30 Day Blog Idea Blueprint

Regardless of the niche that you’re in, you need to have a blog. This is key to being able to understand not only what customers want, but to build a relationship with them. Your blog is a chance for you to reveal your expertise without anyone having to buy something upfront, making it easier to build trust with readers.

What some entrepreneurs do is start a blog but then it gets tedious or difficult to keep producing the posts. So they engage in a hit or miss approach to blogging and that just doesn’t work for your business because your customers will look for what they need elsewhere if you’re not providing it.

Understandably, blogging regularly can make anyone run out of ideas about what to write. In the 30 day blueprint found below, you’ll find many ways to put a new twist on existing content so that you’re always delivering something fresh for your readers.

Day 1: Talk About What the Customer Can Use

This slant will never get dull because there will always be something new releasing into the marketplace that your customers can use. It’s easy to figure out what these items are by knowing what troubles they’re having such as trouble losing weight, trouble falling asleep at night, trouble creating an eBook cover, etc.

You can also focus on wants too, and not just needs - such as the desire to be their own boss, to travel, to develop better relationships and so on. You can offer these customers your products or ones from other entrepreneurs whether they’re digital or physical items.

But what you need to do is to reveal exactly why the customer needs this solution. You can talk about how the item helped you, or how it helped others and how they, too, can use it to succeed, to overcome obstacles, to feel better, etc.

You don’t necessarily have to talk about the item in depth, but make sure you provide the information they need in order to see how it fixes something for them or grants them what they desire.

Day 2: Write About What’s Happening Now

In every niche, changes happen daily. Sometimes hourly. These changes can be for products, for information, for advice and more. You need to keep up with this information so that your audience feels like they’re in the loop and not missing out on important details.

You can create a Google alert using keywords related to your niche such as skincare, dieting, debt or whatever. Then you’ll get news articles delivered right to your inbox on what’s happening.

But you don’t just want to rely on alerts. Search websites related to your niche. These might be associations, foundations, forums and news sites. Find ones that routinely discuss breaking news and check in on those regularly to make sure nothing fell through the cracks with your research.

Look for people you can talk to about the new or trending change in your niche. For example, if you see a leader or someone in the know about a new strategy or concept, see if you can ask them some questions and ask if you can post their answers.

Even if they say no, you can research what they’ve said before and still use a quote from them on your blog without violating copyright law. Keep it around 200 words or less. Don’t use accompanying photographs without permission or license, or unless it's considered public domain.

Day 3: Identify With Their Problems

What connects with an audience and sells isn’t as much about the product as it is the feelings that people associate with that item. For example, relationship products are hot sellers because people want to strengthen their relationships to find and feel love.

Another example is beauty items. People want to look good. They want to feel confident. An example of this might be acne or anti-scar products. If you tap into common feelings about these beauty issues, like “my acne made me self-conscious,” the customer feels like you “get” them and that you want to help them.

Especially if the item is something that you, too, can relate to or show an experience that you have been through. Even if you haven’t experienced it personally, you can touch on their emotions and make them feel at ease on your blog and with you.

Day 4: Share Research on a Subject

Whatever you’re blogging about, you can bet there’s a lot of information already out there on it. Much of this information will have been presented by others, including leaders in various fields like weight loss, anti-aging, survival and more.

You can share this information by posting snippets of it on your blog, which is known as curating. You can’t post it in its entirety. But you can highlight an important part about the research you found, then mention what you thought about it.

Be sure to credit the original author or speaker of the subject. You can do this by mentioning the person or showing your audience where they can read more from where you found it.

Day 5: Write About Any Physical Issues

Whatever niche you’re in, your customers may have issues that bother them and cause them discomfort or pain. For example, writers often struggle with carpal tunnel. Having an ergonomic keyboard can help with that pain.

If you’re in the fitness niche, your customers might be joggers and deal with issues that affect their knees or feet like a torn meniscus or plantar fasciitis. You can talk about this and share what they can do to find relief such as the best type of shoe to buy.

Many niche topics, like online entrepreneurship have physical issues from being sedentary and the stress niche causes sleeplessness, tension and pain. See if your niche has any problems in terms of a physical connection and blog about one of those today.

Day 6: Create a Post Focusing on Hurdles

When your audience experiences a hurdle, they want a solution. So they’re going to turn to you. On your blog, you want to address obstacles that often crop up in whatever niche you’re in.

For example, for the fitness niche it might be finding the time to exercise regularly. In the finance niche, it might be bad money habits. To get ideas on the hurdles that occur in your niche, you can do a quick search for your niche plus the term “common problems.”

Search “common weight loss problems” and then address those on your blog. You’ll find issues such as focusing on the scale too much, not eating enough protein, etc. Hurdles to success in general might be someone’s attitude, lack of time, or fear.

Day 7: Look Back and Ahead

Nothing ever stays the same and your niche hasn’t either. On your blog, you can write about what used to be popular advice within your niche but now it’s not relevant. That could be because new information has come out that makes what was true before either obsolete or shows it was based on bad advice.

Post about the trajectory of your niche going forward and how you believe the future is going to impact and change it. You can bring in a wide array of topics, like strategies, products, mindsets and other things to show how change has occurred in your niche.

Day 8: Motivate Your Audience

When your audience wants something, it’s never “just because.” There’s always a reason behind why they decided to start or change something or quit something. By showing your readers the motivation behind their decision, you can give them the inner strength to keep going.

Teach them how to locate their inner motivation. For example, it might be breaking bad spending habits and getting control of their finances to build a better future for their kids. Their kids are their motivation in this scenario.

Day 9: Blog About What You Can Do For Them

This is a topic that offers a chance to build a good connection with your audience. Share with them what you have in mind for changing their life for the better. It might be that one day, you got clarity on why you wanted to get in shape (to live longer for your family) and you can share this in your post to tell why what you do is important to you.

You can talk about how you want to use what you went through and felt to enable the audience to grow or overcome obstacles, too. It might even be something you witnessed others going through, and you had a passion to step in and lift others up.

It’s good to give your readers some idea of what got you into this niche and where you plan on leading them. That way, they can either align with you or weed themselves out of your audience if they feel the direction you’re taking isn’t the path they want to be on.

Day 10: Lead Them Away from Second Best

Talk about an digital or tangible product or strategy that hasn’t lived up to audience expectations. Maybe the quality was poor or the promised end result never materialized. You can post about that item in a professional way, without ranting about it or putting down the creator.

Just talk about why it’s not working for people you know. Compare it to an item or strategy that you feel will work for them and explain why this one is better. People always need an alternative, even if many people are succeeding with something, so you can be the guidance they need to feel like they’re back on track.

Day 11: Address Their Thoughts

You need to post about what your audience thinks or believes in order to help them change or gain strength from the inside out. For example, if you’re in the weight loss niche, it won’t do any good to address overeating without addressing the person’s thoughts that lead them to overeating.

Sometimes people overeat in an attempt to feed their emotions. Until that’s addressed, they won’t have the inner strength to reach their goals. So talk about how the battle to change or succeed always begins in their thoughts and help them learn how to manage them better.

Day 12: Don’t Just Talk About End Results

You must give your audience the ability to put into action whatever it is that you’re teaching. If you’re in the financial niche and tell someone who’s struggling financially that they need to “create an emergency fund” by “making more money” - but you don’t give them a precise blueprint on how to make that money, then they don’t know what to do.

Make a post that’s dedicated to taking them from start to finish with specific “to do” steps or a guide they can follow. This can be in video format embedded in your blog or it can be text.

You can even create a hybrid of the two, with the text being a transcript of the video. If you use a slide presentation, you can give them the slides to download to pair with the text transcript if they happen to not enjoy video.

Day 13: Show the Audience the Ugly Truth

Being positive is a good thing. Unless it’s not the whole truth. The truth is that every niche has a side to it that’s negative. Post about this. Talk about scams to avoid, roadblocks to watch out for, guidance they need to ignore and so on.

For example, if you’re in the diet niche, you’ll want to talk about the dangers of extreme diets that can harm their health. Then end that post with how to do it right versus the wrong way.

Day 14: Expand Your Content to Reach More People

At the end of the second week, you’re going to want to start expanding your content by posting about new niches. Don’t just talk about some random niche topic. Find one that meshes well with what you already do and tie it into your main niche.

For example, if you’re in the parenting niche, then you could easily introduce a niche that talks about home security or other family related concerns. You tap into emotions (keeping the family safe) while at the same time, creating an opportunity to present more products to your audience in the form of alarms, camera doorbells, window sensors, baby monitors, etc.

You can advertise these products and use affiliate links within the post to earn even more money. A niche like parenting could tie in nicely with things like gardening, stress relief, sleep, fitness, nutrition, pets and more.

Day 15: Start an Argument

You don’t want to start a war, but you do want to make people think. The best way to create interest and build your following is to create a blog post that stirs up your audience.

Everyone has their own often strong beliefs on a topic. Take that topic and make it controversial. For example, many weight loss niche leaders teach people to cut out all or most carbs.

If you don’t care for this practice, you might create a blog on “Why Carbs Are Okay” and you’ll get feedback from those who are pro carbs and those who are against them. You’ll get a lot of comments, and some people will comment wanting to tell you why you’re wrong while others will mention why you’re right.

This can lead to a dialogue that can be helpful to those who are for and those who are against something. Engagement is a great way to improve the traffic to your site and people will share discussions that have sides involved.

Day 16: Post a Q & A

Your audience wonders about many things associated with the topics you talk about in your niche. You want to create a post that addresses what people most often want to know.

You can come up with this yourself or do an Internet search for ideas. Gather common questions on Google, in forums, in blog post comments, in groups on Facebook and on other social media.

Make sure that you’ve researched the information so that what you respond with is accurate. This will help to establish with the audience that you’re giving solid information.

Day 17: Prove That You’re Not Afraid of Sharing Your Audience

You may not be able to offer everything that’s helpful to the readers in terms of advice, tools and more. Your mission should always be to do what’s best for your audience. If you do that, it will show that you care and your readers will appreciate it.

Create a blog post where you share additional helpful sites and resources with the readers. This might lead them straight to someone else who’s in the same niche that you are.

Don’t feel threatened by the fact that your readers are looking outside your blog. If what you’re offering them is helpful too, they won’t forget about you. Don’t just list a bunch of competitors.

Have a reason why you feel they’re a good resource outside of your capabilities or interests. Look for books, tools, both digital and tangible that you can link out to in a show of good faith that you have your audience’s back.

Day 18: Focus on Short Blocks of Time

Often, blog topics within a niche focus on long term topics – like permanent, long effort weight loss. Tap into short term topics by posting about things that can be accomplished faster.

This connects with readers who have busy lifestyles and who want fast results. Present posts like “get organized in just 10 minutes a day” or “eat healthy and drop a clothing size in 3 weeks.”

To find what to post about, just look at where people are saying they need more time or need results fast, like needing to know how to get chores done quickly, how to save money faster, and so on.

Use verbiage with numbers such as “14 days,” “2 weeks,” “4 hours,” and more. This will appeal to people more than just blogging about how to lose 100 pounds in a year. They’ll get to take action and see results faster.

Day 19: Post About Relevant Authors

Whatever your niche is, someone will probably have created a book about it. Do some research to locate the best books that focus on your niche or some aspect of your niche topic.

Write up a post talking about how you think it’s helpful to your audience. You can create a direct link to wherever the book is sold. The reason you want to do this is the book will act as a keyword that will draw in readers.

They’ll see you’re talking about the same stuff the book is and they’ll stick around to learn from you. If you can find indie (self-published) authors, they may be willing to be interviewed about the book, too.

Day 20: Tell Readers What to Stay Away From

It’s up to you to advise your audience on the best direction within a niche. You want to help guide them toward what’s good, but you always want to tell them what to be wary of, too.

For example, some niche leaders (and this happens in retail stores, too) will do a “close out” or “going out of business” sale. They get a run of buyers and then are right back to business as usual the next day or week.

Consumers see this and know the leader or business isn’t being honest. You may have seen niche marketing leaders sell products cheap as a retirement offer, only to be unretired 72 hours later.

You want to make sure that your audience doesn’t get duped. Teach them the proper way to do things, too. Explain that it’s important to always be honest and follow through with whatever they say.

If a product is going to be discontinued, then discontinue that product and don’t use it as a gimmick to make sales. Not only are you advising them as a consumer, but you’re helping them be better leaders, too.

Day 21: Blog to Expose the Lies

There are a lot of people talking on the Internet. Some know what they’re talking about. Others are just parroting what they heard - and it’s wrong. Your niche will have wild tales surrounding it and maybe even outright lies.

Create a blog post where you expose what’s wrong and what the truth actually is. Talk about where you think the truth got twisted, how it gained traction and your reason for believing something other than the wild tale.

Day 22: Write a How-To Blog Post

If you dig around online, you’ll see a lot of people are searching for answers on certain topics in a detailed manner. You can create an in-depth how-to blog post on the answer that’s related to what you normally blog about more generally.

You might be writing about how to set up a website for their niche, how to create a workout routine at home, how to write a budget that fits their lifestyle or how to cook a healthy meal.

Use images to show what you’re talking about. If it’s involved with technology, you might want to add a video or a slide presentation so the audience can see what you worked on and can compare it to what they’re doing.

Day 23: Show Alternative Directions

There are often new or different directions you can take to reach the same destination. A lot of the information within a niche is the same old advice. Because they’ve heard it before, the audience will just move on - away from your blog.

That’s why you want to put a new spin on what they’re looking for. For example, the audience might have learned that they need to focus on creating a mailing list. You can create a post telling them 17 new or little heard of ways to achieve this goal.

Day 24: Innovative Posting When You Draw a Blank

You might have an exhaustive amount of brain space to come up with topics. However, Google never will. You can type in any phrase and Google will suggest connections to that phrase.

You can then use these words to keep digging and find out more connective topics as well as what people are searching for on those topics. For example, if you do a search for the phrase “working out for…” what pops up are links for working out for mental health, working out for specific time limits, working out for beginners, or for new moms.

By changing the for to an as, like “working out as…” you’ll get suggesting like “working out as a coping mechanism” and then that links to stress, etc. If you keep searching, you get numerous suggestions.

You can also use a free or paid keyword tool and keep drilling down to find phrases that give you new ideas and a new direction. You can also look on platforms like Amazon or YouTube, which can show you many possibilities, too.

Day 25: Post About Worries and Fears

It doesn’t matter what the topic is in whatever niche you’re in. Your audience is worried about something. They’re afraid of something that may happen. For example, if your niche focuses on personal development, common worries are rejection, change, failure and more.

Talk about what might be worrisome to the readers. Share with them that everyone has worries and many people have the same ones. Show them how they can overcome their fear and take control so that what they’re afraid of never comes to pass.

Day 26: Break Your Routine and Blog Differently

Having written content on your blog is fine. It’s the way most blogs are done. But you don’t want to stick with just written content every single time you post. There are multiple formats that you can use that will generate interest and help your audience.

So tap into every possible format you can think of. Even if you don’t currently know how, take the time to learn. Use videos on your blog. These can be focused on where you’re guiding the reader through something like setting up their blog using WordPress. Even though that’s step by step, a lot of people still run into problems.

Along with video format, use photos and audio as well. If you want to use photos, only use licensed ones, ones that you buy or get free from a legitimate stock site or ones that you make or take yourself.

Day 27: Create List Posts

There’s a reason why websites and even print publications use numbered content like “Top 5 Ways to Lose Weight” or “10 Steps to Achieve Financial Security” and it’s because these create a sense of actionable steps for readers to follow.

Your audience wants instructions and options and making posts using numbers is a big draw. Make the numbered posts you write about tie-in with your niche like “5 Reasons Not to Save Money” for example and you could slant this toward times when you want to spend and not save, such as spending money on courses to improve their knowledge so they have a better future.

Day 28: Host a Competitor on Your Blog

In your niche, you learn from others, and you want your audience to have that same chance. Many entrepreneurs avoid having other people on their blog for talks, podcast, videos or interviews because they fear competing with that person.

But posting an interview where you gather helpful advice for your readers is never a mistake. Ask someone you follow and whose business you admire if you can have some advice from them for your audience.

Take the information you get, put it on your blog, then link to their website. Most of these people will then gladly mention your site on their own blog like “I was interviewed over at XYZ blog today” and that increases your visibility by gaining you a crossover audience.

Day 29: Post About Something You Watched or Read

Look at what other people are saying that connects with your niche. For example, if you’re in the weight loss niche, go to social media sites to look for videos, articles or links that are talking about weight loss ideas or issues.

When you locate something that resonates with you (could be something like bad or good advice), then share that viewpoint on your blog with a discussion about it. Talk about why you agree or not.

You’ll want to mention where you found the topic and let readers be able to visit that site to see for themselves in full. This is routinely done on YouTube, where people create response videos – but you can do it with text, audio podcasts or any media format, too.

Day 30: Write About Dueling Items

Take two items in your niche and compare how effective they are for your audience. For example, if you’re talking about exercise, you can create a good versus bad post where you talk about using exercise bands versus kettlebells.

But these things don’t have to be tangible. You can write a post doing a for or against slant on digital products, information, and downloadable or hosted tools. Keep this list of ideas handy and keep referring to it so that you always find something that you can blog about.

30 Day Blog Building Blueprint

Building a blog is both a necessity and for some, a hassle. It can be intimidating going through the technical steps needed to get WordPress installed and operational, but the reality is, it’s an easy process as long as you know which order to do it in.

Inexperience can lead to fear and frustration. This is usually an issue when a newbie tries to launch a blog in a few minutes, and ends up with some questions they need answers to, causing the process to grind to a halt.

In this 30 day blueprint, you can build a blog with ease by simply logging in and tackle one small task at a time. You’ll eliminate worry about technical steps and time management and still be enjoying forward momentum in getting your business off the ground.

Day 1: Use QuickInstall to Bring WordPress to Your Domain

QuickInstall is an easy, built-in feature on your cPanel that allows you to sign up for WordPress and with the click of a button, allow it to install a blog on your domain. You don’t need to know any coding yourself.

Inside cPanel, you’ll see a QuickInstall option under the Software category. Choose the free WordPress install and enter the information it asks for. This is typically administrative details like your name and email address.

You can choose where you want your blog installed, and then after clicking the installation option, it will let you know when the process is complete. Make sure you copy your credentials and save them in a file so you can log into your blog with ease.

Day 2: Learn How to Navigate Your Dashboard

When a newbie first logs into their dashboard, it can feel overwhelming. You have notifications and a sidebar with a myriad of options to scroll through. Do it little by little. Today, just glance around and see what it looks like without making any decisions.

If you want to, you can go ahead and click the Coming Soon Active link to bring your blog to life, otherwise it’ll show a Coming Soon notice until you do. Don’t be intimidated by all of the bells and whistles that have been included with WordPress.

You won’t even need to know half of them to run a blog. They’ve been pre-filled on your blog and you can delete a lot of what you don’t need until a later time when you decide it may be beneficial to you.

Day 3: Take Care of Security Threats Right Away

Every time you log into your blog’s dashboard, look for update notifications. Whenever something needs to be updated, it poses a security risk from hackers. They look for themes, plugins and other areas where there is a vulnerability.

Companies often update and patch these security holes, so you need to keep your site updated. You may be doing a complete WordPress version update, updating a theme, plugin or something else.

There will always be a notice of what needs to be updated, along with a link that says Update for you to click. It takes care of the rest. Sometimes, when you’re first getting started, you’ll see plugins saying they need updating (like WPForms or OptinMonster) and you won’t even be using them, so you can simply delete those for now.

Day 4: Delete the Post Already Created

WordPress will have a post already created for you titled Hello world! You want to delete this because it’s only a placeholder until you have your real content in there. Go to the Posts section in the left sidebar and delete (or trash) the post.

Day 5: Delete the Pre-Created Pages

WordPress does the same thing with the pages in the blog. They’ve created some for you that you can edit or delete. Usually, there will be a title of three. You can delete the Sample Page and WPForms Preview Page.

They also create a Privacy Policy Page, which many bloggers want on their site. So you may want to leave that one and just edit it with whatever policy you want in place for your visitors.

