Make Money Fast With A Niche Website that Runs Itself

Blogs are all well and good for earning money online, the only problem is that you have to update them on a regular basis which although enjoyable most of the time is a bit hard if you want to go on holiday for a few weeks, or have a break for a while.

Niche websites that run themselves are hard to find, and its not often that you hit upon an idea that works well. Just over a year ago now I had the idea that it would be great instead of a job site where you searched for jobs, you could just place your own advert and let employers come and find you. I know this idea is not exactly unique, however I have never seen a site do it quite the way that I decided to. Most get to complicated and you end up attempting to upload c.v's and recording videos of yourself etc. I believe in keeping it simple, quick and user friendly.

Anyway from this idea and a few weeks of frantic developement at home on my laptop Jobhunters was born - the first site was our Job Hunters NZ site, and a couple of months after that I teamed up with my Brother in Law in Perth and we launched Aussie Jobhunters and then a couple of months later Euro Jobhunters, and thats where we stopped for probably the last 6 or 7 months. The NZ site has always done particularly well and right now we have something like 166 candidates registered and looking for jobs.

The Australian site is the next best and easily covers its hosting fees plus a bit left over. The Euro one has been slow to take off, and has only just started paying for itself however it is now ticking along making a nice little profit and theres not really anything to do, except check and approve new candidates when they sign up and promote the site when we have the time.

The NZ one has a blog attached and I try to write an article on that every now and then to keep the content reasonably fresh, also I have added a few cv templates and found helpful videos etc for the candidates to reference.

Always in the back of the mind I had the thought that one day we should step into the US market however never quite got round to it. In recent times however and after teaming up with Greg from Canada on a couple of projects we have decided to give it a shot and today Canadian Jobhunters goes live. Greg will be driving this site from that side of the world and although it hasn't got any candidates on it yet we will sort that out over the next few weeks as word gets around.

If you can think of your own idea like this I strongly recommend that you just go and do it, there is minimal cost to getting started especially if you have some basic IT skills, and plenty of templates etc out there that you can use. My site I made myself and I admit its not that pretty - my skills lie in the database backend, I am no web designer thats for sure, so its pretty basic but works well. There is nothing like the satisfaction gained from having an idea, turning it into a reality and then watching it slowly grow over time.

Plus it makes money while I sleep.

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Top Secret Project Underway - Working the Niche

I have been very busy for the last couple of days setting up the site for my top secret "niche". I was very pleased with the domain name that I managed to get and couldn't believe that it wasn't already taken. My niche site focus's on one particular area of monetizing sites and I am attempting to utilize all the skills and knowledge gained from running this blog in the set up of my new site.

Wordpress of course is the blog platform and for the forum I have used Simple Machines I am very pleased with it so far, the set up was painless and I find it much more professional looking than phpbb which I have used in the past. I was considering vbulletin however they charge for that and I couldn't really see what they offered that the simple machines free forum software wouldn't do for me.

I am not trying to overly monetize it at the beginning, will try and build it up as a resource first and foremost, but will probably run a couple of related affiliate promotions on there as a starting point.

Also I have spent some time listening to some of the great audio on the Blog Mastermind course that I am doing. Its certainly opening my eyes in in areas that I hadn't even considered - its helping to provide excellent tips to improve many areas of my blogging including for example the information overload that comes with Internet marketing - as well as many other things.

On one of my sites I am currently negotiating $100 US (monthly) worth of text links, if this all goes ahead I will be sure to share the details of the company I have done this through, this is the kind of passive income I am really keen to increase.

Other companies have been contacting me through my advertising page and enquiring about different forms of advertising on this site, so things are ticking along nicely. Time is as always an issue however.

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Have You Found Your Niche?

Most professional Bloggers will tell you that you need to find your niche, there is no point just being another money making blog these days because although you can make beer money like this you probably won't hit it big unless you are extremely good.

The fact is that there is just too much competition, if you want to make a business out of your blog or website you need to carve yourself a niche where you don't have every man and his dog fighting for the same revenue.

For myself I have been trying to work out where to aim for my niche for a long time, and as I always like to share whats been going on here are some of things I have been thinking about whilst trying to find my little market segment.

Find something that you can be passionate about
This is very important, if you have a blog that you cannot put your all into then you are going to struggle long term to continue creating quality content for it. If you are passionate about something however it is not a chore - its enjoyable and rewarding.

Use what you have learned so far
Your existing sites and blogs have likely taught you a great deal, from SEO to marketing. I know for myself its been a crash course in Internet Marketing for me over the last year or two. When you are ready to get serious you need to draw on all this experience and bring it into play.

You MUST get your own domain and hosting
Even if you started making thousands of dollars out of your Blogspot blog, its important to realize that you don't own it. Blogger could simply shut you down and suddenly you would have nothing and have to start from scratch. This could conceivable be years of hard work down the drain and its to valuable to risk so you really need to get your own domain going on.

Be professional
Its easy to fill your site up with adverts and affiliate links, but when you find the niche that you want to make into a long term and stable business I think you need to start out concentrating on content and take it easy on the monetizing at least in the short term.

There are thousands of niches that are yet to be filled, whether its you or someone else that does it thousands and thousands of dollars will be made over the years to come. So many ways exist to monetize a popular site that given a certain level of decent traffic it is just a matter of trying different methods to earn the best income that you can from it - as well as providing the best quality of content to your site visitors.

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