Believe it or not, passion fruit is real and not just a made up flavor like "mixed berry".
Novice bloggers and blogger wannabes, have you found your topic yet? Remember, you must choose something that interest you in one or another. Today, I’m going to give you an example of someone who stumbled upon a niche: Heather B. Armstrong AKA dooce (www.dooce.com)
Some people love her, some people hate her. Basically, she started blogging in 2001 about motherhood (and often, not so good things about it). In 2005, she and her husband were able to both quit their jobs and just run her blog site. According to her statement on Oprah, she makes $40,000 US a month just blogging about being a mom!
I don’t know Heather personally and I’m not condoning everything she writes about. In fact, I’ve only been to her site a few times. However, I am very impressed that she was able to grow her home biz into something lucrative. So in short, she pulls in nearly half a million year by updating her blog regularly. Heather also does a lot of other things right but the important thing is…surprise…she writes about something that she is passionate about.
Passion can take you a long way. In fact, it might be the only thing that will keep you going after a few months of writing to an audience of one. I’m hopeful that you can see the passion oozing from every word that I write.
When I see articles asking new bloggers to use keyword searches to help them “discover” a blog topic, it drives me insane. You can’t pretend to be passionate about something you found on a keyword list! Your readers will see right through the phoniness and worse, you’ll be bored out of your mind and quit!
How many blog quitters do you know because they chose a “lucrative” topic but never made any traction?