Day 6: Give Your Posts Category Options

Every time you make a new post, it’s advisable that you categorize it. This not only helps search engines navigate and index your site accurately, but it aids the visitor in finding the information they need, too.

Go to Posts and then Categories. You’ll be able to create both broad and drilled down categories for your niche topic. There’s a placeholder one called Uncategorized, which your posts will default to if you fail to choose one, so you can edit that to your broad niche keyword if you want.

What kind of categories should you have? Well, if you’re teaching weight loss, you might have broad categories like diets and exercise. These will be the parent categories – the broad ones.

Then, you can choose drilled down topics, like cardio or strength training under the exercise one. As you create a category, you’ll enter a slug, also known as the URL location. Use lowercase lettering and select where it goes on the hierarchy of category topics.

Day 7: Choose How You Want Your Blog to Look

When you visit various blogs, you may have noticed they differ in terms of layout, colors and even font. That’s because you have a choice of what theme you want to use as a WordPress blogger.

Today, you’ll log in and go to the Themes section in the sidebar. Now you can certainly buy a paid theme, but there are plenty of free ones that you can customize to your liking.

Click where it says, “Add Themes” and if you want an easy layout, try finding the Twenty Ten theme to install and then activate. The preview will show you the layout, and it will also include a temporary header that you’ll be replacing.

Day 8: Identify Your Blog’s Purpose

Regardless of which theme you choose, you do have the ability to customize certain things, including the statement of what your blog is about. Go into your theme from the Appearances section and look at the Tagline and Site Title.

The site title will be the official name of your blog and the tagline is something like your motto or a short mission statement. Be sure to upload a Favicon, which is a tiny visual representation of your site on the browser tab.

Always make sure that you republish the blog after any changes to make sure they take effect. You can always go back in and change any theme customizations that you want, such as a tagline or pixel Favicon.

Day 9: Upload a Brandable Header Graphic

When you first see your site, you’ll notice it has a header image already in place. Some people mistakenly leave them there, assuming if they chose that theme, they’re stuck with it.

But you can swap it out for something that better represents your brand. Create a header in the right pixel size (it will tell you what that is for the theme under the Header section) and upload it to replace the generic one.

Day 10: Delete and Activate Widgets

Widgets are elements that allow your blog to carry out different functions. When you log into your dashboard today, go to the widgets area and look at how they’re ordered for appearance in your sidebar of the blog.

If you want to change the order, such as having the recent comments or posts up further to the top, you can just drag them wherever you want them. You can also remove useless widgets, such as the Meta block.

Go through and see if there are any widgets you want to add that aren’t currently installed. You might appreciate a tag cloud of keywords, for example – or a calendar that people can view.

Day 11: Clean Up Useless Plugins

We initially removed the two plugins that required updates that you probably wouldn’t be using at first, but there are others you can deactivate and delete, too. Remember, don’t panic if you delete something and feel like you might want it later – because you can always reinstall it whenever you want to use it.

Get rid of JetPack, Hello Dolly, MOJO Marketplace, and Analytics. Keep Akismet for the spam filtering and make sure you activate that plugin with your own spam filtering account.

Day 12: Give People a Way to Contact You

Instead of plastering your email address on your blog, which will cause you to get spammed, create a page dedicated to a contact form. You can first create a new page called Contact Me.

Then, click on the Plugins section and add a new plugin called Contact Form 7. When you activate it, grab the short code it provides and paste it into the custom HTML block on your new contact page.

You want to make sure you visit your blog’s contact page and see if you’re seeing everything correctly (the name, email and subject and message fields) and test it to see if you’re able to send yourself a message.

Day 13: Make Your Posts Shareable

Viral traffic and word of mouth are a great way to generate free traffic to your site. If you’re creating and publishing good, valuable content, your audience is going to want to share it with others.

Use a social sharing plugin of your choice to make the process easy on them. With these buttons, your readers can quickly click on an option to share the post on Facebook, Pinterest, in email and elsewhere.

There are many different social button options. Find one that has good reviews and install and activate it. Then go into the settings and choose things like which social sites you want to allow them to share it to, where the buttons will appear, what your buttons look like, their size and more.

Day 14: Customize Your Blog’s General Settings

It’s time to start going through the settings and making sure your blog will operate as you want it to. Start with the General Settings tab. Double check things like your administrative email, tagline and title for your site.

Other little details like language, time zone and formats for date and time will be options for you to choose as well. This is mostly a default setting where nothing will need to be changes, but it’s important to check it all the same.

Day 15: Go Through the Writing Settings to Ensure Accuracy

Next in line are the writing settings. One of the most important things to do here is enter a list of Ping sites that your blog will notify whenever you have new content. This can help followers of news feeds get instant notification when you’ve published.

You can also set up the ability to post to your blog via email is you want. And make sure you choose a default category for whenever you fail to pick one when publishing a blog post.

Day 16: See If Your Reading Settings Are Optimized

Today you’re going to figure out how you want blog visitors to experience your site in terms of readability. Go to your Reading tab so that you can choose how many posts are shown on each page and whenever they’re syndicated in a feed.

You’ll get to decide how much text is shown in the feed, too – a snippet, or all of it. You want visitors going to your blog, so it’s best to only show a portion. You can also make sure that visitors land on one specific page (like a lead magnet page) or your most recent blog post (recommended).

There’s one very important option you have to double check on this page. At the bottom is says “Search Engine Visibility.” That should be unchecked so that it doesn’t cause search engine bots not to index your site.

Day 17: Formulate the Best Plan for Blog Discussions

Engagement on your blog is an important part of people feeling as if your blog is a digital home where they can feel comfortable gathering and discussing their thoughts about the niche topic.

There are tons of options, so uncheck everything else but the ones that allow people to submit comments on new posts, that require the author to enter their name and email address, that enables threaded comments several levels deep, that emails you when a new comment is posted, that holds the comment for you to moderate, and that requires manual approval by you.

These are all strategic moves that help you ban spam and ensure that only legitimate conversations unfold on your blog. On this page, make sure you choose which avatar visual your blog will show for those who comment, and if you want a real picture of yourself, use Gravatar.

Day 18: Set Up Your Permalinks for SEO

Permalinks are the way your full URL looks in the browser. So you may have it set to look like yourblog.com/486 initially. Instead of leaving it like that, choose the Post Name option.

That will showcase the exact title of your blog post, which can strategically include niche keywords. A better URL would show up at yourblog.com/10-tips-to-lose-weight-fast. This helps you with SEO, and also gives people peace of mind when clicking on the link that they’ll know what the content is.

Day 19: Use a Publishing Calendar for Upcoming Blog Posts

If you’re going to be publishing consistently, which you should as a niche leader, you want to keep track of the topics you blog about so that you vary things and don’t post repeatedly about the exact same issues many times in a row unintentionally.

In your plugins section, you can add what’s called an Editorial Calendar. This will allow you to organize topics and schedule posts ahead of time, freeing you up to work on other areas of your business.

Day 20: Upload the Legal Policy for Affiliate Income

Affiliates, by law, have to disclose that they’re potentially going to earn money from a link if they’re promoting products on their blog. So you want to appease the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) and include your legal statement.

If you don’t have this up, sites like Amazon can shut down your account and forbid you from earning money through them. Just add a text widget in the sidebar and place the cookie cutter Amazon statement that says, “As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.”

Day 21: Embed Your Subscriber Form

You want to capture the names and email addresses of your blog visitors so you can connect with them again directly. Sign up with an email autoresponder system like Aweber and create a list and form.

Grab the HTML code from the autoresponder and log into your blog to add an HTML widget to the sidebar (preferably at the top). Paste the code into it and save it so you can make sure the form works and captures contact information properly.

Day 22: Tell Visitors Who You Are

Consumers are leery about who to listen to in many niches. You can alleviate their fears that you may be a scammer by creating an About page that introduces yourself to the site visitors and tells who you are and why you got into this niche to serve the audience.

Even if you’re hoping to maintain some anonymity, you can still tell a bit of who you are as a person without revealing your real name – and explain why you want to help them. Remember, they’re looking to protect themselves, too.

Day 23: Include a Revenue Stream in Your Blog

The space in your sidebar, under the blog header, and even on the post space itself can serve as an additional income stream if you choose to use some banner ads or image links out to other places.

This can include income where you earn an affiliate commission, a direct sale, or money for an action such as a clickthrough or sign up for someone else’s offer. Just be sure that you use banner ads sparingly so you’re not one big banner ad site and nothing else.

Day 24: Start the Content Generation Process

Every post you make can be whatever length you feel will satisfy the reader with enough valuable information. Don’t aim for a certain word count, but do use the More tag because it allows the comment area to show up if someone lands on your main blog page, rather than it not appearing because they can read the post entirely from the home page.

To start out, you can jump right on an informative post or start out with an introductory post where you welcome readers and talk a little about what direction you’ll be taking them.

Day 25: Begin Sharing on Social Media

You want to get in the habit of sharing your blog content so that you attract more readers without having to pay for traffic. Every time you make a post, share it in a variety of places, such as a Facebook page or group, for example.

Day 26: Work on SEO Automation for Your Blog

Your site won’t rank at the top of the search engine results pages (SERPs) overnight. But to help it along, you need to focus on the optimization of your posts and site as a whole.

You can spend today learning current SEO strategies, and also take the initiative to install an SEO plugin that works best for you. This will help you ensure each page and post is optimized for search bots so that it gets indexed properly.

Day 27: Get Familiar with You Site Stats

You want to spend today seeing how you can track and analyze your visitors and their behaviors on your blog. You should be able to see what geographic location they’re coming from, the path they took navigating your site, and when they felt it better to bounce away.

Day 28: Publish a Single Stellar Blog Post to Represent Your Site

Instead of thinking in terms of volume and speed, stop for a moment and consider a scenario where you only had a chance to post one single blog post to your site. What would you say to prove you had value as a leading niche expert in that one post?

Today, create a pillar blog post for your domain that showcases the very best knowledge you have to offer. Spend time brainstorming, researching, organizing your thoughts and creating the content.

A pillar blog post is something you feel will best represent you in search engines and in shareable social media posts. Create a lengthy, yet free-of-fluff-and-filler post that will be something people want to bookmark and refer to time and time again.

Day 29: Spend a Day Securing Pictures for Your Blog Posts

Whenever you publish a blog post, you want to have everything ready to go – your ideas, content, links and something to help break up big blocks of text. You can do that with images from your niche, and it’s wise to go ahead and gather many of these upfront.

Use a stock site, use your own photos, or create images using tools like Canva. You can buy stock images or find free ones for your blog post. You may want to add your domain the image so that it shows up when the post is shared online.

Day 30: Become an Official Google Publisher

Have you ever started to conduct some niche research, or even looked up information as a consumer on Google by entering a search term and clicking on the News tab? Many people do this, and you have the ability to get your blog into the official Google News section by signing up to their Publishing Center for consideration.

Not everyone gets chosen, but if your blog posts have a nice combination of frequency, relevancy and cutting edge information, you may have a good shot at it. Building a blog isn’t as intimidating as it may have sounded when you first thought about it.

Just go by the blueprint tasks divvied up above on a schedule that works best for you and soon, you’ll start seeing traction with generating targeted niche traffic to your blog without having to pay for it.

30 Day Affiliate Content Idea Blueprint

Coming up with ongoing affiliate content can start to get a bit difficult over time. You might feel like you’re saying the same stuff over and over again. That can be problematic because you need to offer content that causes your customers to remain loyal.

If you’re always giving them the same old tired information, they’re going to move on - and probably to your competitor. New content isn’t really difficult to come up with. You just need to know how to present the information in a way that shows it in a new light.

As an affiliate, you’ll be creating a consistent flow of product reviews. While some people use the same format again and again, it’s good to have a few different ways to review items so readers don’t get bored.

Below, you’ll find 30 days’ worth of varying slants you can use for product reviews. Go through each one and then recycle them on a monthly basis, to keep your blog fresh and your readers coming back for more.

Day 1: Create Content About Various Items

There are so many different items or products that you can write about for one problem or need. People want guidance and they like when they have content that walks them through the ins and outs of a variety of products or content that talks about what’s good and what’s bad when looking to buy something.

You can write a detailed report on these products today. To understand how to format it, look for publications that talk about buyers’ guides. Consumer Reports does this well, such as a buyer’s guide to electric lawn mowers.

Sometimes, they’ll be broken down by the numerous choices offered such as a push mower, electric or riding mower. Make a review report or blog post about the information you find.

Talk about how helpful the products are, some good about it and any drawbacks. You can also talk about the many different options there are, and how the consumer should shop for whatever is best for their needs.

Day 2: Write for All Budgets

Someone who shops for their cookware at Walmart may have a vastly different spending limit from someone who buys their goods at a special cooking boutique. This is why you have to present a variety in the items that you promote as affiliate content.

While that $4,000 television might appeal to those who shop without thinking much about it, those who shop at lower priced stores aren’t looking for something that expensive.

You’ll miss sales if you constantly gear your content toward the big spenders. So today, write a blog post that breaks the affiliate content down into one budget friendly, one high end and one product that hits between both of those options and see what converts best for you.

Day 3: Give Content Geared Toward What’s Selling

Don’t waste your time or your customer’s time writing about content that doesn’t have good sales. When you go to the sites to choose your items for promotions today, select from the top sellers.

You’ll often see items divided by brand, price, and whether or not it’s a bestseller. Always choose the top selling items on any of the sites you select products from among both physical and downloadable items.

Once you’ve chosen the correct products, look at what people are saying about it that makes it a top seller. You’ll be able to pinpoint what got it onto the bestseller list, such as the vendor’s reputation, pricing, quality and more.

Day 4: Create a Comparison Post

Your customers want to know what’s available to them, but sometimes they’re torn between two good options. They want to know the pros and cons of each so they can narrow down their choices.

So when you make a post today that’s talking about a solution to a problem, what you can do is list a couple of products and how each one stacks up against the other. It’s easier to do this with physical items, such as comparing features, but when it’s something the customer has to download, then you can’t talk about the physical aspect obviously.

What you have to do is to talk about what’s better or worse about the downloadable items. For example, you can say what one item costs versus the competing item. You can also talk about what one download has in the contents versus the other one.

Day 5: Make Posts Responding to What Customers Want to Know

The easiest way to be able to use a blog post to add affiliate links is to talk about the physical or downloadable items in ways that give customers information they’ve wanted to know before buying.

You can find out what they’ve been wondering about by looking on the product listing (such as Amazon’s questions section), or in forums or groups where people are asking about it.

Take what they’re wanting to know today and put it on your blog with something like, “You might be wondering how this blender handles large chunks of fruit…” You can give the customer the information they want by talking about the blender’s ability.

If the question is a negative, such as you discover the blender can’t handle large cut fruit, then offer an alternative to this blender, and emphasize what it can do better than the rest.

Day 6: Use Insight from the Owner’s Manual

Hardly anyone reads an owner’s manual for a physical item. Most consumers just wing it and even those who do read one may not grasp the information because some of those manuals read like they’re written in hieroglyphics.

You can create blog posts where you put helpful tips in an easy to understand format. Do a little bit of research today to learn about the product so you know what you’re talking about.

If it’s a downloadable item, you can search for reviews and then share that information with the customer on your blog. Don’t use advice you cull from other people unless you plainly mention where you got it from.

But check out the manufacturer’s social media and website to see if there are extra tips you can share in today’s product review. Whether they’ve answered someone’s question or simply shared a tip, give your own readers that extra bit of insight they’ll appreciate.

Day 7: Blog About Why an Item Didn’t Work and What To Do About It

Not every item will work according to what was promised. That makes people mad, but it also makes them seek information. You can be the go-to source for them in today’s product review.

Tell them what’s wrong with an item after you find one with a flaw, but then share what they can do to make it work like it’s supposed to. Instructions are sometimes lacking and the buyer might not be using it properly. You can share those additional steps.

It’s like you’re taking an item and making it work for them, they’ll appreciate that. If it’s beyond repair, simply explain that, and show them a better alternative to invest in that will meet their needs.

Day 8: Make a Post Addressing Customer’s Expectations That Aren’t Met

Sometimes consumers buy a product or download without realizing that they either overlooked information or the information they wanted to have wasn’t included. They had an expectation that wasn’t met.

Your blog post can meet that expectation. You can mention items on your blog that consumers need or want but it doesn’t necessarily have everything they need to use the product as they wanted to.

Explain to them what they need to do to still be able to use the item. For example, add a vlog to your post showing them what to do. If it’s a download, then the course or report might have instructions that are poorly written or even skips steps they need to take.

Day 9: Mention Items that Don’t Attract as Much Attention

Amazon and other platforms will often recommend products. These are the items that sell well and are more commonly known. However, just because these items are more popular doesn’t mean there aren’t similar items that work just as well - and maybe even cost less.

Today, post about the item that generates very little fanfare and what you like about it. Explain why you think consumers will benefit from it and you may even discuss why it’s a great hidden gem.

Day 10: Look for the Items Related to Consumer Questions

The best way to have a built in buying audience is to present to them things they already wonder about. Check out all the platforms where they might be having conversations about a product.

See what they’re saying that’s both positive and negative about these items. Pay attention to what potential customers want to know and they will feel like you care about what interests them.

There are many people who go to blogs and forums to ask about a product before spending their own money on it. So today, find an inquiry about a product and then specify in your product review that you’re answering someone’s question about it.

Day 11: Create a Review that Focuses on One Part of an Item

Create a product review that talks in depth about a highlighted benefit or feature of an item. For example, if you’re writing posts about a GPS system, these are going to have widely varying benefits and features.

You’ll want to select one and focus on that. Present in such a way that the reader feels they must have it - such as one GPS system that updates travel routes more often than another.

You can tap into the emotional aspect, too - by presenting it as a safety benefit for first time drivers, for college students away from home, etc. Explain how it’s helpful and all the good it can do for someone in that audience.

End your post by comparing the system to other ones that may not necessarily focus on the safety aspect. Or, mention a few others that also have a good track record with that one feature.

Day 12: Post About New and Improved Items

Whatever niche you’re in, new products and downloads are going to be available continually. What was considered cutting edge or the most accurate or best version a month ago won’t always be for long.

So you need to make sure that you stay on top of what’s releasing. Create a product review today where you talk about a physical product that used to be the newest, but now there’s a more updated one.

Amazon will usually tell you if something new has released on an older product page. You can also stay tuned into industry news or specific manufacturer newsletters to see what new releases they have.

Do the same for downloadable items like information that tells consumers how to master search engine optimization or carry out another quickly evolving task that can affect their success.

Day 13: Make a Thorough Analysis About a Product

Whatever item you’re promoting, use it yourself for awhile, then write about what effects it had in your own life. For example, if you bought a membership that taught how to boost mailing list signups, you could talk about how it helped you with specific numbers.

You can’t share everything, because the information was created by someone else. But you can give them a few details about how you implemented it, or how long it took to see results.

Once you implement the product in your own life, you can then talk about whether or not you felt it delivered for you - like if your mailing list when from 500 subscribers to nearly 1,500 in 72 hours.

Then you can mention if the information was difficult or easy to put into practice and add some helpful advice on what you feel should also be done to make the membership even more valuable to the consumer.

Day 14: Post a Review That Compares Hype to Reality

Your goal should be to always protect your audience. This will build trust and cause them to remain loyal to you. They know you’ll steer them the right direction. On your blog, make a product review today talking about what a vendor claims a product can do or accomplish and whether or not they’re right.

Sometimes some products are really hyped up and not worth buying. Some will even state outrageous claims, such as push button profits or overnight riches. On your blog, talk about a product with a sales page making incredible claims and why people buy it.

Then go into detail about the benefits and if those benefits are legit or not. Don’t leave your audience hanging. Give them another choice they can make instead if the one you’re highlighting didn’t hold up to the claims it made.

Day 15: Post About a Problem Product

Many times, a product will get released into the marketplace, and while consumers may be buying it, you can see that it’s not a smart investment. You might know that it falters in terms of strategy or durability.

Without initiating a war of words with another vendor, post a review that is critical of a particular product, with a fair account of both the pros and the cons of owning it. Your audience may be left feeling disappointed that something they wanted isn’t good, so redirect them to one that will be able to help them.

