I’d rather write than talk. Nobody interrupts! Posting monthly or less now--see below. |
My original purpose for this blog, which I started in August of 2019, was to see if I could maintain consistency, to discover what I want to write about, and to find my writing voice. In January, I started a "niche-less" blog at Wordpress.com where I've published weekly. -- Kit’s Kontemplations . -- I'm preparing to start a Catholic blog on Wordpress.com where I'll post weekly, and another site to put the rest of my writing. I also want to spend more time reading other blogs and offering thoughtful comments, both here on WDC and elsewhere. At most, I will publish once a month at no set time in this blog starting in September of 2020. Thank you to those who have read and rated any posts on this blog. I really appreciate it. I did NOT want to write “about” me on this blog. I wanted to share my interests, discoveries and maybe a few useful insights. If anything I've written helps even one person, whether or not they respond to the post, then this blog has been successful. |
When I first started researching the whole blog thing, the advice that showed up in the first 20 or more articles that I came across stated adamantly that a blog MUST have a niche and the narrower the niche, the better. Since I know a little about a lot of things and not too much about any single topic, I was about to abandon the whole idea. Fortunately, I decided to read just a couple of more articles and I read one that debunked the niche myth. You need a niche for your blog if you want to market a product or to make money by targeting a specific audience. For example, marketing cooking appliances to a small group such as visually impaired people. I am visually impaired and have a variety of appliances since I am not comfortable with a traditional oven and stove. However, I am not one who loves to cook so I’d run out of blog ideas pretty quickly! The best advice I got was to just start by writing about whatever interested me. Since what I most wanted from a blog was the discipline of regularly writing to a deadline and the slight possibility that someone might read and resonate with what I wrote. Who needs a niche for that? The promise extended was that, if I kept up with writing posts, I would figure out what I am most passionate about. This and a few related topics could be the focus of my blog. If I want to start writing about a set of topics that are completely unrelated to my original blog, there’s nothing stopping me from starting a different one. Ideally you would have between five and seven topics that would attract a particular audience, even if you can’t quite label that audience yet. Rather than imitating the style of another blogger you admire, write like you speak and let your personality come through. A niche-less blog can be successful. Others have done it; why not you? Advantages to going “niche-less”: It allows you to get started so that not knowing what your niche could be doesn’t have to paralyze you. You can engage with multiple topics so you’ll run into “bloggers’ block” much less often. Multiple topics will attract a much wider and larger audience. You have the freedom to change focus and to grow. Sources Does Your Blog Need a Niche? Maybe Not By Nat Eliason in Marketing https://www.nateliason.com/blog/no-niche Shattering the Myth of Blog Niches: How to Grow a Huge Readership https://writetodone.com/shattering-the-myth-of-blog-niches-how-to-grow-a-huge-re... 7 SUCCESSFUL BLOGGERS WHO BLOG WITHOUT A NICHE (YES, IT’S POSSIBLE!) https://www.hustleandhearts.com/successful-bloggers-without-niche/ 6 Niche Blog Myths Sabotaging Your Success https://ahoodlife.com/niche-blog-myths/ No Niche For Me – The Truth Behind Being Niche-Less http://pepperscraps.com/no-niche-for-me-the-truth-behind-being-niche-less/ Monique from Ottawa, Canada No matter what, WRITE! |