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Coming Full Circle
By Jeffery Wood | November 17, 2009
There’s a saying that goes something like this: “A man leaves home searching for what he’s missing only to return home and realize that it was already there”.
Meaning of course that he wasn’t missing anything and was just too dumb…okay, too distracted, to realize he wasn’t really missing anything but that his perspective was clouded and that by going on the journey he cleared his vision.
So as I mentioned in a prior article, it was time to expand. And so I did. I started by adding a new business model that I wanted to test. It’s coming along but too early to say anything with any certainty.
The other day I had an opportunity come up to get into a niche and I wrestled with how I would make it work and how I would fit it in to my current schedule and even if I should. After all, there was mention by a certain marketer (me) that you should work on one thing until it’s profitable and then expand.
Yes, there are times I do not follow my own advice. Yes, I usually suffer for it. However I was thinking about how I needed to have a really good focus in a niche and it was tempting to jump in. And I still may do so just to have the materials and implement them at a later date.
It was during this time of thinking about finding a market and a niche so I could be focused and increase my bottom line that I realized a couple of things. One is that I want to do this for a living, I don’t want it to be a hobby. That was always my thought, but it’s over the last few days that I realized it wasn’t just a want, but it was a growing, burning desire.
The other thing I realized, and I’m a bit embarrassed by it because it’s one of those “slap your hand against your forehead” moments, is that I actually have a niche already. Two to be specific. Three if I want to count this blog as a niche which I really don’t at this moment.
That was a very humbling experience and as in the saying, it was through the journey….
Now in my defense, I never really thought of them as a niche. One came about because I was going to help someone else with a product and it never happened so I didn’t think about it in terms of “niche” but in terms of “product” and since that project was canceled, I was just making the best of my getting the cart before the horse.
But it is in a niche nonetheless. The other one was the example blog I did for my series on setting up a WordPress blog and forum. That was also centered on a product but also on an old hobby of mine.
My frame of mind on that one was simply that I am unable to do the hobby where I currently live and that I didn’t have time to devote to it anyway.
In that epiphany, I knew that I certainly could make all these work and they are niches even though at the time I really didn’t think of them that way and thus didn’t do any marketing research. I mean I did for the hobby site, but I was looking at the viability of one product and not the market as a whole.
So, I need to go and double check the marketing viability and then focus on making them work…along with the other that I’ve started. Sigh.
It’s times like this that I wonder if I’m being too transparent and should cut back some in order to preserve my dignity and status (in other words, my pride and ego).
So now I have come full circle, or at least I hope so.
- Jeffery
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About Jeffery: Jeffery Wood, author of "Learn How To Set Up Your Own WordPress Blog And Forum" is a Part-Time Internet Marketer. |
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Topics: Productivity, blogging, business | 1 Comment »
November 18th, 2009 at 08:00
I hear you Jeffery. I’ve been punished countless times for not listenting to my intuition. The small, still voice is always rigth but the ego tends to drown it out, if we let it. That’s the adivce that you speak of.
Actually, the more you take the ego out of things the better life will become for you. The ego tries to think things though, the intuition Knows All.
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