Day 16: Post About Situations Where There Are Multiple Choices

You don’t have to limit what you mention on your blog to just one product. You want to have multiple items that can answer the same need. So create a blog post that talks about what’s going on the customer’s life.

For example, they might be struggling financially. You could talk about downloadable products that teach them how to get out of debt. But you could also share about products that show them how to create profitable side hustles to bring in more income.

Every struggle, need or desire that your audience has, can have multiple answers. If your customer is looking to live healthier, you might offer cookbooks, kitchenware, supplements, exercise equipment and so on.

Meet their needs by showing them what’s available to them and guide them to the right buys. You can even title it as a list, such as, “10 Products That Can Help You Shed Unwanted Fat.”

Day 17: Showcase A Product in Multiple Steps

You can create a product review strategy where you present a product over a period of time instead of all at once. These posts are continued posts, which hook a reader and keep them returning to find out the rest of the review.

You would begin your strategy by first posting about what’s going on and how you’re looking for an item to help you solve whatever it is you’re dealing with. You can talk about what items you might have looked at, what the benefits of those were and how you went about picking the item that you ultimately chose.

But don’t give away what you actually picked until the end until the final post. Let your readers go along with you from the start of selecting an item to the end where you use the item in your life.

Show how the item was able to help you and tell them what it was. List the features and best parts about the product, and be honest if there was anything lacking about the item, too.

Day 18: Create a Review for a Product You Know Personally

It’s one thing to consider purchasing items or products that you see online. But it’s another when a friend or someone you know suggests that you buy it and shares how it helped them.

You have that same influence when you’re blogging for your audience. They feel like they know you, so when you talk about an item that you bought and liked, they know that they’re getting a solid firsthand account. This is far more helpful to them than just reading about it online in a generic way.

In the product review today, you can write about what made you choose the item, what you learned when you had the issue and started looking for a solution and if you feel the product is worthy enough for them to get it, too.

Day 19: Talk About What Else the Customer Can Buy

Of course, you want to write about main items for whatever your niche is. For example, if you’re in the gaming niche, you might talk about a specific gaming system. But you don’t want to just talk about that one thing.

Make sure that you do additional posts where you talk about items connected to that gaming system - like controllers, a gaming keyboard, an ergonomic chair, headphones, etc.

These should all be items that enhance the main item. Any time you are writing a review for a main item, make a list for a separate review for any relevant add-on or accessory items, so try that strategy today.

Day 20: Unpack a Product for the Audience

You want to review various items on your blog, but you also want to showcase these products from arrival to the usage stage. You can unpack whatever the item is on camera and discuss your thoughts as you go.

The reason that unpacking videos are so popular is because people get to see the same experience they would go through if they bought the item. It’s a good way to prove the quality, benefit and ease of using a product.

For example, if you’re in the outdoor niche, you might show an unpacking video where you use a camping stove - or one where you set up a tent. As you unpack the box the item shipped in, you’ll want to talk about every step.

Once you have the product set up for use, then discuss whether it works as expected or not. The unboxing review strategy you use today can be used for any tangible object, but it can also be used for some digital purchases, too if you’re using screen capture tools.

Day 21: Review an Item That Has Dual Purposes

Most items can serve dual or more purposes. For example, food storage containers that can be used as organization hacks or lotion that can also be used to defrizz hair. Just like with physical products, downloadable items can also be used in many different ways, too.

For example, if you buy a downloadable private label rights report, you can use it as is, break that into a series of emails or use it as separate articles for your blog. Today, pick a product with more than one use and create a product review for it.

Day 22: Mention Items Before They Come to Market

You need to know what’s coming so that you can let your audience know and prepare their budget. For example, if you’re in the gaming niche, there may be new games launching shortly before Christmas that you can link to as an affiliate for a preorder.

You want to tell your audience about these items before they list for sale. People who are wanting information about the item will flock to your blog to learn about it because articles may be limited.

Make sure that the information you share about the item is legit and not something you just glean from other people who may not be accurate. Having a blog post review before the product is released will allow you to rank higher in search engines with your content so you can earn more commissions on launch day.

Day 23: Answer Common Questions

If you do a quick search, you’ll find that within your niche, customers are seeking all kinds of information. They want to know about the benefits of a product. They may have very specific questions, like whether or not a mixer can handle cookie dough.

They might want to know if one particular model or brand is better than one with similar benefits, but at a different price. Experts and fellow consumers will answer what customers want to know.

Today, seek out a common question about a type of product and then create a review of one product that meets the needs of that audience concern. If it’s whether or not a standing mixer can handle cookie dough, you can review one or give a list of mixers that will do the job.

Day 24: Post for Your Targeted Group of Buyers

Across your customer database, you’re going to have a wide range of people. What appeals to one group won’t necessarily appeal to the next. You want to create blog posts about products that are directed toward a targeted group.

For example, if you’re in the weight loss niche, you can specifically talk about products that help working moms or that help beginners or that help those who have failed at weight loss before.

Pick a specific demographic in your niche – based on gender, age, budget, geographic location or some other qualification and review a product that would be the best fit specifically for that audience.

Day 25: Make a Post that Connects Items in a Numbered Group

People like seeing potential items they want to buy at a glance. The busy mom looking for cookware appreciates having a selection of 10 different cookware sets she can buy all in one place.

You can create a connected group like the “Top 10 Instant Pots.” What you do is talk about each of the items, but briefly. It’s basically a post on who, what and why. Who can use it, what the item is (benefits, the good and bad) and why they need it.

In addition to helping the consumer, you also benefit because having more items in a blog post gives you a greater chance to earn. After linking to each item for them to consider, you may also want to end with a hyperlinked call to action such as, “If you want to see more options, here’s a page that will showcase similar products you may be interested in.”

Day 26: Create a Brand-Based Product Review

There are some shoppers who are not going to stray outside their preferred manufacturer. For example, some women will only use one makeup manufacturer, regardless of price or selection options and you’re not going to change their minds.

This is why you want to specifically talk about the most well-known items put out by each company regardless of the niche that you’re in. Check out the manufacturer to see what they have to offer.

You can then select items according to what consumers are saying about them, according to the price, by what’s featured and also by what their latest items are. You can merge slants and have those that say, “Top 10 Must Have KitchenAid Products.”

Day 27: Talk About A Standout Feature

There are many products within the same category. But there’s always going to be some that go above and beyond what’s expected from them by consumers. These are the benefits or features that you want to really point out.

This will make the product you mention rise above the others. For example, you might want to talk about products like gaming keyboards. If one of the keyboards has better key responses than another brand or model, you’ll want to mention that.

Or, there may be a feature so unique that you haven’t seen it on any other product to date. That would be a good benefit to buying that product over another one, so it deserves to be mentioned.

Day 28: Create “At-A-Glance” Product Review Charts

Having a quick side-by-side comparison chart makes it easy on consumers to size up different items and pick which is best for them. Many affiliates see great success using charts that compare features with a simple checklist.

For example, with gaming headsets, you might have categories like battery life, driver size, surround sound, and wireless. Create a chart that shows at a glance which products have these features, or at what amount.

So you might be comparing five headsets, and four of them are wireless, so they each get a checkmark. The driver size might be numerical, ranging from 40mm to 53 mm. You can have the name and image of the product at the top of the chart section and hyperlink it.

Day 29: Create Posts Geared Toward Also Boughts

When you’re writing about an item, gear the tone of the post toward their prior buying behavior. For example, if you blogged about one survival tool, you can post again pointing them to a second survival tool.

You don’t have to come up with these ideas off the top of your head. Places like Amazon have an area where if customers buy (or even look at) one item, they suggest related products.

For example, if you blog about a survival backpack, Amazon also suggests an emergency weather radio. This works well for both tangible and digital products, so today look for a connection between two products and do a review for something else your audience would like.

Day 30: Add a Conversation to a Review From Someone Connected to a Product

While you can talk about items on your blog, it’s helpful if you can also give it that air of expertise that stems from having someone else also weigh in. This can be a member of your audience who knows about the item and has purchased it or who even had a hand in its creation.

You can do a text or video conversation where you present questions and have them answer about the item and how it’s helpful. Or, you can ask the manufacturer if you can talk to them and see if they’ll agree to then let you put their responses up on your blog.

Go beyond just telling your audience about various products. Lead them to the ones that will help them, solve problems for them and show them how to get the most from their spending dollars.

Apply these product review slants so that whatever audience you have, they will continually turn to you for fresh information as a leading niche expert and trusted source of buying recommendations.

30 Day Niche Research Blueprint

Many people quickly select a niche before doing any preliminary research. This causes them to falter or fail when they discover that after buying a domain, spending months creating content, and hoping to build a list, there’s not as much profit potential as they had hoped.

You want to make sure your niche topic has lots of revenue potential, but also satisfies you on a personal and professional level, since you’ll be showing up to serve this audience on a regular, if not daily basis.

You have to make sure there’s enough interest, enough products you can promote or create. This requires you to do some digging online to see if it’s a lucrative niche concept. Below, you’ll find a 30-day plan to help you size up whether or not the niches you’re considering have what it takes to build a business with.

Day 1: Generate a List of Your Favorite Topics

Planning for your niche means you’ll need to create a list of your favorite topics. Because if it interests you, you can bet it’ll also interest someone else. Today, think about all the things that you want to learn about or stuff that makes you happy - or even sad.

It could be that you’ve experienced a health issue such as having an underactive thyroid after years of struggling to lose weight. So it could be that your niche focuses on weight loss when you have a health problem like with the thyroid malfunctioning.

You want to make your list one that has all the things that you might already do and that you’re good at it. But it’s okay to go into a niche based on topics that you’re willing to get to know and want to learn more about so you can share it with others.

Day 2: Understand How to Gain Visibility

On day two, you’re going to want to start your focus on how to gain visibility. You need your niche to show up in searches. So you have to know how you’re going to get people to see you, especially when here are so many other choices out there.

For example, if your niche is personal development, one of the topics you’re dealing with might be on confidence, since this is an area where a lot of people have struggles. So you would want to search for words that are related to confidence in personal development.

Use keyword tools or search engines to see what people are looking for on your chosen topic. It will provide insight you may not have had about your niche, and show you specific ways people are searching for information.

Another good way to do this is by searching for all the hashtags on social media that relate. Just type the word you’re searching into the search area on all-hashtag.com. Make sure you click the top circle under the search box before you hit “generate.” This will then pull up a list of trending searches for confidence.

Day 3: Know What Your Audience Needs Help With

The key to creating a viable niche is to know what’s wrong. Look at the topics you picked out that interest you. Spend today writing down why they interest you or why they may be of interest to others. For example, you might have listed weight loss as one of your niches.

It interests you because you struggled to lose weight after being undiagnosed with a thyroid malfunction. So you could write down topics related to that such as losing weight when you have thyroid disease - or any other connection such as losing weight when you have health issues.

A lot of people want to lose weight, but can’t necessarily follow a given plan because they have other factors that are outside the “one size fits all” realm. If you were in the financial self-help niche, you could focus on topics like saving for single moms or saving for one income families, or paying down debt specifically for that audience.

Day 4: Be Timely with Your Niche

Popularity can easily wane. That’s why you want to conduct some research today for what’s relevant within your niche at any given moment. You don’t want to focus your efforts on something that’s going to fade.

Instead, you want to focus your niche topics in a way so that they hit the evergreen category. These are topics that are always going to be relevant to an audience because people will always have issues or want to know information in these areas.

Sometimes certain niches are going to be more popular for a period of time. You want to hit that popularity wave and ride it, while building the foundation of your business on the solid, evergreen niche topics, so make a list of both kinds.

Day 5: Create Branches Off of Each Part of Your Niche

Now is the time to dig deeper on whatever topics you’ve chosen. So if you’ve focused your niche on relationships, you could branch into dating and use dating tips, dating apps, dating by age groups like 20s, 30s, 40s and beyond.

You could also branch into dating after a divorce, dating after being widowed, etc. Every main part of your niche can have several branches to it. The more you expand it, the more ideas you’ll come up with.

You might want to spend the day creating a mind map so you can see it visually, or even make a list of sub-topics for each main topic within your niche. The idea is to keep drilling down until you’ve run out of possible branches.

Day 6: Know the New Information in Your Niche

Because niches can trend, you have to stay on top of what’s going on, so you want to start practicing that today. You’ll be able to learn this information by doing simple Internet searches. You can just type in whatever your niche is and add the phrase “what’s new.”

For example, if you were in the health niche, then you would type in “what’s new in the health niche” and you would get results showing what was new in fitness, treatments, hair loss, digestive, etc.

You also want to pay attention to what big names or sites are saying about the niche. So for some of these, you would see what Fox, MSNBC or other mainstream media outlets had to say.

Whenever you type in your topic in whatever search platform you use, always look for the words “trending” or “news” and it’ll tell you what’s going on that you may not have heard about yet.

Day 7: Visit Consumer Hangouts

To connect with people who want to buy your products or services, you need to interact with them in forums and find out what it is they’re looking for or what they’re interested in, so that’s what you’ll start doing today. Then you’ll have a good idea of how to structure certain items you’re offering.

For example, if you’ve built a business based on wealth building, then you would want to take part in discussions on financial forums or like sites. When you get onto these sites, you’ll start to notice recurring topics among the people.

They might be talking about building wealth as a side hustle while working a full time job. They might be devastated about current inflation or gas prices specifically and wonder how they’re going to get to work or put food on the table.

These emotion-driven forum discussions can be a great source of blog content for you as well as ideas for lead magnets and digital info products, if you want to take that route and create a course to help solve their problems.

Day 8: Look for the Tie-Ins for Your Main Niche

When it comes to choosing a niche, you don’t want to just focus on that main issue. You need to see the potential for niche tie-ins because these mean potential income in the future. You’ll be searching for those today.

These shouldn’t be random things that have no similar ties. For example, if you’ve been thinking about the weight loss niche, other things that can tie-in to this are topics like anti-aging (because losing weight when you’re middle aged is harder), digestive health, thinning hair (that sometimes results from extreme diets or nutritional deficiencies), etc.

You can specifically target groups under your niche like pregnant women or busy moms, those over 50, or men. You can also turn one tie-in topic into several, like those over 50 with mobility problems.

As long as the topic relates somehow to your original niche, it’ll work. Once you find these tie-ins, you can then look for ways to discuss and promote items your audience can purchase.

Day 9: Look at Information That’s Already Available

You can start from scratch and try to figure out what’s related to your niche. Today, you can work on creating a list based on what you think of, but you can also look at information that’s already out there.

Don’t neglect video sites. The biggest video site online is YouTube, which doubles as a huge search engine. Whatever your topic is, if you search for it on the site, it’s going to automatically have other suggestions and information that you can use.

For example, if you’re in the pet care niche, when you look up videos that tie-in to this topic, you’re going to have a trove of information that you can glean through. Look at the notes under the videos.

Look at related videos. Look at any keywords that are used. Scroll down to see what other people are saying or what they’re linking to. You might see information about supplements or food.

But you might also see where people are discussing problems with dog bedding - like for an extra-large dog or for dogs that tend to chew up their bedding. Make a note of what you’re seeing, especially if you see someone who is talking about a problem that they’re having with pet care.

They might be discussing pet beds specifically for arthritic dogs, and this could lead to a sub-topic or niche and you could use that to create a product or service in the future as well as promote products for as an affiliate.

Day 10: Get Social Proof for Your Niche

You obviously want a niche that’s going to do well. One way to discover that is to see if people are talking about it online on various social media sites. Start with Facebook today. Scroll through other businesses that are in or linked to your niche topic.

Look at the comments and the amount of engagement. This will give you some insight into the behavior and buying habits of what the people want or need. What you can do is act like a newbie and search out groups to join where other people are talking.

This might be time consuming, but it’ll allow you to have access to what may be missing from your niche or what problems aren’t being addressed. This gives you an opening to be able to fill that gap.

Plus, you’ll meet other niche business people and this can expand your business growth potential. You can do nothing more than observe silently if you want to – and you never want to be a disruption or content thief from other marketers who have started these groups or pages – just use them to become well-informed.

Day 11: Join Social Media Sites You May Not Be On

Most entrepreneurs have their own pet social media sites. They’re comfortable there and don’t branch out. That’s a mistake. Even if you don’t care for some of the newer sites and apps like Tik Tok, you should still be on there and should still be using it as a research point, so download that app and start looking today.

Maybe you’ve ignored this app because you don’t know much about it and think it’s a place where people just lip sync to music. It’s not. It has thousands of different niches on the site.

You can type in a keyword relating to your niche and pull up valuable information you can use for your business. Not only will the content be from fellow niche leaders, but from consumers, too.

Day 12: Check Instagram for Niche Potential

By day 12, it’s time to add another social media site to your list of what to study for your niche business. Don’t make the mistake of thinking that Instagram is just a place where people share pictures.

By checking to see if your niche is on Instagram, you can find out how much interest would be generated by certain topics. For example, if you’re in the fitness niche and you see someone talking specifically about a problem losing fat in a particular body area like the belly, and there are hundreds of comments - that can show you that there’s a need for your potential product, or information on addressing that problem.

Day 13: Look at Other Image Sharing Sites

You need to check sites you may not normally consider looking at for studying your niche. Pinterest is self-described as a “visual discovery engine.” You can look on there today for things that are related to whatever your niche is.

For example, if your niche is one that focuses on building muscle for men, you would go on the site and use those as keywords to search. You would get information that addressed things like workouts and then specific types of workouts. You might also see topics relating to home workouts vs gym workouts.

Day 14: Don’t Reinvent the Wheel

When it comes to your niche, you really don’t have to know all the ins and outs to be successful. You just have to pay attention to what other people are doing. You want to spend today looking at successful online business leaders within the same niche and see how they’re faring.

You can do this by spending some time looking at sites where they might have their eBooks or their information products listed. You can look at comments, check rankings and more. You’ll also be able to see what they’re good at by what people are saying and how their business is lacking as well.

Then, you can take the information that you learn and use it to improve your own business. You can fill a void or find a different way of sharing information that resonates with the core audience.

Day 15: Take Your Research Offline

It’s a good thing to study your niche through online means like Facebook groups or whatever. But today, you also want to check information specific to your niche through print media as well.

See what newspapers are saying about the niche and its related topics. Many niches have magazines solely dedicated to this. For example, Dogster is one that focuses on dog wellness, exercise, breeds, lifestyle, etc.

By checking out print media relating to your niche, it’ll enable you to discover what interests your potential customers. Spend a day browsing through consumer and trade magazines at your local Barnes and Noble to see what’s being published.

Day 16: Check the Audio Media

Don’t just focus your research online and through print media. Today, you also want to look at any audio information. Many niches will also have a segment such as a blogcast. These will be part of the niche’s blog.

You can also look through several platforms that feature podcasts that may be connected to your niche. You can look through platforms like Apple. For example, if your niche is financial and you wanted to see if investing was a viable topic, then you could check out investing podcasts.

These are sometimes referred to as “radio shows” even if they are podcasts. During your study, you want to see if you can find an “upcoming topics” section and what these may be saying about investing. This will let you know not only what could be popular, but also what people are looking for.

Day 17: Find What’s Missing

There’s no way for every topic people need information about to be covered so well that there’s no longer a need for more. Because no one is perfect, this will leave an opening for what you have to offer.

The trick is to find it through observation, and that’s what you’ll be doing today. You’ll be able to spot ways that you can approach the topic using means that your competitor either hasn’t done or did do but it wasn’t done well enough, and the market is still wide open for you.

For example, you might find that another niche entrepreneur compiled information on how to start a business online, but neglected to cover how to respond to problems with customers or how to best meet their needs.

You could write a guide or book on how to handle customer relations to gain consumer loyalty. Or, you might see a niche that offers information about how to set up a business using social media or how to use it to grow a business, but the information contains too much fluff and doesn’t cover all the important details. You could use this information you’ve discovered to offer what your competition doesn’t.

Day 18: Discovering What to Charge

In your niche, you need to know what to charge for what you’re offering. You want to be careful so that you’re competitive, but you also don’t want to severely undercharge either, so you want to spend time today researching that aspect of the niche.

