Getting Started With Blogging - Part 2

This is just one article in a series on how I make my living online by working from my RV anywhere I decide to park it. Read the entire series and you too could be well on your way to living any lifestyle you choose with complete financial independence.

Last time I talked about the 4 things you need to get started. This time I want to cover just the first item in that list. Finding your niche to use for your blog.

This is really quite easy. Find something you are passionate about. It might be your job or hobby. It might even just be something you really like, but never really did as a job or hobby. For example, a friend of mine has been interested in Geology for a long time. He finally took a college-level course in it and got completely hooked. When he asked me to help him decide what to use for his blog, this was the first thing I thought of. Why not? He likes it. He knows a lot about it now because he’s made a passion out of studying it. And, there’s probably a lot of other people out there that would be interested in it. It made sense to me.

Whatever you pick, just make sure it’s a subject that many other people might be interested in. It won’t do you a lot of good to pick a really obscure subject and then wonder why your web site doesn’t get any traffic. Very common subjects work really well, even though there may be a lot of people out there with web sites about it already. Take the fast-food restaurant approach … just because there’s already hundreds of thousands of them doesn’t mean there isn’t room for more.

think about it and make a list of several subjects you’d be interested in blogging about. Don’t decide just yet. Write down a few of them. Then read the next few articles before you actually start. Next time we’ll talk about getting a web site picked out and running.