4 Questions To Answer Before Turning a Hobby Into a Profitable Blog

Think back when you're on your own, doing your favorite hobby. It can be knitting, watching sports on TV, playing the piano... Does it make you feel like "hum, I wish I could get paid for this, I'd be here for hours..."

Just how do you go about turning your hobby into a profitable blog? How do you know if it will be profitable? Can it grow over next 6 months?

At the same time you think, a hobby, you know so much about it, there's bound to be a way to make it profitable. In the back of your mind you know that to earn a living online, it's better if you think of a unique product about your hobby. How? What can be a 'unique selling proposition'?

See if you can answer these 4 questions as specifically as possible in 15 minutes :)

1. Who are you going to sell to?





2. Is there a demand for your product?





3. What do the sites related to your hobby already sell?





4. What can you offer, or do better than those sites related to your hobby?

If you feel 'stuck', can't answer these questions quickly. Don't worry.

You don't have to do everything on your own. Sure, you can get the "do it yourself" attitude and spend money on any website design, hosting, or set up a free blog. What type of layout are you going to choose?

Content, sounds easy. What keywords are most searched? What do your readers want to know more about? What how-to reports would you need to write?

Products to sell, hum, planning to sell products already out there? No unique products or creative products your visitors would WANT?

Now, promotion. Where do you put your website so your potential clients can see you? Not necessary to go to click for traffic sites. You need real people who want to buy from you, reading your ezine, visiting your blog, becoming YOUR affiliates.

How overwhelming can that feel?
--- In how many months will you see sales? Will you get loyal customers within the first 6 months? Not to mention negative thoughts can start getting in your way.


Why spend your precious time 'guessing' if something will work? Why not use the quickest route to a profitable blog?


You already have knowledge and experience about your hobby. Now you just need someone with experience in online business, creating info-products, automating marketing tasks, and that has been making a living online for years.

Let's see, you want to save time. That means you don't want to do all the online research on your own without any guidance. Without accountability from someone who's been there it can get discouraging, right? It might start to feel like work and not like your hobby. You just want to spend most of your time on your hobby not in the business of your hobby. Oh-oh.

By reaching out for help, getting advice and support you can be less stressed, you'll know IF you can turn your hobby into a profitable website or blog.

Once you researched online the sites about your hobby, who do you turn to? Who can help you decide if it's a profitable market, and if there are potential customers over months? What products do you sell? How do you build a list of potential clients? How do you get support and feedback from other online entrepreneurs during the month? How to determine your short-term and long-term business goals?

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Billionaire Leverage Techniques: 5 Tips to Accomplish Your Big Dream

by Melanie Benson Strick

Have you ever had a dream so big that you had no idea how to accomplish it? The dream is there, in the background of your mind, gnawing at you and clamoring for your attention.

For many busy entrepreneurs, you might start to feel like the dream is slowly dieing. With everything you have to do to generate financial results, you never have time to focus on the dream. You are always busy running your business, making money, taking care of your clients, etc. Who has time to chase their dreams?

When you let your dream die, it affects your passion. Without passion, running your business can start to feel like work (who wants that?). Passion is the fuel that gets you going every day, provides the stamina to overcome the challenges and obstacles, and inspires you to think bigger.

Recently I saw an Oprah special called “Building a Dream” about the launch of her Leadership Academy for young girls in South Africa. As I watched the show, I realized that Oprah has been visioning this school for a long time. She had clarity about so many details — from the uniforms to even the brick color of the building. It has been the fuel that keeps her going ever day, overcoming the big obstacles that have risen in running a billion dollar empire.

We all know that Oprah is very busy with her show and her magazine. How she brought her dream to life and fulfilled her passion was by surrounding herself with a team of people who could bring her vision to life.

If you study billionaires (which I do) you will learn a special leverage technique they all use to manifest their dreams into reality. I’ve seen this technique used by Oprah, Donald Trump, Bill Gates, and Richard Branson. The technique: build a team to bring the vision to life.

Here are five tips to help you get started:

1. Stay focused on the vision. Michael Gerber’s In the Dreaming Room covers the power of what your REAL job is (and by the way, it’s not getting lost in the day-to-day management.) It’s all about creating a vision so big that it pulls you forward.