You might hear a lot of advice on what you should charge but never go by “should.” By pulling up similar information that your competitors offer, you’ll be able to see how it was priced.

You’ll also be able to tell what was included in the product or information for that amount. You’ll want to have similar items of value. Check each part of the product offered by your competitor.

Look at their bonus offers and any bundles they might offer to boost a one product sale into a multiple purchase funnel. You also want to know how to handle it when a customer balks at one product - maybe because they’re having trouble affording it.

This way, you can immediately offer a less expensive option (a downsell) that would still help them until they can afford the more expensive product. Be sure to fix your price so that if anyone else gets a cut of the profit, like a partner, or if you’re part of an affiliate program, you still make what you need to earn.

Day 19: Create Your Own Upsells and Downsells

When you’re doing your niche research today, you need to look at what your competition is offering as their upsells and downsells. An upsell is an additional product that costs slightly more than the original purchase.

Think of this as the option to “supersize” an order at a restaurant. A downsell is a product that costs slightly less than the upsell, but still has some of the same features. This would be like a restaurant where you say no to the milkshake for an extra $1 but yes to the cookie for 50 cents.

You are looking to see what your competition is offering with upsells and downsells so you can know what to offer your customers. In digital products, you might have an upsell with a full multimedia bundle that includes videos, audios and infographics for $47.

If they say no to that offer, then a downsell might just be to offer them just the infographics for $10. This is great for people who want more, but who can’t afford an entire upgrade.

Day 20: Look for Extra Income Through Physical Products

Smart business owners don’t just focus on selling digital products. They also offer physical items like books, stickers, tote bags, pillows, clothing and more. Sometimes these items will be as simple as products with your logo or a niche saying on them.

You can sell it yourself on your website, but you can also use an online company that will handle packing, shipping, returns and customer service for you. This is known as print on demand physical items.

It’s one of the easiest ways to expand your income without a lot of extra effort. Some niches have certain merch products that work well, like customized water bottles for the fitness niche, and if you look on social media sites today, you’ll see how people are making them.

Day 21: Your Niche Business Needs Affiliates

Selling products is not a lone wolf endeavor. You need a community around you to help sell the products to your customers. These fellow sellers are known as affiliates. These help promote your product and in exchange, they receive a commission.

This is a percentage of your sale, typically 50%, but it could be less or greater, depending on the circumstances. Today, see who your competition is recruiting. The easiest way to do this is to pay attention when your competition talks about their affiliates such as making social media posts about their success in a promotion.

These could be people that are also willing to become your affiliate. All you need to do is compile a list of prospects. Leaderboards of past contests can help guide you on whose list is responsive for a certain topic.

Day 22: Going the Extra Mile for Affiliates

You might be tempted to believe that top affiliates only perform for the rate of commission. But this is actually a common myth. The best affiliates don’t just want the same money from you that everyone else gets.

They want other benefits as well. The best way to know what an affiliate might be interested in receiving from you is to know what they got from other niche leaders, so you’ll be looking for that information today. Depending on who the competition is, be prepared to offer big perks.

For example, if you have a funnel that earns you an average of $100 per sale, then you might be prepared to give away the front end product costing $10 to your affiliates at 100% commission just to get them onboard, get their subscribers on your list, and make money in the upsell.

Day 23: Become an Affiliate Yourself

Affiliate marketing works both ways in a niche. While you want affiliates to promote digital products you’ve created, you can also become one yourself for other people’s products.

Today, research products in your niche that your audience might need. You’ll need to research all the popular products to see what you can promote. For example, you’ll be looking for things like information products in the form of a PDF course, video modules, or subscription service and then you’ll earn money from those sales.

Day 24: Go Beyond Digital Items

When you’re in the marketing mindset, it’s easy to focus on digital items. But many niches have customers who need physical products as well, so you want to brainstorm that today. For example, if you’re in the dog training niche, you might only think about promoting a video course on puppy training.

However, your customers also need physical items like dog treats, whistles, leashes, collars, leak-proof puppy pads and more. This gives you an opportunity to promote and make money on these items, so make a list today of the tangible items your niche buyers will want to pay for.

Day 25: Make Recurring Commissions

Don’t limit yourself to a single commission. Look for chances to make residual money today. Think of items, physical or digital that your customers will need again and again. For example, people housetraining a new puppy may need leak-proof puppy pads repeatedly.

Help them by suggesting a subscription service so that they get these delivered automatically every month and don’t even have to think about it. Meanwhile, you earn every time they get a delivery and there are monthly subscription boxes available for many different niche markets.

Day 26: Consider Becoming a Consultant

You can mentor, become a consultant or coach others in your niche to boost how much you can earn. This can be extremely rewarding financially. Today, look to see what your competitors are providing for a coaching audience.

If they do have consulting or mentorship for a price, see how much they’re charging and what’s involved in the coaching program. If you can’t find any competitors who have this service, then consider creating an opportunity yourself for customers who may want it.

Day 27: Give Your Customers DIY Options

You can increase how much you earn and make it easier by having some of the options offered as a DIY (do it yourself) opportunity. For example, instead of you printing out stickers for planners or calendars or fitness trackers, you can create them as digital downloads on sites such as Shopify or other well-known sites.

Because there’s a continual need for the items, you’ll have ongoing sales. Spend a day today going through sites like Shopify or even Etsy to see what printables in your niche there may be.

Day 28: Outsource When Needed

Whatever your niche is, you’re going to need content - and a lot of it. It has to be relevant and fresh. You’ll need it not only for your business blog, but for any other platforms your business may be on.

Because you’re only one person, this can quickly eat up your time and make it hard for you to run your business. This is why outsourcing may be the key for you. Find someone else who can write the stuff that you need.

If you can’t afford to pay a writer to create this for you, consider purchasing pre-made information or products and use that. It’s known as private label rights (PLR), so today, look up some PLR vendors who write in your niche to see what content is available.

Day 29: Ongoing Education Is Key

It’s easy to stagnate and get out of date with what’s new or cutting edge if you don’t continually work to educate yourself. At least once every quarter, starting today, you should be taking a new course or challenging yourself with learning new information.

However, the important thing is to choose a learning method that works for you. You can read books about your niche, listen to podcasts, find free tutorials or pay for classes.

Day 30: Time to Set Up Business

Once you’ve finished studying what you need to know for your niche, you need to put that information to use. Today, it’s time to find the digital real estate that will house your niche.

To do that, you’re going to need to find a domain that will work for your business. What you can do is to search a domain registrar like GoDaddy and use words relevant to your niche.

For example, if it’s fitness related, you want that in the domain. If you want more word options about your niche, you can use an online keyword tool to help you brainstorm – or even a thesaurus, if it helps.

Play around with the keywords and phrases until you come up with a short dot com domain that is available and ready for purchase. You also have the ability to buy your name as a domain and brand yourself as a niche leader.

Conducting niche research is a task that has many initial processes as well as ongoing things you need to handle. Even if it’s an evergreen niche, there’s always new information being released that you may not have thought to convey to your followers.

Make sure you stay on top of niche research, because as the go to expert, your readers and subscribers are relying on you to be the point person they can turn to when they need information.

30 Day SEO Blueprint

Building a business online requires you to handle many different tasks. You want to keep your attention on the steps that will bring in revenue. Usually, this means doing things like getting more subscribers on your list.

You can’t sell products if you don’t have an audience to pitch to. Whether you’re an info product creator, affiliate marketer, service provider or something else online, you need to get eyes on your offers so that you turn a profit with your online efforts.

It won’t do you any good if you put all your energy into building the business, but you fail to understand how to get people to your sites or to sign up for your mailing list. You must know how to attract people - and the best way to do that, contrary to some advice, is not by forking over a lot of your money to pay for space online like with social media ads.

Instead, you want to channel your energy into your search engine optimization (SEO) efforts. Doing this not only draws in an audience organically (and free), but it makes a difference in your long term goal - which is making your business financially sustainable.

Day 1: Protect Your Business Reputation

You need to have a space online to operate your business. But not every space is going to be a good one. This is something that a lot of people make a mistake with. They see a URL that’s available, like how it sounds and snatch it up.

They don’t realize that the website may not be the best one for them to buy. People (and search engines) online remember those who operate using dishonest behavior. So if you purchase a website that’s well known for having taken advantage of others or engaged in super shady SEO tactics, then you may end up tainted by the same reputation.

No matter how much you protest or try to explain, you’ll never be able to reach everyone who has a bad experience with that website before you bought it. Comments and reviews and opinion pieces about businesses, websites and people stay online forever, so do some research and find out how the website you’re thinking of getting was portrayed in the past.

Not only will consumers have an opinion, but search engines may have buried the site for poor performance or shady behavior previously, and it takes a lot of work to clean up a domain’s reputation, so it’s better to start from scratch.

Day 2: Help Search Engines Analyze Your Site

It won’t do you any good to create a site that ends up with a poor ranking. This is what can happen if you don’t understand what kind of SEO steps to take in order to make sure search engines like your site and present it to their users whenever they’re looking for something.

You want to make sure that your site can easily be indexed by the search bots. In order to do this, you need to make what’s called a sitemap. A sitemap points out all of the interesting destinations that are within your website to the bot so it can be crawled and indexed.

The advantage of this is that you will then rank higher in search engines than those who have no good navigation and whose pages fail to get noticed by the bots. However, you don’t have to be a technical genius to create a sitemap.

All you need is a plugin such as Yoast SEO that will automatically capture a list of the links on your site. You can use any type of sitemap tool you want and upload it to Google and elsewhere so that bots know exactly where to go, quickly.

Day 3: Make Your Site One That People Can Trust

There are many bad players online. They engage in shady business practices or install malware on their sites that end up being bad news for anyone who happens to land on one of the pages.

That’s why a lot of people are hesitant when they’re online when it comes to giving anything personal. If they see a site that doesn’t have the lock icon in front of the address, they’ll immediately bounce off of the page.

That lock icon is something that ensures the audience that the site they’re visiting is legitimate and secure - and one that they can trust. This icon indicates that the site has a digital certificate that’s able to encrypt whatever is shared.

For example, if someone is inputting their email address or their credit card information, that icon puts the information into a code that protects it from anything that could be damaging.

Ask your hosting provider to make sure you have an SSL certificate for your domain. Some hosting companies charge extra for it, while others have it as an included perk for signing up with their company.

Day 4: Consider All the Ways Viewers Look at Your Site

It used to be that online entrepreneurs only had to think about desktop computers when creating a website. But as technology has branched out and become faster and better, that’s no longer the case.

Now, when people surf the Internet, they can do so on a laptop, tablet, notebook or smart phone. You want to make sure that your site can easily be accessed and navigated by formats other than just a desktop.

The number one way that people search online now is through the use of their phones such as an iPhone. You want to set up your site so that it adheres to the latest mobile phone parameters.

This means you need to check that the size, words and software are all compatible with the various types of phones that your audience may use. One way to easily and quickly check whether your site works well with phone viewing is to look up a resource such as https://sitechecker.pro/mobile-friendly-test/ that can check it for you.

Whenever you download a new plugin or theme, make sure you go back and check to make sure that it’s still compatible, because any changes can disrupt the appearance of your site, which Google and other search engines will frown upon.

Day 5: Website Speed Matters

If you remember hearing about old school technology, it used to take forever for sites to bring their pages up. That’s not the case now - or it shouldn’t be. If you have a site that takes too long for the audience to see what they’re searching for, that’s bad news.

Pages can and need to load quickly in order for the site to retain audience interest. Otherwise, you could have a high bounce rate. You need to make sure that your website is operating at optimal speed - however your audience is accessing it.

But you have to know the speed of your website in order to see if there’s a problem. Use a site like https://tools.pingdom.com/ to see if your website is operating quickly the way that it should be.

If Google sees that your site takes too long to load, they’ll give the traffic that would have been yours to your competitors whose sites load quickly. Again, always make sure you double check it after making changes to your overall blog or domain.

Day 6: Ensure Your Audience Has Easy Access

Because certain search engines get more attention and are better known, entrepreneurs have a tendency to forget that not everyone uses the same search engines.

Some people use ones like Bing, Brave, DuckDuckGo or Search Encrypt to do their browsing. You want to be sure that these consumers have easy access to your website just like those who use the bigger search engines do, so be sure to submit a stemap to each one for indexing.

You also have to make sure that you access other browsers to view your website yourself. You can use a resource such as https://www.browserstack.com/ but you do need to create an account in order to do so.

Some people use Chrome, while others use Safari, Microsoft Edge or FireFox. And believe it or not, there are some who are still on Internet Explorer. Check to see how your site looks and performs on each one for maximum optimization for all search engines.

Day 7: Label Your Blog for the Readers

One thing that you want to be sure you do is make your blog easily readable for viewers. This is more than just making sure you have a good text size and break up your posts for better reading - although that’s important, too.

This means that when you create a blog post, you want your readers to be able to locate it according to what they’re searching for. For example, if you have a website dedicated to health and fitness, you might group strength and aerobics under the exercise label.

By creating labels for your blog, also known as categories and sub-categories, you make it easier for new readers to easily find what they’re looking for as well as for them to continue to follow through.

This is helpful for both human users and search bots alike. Each time you publish a new post, make sure you put it under a relevant category. If someone enters your site through a post about general fitness, and they see the categories in the sidebar, they can navigate to the exact type of fitness posts they want to see – such as circuit training.

Day 8: Make Use of SEO Helpers

If you don’t actively work on optimizing your website with keywords, then you’re missing out on something that can really help your site perform and your business grow. Keywords are search terms that people type into a browser when they’re looking for something specific.

Use keywords and phrases in specific places like tags, where you identify what the post is about. You also want to use them throughout the content and in subheadings, without packing them in there to try to game the system.

Day 9: Specific Keywords Matter

In order to use SEO correctly on your site, you need to understand how specific keywords matter. These aren’t words that you pick at random that you think fit well with the content.

These are words that people associate with what they’re looking for. An example would be “dog training” which encompasses a broad variety of information. But when someone types in “dog training pads” then you know they’re talking about potty pads.

Use a variation of them, not the exact same phrasing over and over again. Instead of using the phrase keto diet repetitively, you could use phrases like low carb diet or high protein, low carb diet.

Make sure you use free and paid keyword tools to help you figure out how your target audience is searching. Remember, long-tail (longer) keywords will help you rank high because there’s less competition than broad, general keywords.

You might rank a post about high protein, low carb diets much easier than if you just tried to rank for keto diet. Longtail keyword phrases may not seem like they have much traffic, but when you’re ranking high for many of them, that targeted search traffic adds up!

Keyword stuffing, when you cram the same words and phrases in over and over again, could end up getting your site penalized. You want to use keywords with a plan in mind. Add enough for the site to rank well, but not so much that the site is saturated.

A good idea is to use the keyword once at the beginning, again in the middle and once at the end of the post. If it’s a super long, pillar blog post, then you might have a few more sprinkled throughout.

Day 10: Use SEO on Post Visuals

If you’re focusing your SEO efforts on your blog posts, then that’s a great idea. But you want to be sure that your blog doesn’t miss the chance to use keywords in different ways to help you rank.

Many entrepreneurs don’t realize that pictures on the site should also be optimized with tags. That’s because any picture on the site can also be indexed in search engines - but only if there’s text.

These are sometimes referred to as alt tags. When you write a post and you have a picture or two in that post, make sure that you always use alt text. Your text just basically describes what the image is.

If you write a post about a bug out bag on your survival blog and have an accompanying picture of one, then that text for the image would read as “bugoutbag.jpg.” That way, when search bots crawl the post, they see one more example of what the content is about.

Day 11: Summarize Your Web Page

When an audience looks for information in a search engine, they want details about what a site is about before they choose which one to click on. This is why you need to summarize your web page.

This is what goes into the description area that the search engines use. The label that you’re looking for when you fill it out will be in the code under “meta” and it might follow with either description, or name depending on what your site uses.

Fill this out so that your potential audience knows that your site has what it is they’re looking for. Put the most important wording at the very beginning so that it doesn’t get cut off on the search results page.

Day 12: Give Value With Your Site

It’s important that you focus on making sure that your content is beneficial to the reader. Take some time to write up a post that meets a need, offers advice or explains something to the audience.

When you give something that the reader needs, then the content is deemed helpful - not just by the reader - but according to search engine bots as well. Taking the time to create some longer posts (known as pillar posts) where you address something within your niche that the audience can take away will quickly make your blog seen as one that’s useful.

Even if you’re creating an affiliate blog where every post is a product review post, you can still share added insight and tips with the reader about how to solve a problem or succeed with a goal.

Day 13: Make Sure Your Website Is Current

If you’re like most people, you’ve come across a website or two that had posts containing ideas or facts that have changed with the passing of time. For example, a lot has changed about nutrition over time.

Those ideas and facts that once stated how people should eat are no longer current. As a result of those posts lagging behind, search engines steer people away from those sites to ones that are current.

You don’t want that to happen to you. So take some time today to check over your website to make sure that all your facts and information are current. Whenever possible, include evergreen information, but make it a point to periodically revisit your posts to go over them and freshen up the facts when needed.

Day 14: Manage Your Search Engine Results

When a user searches for something online, the browser will deliver a response based on what your website contains. Your site can be preferred over others in the response according to the way that you use links on there.

You want to be sure you have links directed from your site to other websites, but you also want ones from other sites directing users to you. In addition to that, you want to make sure that your website links within itself.

For example, you want a link in one of your blog posts pointing to another that might have additional information, resources, etc. Try to secure incoming links by posting quality information and even arranging backlinks to your site that are quality links.

If you write a post about cardio and you know you have a specific previous post about walking for cardio, then you might interlink to that post so that search bots and visitors can read more about the topic.

Manage your site so that any link is legit and based on delivering what the audience is looking for. When you use links correctly, you end up getting better traffic. Never join a sub-par link farm or engage in shady spamming behavior that can get your site buried in the SERPs (search engine results pages).

Day 15: Make Your Images the Right Size

There are some things that will slow down your website. This is usually anything that’s not text. For example, photos, especially large ones, greatly reduce the time it takes for the viewer to be able to see the page.

We talked about website speed in general, but now it’s time to focus on pictures that can bog your load time down. You don’t want to risk readers leaving your site. You want your site to be one of the go-to sites when people search for the terms related to it.

So on this day, you want to check how quickly images load and reduce the size whenever necessary. You can do this by using a resizer like https://imageoptim.com/ on any page that has an image.

Day 16: Hold Onto Your Viewers

If a website is boring or offers nothing of value, then readers don’t want to explore the pages. They’ll simply move on. When that happens, the search engines aren’t going to rank your site as well when people use the associated keywords.

That’s why you have to make sure that what’s on your website is valuable so that the site creates a sticky vortex that makes consumers want to stay longer. When readers get hooked, they not only stay longer, but they also return for more of the same helpful content.

The reason search engines care about this is because if a user is satisfied with where they were recommended to click, they’ll keep using that search engine for the best results, and of course, search engines make money based on their user numbers when they charge for ad space.

Day 17: Be Content Consistent

Good, quality content will always be in demand - but not if you’re hit and miss or you don’t upload new content regularly. When you upload content consistently, your site will rank higher in search results.

Don’t create content just to have content. That will only turn readers away. Whatever you write has to be relevant, and it has to be valuable to the reader. Frequent content being uploaded gets crawled quicker over sites that don’t publish as often.

Plus, it trains the reader to return because they know they’ll gain something for their time. Search engines don’t want to send people to a stagnant site and humans don’t want to follow someone who disappears for long periods of time, either.

Day 18: Know What Search Engines Are Looking For

Search engines don’t return search results for websites that are lacking what they want. These software systems want sites that know what they’re talking about and have established authenticity.

These websites base their content on what’s true and known versus content that’s full of false information. Whether you create content or direct readers to things that help them - such as cultivating links to other sites, books, videos or other content, you want to be sure that it’s good information and trustworthy.

Day 19: Be Active Online

You want to branch out from your website to be sure and include platforms like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok and more. These social sites and apps work to create bridges back to your site.

Plus, they bring attention and focus to your business brand. Make the content you have to offer important and helpful. Learn what the audience on each platform responds to and take advantage of that to connect with your audience.

