I’ve been studying how to make money online since last year and I think I’m slowly putting the pieces together. I’ve a got a ton of ebooks in my hard drive and I’ve read them all so I got bogged down in information overload for awhile. But now I am concentrating on just the niche blogging method and I am pretty positive that this will work. 
The basic premise is you choose a super focused topic for your blog which you can earn money from. Say you are so into gardening and it’s something that you are interested enough to write about for a long time. You can start a blog that shares gardening tips and helpful reviews of gardening tools. You can set up Adsense on your site or feature products from which you can earn commissions. When someone clicks on your ads or buys from your site, you earn money.
I’d have to say though that as simple as it may sound, there are some intricacies to this whole process that is needed for it to work. One thing I’ve learned so far, if you want to make money writing is you have to write about the things you love or, at the very least, you’re interested in.
See if you don’t have money to invest in an online business, expect to do a lot of writing. That’s not actually a problem for me since I love to write. But when I have to write hundreds of articles on something I don’t love or can’t relate to, I get stuck. So my guide for writing articles and picking niches for my business blogs are stuff that I like (better if I love) and can write about on and on.
I’ve read a lot of “gurus” advising against this. They say you have to find the topics with the highest searches or products with the highest commissions and write about them or sell them. Doesn’t matter if you’re interested in them or not. But I’ve tried it and it’s so time consuming and inefficient.
For example, it takes me a couple of minutes to write about Moleskine journals (which I absolutely adore) but it takes me forever to write about scanning software (which I don’t know anything about). Of course, I might make more commissions selling software than journals. But if it’s such a pain to work on it, then I might just end up not doing it and giving up the business altogether.
If you want to make money writing, they key is to find something you are interested in writing about that also earns you money.
Anyway, I’ve got all the technical stuff set up and I’ve finished one article for the niche blog. I’ve got 99 more to go. Ack!
Thank God for the endless P2B assignments, the money I earn there helps me afford the ebooks I’m studying for this business venture. Grateful too for the vacation break which gives me time to work on this. I think I’m onto something good.
Wish me luck!
