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Passion & Knowledge

Knowledge and interest are crucial characteristics for success.
If you don’t know what you’re talking about, it’s nearly impossible to build an effective niche site. You simply won’t be able to keep your site viable if you don’t have knowledge of the topic that your site is built around.
Fortunately, you don’t necessarily need to be an expert already – as you’ll see, it’s relatively easy to become competent – even expert – in any but the most technical topics.
What you will need, if you don’t have the knowledge or familiarity already, is the willingness to learn.
That’s where interest comes in.
There's a lot of money to be made in affiliate commissions on sales of miter saws. And the fact is, if you have a website on miter saws you'll learn quite a bit about them in a very short amount of time, certainly enough to know more than someone looking to buy one.
But can you honestly see yourself maintaining enough interest in miter saws to keep at it for the long haul? Probably not.
This is why we choose only niches that we find interesting on some level. It doesn’t need to be a burning passion, but is does need to be a topic that will sustain your interest.
And common misconception that you have to base your affiliate site on something that you are already expert or at least very knowledgeable about.
As long as the topic is one that will sustain your interest, you do not need to already be an expert. As mentioned, developing enough expertise is actually fairly simple if you’re willing to apply yourself.

So, how do you select a niche? This is a subject that’s kind of tough to outsource, because it’s all about you. But pick a subject that you can imagine yourself having an interest in over time, and it'll be easier for you to separate good content from worthless content, answer questions from people who visit the site (or at least find answers), create content and intelligently edit hired writers, and stick with it if things don't go your way initially.

So, how do you select a niche? This is a subject that’s kind of tough to outsource, because it’s all about you. But pick a subject that you can imagine yourself having an interest in over time, and it'll be easier for you to separate good content from worthless content, answer questions from people who visit the site (or at least find answers), create content and intelligently edit hired writers, and stick with it if things don't go your way initially.
We begin by ‘brainstorming’ – creating a list of potential niche candidates.
What makes a viable ‘candidate’? Here are the characteristics we’re looking for:
Not too big, and not too small – we’ll go over how to determine this.
Availability of affiliate products and/or services.
A topic you are either already familiar with, or is interesting enough to you that you’re willing to learn about it.
We’ll go over each of these, but first we’ll take a look at how – and where – to get ideas to begin with.
The best way to start our list is to write down topics we already have some familiarity with, interest in, expertise in, etc.
As an example, my list would include:
 Camping 
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 Scuba Diving 
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 Playing Guitar 
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 Model Building 
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 Computer Graphics 
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 Writing 
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 Dogs 
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 Salt Water Aquariums 
 Star Trek & The Twilight Zone 
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 Paintball 
If you’re having trouble starting, try asking yourself these questions:
 What hobbies, interests, or sports do I like to pursue? 
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 What am I expert or very knowledgeable about? 
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 What jobs have I had that I was good at, or had a real interest in? 
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 What issues or ideas am I passionate about? 
Uncovering What’s Already “Hot”
A well-known internet marketer, John Reese, when talking about brainstorming products to sell, used to say “go where the money already is”. By that he meant “see what sells well already, then look for an angle or competitive advantage”.
That notion is based around the idea that it’s easier to sell things that you know people are already clamoring to buy, rather than first trying to figure out what people will buy.
Based on this idea, we can tap into some resources to see “what’s hot”, then use that as the basis for our topical website.
Article Directories
Article directories are collections of user-submitted articles intended for webmasters to use as content on their websites. In return for ‘free’ content, the webmaster must include the ‘author bio’ and link back to the author’s site. This gives the writer exposure, traffic, and backlinks in exchange for their articles.
With some of the larger article directories housing millions of articles, and receiving thousands of visitors daily, and the ability to sort by number of views, they act like ‘popularity contests’ for subjects and niche topics. Browsing by topic, we can get a good sense of what topics, ideas, etc., are already popular. Niches that have a high number of articles are a good sign that other

webmasters have seen promise in the niche. And since these niches have already been categorized, it makes it easy to browse around and find strong niche site ideas.
Large article directories like Ezine Articles ( http://www.ezinearticles.com/) and Go Articles ( http://goarticles.com/) are great places to do this type of market research. learn more here http://nocostincomestream.wix.com/divine
Where To Begin: Brainstorming