in the long run, and you won't be anle to relate to your audience well enough. Go with what inspires you, even if it is needle work!

Passion Niche - build an authority site. Organic traffic will be the main traffic source usually. Constantly updating content is not an issue since it's something you are passionate about.

Non-passion niche - build minisite. Usually paid traffic will be needed. Constant update of content is not necessary since you are not relying traffic from SE.

If you're going to rely on blogging and content as the primary form of traffic in your niche, then you're going to have to post often to get some traction.

I hate to state the obvious, but how do you hope to get any traffic to your blog and monetize it if you haven't even posted any content yet?

And no, there is no need to be passionate about your niche in order to be successful in it. You have to be passionate about providing value to your target market and serving them though, and if you don't then I think probably the best thing to do is outsource your content creation to someone who is knowledgeable about the subject.

yes , you have to post frequently on your website .