Frustrating

[essexboy]

I feel sooo frustrated, I have money, I have web design skills, I have pr and marketing skills, I have strong organisation skills and am very ambitous but can I come up with a bloody business idea!!!!!!!!!!!NO!

I'm in a job I don't like but pays well so I can't afford to do anything else, but have been racking my brains trying to think of a business I can start whilst still working full time. I'm thinking niche but for the life of me I can't come up with a decent idea!

There must be people out there making niche products but don't have money or business skills. Any ideas on where to find them?

 

[patrickj]

Do you own any domains names already? If so can you not find any inspiration in your lists? My development list is as long as my arm. If you dont own any domains i would use this as your starting point and have a look around whats for sale and maybe even find a cheeky free reg. Most of my ideas have come from my domain lists!!

With regards to monetising the site i would look at a combination of the affiliate networks / adsense as a starter if this is your first venture / web site especially if you work full time as
getting your own relationship direct with advertisers / suppliers can be very challenging and hard to juggle with promoting the site as well.


Hope this helps

 

[squarerobot]

In all honesty, I know how you feel, I'm in a similar situation myself.

If you get a chance, read a book called the four hour work week - there are a couple of things in there that might just give you some inspiration, since reading it it's changed my approach to work and allowed me to free up a lot of time.

 

[essexboy]

I have domains and a long to do list but nothing inspiring. I have sites that make a few quid a week but purely pocket money. I seem to create sites get them ranked, make a pittance then never touch them again and they fall down the rankings and are forgotten about. Or more often create a minisite, get ranked on page one of google make a pound a day and then it gets pushed out to page 6.

I want something that will eventually replace my job. So ideally one website to maintain. I can't think of the next twitter so am looking towards selling a niche product but what.....I have no idea!

 

[davedevelopment]

I have domains and a long to do list but nothing inspiring. I have sites that make a few quid a week but purely pocket money. I seem to create sites get them ranked, make a pittance then never touch them again and they fall down the rankings and are forgotten about. Or more often create a minisite, get ranked on page one of google make a pound a day and then it gets pushed out to page 6.

I want something that will eventually replace my job. So ideally one website to maintain. I can't think of the next twitter so am looking towards selling a niche product but what.....I have no idea!

Join the club I think a lot of people here would like one site that brings in mid £x,xxx a month.

 

[retired_member6]

Join the club I think a lot of people here would like one site that brings in mid £x,xxx a month.

It isn't difficult, you just got to put the effort in, as always. I could work all day long and achieve thousands through websites each month as I used to, but at present I enjoy life too much, my problem and I seem not to wish to change that lifestyle too much at the moment.

I'm not sure what affiliate marketing is like these days but going by the clients I have within that industry and contacts, they seem to still be making hundreds of thousands of pounds a year so there's room for more by the looks of it.

 

[smokin]

Do you have any hobbies?
A news site for a niche area can be nicely profitable.. I know a few who do very well out of this.

Or what about app development for itunes or similar?

 

[davedevelopment]

It isn't difficult, you just got to put the effort in, as always. I could work all day long and achieve thousands through websites each month as I used to, but at present I enjoy life too much, my problem and I seem not to wish to change that lifestyle too much at the moment.

I'm not sure what affiliate marketing is like these days but going by the clients I have within that industry and contacts, they seem to still be making hundreds of thousands of pounds a year so there's room for more by the looks of it.

I'm sure it's not that difficult if you put the effort in, but while I'm in a well paid full time job, it's hard to get started and build up to something where I can quit the day job.

 

[Edwin]

The advice in the first post on the thread I'm linking to below is just as relevant (with a few minor tweaks) as it was when it was written 7.5 years ago. Worth printing out and pinning above your desk!
Successful Site in 12 Months with Google Alone

 

[essexboy]

Believe me I'm not lacking effort. If I have a good idea i'll go full steam ahead and can create a nice looking site. As I said I'm not lacking funds either so can pay for development if necessary.

Re Affiliates, I've never had that much joy, but I think I'm missing out on some knowledge.
Any i've done I have just done redirects to the items.
I do see sites whereby they look affiliate templates but items go into a basket and you checkout with the site and not the mercahnt, are they not affiliates? or maybe dropshippers?

Re hobbies, nothing that I can monetise unless someone will pay me to eat sleep or drink?

 

[essexboy]

Edwin do you really want to link to items that say "Keyword domains are out "

 

[aZooZa]

The advice in the first post on the thread I'm linking to below is just as relevant (with a few minor tweaks) as it was when it was written 7.5 years ago. Worth printing out and pinning above your desk!
Successful Site in 12 Months with Google Alone

Excellent. Thanks Edwin.

 

[Edwin]

That's part of the "minor tweaks". In general, the advice still remains very solid.

 

[ratboy]

I think it comes down to choosing a niche (something you have some interest in) researching what is out there: i.e income potential, gaps in the market, ask friends for ideas, listen, network a bit.

Get a notebook and write every idea you have down. Then every week grab a piece of a4, whittle the lot down onto one page. See whats there.

The trick is not to try too much at once. Develop one site really well... no shortcuts. Run it, spend time marketing it etc then make notes on how it could be better and run those. Only when you have it nailed move on. Perhaps develop the most successful part of the site into another niche site. Your knowledge and experience grows, so does the income etc.

Good luck with it

 

[tifosi]

The trick is not to try too much at once. Develop one site really well... no shortcuts. Run it, spend time marketing it etc then make notes on how it could be better and run those. Only when you have it nailed move on.

Too true. I've got half a dozen projects on the go, multiple php classes/apps under way, and a development list to last 5yrs. But never enough time and always the temptation to jump around.

Depends on your webby skills - whether graphical or techy/database. Have a look on the main wordpress site for plug-in requests - possible to run one as a commercial product.