No matter what the statistics tell you, some sites will soar and others will flop and you are a better man than I am if you can work that out 12 months in advance. My rule is, that if a web site does not triple my financial expenditure in a year, I drop it.
I do not count the pieces of writing because they can get recycled to aid other pages and the web pages can be recycled as new web pages on new or old web sites or, at the last resort, into pieces.
For that reason, I have classes of loosely related sites based on the main subjects I have identified, to wit, love, sport, cars, health, travel etc.
The main thing is to start with what people would like – not what you would like. Then, strive to find a niche within that market that interests you. The more removed your personality is from the norm, the more vital this is.
Never start with yourself, but you can twist the topic back to something that you know something about or are willing to research because you are keen on it. I do a heck of a lot of research and really like doing it.
I am not interested in collecting gold and gems, but my wife is and she asks my opinion often, so I am learning. Her son is getting married on 28-12 and he has to give his wife an ounce of gold as a present – that is what her mum wants for her, which is a further incentive to learn about gold, investing and market trends and swings, because I have to stump up for that gold.
There are so many items to write about.
I would like to create a site on orchids – I know nothing about them, but they grow like weeds here and they are my wife’s favourite flower. If that is too narrow, maybe ‘Thai Gardens’.
I was in Nan yesterday renewing my visa. I have already written a website on how to get a visa, but there is a stone-age tribe living in Nan Province of northern Thailand! 285 km from my house. They live in bivouacs and are nomadic. They are 10,000 years behind the remainder of Thailand.
My wife is getting skin growing across one of her eyes. It can easily be taken off and will require doing after the wedding, but I can see a website on cataracts coming up.
There are hundreds of millions of us Boomers so topics for us are sure to be well-liked. We are aging, entering a new stage of life, are computer literate and are not destitute. That’s a fantastic combination.
A further thought is: a man on the radio said the other day that there are more middle-class people in India than the total population of Europe. Imagine that!
And it is increasing by hundreds of thousands a year. And China is double the size of India. So they have (or soon will have) a middle-class equalling the populace of Europe and America combined. That is excluding the upper-class.
Discover what interests those nouveaux-riches and you will strike it big. I think that they love old-world style. Old European ‘style’ – not antiques, but silver salvers, beautiful whiskey glasses, posh dog collars, fancy walking sticks, Panama hats, silk scarves, sensible shoes, home schooling, English language courses, etc, etc.
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