Try a variety of social media formats. For example, use videos on YouTube and TikTok, pictures on Pinterest and Instagram, and hybrid posts elsewhere like on Facebook profiles, pages and groups.

Day 20: Use the Latest Search Technology

It’s easy to forget that not all searches are conducted via text. Many people use things like Google Assist or other voice assistant products or apps. Because speech is different from text, you have to learn to adapt the way you use keywords to fit that audience.

For example, someone using a voice assistant app might ask, “How do I start strength training if I’m over forty?” So then you would take that question and create a blog post with that search phrase.

In your blog, create your content to center around that topic and tell them how to get started. You want to tell them what else they can do or use that will help them with their quest.

Use the search phrase or entire question as the title of your blog post, and again within the post itself. Then use variations of it in the content, such as, “middle aged strength training.”

Day 21: Check Out Your Site’s Engagement Factors

People who visit your site but don’t stay can lower your ranking in search engines. The bots know how quickly someone leaves and you can, too by checking out your built-in analytics.

Look to see what pages people are viewing and how long they’re staying on the page.
When you see that people aren’t sticking around on a particular post, it could mean the engagement factor is off.

It might be that there’s too much text and it’s difficult to read. Or it might be that your content doesn’t have enough meat to it. Correct the problem and you’ll improve the engagement factor.

The great thing about SEO is that most elements are tweakable, so if something’s not working right, you can learn how to fix it, remedy the issue, and wait for search bots to crawl it again for an update.

Day 22: Stay on Top of SEO Practices

Once you’ve established your website, over time, you’ll be able to see the number of visitors you have. This could be quite high depending on what you have to offer the audience.

By consistently watching your data, you can tell if the number of visitors start to decrease. Sometimes, losing visitors means that the search engine changed practices and it’s impacted your site.

What you can do is look up the search engine algorithm changes to make sure that what you’re doing on your site aligns with their current guideline parameters. These things change frequently, so it’s an ongoing task you’ll need to keep up with.

Day 23: Take Advantage of Grouping Topics

When you’re creating posts, you want to use common search words and phrases that people most often use. But you also want to use related terms as well. One way to find these related terms is by using the search engine’s suggestion or automated questions or key phrases.

These items are always grouped together. If you do a search on Google for “exercise for senior citizens,” then the automated questions might pop up to include things like, “how to start aerobic exercise as a senior citizen.”

You can use this to write group topics on your blog that you tie in together. This is helpful in pillar blog posts, where search bots like to see a topic covered in a thorough and complete manner.

Day 24: Make Purchasing Choices Available

If you’re talking about items on your website, you obviously want to take advantage of earning a commission as an affiliate if people buy those items. But what you want to do is not limit your potential buyers.

Not everyone will shop at Amazon. Or, they might not like buying from another website. You don’t want to lose a sale just because you don’t give your audience a variety of choices.

So make sure you use buying choices that will take them to several places where the item is sold. Google and other search engines have recently added this as part of what they want to see from product review posts, so make sure you provide options when available.

Day 25: Look at Your Website Through an Editing Lens

Whatever content is on your website should have audience appeal. You want to check to make sure that what’s on your site is easy to digest, is entertaining, and is trustworthy.

Look for visual appeal first. Don’t have your content be made up of just words. Not only can that be boring, but it can look dry (even if it’s not) and make the reader bounce away.

You want to use stock photos and graphs or videos - anything to make the content look better. Check for run on sentences, poor grammar and common misspellings, too. Double check that your facts are correct, and that all of your links work.

Day 26: Mix Media for Your Readers

Another thing that can help your site rank well is what’s contained on the pages. Search engines don’t like plain sites. While you should have solid, written content, you shouldn’t only have that.

You also want to include various elements that your audience likes. This means you should break up your posts with photos. But you can also use podcasts or other types of digital files.

You can add videos or slideshows. You want your visitors to think that their time spent on your site was well worth it. People have media preferences, so if your post has text, an infographic and an embedded video they can watch or listen to, they’ll stick around longer and appreciate the effort you went to.

Day 27: Make Sure the Links Work

If a bot decides that your page isn’t up to par, it can impact the amount of traffic you receive because the search engine will see that as an error. One way that a website can fall short is if everything’s not functioning.

For example, if a search bot crawls your post and encounters a broken link, that will be a sign that the page is outdated and erroneous, which can ruin your chances of having that post rank well.

Day 28: Pay Attention to What’s Happening in the Moment

In every niche there will be breaking news, new discoveries, or hot trends. You want to jump on those because people are going to be searching for related information. You can’t write things if you don’t know they’re happening, so make sure that you stay up to date on what’s going on within your niche.

Don’t schedule a post about that “in the future” when something is breaking news. Do it immediately. For example, if you’re in the health news, you might look for articles about scientific discovers to reverse memory loss, so set up a Google alert for words and phrases that will help you stay in the loop.

Day 29: Connect with Your Audience

You want people talking about your business online. You want them to tell their friends and followers about your site. You want them driving traffic there for you. This creates backlinks that are genuine and organic.

This helps to positively boost how search engines view your site. Drive people to your content by including links in your lead magnets, in your email autoresponder messages and on social media.

When they engage on your posts, make sure you keep the conversation going and prove that your blog is more than just a published content domain – it’s a community that is thriving!

Day 30: Select Information for Your Website

You want to use the best SEO practices and one of those is to have curated content. You don’t have to rely only on content that was created or paid for as an outsourced item.

You can use content that comes from other places. You just don’t claim that as your own content, and you only share a snippet, with credit linking back to the original creator.

For example, if you’re in the mindset niche, you can use a positivity statement that someone said that can help form a good attitude, belief or habit. You can also have visual or audio content around a topic and then discuss that information in a post.

But you need to be sure that you highlight where the content comes from. You can do this by using a backlink to the person who had that content originally. People enjoy their words or work being able to help someone else.

So what can happen sometimes, is the person you highlighted in your post will turn around and highlight you. Don’t take someone’s entire blog post and share it on your post – but take a quote and link back to them, while discussing what you found interesting or helpful about their original post.

By using search engine optimization strategically, you can make sure that your content will be one of the chosen listings that are presented to users whenever they’re interested in finding information about your niche topic.

It might seem overwhelming at first, but you’ll create your own systems of natural SEO so that it’s part of your normal process. As long as you stay abreast of changes in the SEO world, you’ll be able to beat out millions of other sites competing for traffic around the same topic.

If you ever have questions about what’s beneficial or harmful in the world of SEO, they have a community on Google and other search engines where you can ask for insight. That way, you’re not putting in a lot of effort only to find out later that it didn’t pay off because you didn’t adhere to their stated or preferred guidelines.

Search engine optimization is not a punishment, but an opportunity to learn how to put your best foot forward and serve the needs of your target audience as a niche leader who cares about their experience on your domain.

30 Day Online Business Plan for Kids

One of the greatest things about the world of online marketing is that it has no boundaries when it comes to the age of who can begin building a business. In fact, many parents are registering their child’s names on social media accounts and domains as early as birth, to ensure they are always able to stake claim to their virtual real estate brand.

As your child grows up and is old enough to talk, you may want to get them involved in a business online – eithers one you do together, or something they can pretty much take over on their own with your overall supervision and approval.

The concept of raising a child entrepreneur is not only wonderful because it’s an endeavor that you can do together. But it also contributes to a healthy self-esteem, is a great educational project, and gives them something to grow into adulthood for financial stability.

If you question the ability of a child to earn major money from their online efforts, look no further than 10-year old Ryan Kaji, who started a YouTube channel called Ryan’s World featuring toy reviews that release once per day and earns anywhere from $11 million to $26 million per year.

That’s just one sensational story, but in households around the world, kids of all ages are working with their parents in their online home business and earning good money with niche websites, review channels and products.

Using the plan below, you can help your child navigate the ins and outs of building an online business that delivers for them in terms of personal satisfaction and profits. Some tasks will need your involvement more than others, but it’s good to have them involved in every step so they learn as you help them launch and grow their business.

Day 1: Pick Your Child's Brain About Their Interests

Before you ever present the idea of owning their own business to your child, you want to casually find out what it is they enjoy being involved in. It might be a sport, arts and crafts, video gaming, cooking, fitness, pets, and more.

It’s important that you don’t insert yourself into their answers. You want a genuine response based on their interests, not what you think is best for them. Unless you want them to eventually get bored and leave you with the responsibilities, let them voice their interests with you alerting them to the fact you’re asking about a potential business opportunity, which could sway their replies.

Day 2: Test the Skills of Your Child to See What They Can Monetize

Without discussing the business yet, you want to see how easy it will be for them to monetize their niche options. For example, have them write an article about one of the topics.

Would it be viable as blog content? Would people pay money to read it and feel they got quality content? What about graphics – can they draw pictures for things like coloring books or printables?

To find out, just get them to draw something like a simple animal. You might even bring home a toy or other product and ask them to record a video of them unboxing it and using it, giving their opinion of it.

These should all be fun tasks – not for any reason other than you just want to see how well they do with it. Don’t guide them just yet. You need to see their raw talent to gauge how much revision or tweaking you’ll need to have done, if any.

Day 3: Take Time to Consider the Attention Span of Your Child

Not all kids have the same ability to focus on tasks for any length of time. Especially after a full day of school, with homework on the horizon, they may not have anything left to give for a business.

At the same time, teens often find after school jobs, or work on the weekends, so they might be old enough and focused enough to handle the responsibilities of running their own business.

If you have a child who is unable to sit still or finish projects, then this may not be a good option for them yet. You may need to wait until they reach a level of maturity that allows them to handle work.

Day 4: Present the Idea to Your Child Correctly

Now is the time to introduce the idea of a business to your child. You can either present it as something you’ll be doing with them – or as something you want to help them get started so they can operate as their own business.

Don’t start with astronomical earners like the child YouTuber earning tens of millions of dollars, because kids may assume everyone who does review videos can earn that. They may not have a concept of the time and effort it takes to grow the business.

Mention to them that you’ve seen their skill for writing, drawing or making videos and you know they have an interest in whatever topic they told you. You can tell them you’d be willing to help them make money off their interests if they want you to.

You don’t want to force this on your kids. It shouldn’t be a chore. They have to be enthusiastic about their business or it won’t convert into profits for them. If they decline, say okay and let it sit on the backburner for now.

You might be able to periodically show them examples of people earning with the same types of skills and interests, but don’t nag them. As they sit and think about it, their interest in the idea may grow, and they’ll come back to you whenever they’re ready.

Day 5: Spend Time Brainstorming Money Opportunities with Your Child

If your child is receptive to the idea, take some down time when they’re bored and invest it in brainstorming the money making opportunities they have. For example, if they love toys, they could do YouTube videos and/or a niche toy review blog.

If you have an older teen who loves fitness, they could do YouTube, a fitness blog, write fitness info products, promote fitness gear as an affiliate, etc. If the child loves to draw, they could sell graphics as PLR (private label rights), as a service, as Etsy printables, and more.

Basically, you want to consider what they can earn if they created an info product about it, if they created digital downloads like low content printables, if they promoted products as an affiliate, if they had a service for it, or even if they monetized a social media channel for the topic itself.

Day 6: Have Them Come Up with a Brand Name for Their Business

A brandable name is an important step in developing a real business online. This should have some thought put into it, not something they blurt out in seconds. Have them make a list of possible brand names for their business.

It might be something including their name, like the YouTubers do. Or it might include a keyword phrase, such as Instant Homeschool Printables, where they draw or write pages that homeschooling moms and dads can print out for their kids in a variety of subjects.

After they’ve brainstormed to the best of their ability, make a list of your own and sit down with them and have them ruminate on the list to pick whichever one stands out to them the most.

Day 7: Set the Business Up Legally and Financially

You don’t know ahead of time how much your child will be earning. Their channel or business could take off quickly and you want to be ready for that. Set up an LLC or S-Corp for them in your state.

It may be as simple as claiming a DBA (Doing Business As) moniker. You may need to legally be involved or at the helm of this business, so check to see how it works in your state or country.

Don’t forget to set up a bank account and payment processors for the earnings in the business. You don’t want this mixing with you or your child’s personal financial accounts. It all needs to be separate.

Day 8: Consider Investing Seed Money in Their Business If Needed

To get started, your child may need a little start up help. For example, registration of the business, any product creation tools they may need, outsourcing expenses, and even things like an email autoresponder account, domain and hosting will need to be paid for before the business is bringing in money.

You can keep track of the expenses you provide and have the business repay you for them, or simply do it as a gift to help your child get started with a business of their own. Make sure you look for free options, like Canva or CamStudio before you spend a lot of money on Photoshop or Camtasia.

Day 9: Have Them Register a Domain for Their Brand

You need to have them register a domain for whatever brand they devised a couple of days ago. Even if they’re doing a YouTube channel initially, you want them to own the domain for it as well.

If the channel takes off, someone else will go grab the URL and can siphon off your child’s customers easily by attracting them to their website, telling them the channel name has changed, etc.

Day 10: Help Them Sign Up for Hosting

If the plan is to launch a website or blog, then they’ll need a hosting plan. This shouldn’t be an expensive plan – just a basic one that allows for one site. Later, if they want to grow their online business, they can increase their hosting plan with ease.

Day 11: Teach Them to Install and Set Up a Blog

Installing WordPress for a blog is very easy. Once the hosting and domain are connected, they can use QuickInstall to place a blog on their site in seconds. Make sure you keep a copy of the site’s login details in case your child ever loses it.

Help them get the blog set up with a Contact page, an About page (but be careful about how much information is shared with strangers), and a Services or Products page, if applicable.

Day 12: Register for a List Building Account for Their Business

Depending on their business, list building may be an important tool for growth and profits. It’s not necessary for all niches, like toys. But if you have a niche like pet care, health, etc., then being able to contact subscribers is important for your child.

You may need to register this yourself and screen any and all messages being sent, since this is something that could be problematic if your child accidentally sent a spammy message to their list.

Day 13: Register the Social Media Accounts for Their Brand

Just as you need to claim the domain, you also want to claim the social media accounts for your child’s business. If they’re older, they can do this themselves. But if they’re younger, you’ll need to claim it as your own.

Be sure to grab accounts on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, SnapChat, Pinterest and anywhere else your child’s audience may lurk. Even if you aren’t having them use it right away, it’s a good idea to claim the brand name on it.

Day 14: Have Them Create or Order the Branding Graphics for Their Business

Graphics for the brand are important for conveying a professional business. Whether they’re selling info products or services, reviewing products or something else, a recognizable brand will be good to have across all platforms.

You can put it on the third party selling platforms they’re using, on their website or blog, and in all social networking profiles they’ll be using to promote their business. If they’re talented, let them take the reins and create something themselves, but if they’re not, simply outsource it on Fiverr and allow them to voice the kind of look they want for their brand.

Day 15: Get Them to Time Their Creation Process

Whether they’re creating products as a service for others or to sell to consumers, you need to know how long it takes them from start to completion. Even if they’re recording a video, the process has to be timed before you can price it and set a schedule.

Some kids might take hours to write one page, while others can do it in ten minutes. You have to make sure that their ability to create matches what you’re able to price the item for, or else they’ll lose money.

Make sure you time it when they’re free of disruptions and distractions. If they’re working while chatting with friends, it might drag out much longer than the true cost of time it takes them to handle the task.

Day 16: Help Them Set a Competitive Price Sheet for Their Products

Prices may be something your child needs a lot of help with. They can easily under or overprice their products and services without your guidance. This is an area even adult marketers struggle with.

You don’t want to undercut the competition to the point where it looks like your products are subpar. But you can’t price them too high – especially when you’re an unknown newbie.

Look at current prices for similar projects and talent and help them price things like printables, full eBooks, services, and more. If they sell something like single sheets, make sure you also help them price a bundle of items at a slight discount and explain why.

Day 17: Have Them Map Out Their Reviews or Products

In the upcoming days, your child will begin the process of creation – whether it’s text, images or videos. To help them get an idea of what they’re capable of, have them map out a list of things they plan to finish this coming week.

For example, if they’re creating homeschool printables, they might plan to create one sheet per day, for a total of five if they only work weekdays. Make sure they list what they’ll be working on exactly each day.

For example, they might do a second grade math sheet on Monday, reading sheet on Tuesday, science sheet on Wednesday, and so on. Or they might do a coloring sheet of a dolphin on Monday, a giraffe on Tuesday, a sloth on Wednesday, etc.

They may only be doing one item per week, which is fine. Just have them make a list of what will be coming up in terms of topics or types of projects they want to work on. These could be subtopics of one broad topic, too.

Day 18: Set Up a Workspace for Them

For some kids, merging the worlds of relaxation and work will be a problem. But for others, such as teens, it may be perfectly fine, depending on the type of topic and business model they’re involved in.

You want them to have a dedicated work space if needed. It needs to be a quiet area where they can think or record, and also one clear of clutter so that their creativity is not stifled by their surroundings.

Day 19: Brainstorm a Schedule for Them with a Week's Worth of Tasks

Having a schedule for the types of projects or topics they’ll be covering is one part of the planning process, but they also need to have a schedule for other tasks involved, too. These include things like research, writing or recording, editing, blogging, sharing on social media, etc.

For example, if they plan to review products as an affiliate marketer, they need to plan the task they’ll be doing each day. That might include things like find a product to promote on Monday, research the pros and cons on Tuesday, write or record the review on Wednesday, edit and publish the work on Thursday, and share it on social networks on Friday.

Day 20: Have Them Create Their First Product and Give Feedback

On this day, let your child know that this is the real deal. They’ll be creating a product for sale or an official product review in an effort to make money. It’s important that you alleviate their fear of making sure it’s perfect.

There are editing tools they can use for both video and text that will clean up most problems or mistakes. Have them finish the work and then give it to you for honest, constructive criticism that will help them become better, if needed at all.

Day 21: Set Up Third Party Platform Accounts for Them to Sell on

Depending on what kind of products or services your child will be selling, go ahead and get their business account set up there. This may be places like Warrior Plus, JVZoo or ClickBank for info products or PLR.

Or, it might be Etsy for printables. You may even have them set up on sites like UpWork, Fiverr or Udemy, so make sure you research where it makes sense for them to have a listing.

Day 22: Help Them Learn How to Create and Publish a Listing

Most third party platforms have a knowledge bank that explains exactly how to create a listing. Help them take their first product creation and publish the listing on the platform where they’ll make sales.

Sometimes, this can be a big learning curve until the process has been done repeatedly. It might help to make a screencast video of you going through the procedure so they know how to do it themselves from that point on.

Day 23: Sign Them Up for Affiliate Marketing Programs

Even if they start off as product creators, becoming an affiliate can add more revenue to their online business. For most niches, you can have them make recommendations or even just link to products they’re discussing in a blog post or video that can result in commissions.

You can sign their business up on Amazon, Commission Junction, Share-a-Sale, JVZoo, ClickBank, Warrior Plus and many other vendors who have affiliate programs built in to their sites directly.

Show them how to grab their affiliate link whenever they’re writing a blog post or publishing a video on YouTube so they can link to it and earn money whenever someone buys through their link.

Day 24: Teach Them to Research New Ideas and Competition

Part of being a successful online entrepreneur will be their ability to come up with innovative ideas and to track trends so they can meet the needs of their customers. For example, if they wanted to get into creating coloring books, they’d want to see what trends are selling well on Amazon, such as mandala coloring books.

You can teach them to look at the competition – not so they can copy them, but learn from them. You can also give them access to a paid or free keyword tool that can help them look for search trends.

These will be especially helpful in niches like video games, toys and other niches where trends change quickly compared to evergreen niches like pets or gardening. Even cooking has trends that they can capitalize on, such as when Instant Pots or Air Fryers take the cooking world by storm.

Day 25: Show Your Child How to Repurpose Their Creations

Many kids get burned out on work, as do adults. One great thing about online marketing is that you can help them take their existing for and repurpose it to help their business grow.

You might show them how to take a YouTube product review and turn it into a transcript for a text-based blog post with hyperlinks to affiliate products. Or vice versa – show them how to take their text blog post and use Canva presentation slides and a screen capture tool to make a video review.

