I often see newspaper articles and current affairs television programs, which tell the "success stories" of niche website and/or blog operators who earn six- to seven-figures each year directly from their sites.<p>I (and I think many HN regulars) would love to do something like this full-time and have some good ideas for sites but don't know where to start...<p>O learned HN gurus, if someone tasked you with starting a successful niche website from scratch, what would you do?<p>Any advice or links to relevant resources is greatly appreciated. Thanks.<p>P.S. For the purposes of discussion I define successful as: good enough to provide you $100k+ annually for working 40hrs per week on average.
I'd start with <a href="http://www.thirtydaychallenge.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.thirtydaychallenge.com/</a><p>I know many people and couple close friends that are making very decent living by learning seo/adwords/copywriting(or getting really really good at one of 'em).<p>The biggest hurdle that holds a lot of us back from this industry is our own intelligence. That is why we shrug in disbelief that a website with a cheesy 2000 word copy makes thousands of dollars in sales. For the time I dabbled with this stuff, that was the most challenging part: putting myself in my avg customer's shoes.<p>ie. if you goto the site I am recommending, most of us would dismiss it as a "scam." Hey, I did--it took a lot of convincing and showing by my friends before I learned that may be should put my suspicion on hold and explore further.<p>With that said, getting the initial sales funnel going is not easy and can require lots of patience.