How easy (or difficult) it is to make a steady $1000 per month from a "simple" niche content site

I'll take a stab.

Abandoned Project

Rarely should you abandon a project generating a conistent income. What I suggest you do, assuming it's not too late, is monetize. Despite the affiliate offer you used to generate $300/ month now being unavailable, you'll surely find alternative means of monetization. You can begin by doing two things:

#1 : OfferVault.com
#2 : Look at your competition and how they monetize.

New Project

The question:

Unfortunately, this is like asking, "How long is a piece of string?" It depends on what you know and on your financial resources.

In a moment, I'll give you a basic plan that should help.

But before I do:

Capture That Audience

I notice you omit audience capturing from your present business model. Now, maybe you do indeed capture your audience, and simply chose not to mention it in your model above, but just in case I feel I should bring it up.

First: what is audience capturing?

It happens when we do any one of the following, and more:

- Capture Newsletter Subscribers
- Capture Facebook Page Likes
- Capture Facebook Group Members
- Caputer Twitter Followers
- Capture Forum Members
- And so on.

The idea is this: we capture our target audience by encouraging them to join, in some manner, an information syndication platform that we control; not necessarily own, but at least control. This is typically what we talk about in IM when we talk of business growth: it relates to more than income; it relates to audience growth, which, as a by-product, relates to income growth.

On DAY ONE of your new project: begin to capture your audience.

- Instant Monetization Opportunities (marketing)
- Ongoing Monetization Opportunities (remarketing)

Back to Your New Project

With that in mind, then, let's stick to some basics (and you'll absolutely have to expand on these, since these really are the basics). Based on the type of IM model that you're used to operating, and have generated results from, this is one possible way to streamline it in order to generate $1,000/ or more.

Let's keep it simple.

Target audience. You need to choose the right audience and the right audience for you. Your aim should be to carve out an authority position in a niche in which you can help your target audience solve problems that they need (not merely want) to solve, and you must of course have the expertise to do so. The real trick: become the best problem-solver.

Solution platform. You used a blog before; let's use a blog again. The major difference this time, however, is you will integrate several audience capturing mechanisms. On a blog, this would typically be as follows: newsletter and socials. I like to have a page dedicated to newsletter subscriptions and use a newsletter popup (Ninja Popups is good). You'll also want to setup appropriate social accounts and integrate them as well.

Content upgrades. The mistake almost all bloggers make is going after the one-shot deal. They infuse blog posts with monetization and, of course, further monetize their entire blog (usually affiliate banners or something like AdSense). What you should be doing is concentrating on content upgrades. A visitor to your blog reads the content, the article, say, and he or she is then encouraged to upgrade: to upgrade from a reader to a subscriber (newsletter) or follower (socials), or both. The aim here is to monetize as usual (in the body of your content and also on the other areas of advertising real estate on your blog) but also to grow your business by encouraging audience growth.

Content syndication. You must remember the true purpose of your blog. Your blog is not primarily intended to make money. Instead, your blog is a platform to solve problems. Keep that in mind and you won't go wrong. Syndicating our content (spreading it to the various market pools, or, in other words, locations where your target audience hangs out) is one very powerful way of giving out solutions to problems. New marketers make the mistake of writing beautiful content and hoping that will be enough, hoping, in short, that Google will find it and begin to deliver increasing amounts of quality traffic. I got started with SEO around 2 decades ago. I can tell you that, nowadays, unless you absolutely know the ropes, you need to think content syndication; it's much easier and faster to generate quality traffic. Think Facebook groups. Think G+ communities. Think forums. Think video marketing. Think about growing your own social platforms. Think viral marketing. Among other things.

Get a system. Before you begin to setup and operate your new business, you must know this: how you will operate. To give you an example, it might work like this. You create the right kind of article. You pay your VA (virtual assistant) to syndicate that article. That's a basic two-step system. And it works. Now, you can advance that system, but since your monthly goal is very low, and since you're pretty new to IM, I'd really just keep things simple:: create a blog post, syndicate a blog post.

How to Refine Your Business Model

The above model represents the bare bones of a nice, simple approach to hitting your $1,000/ month income target.

What I'd suggest is you plan everything beforehand and use resources like WF and other places (forums, blogs) to understand each element of the above, and of course add to them. Once you have it planned? Take action.

All the best to you!

- Tom

Tom

I think the OP is not from the USA maybe in Europe ! so could be hard for him/her to get the access to what you mentioned . BTW PM been sitting there for a few days!!!!!