Finding a niche and building expertise

1. Find a niche with low competition. Preferably: software niche.
2. Do it with youtube and facebook. No website.
3. Learn the free traffic things.
4. Get the money first until it's enough for the next move.
5. Here, then you can build website to build your list on proven and working niche you have done.

I am also doing affiliate marketing and hoping to get bigger as I continue.

I don't think you should go into a niche where there's no money.

Why will you want to waste your time for nothing?

You really don't need to spend money on a website and hosing to do niche marketing. The hardest thing I find is getting good traffic that doesn't cost an arm and a leg. Heck I wouldn't mind paying the arm and the leg if I got a good return on my investment.

Many will disagree but my answer to this question is YES. Experience is the best teacher. As far as the number of articles goes for your site... you don't have to stop at any particular number. If you want to write everyday a new article for your leads and prospects, do it. It only makes you look more like a guru for the people on your list who know NOTHING about marketing and selling online.

Affiliate marketing is not an 'easy' path. While the barrier of entry is extremely low, you can get started with zero investment, the actual outcomes are not easy to attain. Quality is always the metric to be concerned with - you cannot expect people to respond to lazily and shoddily produced sites and articles/videos - these days everyone is hip and you need to be producing actually valuable materials. In terms of 'niche' selection, you need to drill right down and deep into a particular topic/problem/product/area. The vast majority of newbies seem to opt for the 'Health' niche, there are just so many sub-topics in health: Diseases, conditions, syndromes, exercise & muscles, Nutrition/Vitamins/Supplements... So the trick is to locate a highly specific area and investigate the affiliate programs available. For the Internet Marketing & Online Digital Economy area there are a huge quantity of affiliate programs- Done for you services, Themes, Plugins, SEO - I investigate many of these on my blog, it is an ongoing area of interest to me.

What I always do is list down all possible niches and sub niches that I like to promote on my website. At least 5 of these niches/sub niches. Once I have the list, I'll research each niche to check if the niche is worth promoting. Once I have completed the research for each niche, I will then choose one niche that I like and I find profitable to promote. I do not believe on saturated niches as you can always find ways to be unique and to get your own list of subscribers/buyers through marketing.