If they’re creating things like journal pages or other simple printables, show them how to start working from a readymade template so they can tweak little elements along the way and have new products with very little work.

Day 26: Help Them Learn How to Use Private Label Rights and Public Domain Content

Some shortcuts can be a blessing when your child starts feeling the burden of their workload. Private label rights can help them with blog posts, emails, social networking posts, or even info products.

And public domain content can be a great foundation for them to use, whether they’re working with text, images, video or some other media format. Explain to them the rules of using these types of content, and how it can serve as a springboard or replacement for their work when they need a break.

Day 27: Filter and Sort Through Offers That Come Their Way

Kids are very adept at using social media – more so than most adults. It’s very possible they’ll grow a huge following, quickly. So you need to be onboard to help them sift through the incoming offers and messages.

Some may come directly through their website’s Contact page, while others might come to their social media inbox. The messages might be from people wanting to purchase something, from competitors who want to collaborate with them, from prospective joint venture partners, or even sponsors who want to pay them for an ad.

And unfortunately, if a child of any age is representing the business, you may find some horrible individuals who engage in unsavory or even illegal behaviors. You want to protect your child from these people as well as from any business agreement that’s not a good fit.

Screen the messages for your child’s account, or (if they’re older), have them send serious offers to you to vet, and report anything else that’s offensive and harmful on the platform.

Day 28: Have Them Analyze Their Stats to See What's Working and What's Not

Watching statistics is an important part of growing a business and keeping your child from making mistakes and losing money. Details in the statistics can show who is buying, where they’re from, what kind of content keeps them engaged, and so on.

They have analytics built into their cPanel in their hosting account. They also have some insight built in to certain platforms, like Warrior Plus or Etsy, for example. You can see what’s selling, what the conversion rate it, what the refund stats look like, etc.

If they have an Etsy printables shop, for example, and they see that elementary school printables are outselling high school printables, then they may want to focus on making more of those to increase their revenue and prevent wasted time on things that aren’t as lucrative.

Day 29: Consider Having Them Monetize the Story of Their Child Entrepreneurial Efforts

As they embark on this journey, there’s another avenue they can go with their talents. Starting a blog, podcast or YouTube channel strictly about their journey of making money online is a wise investment of time.

Not only can this result in many opportunities from reputable sources who want to interview your child about their business (since it’s something many have interest in, but most don’t know how to pursue), but it can be a profit puller, too.

For example, if your child is discussing how they started a blog, they can link to the domain registrar, the hosting company, the page builder, and more and earn commission off of every person who buys the same through their link.

They can also start putting out info products about making money online. These can sell to kids like them or adults who have struggled and are looking for inspiration from others who achieved success.

You don’t want to overburden them with too much, since they’re in school. But they might want to make a weekly vlog or podcast about being a child entrepreneur. The following they gain might also translate into opportunities in their other niche from potential partnerships, sponsors and more.

Day 30: Check in to See If They're Satisfied with Their Business

If they business model they’ve been working on is not delivering for them in terms of happiness, don’t be afraid to let them switch gears. You might try something we’ve already discussed above, or something new, like allowing them to self-publish fiction books on Amazon.

From early readers to complex young adult fiction, they can write, edit and publish a fiction book at no cost upfront. This is a great way to help a child tap into their creativity and get rewarded from it at the same time.

Raising a child entrepreneur takes patience. You have to approach things in a way that lets them feel like they’re in control, not being forced. You have to motivate them and help them find their enthusiasm.

There are many people who have a dream of someday being their own boss. They hear about online entrepreneurs and think of how great it would be, until they actually get started and find that following in the exact footsteps of the people they learn from isn’t much different from being in a corporation.

That’s because most people are so desperate to succeed, they feel if they don’t do what others are doing, they may not have a chance to profit. If the instructor showcases a niche site example about diabetes, they build the same, even though they have zero interest or enthusiasm for that niche.

The key to appreciating your new career is to take the strategic and technical lessons and then apply them to a niche and business model that you do enjoy. The best place to start is with the hobbies and activities you like doing during your off hours, whether that’s reading, gardening, or cooking – to name a few.

Almost any hobby can be turned into a lucrative online business if you know how to set aside your fear and tap into your enthusiasm and passion for what you’re doing. If you’re willing to share your efforts, others will become loyal followers who contribute to your online earnings.

Become an Entrepreneur Based on What You Truly Love

There are sometimes things we enjoy doing, but when asked about it from a potential business perspective, we never connect the dots of how it would work. Instead of trying to see the profit potential up front, start by simply making a list of things you enjoy.

For example, you might like to paint or do some other arts and crafts projects during your off hours. Maybe you hit the links and play a round of golf every weekend to unwind.

No matter how insignificant you think it may be, jot it down in a list of potential business ideas based off the hobbies and activities you enjoy. You’ll learn how to monetize it, but the first task is to choose something you’d be thrilled waking up and working on day after day.

If you pick a niche solely based off profit potential, you’ll quickly find that you dread having to create content for it, having to research the topic and engage with customers who need insight.

Not only is it doing yourself a disservice to lock yourself into a career that bores you, but it’s also not fair to the consumer. They deserve to have someone to turn to who is dedicated to the topic, looking for cutting edge advice and who enjoys answering questions and being part of their community.

Beginners Welcome - You Don't Have to Be an Expert

When you start making your list, you may have brainstormed a few topics that you don’t consider yourself an expert in. Most online entrepreneurs aren’t experts, to be honest. They’re simply people who enjoy what they do and who want to share it with others.

If you’ve been employed in a fulltime career for years, you may have even found it hard to come up with many hobbies, because to date, you haven’t had much time to pursue anything.

By the time work is over, dinner is complete, and the kids are off to bed, you find it hard to keep your eyes open, much less do something fun that you enjoy. Now is the time to start thinking about what you would find fun.

Even if it’s something you have always wanted to learn, but never found the time – that is a perfect opportunity to develop a business. Consumers love seeing someone’s journey unfold from beginner to expert.

They’re along for the ride, and you can genuinely help them because the questions and problems you’ll have and run into are the same ones they’ll have. This helps the consumer not feel “stupid,” like they sometimes do when having to turn to a true expert and ask what they consider a dumb question.

Because you’re a newbie, too – they’ll feel relaxed and at ease asking questions and engaging with you about the hobby. Plus, if they see you becoming a success, then it lends credence to your claim as an expert later on – as opposed to those who simply claim it, but nobody knows what their experience truly is.

If you do get into a niche hobby that you feel you’re a beginner at, take time to learn and share your findings with others. Not only will you be perfecting your skills – whether it’s with photography, your golf swing, or how to cook a juicy chicken, but you’ll also be showing others that you take time to level up, and that you’re a leader worth following.

Don’t worry about the possibility of weeding out people who are in that hobby who are ahead of you in terms of skill and knowledge. That happens to even the top people in their field eventually.

Focus on those on the same level as you, because when you’re doing this as a fulltime or part time job, you’ll quickly climb the level of success and experience and your label as a newbie will be short-lived.

You might even want to pursue the niche hobby site from a slant for beginners, because even as you escalate your skills, the site will enable them to grow with you. And of course, if you are already a seasoned expert, that can help you attract an audience, too!

Earning Commission By Giving Your Opinions

So the question after you pick a hobby to pursue is, “How can I make money with it?” There are many ways, but one of the easiest ones is by giving your opinions and recommendations about products, courses and other tools.

Affiliate marketing is a business model that’s perfect for making money with your hobbies. It consists of guiding others to the right products they should buy, which entails you discussing their options and which products you believe would be best for them to buy.

What you’ll probably want to do is begin by building a blog for your niche hobby. On this site, you’ll be talking about everything from how to do something to what they need in order to do it.

For example, if your hobby is grilling, then you’d teach them how to grill meats and vegetables, but also teach them which grill they should purchase, too. You don’t only make money off the main product, either.

With a grill, for example, you’ll be talking about all of the various accessories they have available to them such as forks and tongs, spatulas, meat injector kits, basting tools, meat thermometers, cooking gloves and more.

Every time someone takes your recommendation and follows the link to the site where it’s sold, you’ll earn a commission. The link is coded to credit you with the sale. You can send people to individual product links or search results pages on sites like Amazon.

When you have a niche hobby blog, sometimes you’ll have posts that are strictly review posts. For example, you might have a “Top 10 Indoor Grills” blog post. Each product in the list can link to that specific product, but you can also link to the “all indoor grills” results page on the site.

Another way you can earn is by weaving your affiliate link into the instructional blog posts that you share. So let’s say you want to teach people how to grill juicy chicken breasts.

Your blog post can walk them through each step. At some point, one of your instructions will be for them to check the temperature of the meat they’re grilling. You can either link out to meat thermometer pages there, or send them to another blog post on your site that teaches them how to check the temperature of meat when it’s grilling.

You can simply add a quick note that says, “I personally prefer this meat thermometer because it alerts you whenever the meat reaches the temperature that you set.” You would hyperlink the words this meat thermometer to the product you want to recommend and earn a commission on.

Teaching What You Know to Other Enthusiasts

As a niche hobby blogger, you’ll be teaching other people what you learn or already know. You can do this on your blog, but also other places, as well – including those that are monetized.

In addition to posting lessons and tutorials on your blog, your lessons can trickle out in email autoresponders to loyal subscribers. You can set these up on autopilot to drip out over time to all new subscribers.

You can also create broadcast emails that go out the day you write them. Just keep in mind that if you use broadcast emails, then people who sign up at a later date will not see these messages because they weren’t on the list at the time they were mailed out.

But you can also create information products where you sell your expertise in the form of a course to the people who want to learn more about it. These info products can be in eBook form or video format, depending on what your hobby is and how you feel comfortable teaching it.

A good example of this is the golf niche. This is a lucrative hobby that you can find hundreds of books on. Some have images and some just have step-by-step instructions and tips.

But there are also many videos people upload and video courses that people pay for in order to learn how to improve their game on their own time, without having to pay for personal coaching.

You’ll have competitors who also create info products for the hobby, and for those, you can act as an affiliate and promote them in exchange for a larger commission than what you often make with tangible products.

Once you have your own info product, you can approach your competitors and ask them to promote your product in exchange for a commission (typically about 50%). This also helps you add their subscribers onto your list, which means you can promote to them in the future.

If you’re not sure what your audience wants to know, besides thinking about what you wanted to know when you first got started in the hobby, use keyword tools and other methods to figure it out.

If you were going to create a YouTube video or a section of your info product about knitting, for example, you could run a search on a keyword tool for how to knit and you’d see results like: how to knit a blanket, how to knit a scarf, how to knit a hat, and so on.

Using those exact keywords in your posts will bring in traffic to your site from the people who are eager to learn. Then, you can direct them to your full course that teaches them everything from soup to nuts.

10 Lucrative Hobbies and How You Can Monetize Them

If you’re at a loss as to how to monetize hobbies, you might want to choose from some of the top ones with plenty of money making opportunities. These aren’t the only options – there are many more – but it might give you a bit of guidance to get started.

1 - Reading and Writing

Do you end each day curling up with a good book? Books are one of the top sellers on sites like Amazon. In fact, many authors give free copies or even pay people to read and review their books.

You can also promote and create courses that teach people how to write their own books, both fiction and non-fiction. With self-publishing platforms like Amazon Kindle, it’s easy for anyone to pursue their dream of being an author – and you can help them with it.

2 - Cooking, Grilling and Baking

If your heart is in the kitchen, or even outdoors cooking, then you might want to be a part of this lucrative niche. Not only can you promote things like grills, bakeware, cookware and accessories – but you can also promote cookbooks and recipe books that you create or have read and enjoy.

3 - Gaming

Gaming is a good niche for both men and women and it can focus on one or multiple platforms. Some people like playing video games on a PC, while others prefer a PlayStation, for example.

4 – Photography

More people are becoming amateur photographers. It’s not just reserved for professionals anymore. Not only can you promote the affordable to top-of-the-line cameras, but the accessories, such as lenses, cost a pretty penny, too.

You can also create or promote courses that teach people the fundamentals, how to take better pictures, or how to take a specific type or photo, like a portrait. These are skills that can help them launch a business of their own.

5 - Sports

With sports, you can certainly create a site and business built as a fan of major league sports. With this, you could promote things like jerseys, for example. But it also might include things golf, skiing, fishing, biking, tennis or some other sport they can participate in and not just act as fans.

If you’re in a hobby sports niche, then you can earn money promoting the equipment (like golf clubs or a tennis racket), but you can also promote training equipment and courses that help the person learn how to improve their game.

6 - Beverages

When you think about relaxing, you might think of what beverage you enjoy while you do it. That may be freshly brewed coffee, beer or wine. Some people really take their love of beverages to the next level and make it a hobby, brewing their own beans for coffee and making their own wine or beer.

You might also target the mixology niche, where you’re teaching people how to make mixed drinks. For the home brewers, not only do they want instructions for making the best beverages, but they also need the equipment to do it, which can put profits in your pocket!

7 – Bodybuilding

Some people can’t stand exercise, some do it for health – and others pursue it as a hobby, like bodybuilders. Bodybuilders need tips and insight, but they also need things like weights, meal prep containers and supplements that you can earn from.

8 - Arts and Crafts

One of the most common hobby niches is arts and crafts. This might include drawing, painting, knitting, sewing, candle making, crocheting, scrapbooking and more. People love buying courses and tools, like the paper, paints, fabric and other items.

9 – Traveling

If you love to travel, whether at home or abroad, you might want to make a niche hobby blog from it. People love following along and getting travel tips, and you can make money from travel accessories like luggage – or earn commissions as a travel agent, too.

10 - Gardening

Not only is gardening a hobby, but it’s a stress relief tool that helps people stay healthy, too. You can make money promoting gardening tools and accessories and also from courses on raised bed gardening, container gardening and more.

There are so many other hobbies you can get involved in that serve as wonderful moneymaking opportunities. Whether it’s woodworking or camping, or something with a smaller following, you can lead fellow enthusiasts in their quest and have fun each and every day as you build your business.

Money-Making Niche Blog Ideas for 2022

If you're thinking about starting a career in 2022, one of the most popular business models for newbies is that of a niche blogger. This business model is perfect for everyone from stay at home moms to senior citizens - and anyone else who wants to share their advice and tips with others.

Once you decide to become a blogger on the Internet, you need to select a niche that will deliver in terms of personal satisfaction as well as online profits. You may not know whether or not a topic you're interested in would convert into revenue.

We're going to take a look at a dozen individual niches so that you can get an idea of how to analyze whether or not a topic would be profitable for you. You'll also begin to understand what kind of content you will be sharing and how you will build your brand.

Making Money with a Money Blog

Finances are a big concern for just about everyone, whether they are at or below poverty level or have plenty of money to do whatever they want. When it comes to the topic of money, you can tap into this niche with a blog that helps people invest what they have, turn their credit score around, and even earn more with their career.

The first thing you want to do when considering launching a money blog is figure out how you want to help people. Is it your goal to help people who are struggling learn how to live a life of abundance?

Or are you more well versed in taking an existing money stream and expanding it or teaching people how to save and invest? Once you decide what your goal is, you will begin to look for affiliate marketing opportunities that you can promote to these individuals.

You'll also want to consider whether or not you have the expertise and knowledge to create your own line of info products. There are many different routes you can take with this.

For example, you can find debt and credit repair info products already available online that are ready for you to promote. You might also decide that you can create your own course to teach this strategy, complete with templates and scripts that your audience can use to improve their credit score and eliminate debt.

Another way you might decide to monetize this niche is to offer services. There are some people who can help coach individuals on how to improve their money situation, whether it's the issue of credit and debt or something else - such as starting their own business online to earn more.

See How a Stress Blog Can Help You Earn a Lot

The stress relief niche has always been a popular one. However, over the past couple of years, this niche has grown a tremendous amount. People are more stressed now than they ever have been.

When the pandemic hit, people were left without a job, unable to see their loved ones, facing a severe health threat, having to suddenly homeschool their children, and worry about their finances.

Even under normal circumstances, men and women have to face a great deal of stress in terms of career, relationships, health, and other issues. This is an evergreen niche that you can monetize easily.

People are looking for ways to not only eliminate stress, such as learning how to set boundaries with toxic people, but they are also seeking tips on how to manage stress that cannot be eliminated.

You'll be able to provide lots of great content about things such as deep breathing, better sleep, spa products, and even supplements that are designed to help combat cortisol, the primary stress hormone.

This is a great niche for dual profits. You will be able to promote both tangible and digital products, either as an affiliate or as a vendor. You can also target certain demographics, such as stress relief for parents or stress relief for elder caregivers, etc.

Blog About the Growing Survival Prepping Niche

Because of the current state of the world, the survival prepping niche has gone mainstream. It's always been around, but now, ordinary individuals are learning the importance of being prepared for a disaster and stocking up on supplies.

This is another amazing dual profit niche that allows you to promote tangible supplies, such as bug out bags, 25 year food buckets, water storage containers, first aid and defense items, and more.

But they also need guidance on how to use these tools as well as how to weather the storm, both literally and figuratively, when a survival situation occurs. You can approach your niche blogs from a broad standpoint, or for a certain demographic or topic.

For example, you might cover survival prepping for seniors or women. You could also have one or more blogs that focus on individual survival topics, such as homestead gardening, survival self-defense, and more.

Profit By Helping People Get Fit and Healthy on Your Blog

Another great evergreen niche is fitness and weight loss. Not everyone needs to lose weight, but everyone wants to be fit. You can focus on one or both of those topics and create a blog that you can monetize easily.

This is another example of a dual profit niche, because people want to learn the strategies involved in choosing and sticking to a good nutrition plan for their weight loss goals, but they also may need tangible items such as a food scale, weight scale, exercise equipment, etc.

You can also approach this for specific demographics. For example, fitness for new moms, for people over 40, for diabetics who may have to be careful about exercising and watch their blood sugar, etc.

The great thing about this niche in terms of monetization is that once your audience member achieves their goal, they don't abandon you. In fact, they stay tuned so that they can ensure they never return to the previous state they were in.

There are many weight loss and fitness products listed on ClickBank. You can also purchase readymade info products that are being sold as private label rights and branded as your own info product.

And of course there are thousands of tangible items that you can promote as an affiliate on Amazon or elsewhere. Don't forget that there are many different subscriptions you can promote, including digital programs and food delivery services that will offer recurring income.

Capitalize on the Trend of the Revenge Travel with Your Niche Blog

Travel used to be somewhat of a high end niche topic. Although there are people who take a road trip and save money, most of what travel niche bloggers promoted were vacations that required air travel, car rentals, and hotels.

There is some possibility for some digital sales in this niche, but most people aren't buying eBooks about it. Instead, you will be able to monetize your content from the services that they click through to use as well as the tangible items that you are able to recommend.

This would include things such as luggage, neck pillows, maps, travel guides, luggage scales, and more. In the beginning of the pandemic, many people had to cancel their upcoming travel plans and have felt cooped up for two years.

That's why the travel industry is now experiencing a boom called revenge travel. This is a situation where those who have felt restricted can now unleash their travel ability and go almost anywhere they please.

If you are going to start a travel blog, you can certainly target a specific demographic, such as solo travelers, families, women, or senior citizens. You can also have a specific slant such as traveling on a budget, and of course you can monetize by being a travel agent who earns commission, too!

Guide Inquisitive Parents with Recommendations and Advice on Your Blog

The parenting niche is a wonderful blog topic because you are effectively able to guide your audience from the prenatal stage all the way to adulthood of their children. Even before someone is pregnant, there's a niche for those who are dealing with infertility or even the pregnancy planning stage.

Parenting is definitely a dual profit topic. They will devour info products on things such as how to potty train a toddler or how to teach your child a certain skill. As they grow older, the topics may evolve into things such as how to deal with bullying.

Along the way, you will have the opportunity to promote a variety of tangible products. What may start out as recommendations on your favorite pacifier or baby swaddling blankets will grow to advice on how to pick the best Christmas gifts for your teenager.

What's great about this niche is that you can also cater to the needs of the parent and not just what they need for their child. For example, parents will be dealing with a changed body from childbirth or stress from being up all night with a colicky baby and you can teach them how to deal with those issues.

