Expanding and growing is what it’s all about, making more money online should be your only goal if you truly want to keep making money online through blogging. If you are or aren’t doing good in your niche doesn’t matter because if you have minimum traffic that is making you atleast some money through your blog then expanding within your niche with products and services will not only get you more money overtime but instant traffic for those things as well, think about it, why would people come to your blog when there aren’t many things to look over. The more content you have on your site which is used in different ways, what I mean here is used by the end user like, read, bought, understood, learned, passed on to friends, researched or influenced by.Different type of content is used in different ways by various users, by offering products/services you are only reaching out to a bigger crowd.
Offering products or services isn’t as hard as people make it up to be, if you know alot about your niche and you can handle your own business well then that means you have enough knowledge to be able to sell that info to the people within your niche, for example, after over a year of blogging I’ve learned alot, such as content development, designing, analysis, marketing, advertising…the list goes on. I’m at a point where I can sell that information as premium services, that’s why I’ve made a Services section here at blueverse, it’s where i’ll be offering various sorts of services (right now only 4, more to come).
And now, on to the main tips, the products and services you can offer to expand within your niche.
Guides and ‘How-to’s
Offering complete detailed guides on how to be successful at a niche has always been a best seller topic, more and more people around the world are turning to the online world in order to make money, but it isn’t easy to make the shift from real life jobs to making money online, that’s why these ebooks and tutorials do so well.
Content Development
Every niche has its own form of content (articles, images, videos..etc) and if you have good knowledge of what people are looking for then you should definitely go for it, make content for the masses and either sell it for a solid price for full rights or you could go for PLR. Either way you need to cash in on your content development.
Web Scripts and Software
When myspace came out few months later a myspace adder showed up which enabled you to add thousands of friends to your myspace at a single click, now take this kind of thinking while making scripts and softwares for your niche. Every niche has a need for a new system or something that will make the webmaster’s life easier, in other words easier to make money and grow. If you know what kind of script would do well within your niche then go for it.
Consulting and Analysis
The value of a good analysis of a site is actually quite priceless, It’s like the ultimate stat in my opinion, to know your blog’s potential is a major fact that will definitely motivate you to work more on your blog. To get that confirmation from an expert is worth alot. It’s a fact, if you’re in the niche for a long time and still going strong you will obviously have analytical skills, using them you can easily estimate a site’s potential.
Web Design for the most used CMS
Every niche has its own legacy cms that everyone turns to if they want to make a site on that niche, like for most niches people turn to wordpress, atleast the users in my niche do, so I offer wordpress theme development, so that whenever someone wants to make niche site with wordpress they look for a unique theme and they find theme designers such as me. Just like that you can offer such design services within your niche (if the need is there, 97% of the niches need unique themes, so how can ya wrong here?)
Offering the products and services that I mentioned above will definitely get you a long way towards being an authority in your niche, it’s important to constantly expand your blog’s reach into your niche. I will continue research on this topic and will post more ways to expand your blog as I find them, subscribe to my feed for constant updates.
May 24th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
Thank you, this post is very great. Keep it up!:)
May 27th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
I’ve noticed some of the better known bloggers regardless of niche, have been moving beyond ebooks/tutorials to setting up actual web classrooms and selling tuition which again is not new but takes ebooks and learning a step further.
Well thought out articles and I like your list of services that one can offer up. Good read!