Beginning IM - Problem starting

It can be confusing when you first start. Be careful of "analysis paralysis".... it stopped my success for quite some time.

Find something you are interested in, it is okay if it has been done before.....competition is actually a good thing!!

When checking keyword volume, check from every angle you can think off, keep drilling down into the keywords.

It is better to get started and go through the process to get the feel for it....than to do nothing at all.

Do your research, pick something, move forward......

Hope that help a bit. Let me know if there is anything I can for you.

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I agree with not getting stuck by analyzing too much.

Yes, it is faster and easier to make money if you can rank well with a keyword, but if you are planning to get most of your traffic some other way than the keyword search is not as important as long as it is something that people are buying.

Sell what people are already buying. Put up a quick site, and get some targetted traffic directly from forums related to that niche and see how it goes.

Since you already know web design, throughing up a fast squeeze page for a niche should be a snap.

I can usually put up a squeeze page and start some forum posting and get sign ups in the same day and I had NO technical skill.

Before this, in all my other businesses, I hired it done.

If however, in the future you ever want to pay an expert to find money making niches for you. I might be able to hook you up. I say might because this man is only helping a very few people and at a pretty hefty price (and no, there is no affiliate commission on this).

Health, Wealth and Love are the 'Big 3' niches, and anything in there will almost certainly make money. Don't be intimidated by competition, you'll find that more competition is actually a good thing, because its one of the ways you know ahead of time whether a niche will be super profitable or not.

If you already know that sporting equipment sounds like something you'd like writing about, then stop trolling these forums and go build a muther f@&%ing website already! Pardon my french.

Do you want to know why 95% (or whatever statistic you've heard) of IMers fail?

They don't take action. Sometimes the only way to learn what you need to learn is to get your hands dirty and just do it.

In fact, in a niche like sporting equipment I would even keep my KW research to a minimum. I promise you that the traffic is there, and it sounds like you're someone who is especially susceptible to analysis paralysis, so just avoid the possibility to freeze up and start actually putting something out on the web...Today! Seriously.

Take action as soon as possible.

You can always build more, better websites later.

Hope that helps.

Kindly,
- Stephen

If others have done work in the niche it can be a good sign - because that shows you that people are spending money in that niche.

I'll go in a different direction here and advise you to NOT start with SEO. You'll burn out quickly and it can take awhile to see results. You need to earn a bit first before stepping into SEO. It'll keep you motivated. Here's a very basic outline of what I'd do if I were just starting out:

1. Pick your niche. Not just a product, but a niche. Random example: First time parents.

2. Decide what you want to promote. Books? Products? Just Adsense? There's definitely a ton of parenting eBooks available - or books / products on Amazon.

3. Grab your domain. Don't worry about it being an EMD. I personally think EMD's are a little overrated. Plus, you're not going to be focusing on SEO. At least not initially.

4. Set up your site. Wordpress would be my suggestion. Pick your focus. Do you want to create a mini content site with articles and Adsense? Do you want to review different parenting eBooks? Do you want to review products that can help first time parents? Focus on just one aspect at first. For example, 5 products that can be helpful to first time parents.

5. Write your reviews and finish your site. Each product should have it's own review page. Make sure they're quality reviews. I even like to throw in a YouTube video for each. There's some information on writing good reviews floating around the forum.

6. Spend some time looking for ACTIVE parenting forums or groups. Many forums will show you how many people are online at once. 50+ is an indication that it's an active forum. Make sure these forums allow signatures. If so, register. But don't create a signature initially.

7. Spend about a week posting on the forums you've registered at. If you've registered at 5 forums, spread it out. 3-5 posts a day on each should be good if they're pretty active. Be helpful, and avoid creating new topics. All you're doing at this point is helping out and building a little bit of rep.

8. After you've established yourself as a quality poster. Start adding your website to your signature. Make your signature catchy & creative.

9. Keep posting. If you keep up with posting you'll notice a steady rise in the amount of traffic that is coming to your site. Yeah it can be a little mundane. But this is absolutely the EASIEST way to bring traffic in to a new site. It won't be an immense amount of traffic, but it will be VERY targeted.

You're bound to start seeing some sales roll in if you keep it up. I know this, because it's something that I did myself. (And still do, actually. Just on a smaller scale.)

Edit: Gee. I didn't realize it'd be that long.