You can slant your blog to a more narrow topic if you want to. That might include something like parents of twins, single parenting, parents of children with Down syndrome, and more.

Pick a Health Topic and Become the Go To Niche Blogger for Tips

While weight loss and fitness are two great health topics that you can get involved in, you can really choose almost any niche health topic and start a profitable blog from it. For example, the diabetes niche is very lucrative.

This is another dual profit niche blog topic that you may want to consider – especially because of the number of citizens who have this disease. People who are diagnosed with type 2 diabetes need help learning how to manage their new lifestyle.

It can be very overwhelming for them, and suddenly they have to understand how to take care of their health in terms of what they eat, their stress load, their sleep schedule, exercise, and more.

At the same time, they may have tangible product needs that you can recommend for them. They will need monitors that will help them keep track of their blood glucose levels. They may also need things like diabetic socks or compression products.

If you are helping them lose weight to assist their diagnosis, then you may be able to also recommend things like diet programs that are safe for a diabetic as well as nutrition products like meal prepping containers and food scales.

Diabetes isn't the only health niche that you can blog about. You can blog about gout, general chronic pain, back issues, headaches or migraines, memory loss, etc. You can take something broad, such as anti-aging as a health topic and blog about that or narrow it down to one specific subtopic, such as memory loss.

Use Your Blog Platform to Help People Tap Into Their Creativity

One thing many people are beginning to pursue are creative outlets that help them alleviate stress and even earn a living in some instances. With arts and crafts, this niche can assist people in managing or eliminating stress in their life because they are focused on the artistic task at hand.

However, with the invention of sites like Etsy and social media accounts on platforms such as Tik Tok, more and more people are taking their artistic talent and making money from it.

You can teach people how to do both, and not only will you be selling digital info products in the form of text or video courses, but you can also recommend many of the supplies they will need to carry out their hobby.

You can promote many different artistic and creative topics such as woodworking, painting, drawing, coloring, knitting, playing an instrument, and more. You don't have to be an expert yourself, but you must learn along the way and share what you are learning with others.

Blog Your Own Cooking Channel Using Images and Videos to Teach and Earn

Are you someone who loves to cook at home? There are many people, both men and women of all ages, who would love to learn from you. There are thousands of blogs about cooking that people become loyal followers of.

The cooking niche is profitable because of the recommendations you can make - primarily in the tangible world. For example, you can promote a variety of items on Amazon that include everything from a countertop mixer to baking dishes, meat thermometers, and more.

You can create your own cookbooks or promote those of other individuals. You can tie your cooking into a specific diet plan or type of food, such as Mediterranean. You can focus on one type of meal, from appetizers to entrees or desserts.

If you want to have a specific slant for your cooking channel blog, it might be cooking for one or cooking for two. You might have a slant that helps busy parents cook nutritious food without much effort after work.

You can even monetize your blog with recommendations for food service delivery programs, where the family receives a box of ingredients along with instructions to make the meals.

Profit with a Blog on the Soaring Homeschool Niche

Another profitable niche that you may want to consider starting a blog about is homeschooling. Like the survival and prepping niche, this has always been around, but was less popular previously than it is today.

At the beginning of the pandemic, parents were forced to go to an at home educational scenario, and many decided they liked it better than the traditional school system. However, they don't know where to begin on their own, so you will be able to create or promote courses for them, templates, lesson plans, and more.

They will also need a variety of tangible products for home to create their own schooling area. This might range from a simple pack of pens and pencils or a teacher planner - all the way to a desk and laptop.

One thing you may want to do is begin creating printables for a variety of grade levels that moms and dads can download at a small fee and use to teach their little ones. You can sell these on Etsy or directly from your own site.

Another way you can parlay this topic into additional profits is to help the home schooling parent learn how to make money from home. Many of these men and women have had to give up their career in an effort to school their child at home, and yet they need the second income.

Be a Part of What Pet Parents Are Spending Money on Using Your Niche Blog

If there's one demographic that spends a lot of money on someone other than themselves, it's a pet parent. Whether it's a dog owner, someone who owns a cat or bird, or other animal, chances are they will be buying a variety of info products that help them learn how to best take care of their pet.

You can blog about tips that help them learn how to bathe and care for their animal in terms of hygiene. They will need to learn how to best feed their pet, how to train them for behavior issues, and more.

They will also be purchasing quite a few tangible products. From the food that they feed their pet to collars, leashes, beds, cages, etc., you can make these recommendations based off of your knowledge and earn a steady commission from them.

Use the High Demand of Digital Dating to Rake in Blog Profits

Another niche that has been around for awhile, but which has soared during and since the pandemic is digital dating. Over the past decade or more, people began turning to apps and websites that helped them meet the right person.

However, once the lock down occurred, and people could not meet others at the workplace or in social situations, dating apps and websites have generated even more interest.

You can create a blog that not only helps people figure out the right tools to use in order to meet Mr. or Mrs. Right, but you can also educate them on how to find their soulmate. There are many people who simply feel as if they lack the confidence to put themselves out there and interact with someone else in an effort to find the love of their life.

Some people, primarily men, need help learning how to approach a woman without being shy. Some people would like help learning how to date over text messages, which is more prevalent among younger people these days.

From a monetary standpoint, you can promote and create a variety of courses that teach people the etiquette and strategy of finding a date or finding their forever partner. You can also make money connecting them to the various apps and platforms they will be using to meet these individuals.

Whenever you begin your journey to become a blogger on the Internet, you want to first map out a plan of attack. Start by selecting your niche and making sure that it has ample profit potential.

Next, brainstorm a comprehensive list of the topics you plan to cover on your blog. This will help you create a publishing schedule that ensures you are thoroughly covering the niche topic for your target audience.

You will also want to create a list of all of the places that you can go to monetize your niche topic. Start by mapping out the digital products. This may include places like ClickBank, JVZoo, and Warrior Plus.

Then, make a list of all of the tangible items you can promote by looking on sites like Amazon, Commission Junction, Share a Sale, and directly from the vendors themselves on their websites.

More than anything, have fun with the process. You want to have an enthusiastic and engaging personality as you help guide your audience to their goals. As your blog grows, so will your ability to influence those in your niche as a leader.

Online Lazy Jobs for Gen Z and Millennials

Some recent news reports have seen reporters mocking 18 to 40 year olds who are pursuing unheard of work-life balance. They've coined the term “lazy job” for what Gen Z and Millennials are seeking in terms of a career, but there's really nothing lazy about it.

What this demographic is searching for is a job that doesn't wear them down with stress and endless hours at a low paying position. These generations have seen their parents complain about having to work around the clock, without having anything to show for it at the end of the day or into retirement.

Instead of scoffing at these individuals who have awakened the desire for something better, more guidance needs to be delivered to help people achieve their goals. While news media is rolling their eyes at the concept, the truth is, anyone can carve out a place for personal satisfaction with a job that enables them to make plenty of money and enjoy the flexibility and lifestyle they deserve.

The major pitfall that many in this demographic have fallen prey to is that they associate work from home jobs with that same freedom and opportunity. You can't simply make the decision to change locations and still expect the personal satisfaction you desire.

However, if you make the move to work for yourself online, which happens to be at home, you will not be restrained by the hours and wages that a company offering telecommuting positions will burden you with.

Below, you’re going to see how you can launch a low effort, yet profitable business that allows you to set your own schedule, earn from unlimited and diversified income streams, and pursue your passions rather than being cornered in a corporate job you can't stand.

There's Plenty of Room for You in an Online Work Environment

Some people in these generations mistakenly believe that only those who have encountered a stroke of good luck get to succeed online. This is not true – there are many people who are not well-known earning a substantial living online, enjoying all that life has to offer in the process.

There’s not too much competition for you to launch a thriving business online. Competition is a wonderful thing in this career – it signals an interest in your niche or services.

Whenever there are far too few people doing something, it’s a sign that there may not be enough interest. Some in these generations mistakenly look at the top influencers and assume there’s no more room at the top.

You don’t have to have millions of followers and be a household name in order to earn plenty of money and provide yourself with the kind of life you've always wanted to live. You can easily earn six or even seven figures without anyone knowing who you are.

That's another great thing about the career of an online entrepreneur. You can choose to put yourself out there as a niche leader, or you can choose to maintain your anonymity.

This is a perfect fit for those who want to pursue many of their different passions under a different pen name with their blog and social media content. You can be anything you want to be with this career, and you don't have to worry that there are already too many competitors.

If you think about it from a consumer’s point of view, you probably like to learn or follow many different people even on the same topic. For example, if you're studying how to make money online, you're not just going to listen to one person, but you're going to see what many different people have to say.

Not only do people teach different strategies and ideas, but they do it in different ways, even if they are in the same niche as someone else. You might have someone who is very fun and motivational, and another leader that is very serious and professional.

The goal with this career is not to see who can accumulate the most followers, but who can convert their followers into paying customers and clients. So you may see many competitors who appear to be doing very well because of their follower count on social media platforms, but that doesn't necessarily translate into money that hits the bank.

Even if you choose a business model like freelance work, clients will often hire multiple workers to tend to their projects. And if you are selling info products or promoting products as an affiliate, you'll find that your customers are listening to many different people, not just you and not just someone else.

Instead of worrying about the competition or whether you will fit in well as a leader in a certain niche, you need to spend your time focused on planning your business strategically and honing the skills that you plan to use when catering to your audience.

A Flexible and Lucrative Online Career Delivers on Personal Satisfaction

There’s a misconception that Gen Z and Millennials are anti-work. They’re not. You just want a low-stress job – not one where you wake up dreading work every day, like so many corporate earners feel.

Some companies only let their employees work at home part-time, or force them to work certain hours. With a job as an online entrepreneur working for yourself, you’ll work from home full-time, and set any hours you want, whether it’s at midnight or noon.

In a corporate job, you might have a boss breathing down your neck or coworkers complaining about everything. Working for yourself, you wear many different hats in your business but you get to make all decisions about how (and when) things are done.

Some people will put up with the poor working conditions and lack of personal satisfaction in exchange for a steady paycheck, but you can create a stable and significant income as an online entrepreneur.

Many Gen Z and Millennial men and women are actively trying to find a way to leave their jobs. They don’t want their job to define their entire existence from the time they wake up until the time they go to sleep.

As a work at home entrepreneur, you will need some self-motivation. But when you’re building your own business, you’ll find you have far more enthusiasm for your tasks than when you’re forced to do something because someone else is making you do it.

You can work from a home office, your couch – or even in bed if you want to. You can take your laptop out to the pool, take it on vacation with you and work with an Internet connection – whatever setting brings you the most comfort and happiness.

While you may not necessarily have coworkers, you can have colleagues in the same industry and be networking with people all over the world. You will also have customers and clients in different countries and states, which is very satisfying to people who want to expand their reach in terms of communication.

You don't need any type of fancy setup when it comes to your technology. A simple laptop will suffice, as long as you have an Internet connection. In fact, there are some people who build their entire business working from a smartphone.

You can start a business at no cost whatsoever, or you can invest a bare minimum of $5 a month to have your own website and hosting. This is an affordable solution for anyone who considers themselves as part of the Gen Z or Millennial generations.

One of the biggest things this demographic is concerned about is work-life with balance and being able to enjoy their free time. While you do have to work to be an online entrepreneur successfully, there are many ways in which you can automate and eventually outsource your work so that you have a more hands off approach, freeing your day up for things you enjoy.

You will no longer be burdened with the expenses or time considerations of a commute in traffic, which brings wear and tear on your vehicle. And you don't need to invest in a work wardrobe.

People may laugh at the thought of someone saying they work from home in their pajamas, but this is the type of comfort that can be afforded to you when you are a solo entrepreneur.

You also won't have the expense of having to participate in work functions, such as contributing to someone's baby shower or birthday party. And you won't have to worry about having to turn down lunches with colleagues if you can't afford anything more than a sack lunch.

Those who work in traditional roles often find their mental and physical health lacking. They are rushing to get to work, spend all day doing things they don't enjoy, and come home in a hurry to go to sleep and do it all over again the following day.

There is very little time to renew your mental spirit or to focus on your physical well-being. Not only is there very little time to exercise, but standing in the kitchen preparing a healthy meal is usually out of the question as well.

However, when you are an online entrepreneur working from home, you can take breaks to manage your physical and mental health around the clock. You won't have to ask your boss for a break or ask for permission to take off and go to the doctor whenever necessary.

If you have a family, you'll be able to cater to their needs as well, whenever you are needed rather than having to hope you have time off with pay whenever you want to be with your spouse or children.

Basically, these generations are redefining what success means. It doesn't always mean a single monetary focus, but instead a well-rounded one that includes the financial results as well as the personal satisfaction.

You want time to spend on personal growth, not just trying to climb the ladder of a corporation. You don't want to have to beg for a raise, but you want to earn your income to the best of your abilities.

You want to have your skills be appreciated and be able to make an impact in the world rather than being stifled and told what tasks to do each day. Having a desire to be valued as you work and to end each day feeling happy about what you've done is just as significant as the financial aspect of a job.

When you have the freedom that an online career affords you with, you'll automatically be less stressed and more productive. You'll get to explore different business models and niches according to your passions and skills, and this will deliver in the form of financial benefits as well.

No one is saying that money isn't important period in fact, one reason Gen Z and Millennials want to pursue this type of career is because it offers unlimited income potential.

These are generations that have seen their own parents hit a ceiling in terms of what they can earn, and witnessed the stress they feel whenever they are denied their due raises.

As an online entrepreneur, you can diversify your income stream and even eliminate the commitment you would have to have in the corporate world. If you want to focus on individual gigs as a freelancer, you can do that.

Or, if you want to earn from different niches or business models, you have that ability without being stuck with something you aren't happy with. Even if you build up a website and decide you no longer want to be in that niche, you can sell it as an asset by flipping it to another marketer who wants to take it over.

You can choose to enter the marketplace in one of many different ways, which we’ll cover shortly. The diversification of income gives you financial stability. If one method of making money falters, the same as a corporation going out of business or an employee getting fired, you’ll have something to fall back on.

You can start out with one business model, and slowly add others on or branch out to different niches if you want to increase your earnings that way. All it takes is the ability to create content online that attracts an audience you can convert into sales.

You No Longer Have to Be Trapped in a Traditional Work Role

Let’s dig into the niches and business models that can free you from the traditional, boring job market. The first thing you want to know is that you don’t need a degree or any special certification to pursue this career.

You could even be a high school dropout, and still find something to build a business around online! Nobody is looking at your education or experience. What they want is valuable insight and advice.

Unlike a traditional workplace, where seniority is what determines salary, you can start earning right away without having ever spent a day prior in your business. All you need is the ability to research ideas and share content with your audience.

Ideally, you’ll enjoy your career – so choosing a niche that you feel passionate about is the best way to build a business. However, you might have knowledge or skills about something you’re not necessarily excited about, and it’s okay to go that route, too.

This is also a great time to learn new things. For example, if you’ve always wanted to learn how to be a successful container gardener, why not start a business about it online and be committed to it?

People love learning from those who are on the same level as them. When you are sharing your attempts at success, they will be glued to your journey as they follow along side by side.

You'll be able to tell them what courses you are taking, what tools you are using, and reporting your successes and failures so that they know what to do and what to avoid. This is a great way to earn from your own experiences.

There are so many different things you can earn from when it comes to niches online. While growing up, you may have had parents who scolded you for spending too much time playing video games.

But now, you can earn money from gaming – being an affiliate marketer who reviews gaming systems, guides, accessories and games. You can have a social media profile where you earn as part of the creator funds or from gifts given to you from followers.

You might have an interest in health and fitness, and you can turn that into a lucrative career. Even if you’re a plus sized individual or someone who has a health condition, you can lead the way for others who need someone guiding them in that niche.

If you love pets, turn it int a niche! If you have an interest in survival prepping, that is a very lucrative niche. Even if you like helping people with their relationships or with skincare or cleaning and organization, those are all niches you can make money with it online.

Don’t forget, you don’t have to go broad, either. Instead of just focusing on gardening, you can choose vertical gardening, hydroponics, growing tomatoes, small space gardening, etc.

The same goes for fitness and health topic, and all the others. You can do survival prepping or just canning survival foods. You can do pets or just chihuahuas. You can do relationships or just dating after divorce – however drilled down you want to go, as long as there’s enough interest in your topic.

Whenever you have a list of possible niches, do a little research to see if there’s enough interest in it. This will usually be determined by whether or not there are plenty of digital and tangible products, and how much engagement accounts are getting on social media.

Sometimes, you can spot patterns of things you notice where the audience is not being served well. These are known as gaps in the marketplace. For example, you might see a lot on gardening, but not very much on small space gardening on an apartment balcony, for example.

If you can find a way to position yourself to stand apart from the rest, you’ll experience faster growth. But don’t worry if it seems like a crowded marketplace. Over time, you might see opportunities to expand out in your niche, or drill down in a more defined manner.

In some cases, you’re not going to need to select a niche at all. If you’re a freelance service provider, for example, you’ll be working for people who have a niche of their own.

When it comes to the business model you’ll use, part of it will depend on what your skills are and part of it on what is in demand. For example, if you aren’t good at writing, you might want to avoid business models where a lot of writing is involved.

There are dozens of different business models to choose from. Freelance service providers work for clients, but you maintain control over who you work for and what projects you do.

If you have the ability to write, create graphics such as eCovers or social quote posters, or handle administrative work, you can start a business as a freelancer and set your own schedule and rates.

You won't even need to have your own website if you don't want to. There are many platforms such as Fiverr and Upwork that will allow you to create a profile and portfolio. You can also network with online entrepreneurs and use word of mouth to get clients.

Another business model you can choose, which is very popular for people who don't have a lot of money to get started, is affiliate marketing. You don't have to have your own products or even your own website, and you can start promoting other people's products on social media platforms.

With this business model, you will earn a commission for every sale that is made through your referral link. You can earn from both digital and tangible products. You can apply to affiliate programs on platforms like ClickBank, JVZoo, Warrior Plus, Amazon, Share-a-Sale, and Commission Junction to name a few.

Another business model you might choose to pursue is developing information products of your own. These can be things like eBooks that people download to read, or it can be video courses where they watch a tutorial or learn information in this media format.

There are other types of digital products that you can sell as a vendor, too. For example, you can sell coaching to your customers, software or plugins, and the other gadgets that you don't have to ship.

Even though you may have discounted the idea of becoming an influencer because it felt unachievable, there are many micro influencers who earn a significant living online without having the same major following as top influencers.

As long as you can build a following on social media, you can use tools like Patreon, content creator funds, sponsored posts, and the gifts that followers are able to send during live streams and get paid for the knowledge and influence that you have.

If you like the idea of this, but you don't want to put yourself out there as the public face of your brand, you can also use AI influencers, which are becoming increasingly popular.

Another business model you might want to try is selling printables. If you are artistic or like to come up with organizational content that people can print, such as calendars, planners, journal sheets, and even homework sheets, then you may want to design these pages that you can list for sale on platforms like Etsy and Shopify, where they will sell again and again and snowball your earnings as you grow your store.

There are other business models, such as drop shipping, FBA (Fulfilled By Amazon), private label rights sales and more that you can research to see if it would be a good fit based on your skills and personal preferences.

Keep in mind that in terms of income, some of these are going to be limited or take longer to earn from while others will allow unlimited earnings from the very beginning. For example, as a freelance service provider, you are going to be limited by the number of hours you can devote to your business.

But with rates, you can start out competitive with your pricing and then increase your pricing as your client list becomes more selective and secure. However, there will come a point in time where you don't have any more hours to devote to your business, so you will hit a ceiling.

With other business models, your income will grow as you add products and promotions. This is true with affiliate marketing, info product development, printables, and private label rights.

The more content you have available for people to buy, the more revenue you will see. So it might start off small in the very beginning, and grow into something significant. This is why it's important to have some sort of income to sustain you as you start and grow your business online.

Even with affiliate marketing, there may be a short term payoff or something that takes a bit longer for you to reach a threshold of earnings or the specific amount of time required by the platform to get paid, such as Amazon's 60 day wait period.