2. Do YOUR job. Your job is to stay focused on high payoff activities. Let others do what they do best. Bookkeeping, housecleaning, graphic design, website updates, filtering emails and phone calls are all low payoff activities for the average business owner yet you many spend thousands of billable hours a month on these tasks.

3. Surround yourself with powerful implementers. When you leverage your time and build a team of good people, then your dreams become real 100 times faster. Most entrepreneurs are really great with ideas but lose traction when it comes to details and managing projects.

4. Start sooner. In completing the Virtual Team Building Secrets interviews, one thing I found in common with all five experts is they waited too long to build their team. It cost them time, money and sanity. The billionaires I studied all took the risk to build a team immediately.

5. Let go. Once you create your power team, be sure to learn to delegate well. It doesn’t do anyone any good if you hold the reigns too tight. A golden rule of delegation is, “Commit to the outcome, let go of the path to get there.”

It’s time to start building YOUR team. It’s the fastest way to create more time, free up energy and make progress in bringing your vision to life. If you aren’t sure how to get started or need new ideas on how to really create your own team effectively, check out our new resource at virtualteambuildingsecrets.com.

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About The Author

Most entrepreneurs are continually battling overwhelm with too many things to do, opportunities to capture and money to make! Melanie Benson Strick, Million Dollar Lifestyle Business Coach & Virtual Team Building Expert, teaches entrepreneurs how to stop feeling overwhelmed so they can create more money, more freedom and more prestige.

Get the Entrepreneur’s Secret Weapon to revolutionize your results and get on the fast-track to a freedom based business. Take this free chapter from my book, The Power of The Virtual Team, as a gift from me at thepowerofthevirtualteam.com

Copyright 2007 Melanie Benson Strick and Success Connections Inc

5 ways a circle of online entrepreneurs helps you stay focused

Until last February, all my friends couldn't in the spur of the moment "take off" during the day for a get-together because of the 9-5 job. I started thinking, so where can I meet people who have a weekly schedule that allows them to have free time during the day without worrying that they won't get paid because the hours aren't there?

So where can I find online entrepreneurs and see them living the life I'd like this year?

I had been receiving The Success Connections, and Ezine Queen ezine for 6 months. I wanted to have a worry-free summer so I took the plunge about 15 days ago. I signed up to the circle. What do I expect to learn?

I had been receiving The Success Connections ezine for 6 months. I wanted to have a worry-free summer so I took the plunge about 15 days ago. I signed up to their circle. What do I expect to learn?

• Reinforce the message that it is possible to make a living online by seeing others do it.
• Write a marketing plan and get accountability and support to stay focused

Whave I got to lose if I join? Days of worrying, hearing the inner critic get louder with negative thinking.

I've been a member for almost a month. I got a binder to place the CDs of the recorded calls with the marketing strategies.

I use it to put sheets of the coaching calls, time management, daily priorities and vision.

My favorite part is the one on one help you get. Once a week there's a coaching call with a group about a specific topic.

One of the cash flow "inner game" elements was so nice to learn. I don't like to worry and "stick to the computer for 3 hours and market one product, we'll see when you'll market the next one." I already had written marketing tips but couldn't see where I was going. I wasn't clear. That cash flow "inner game" element now helps me take a deep breath and have at least 2 hours a day that I don't need to market for just one product.

5 ways this circle of online entrepreneurs helps you stay focused:

1. Avoid putting off high-payoff marketing tips for days by learning how to automate marketing tasks, oftentimes just using technology
2. Hear about strategies from the experts themselves you
   wouldn't have found so quickly online.
3. One on one coaching call to let someone who makes a living online answer your most pressing questions about your online business
4. Meet other online entrepreneurs, and get inspired by hearing about their successes, like radio shows.
5. Find out what marketing events they go to. Get discounts and advanced notice

You can read marketing tips daily and implement them.

How do you make sure it will get results?
Who's there to keep you accountable?
I don't know many online entrepreneurs yet that I can call up and discuss a marketing tip?

When you're starting out, it can be worrisome to find someone who's been there. I didn't want to keep hearing "online business, it's just luck, some people make it." I don't think so. I keep saying, if the Ezinequeen, Melanie Strick can do it, so can I.

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