Each of these business models is going to come with its own set have pros and cons. For example, freelancing allows you to hit the ground running and earn almost immediately, but you are still working for someone else to a degree and completing projects based on their specifications.

With affiliate marketing, you have to put in the effort upfront to get your content ranking and noticed by search engines as well as human visitors. But once you develop that following and ranking, you should be able to see your income grow from there.

Many people love becoming an influencer or info product developer because they get to share their own opinions, insight, and knowledge with an audience that appreciates what they have to say.

Choose a business model that not only provides you with the financial opportunities and flexibility that you are looking for, but also the personal satisfaction that will make you wake up each day eager to get to work.

Tools and Strategies That Free Up Your Time for Fun Activities

Now that you know the options available to you as an online entrepreneur, you want to think about the very reason you’re doing this – to enjoy work-life balance. That means you want to work smarter, not harder.

It can be a lot of work to build your own online business. But thankfully, there are strategies and tools that will allow you to shortcut your processes so that you're not spending as much time on your business, and instead being able to enjoy life.

The first thing you want to know is that there are ways to automate many of the processes in your business. For example, if you are going to be blogging or marketing via email, or even publishing content on social media platforms, you can schedule these messages ahead of time to go out at a specific time so that you don't have to be glued to your computer.

On a WordPress blog, you can queue up content to publish at an exact time and date – and you can do this weeks in advance. Using an email autoresponder, you can queue up months or years’ worth of emails in advance that will nurture your subscribers while you’re off doing other things.

Using tools like Hootsuite, you can schedule social media posts across many different platforms. You can do batch work and complete tons of writing all at once and then take off and do things in your personal life.

You can also delegate or outsource your tasks to others if you have the funds. Just begin reinvesting your earnings and hire people to do your writing, graphics, and marketing tasks.

You can also repurpose your content so that it is working for you across multiple platforms. For example, you can take a blog post and use it as a transcript to create a video that you put on YouTube or TikTok.

Or, you can take a video that you created and create a text transcript from it and post that as a blog post or social media post, or even use it in an email autoresponder to send to your subscribers.

You can also use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to do some of your brainstorming, creative outlining, and the writing. There are also AI tools that can create images and even videos or work as influencers on your behalf to cater to the needs of your audience.

You’ll want to master your time management skills so that you’re productive and efficient where you’re earning money while not having to work as hard. You’re not “lazy” like the media claims – you’re smart!

Always prioritize your moneymaking tasks first, but incorporate the mundane administrative tasks and learning or growth measures into your routine, too. Don’t be tempted to start devoting too much time to your online business.

Maintain a space for you to enjoy like and the relaxing hobbies that give you joy. Spend time with your friends and family, travel and engage in stress-relieving measures so that you’re able to work as your best self.

Creating Something That Serves You Well Into Retirement

Sometimes, you'll hear about online work and simply think about short term gigs. However, you can build something that will generate a retirement income for you. There are ways to scale your business so that your profits grow, but your workload decreases.

If you choose a career that is based on services, like coaching or freelancing, then you may have to continue working into your golden years. But if you create something like a store that will give you residual earnings over time, you can use it as an asset to fund your retirement and lifestyle whenever you want to quit working.

When you are choosing how to monetize your business, such as with affiliate marketing, you may want to look specifically at those options that will give you passive or recurring income, such as promoting memberships that continue to pay month after month.

Or a comma if you are creating your own line and empire of info products, choose topics that are evergreen in nature and not those that are quick trends that will soon dissipate and fail to provide you with any sort of income.

As a solo entrepreneur, you are going to be responsible for your taxes and retirement savings, so make sure that you are setting aside a little bit for your future with every bit of revenue that comes in.

This is a career path that can serve as a legacy business, if your heirs want to get involved. You can teach them how to become online entrepreneurs and make it a family operation.

As long as you are treating your customers well, and catering to their needs, you will build a solid reputation as a niche leader, and maintain a steady stream of earnings that will support a healthy, well balanced lifestyle.

Building a business of your own is something anyone can do if they have the drive and determination to have a career that fulfills them, and financially supports them in the process.

Don’t let anyone box you into a career path that doesn’t provide the life you feel deserving of. No one can prevent you from achieving your full potential, because most of the naysayers simply don’t understand what’s involved.

The Highway of Passion

When work, commitment, and pleasure all become one and you reach that deep well where passion lives, nothing is impossible.”

You have a 9 to 5 job drawing a good pay, you have a good family and all’s well
with the world. But deep inside, you feel like you are going nowhere. The job isn’t
moving upward either. You are actually stagnating in your career and mentally
and spiritually. Something is missing.

Passion. The one quality that textbooks and instruction manuals and company
procedures will never talk about. Everyone is in such a hurry to make you fit
perfectly into the machine like a well oiled gear, that they forgot you are a living,
feeling human being. Even you have forgotten.

Ask yourself. If I had a million bucks in the bank, what kind of work would I be
doing? Would I chuck this humdrum job and move on to something really
exciting? Something that I have always wanted to do? Then ask yourself – why
am I not doing that right now? Is it because of peer pressure or because I don’t
want to move out of my comfort zone? Don’t want to rock my boat? You are half
asleep in your boat already and in a few years, you could be put out to pasture! If
the boat rocks now, you could be jerked awake and come to your senses. Your
passionate senses.

In the aftermath of the recession of 2008, millions of people lost their jobs. Many
of them took up new vocations and suddenly found that they were finally
following their dream. Many of them are now highly successful in their new
found professions.

You don’t have to wait for dire straits to rock you out of your present mediocre
life. You can decide right now, that you want to live and work passionately and - 7 -
make your life worthwhile. The Highway of Passion is an amazing ride. And
Prosperity is just one of the landmarks on this route! Get ready for the ride of
your life!

Finding Your True Passion

What’s your real calling in life?

“Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.’ – Georg Hegel, German philosopher

So you have decided to break away from the pathetic monotony of your regular
job. You want to live fully and passionately and reap all those rich rewards at the
end of the rainbow.

How do you find out what you are truly passionate about?

How do you separate the delusions from the do-able?

You could be passionate about becoming the King of Spain, or winning the lottery or ruling the world.
Indeed, there are people who have dreamt of that and done it. Alexander the
Great ruled almost the entire known world in his time.

But what is your true passion?

Here are a few steps you can take to discover the currents that move you deep
inside:-

1. Read your own body language. How does your body behave at your
   present job? Does it tense up and ache all the time? Do you get panic
   attacks very often? Are you so bored that you doze at your desk? Do you
   keep looking at the clock as break time approaches? Then you are in the
   wrong job. You simply don’t have the passion for it. When you work on a
   job that you are passionate about, all your aches and cramps will dissolve.
   You will find yourself working extra hours, talking to your friends about
   your work and simply bubbling with life.
3. What did you love doing as a child? Your childhood hobbies and
   obsessions can indicate a genuine passion. Education and family pressures
   often move us away from our true calling. Did you love bikes or gardening
   or trekking? Then maybe a career in the automobile or landscaping or
   travel industries is where you should be! So sit back and recall your
   childhood and write down your memories. What made you smile then may
   still make you grin today and in the future.
5. What do you love doing as an adult? You might very well have passionate
   side pursuits even today. Do you love your moonlighting job more than
   your regular day job? Many corporate honchos work the night shift as
   chefs or night school teachers. Start spending a few hours every day on
   your pet hobby. It may just hold the key to the real you!

Reviving Passion

Passion can be unleashed in various ways; one way is to change the
circumstances that engulf you.

“Rest in reason; move in passion’ – Khalil Gibran

Sometimes to unleash true passion in yourself, you may have to change your job
to suit your aptitude better. But you may find that you do love your existing job,
but simply don’t feel very passionate about it. You can study your situation and
then try to make a few changes to rekindle the passion you felt when you first
started working.

Visualize yourself working passionately at your job. What would you be feeling? A
sharp focus, clear vision of your future, total control and mastery over your work,
a healthy body and an exuberant attitude! Then reverse engineer these symptoms
to regain your passion.
Check on whether you work better with a team on the field rather than those
solitary hours at a desk. Are you logical minded or creative minded? Are you
crunching numbers when you would rather be in the design section? Get a
revised aptitude assessment done. Ask your superior for a redesignation or
transfer to a more appropriate department.
Exercise your body for at least thirty minutes every day. Let the adrenalin pump
and flow in your blood. Eat healthy food and drink a lot of water. Quit smoking
and using any stimulants. Restore the balance between your spirituality and
physicality by meditation and prayer. Your refreshed body will invigorate your
mind and passion will return.
Increase your knowledge of your field by taking new study courses. Take time out
to travel and widen your perspective. Take a half-pay sabbatical to add new
qualifications to your resume. Some lateral career movement can bring an
innovative twist in your way of working.
Passion does not come overnight. Taking these proactive steps will see a gradual
increase in your enthusiasm. You will begin working with a newly fired zeal which
becomes contagious, motivating your team mates as well. You will have - 15 -
consciously taken charge of your life again and the fruits of prosperity will be in
sight once again.

Curiosity is one igniter of true passion.

Passion Force 1 - Curiosity

What drives passionate people to work so hard? Where do they get their energy
from? Passion can be fueled by many factors. Let us examine 6 most important
sources of the Force.
Curiosity. One of the most powerful triggers of human invention has been
curiosity. Why does something happen? How does lightning occur? What
happens if you mix two chemicals? Which route will discover new lands? The
human mind is programmed to question everything around it.

Discoveries take place when this curiosity becomes a passionate driving force. It
takes on a relentless unstoppable energy which will not rest until a solution is
found. Thomas Alva Edison tried out thousands of versions of the electric light
bulb until he came up with one that worked. Madame Curie and her husband
Pierre Curie spent all their lives unlocking the secrets of radioactivity. Steve Jobs’
search for a better computer user interface finally gave us the Apple computer
with the now familiar graphical user interface using icons, which eventually
spread to the whole world of computing in the form of Microsoft’s Windows.

Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama, Roald Amundsen and all the great
explorers of the world travelled passionately in the quest of conquering new land
for humanity. After centuries of looking up at the moon, Neil Armstrong and
Edwin Aldrin actually walked on the lunar surface. Nothing can stop the force of
curiosity and the determination that it fires up.

Success stories in the workplace often arise out of sheer ignorance. An employee
may find he knows nothing about a particular field and begins learning it to
satisfy his own curiosity. Pretty soon he has mastered it and is teaching the world
a few new things about it.

So step out of your ‘known zone’ and venture into the unknown. There just may
be a discovery waiting there, with your name written on it.

Passion Force 2 - Challenge

Without challenge in your life, you could hardly make the most of what you are
passionate about. Infuse your passion with the right quest and you will do much
better at it.

Our search for the sources of passion brings us to yet powerful factor – Challenge.

A challenge can be posed by a person upon himself or by external forces. A
personal challenge can arise from adverse circumstances of poverty or
deprivation. Rags-to-riches stories have been told for hundreds of years now.
Even Presidents of countries have arisen from humble beginnings and risen to
their positions of power by the sheer force of their passion.

Family prestige and a desire to prove one’s mettle to one’s elders and t society can
also act as a challenging force. When a son inherits a business built by his father,
he is propelled to expand that enterprise and thus demonstrate his own prowess.
While most companies have boards of directors and public equity, in many
traditional societies, it is the family-driven businesses that persevere, even over
the centuries.

Targets set by corporate leadership also act as challenged to work teams. A keen
competitive spirit between rival groups can set off a passionate chase of the
markets. Pepsi and Coca Cola, Nike and Adidas, are a couple of examples of
passionate rivalry, with each seeking to outdo each other in the pursuit of a better
product and more sales. In these mega rivalries, passionate employees move
quickly up the corporate ladder. Belief in the company’s goals and ideals is
essential to engender passion in employees.

Sometimes the source of the challenge may lie closer to home. The love of a
woman or one’s children can drive a man to succeed with the intent of providing
better care and education for them. We are motivated to buy a larger and better
house, a bigger and faster car, the latest cell phones and clothes. All these must
haves also act as challenges and rewards for our work.

It is upto each individual to determine what challenges him or her and then as
Nike’s motto says – Just do it! Your natural challenge instinct will push you
through. When a mountaineer was asked why he climbed a mountain, he
answered – Because it is there! Its very existence as an insurmountable peak was
a challenge to him!

Passion Force 3 - Legacy

Summary
When tapping on your passion, one thing that should be uppermost in your
mind is that you need to leave a legacy for others.

When you are young, your motivation for working and living lies in larger
income, better standards of living and in general having a good time. But as you
grow older, your priorities change. You want something more fulfilling. You seek
to achieve goals that you will be remembered for. A sense of urgency begins to set
in as time passes. And the source of your passion arises from wanting to leave
behind a legacy.

That legacy may take the form of social change brought about by your work. Or it
can be in an enterprise or institution founded by you. Many successful
businessmen set up foundations and trusts in the pursuit of noble causes. Thus
they seek to perpetuate their name or family name for posterity. An invention or
a new process or a novel product can also enshrine the maker’s name in the books
of history.

Temporal pleasures and petty rewards do not satisfy someone working at this
level. His or her passion seeks loftier goals. The greater the goal, the more fervent
the passion. Revolutionaries and freedom fighters like Mahatma Gandhi and Che
Guevara struggled all their lives for the liberation of their countries. Their
ambitions encompassed the lives of millions of their countrymen. The sheer
magnitude of their legacy consumed their entire lifetime, but it was a passionate
lifetime, with every day spent in pursuit of that goal.

How do you set about leaving behind your legacy? What is it that you feel
strongly about? Write down your strongest emotions and issues. They may even
lie outside your present work area. Start working on those issues. Educate
yourself and acquire new skills if you have to, and get to work. It may be a simple
project like improving your community, or a major reform of state laws.
Remember that all the great men and women who have brought about change
were ordinary men like you and me, but they had the power of conviction and
passionate belief in their dreams.

Passion Force 4 - Faith

Be trusting. Have faith that you can realize the full potential of what you are
passionate about.

One of the most powerful engines of passion is faith in an external agency.
Though faith may seem to have been marginalized in today’s seemingly rational
society, it still works behind the scenes in many areas.

Religion plays a dominant role in the lives of millions of people in the world
today. Priests, nuns, monks, sadhus and mullahs are known to accomplish
tremendous feats of social work and penance. Their faith in God and their
religious ideals is the rocket fuel in their lives.

The term evangelical fervor come from a passion driven by a belief in God and the
desire to convert other people to your way of thinking. This passion has sent
explorers out to new lands, triggered numerous holy wars and changed entire
demographics and cultures.

Oriental martial artists go through harsh training regimens and become lean
mean human fighting machines. Their ruthless discipline arises from the strict
codes of their specific martial art. Their devotion to this credo and their all
consuming faith in the mentor or sensei turns their lives into passionate
experiences which are not for the feeble or faint of heart.

In modern sports we see the same phenomenon displayed with players and their
coaches. A dynamic coach can inspire his team to put in a passionate
performance. If the players do not have faith in the coach or their fellow team
mates, the team fails to coordinate and the game is lost. The faith equation
between sportsman and trainer is particularly important in endurance sports like
gymnastics and athletics.

A footballer may in turn be driven by his faith in his fans. A corporate executive
may be passionate about his employees and shareholders. Faith, emotion and
inspiration are alive and kicking in every corner of human activity.

Which external agency are you focusing on? God? Your boss? Your coach? Your
community or country? Decide on what moves you and use that agency as a star
to guide you and drive your passion.

Passion Force 5 - Altruism

Blend your passion with the thought of doing good to humankind.

Altruism is defined as ‘unselfish regard for or devotion to the welfare of others’
and also ‘behavior by an animal that is not beneficial to or may be harmful to
itself but that benefits others of its species’.

How does altruism become a force of passion? In the ongoing recession we have
seem millions of jobs being lost. Many of these people have taken up volunteer
work in social or environmental organizations. And quite a number of them have
discovered that this selfless work gives them more satisfaction than their high
paying job ever gave them. Their paradigm has shifted from the prosperity of the
body to the prosperity of the soul.

The concept of altruistic work has often been mocked by an aggressive
materialistic society. Social workers are called ‘do-gooders’ and there is always a
cynical and contemptuous ring to that phrase. But after years of ruthless ladder
climbing, people often cherish the ability to be themselves and help other people.
Bill Gates of Microsoft built a huge empire through ruthless corporate tactics,
often getting embroiled in monopolistic practice lawsuits. But after all that, he set
up an equally huge foundation that disburses vast sums of money to fight disease
and improve education.

Altruism is generally overruled by stronger passions geared towards material
success in the early years, but as age advances, altruistic thoughts resurface and
become a primary passion in most of us. This is probably because we know that
great people are remembered less for the millions that they make, but rather for
their service to humanity.

No volunteer or social worker ever starved. While there aren’t any millions to
make in selfless service to the lesser privileged sections of humanity, the rewards
of spiritual fulfillment are tremendous. The same passion that runs a corporate
unit can be brought into play in running a successful Non-Governmental
Organization or a Not for Profit outfit. All your skills can be well utilized in these
noble ventures and you will see your passion suddenly multiply.

Passion Force 6 – Epiphany

Understand everything you need to know about your passion. You never know
when you achieve your nirvana.

One of the definitions of epiphany is ‘A comprehension or perception of reality by
means of a sudden intuitive realization.’ That’s a moment in your life when you
are suddenly struck by a powerful thought that changes your life forever.

A lifelong passion can be triggered by an epiphany. Saul the persecutor of the
followers of Jesus Christ undergoes an epiphany on the road to Damascus and his
life is changed forever. He went on to becoming one of Christ’s greatest apostles.
Such a life changing incident occurs in the lives of many great men. It may be
something provocative that someone says to you. It may be the sight of another
human being suffering. It can be a sudden realization that you hate your present
job and you decide what you really want to do in life. Sometimes an epiphany can
be a harsh tragic event like the demise of a family member or some colossal
disaster somewhere in the world. Your eyes open wide and all the shades fall off.
You can see clearly around you and far ahead.

You do not have to sit and await an epiphany to change your life. Read good
works of literature, listen to inspiring music and songs, travel around, meet
people and you will be struck by a light on your own road to Damascus.

The Epiphany is also a Christian feast which celebrates God being revealed to
Man in the form of Jesus Christ. So this can be taken as a metaphor for the
spiritual being in us manifested in the physical form. Which is what passion is all
about. Our spiritual energy driving our material body to achieve ideals and goals
that are godlike!
Inventors and discoverers experience epiphanies all the time. Archimedes was
struck by his discovery of buoyancy and ran out yelling – Eureka! Eureka!
May you too experience an epiphanic moment and share old Archie’s happiness!

Passion at Home

You needn’t go much far to realize your passion.

Getting passionate about your career and blazing a glorious path at the office is
great. But don’t let your loved ones suffer from a lack of passion at home. A
proper balance has to be struck by giving love to your spouse and children too.
A passionate lifelong affair with your wife or husband can do wonders in your
work life too. You are happy and relaxed and your body glows with the healing
effects of healthy loving sex. The love you shower on your children is also
reciprocated many times over.
A man is truly respected if he excels in all his roles – as a worker, a son, a
husband and a father (and even a grandfather) and a community member.
Devote time and passion to all these roles. When you have genuinely mastered
the art of passion, you will find that it pervades every minute of your day, be it in
the boardroom or bedroom or playroom.

Passion can become a double-edged sword if not wielded properly. Spending
hours and hours of obsessed extra time at the workplace can affect your health as
well as your family relations. Neglecting to attend your son’s school events and
not cheering him at his football match can create an alienation that can never be
repaired. An unfulfilled spouse can also prove very damaging in the long run. A
marriage can fall apart and a string of unhappy one night stands can never take
the place of a loving caring relationship.

Passion is not about throwing huge family parties where everyone can feed on
your wealth. It isn’t about giving a no-limit credit card to your wife or the latest
bike to your son. It is spending time and effort to share your life and soul with
your loved ones. Passion lies in transmitting your passion for life to your
children, your wife and all around you.

Your passion could be a great tool that could take you places.

Don’t stifle it. Don’t let it die.

Instead, give it the right fuel and watch it blaze like an inferno. This would be
the inferno of your success.