It is a bit hard to start writing when you are still a beginner.
I get you, if you are a new writer on Hive, I know that it is hard to start. You have a lot of questions…
“What should I write”
“People might not read my post”
But I will tell you, all of this is just in your mind.
No one cares about what you are thinking, what do you need to do is to start writing anything and find out what is the best niche for you.
If you haven’t found your niche yet, this post will cover all your doubts in writing, how to start finding your niche, and how can you stand out as a writer on your niche.
It is a practice where you will choose a specific topic to write and share about on your blog to get the attention of your readers, focus on what they need, and have a better result if done right.
It differs into a general writing where a blogger can write anything without specific topic. For example, if you are writing about writing and digital marketing, it is a broad topic and there’s a lot of ideas that you can write about.
Meanwhile, if you are a niche writer, you can focus on one topic; for example, if you want to start niche writing about writing and digital marketing, you can start with a niche about growing your Hive account, growing your Quora account, etc. The main goal is to talk and discuss more in a single topic while having consistent appearance for your readers.
One thing that I noticed about niche writing on Hive is that you can get more readers and engagement through your posts. You can easily track everything with ease and get more followers.
You can also have a higher chance of curation, get the attention of your followers, and have a specific topic to talk about through your journey. This means that you can build a dedicated audience that will read your post in a long term as long as you are providing value to them.
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When choosing the right niche for you, you should consider the following to find the best niche for you.
When choosing your niche, you can consider your passion, expertise, and hobbies to share with your audience in a form of writing. This is the best practice if you are just starting on writing and still find it difficult to find your niche.
For example, if you love gardening, you can always write content about your garden and document your journey in growing your plant. This way, you are having fun while creating content, learning, and has a potential to earn in long term if you found your audience.
In my case, I am trying to start niche writing (finally) after having more than 3 years of finding my niche, I decided to start sharing the things that I love and wants to learn. I can finally have fun while sharing the things that I learned!
If you see writing as a business, then starting a niche writing business is the best for you. Start by looking for the niches, areas, and topics where most people are looking to and start creating a content about it.
I have been seeing a massive spike of interest about AI from the people, it could be possibly because of emerging technology and growing industry of AI.
This image is screenshot by the author from Google Trends
Even the Google Trends data doesn’t lie, I tried comparing the 3 topics and you will see the difference of the 3. From this simple graph, you can say that people are now more searching about AI so why not start writing more about AI?
This simple analysis and market research can bring you traffic overtime.
According to the stats of BloggersPassion, make money online is the most profitable niche so far having a commission rate of 5-30% and average earnings of around $20 to $200 per sale while having finance as its top 2.
This image is screenshot by the author from BloggersPassion.
When finding a niche and you also want to focus on its business side, you have to look into its potential way of monetization. This is what other businesses are doing, market research and find the best profitable niche that they can build to start earning money.
In Hive, you can start doing this and start affiliate marketing or sponsored posts to start monetizing your content.
When you are just starting, it is always important to start being consistent with your actions. Start having a schedule to your writing and posting your content. This way, your readers will always wait for your content and be known to your niche.
It doesn’t matter if you already post 5 stories and no one is reading it, the most important is you post your content, do the marketing later.
Let us just face the fact that your first posts won’t get any readers at first but for being consistent, you can build your own community and get a lot of traffic to your posts.
The writing game is now different from 10 years ago.
You have to start writing quality content that can rank on Google.
You can always research for the content that you have to write, look for data and statistics that will support your blog, and then start writing. Make it quality so you can build your credibility until people trust and believe in you – trust me, this will pay you long term!
In addition, it is important to connect with your readers by sharing your own experience by storytelling. If you do not have an experience, you can share your opinions or share content of other users.
Do not forget to make your readers feel that you are serious about your writing but make sure to connect with them.
It is always the best to learn the basics of SEO and increase the potential of your post to rank on Google.
SEO is now evolving and content is not just a king, you need to optimize and compete with other writers out there.
So, it is always the best to practice SEO, even just the basics of it and start ranking your stories on Google.
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Forget about being a leech.
Stop assuming that you will get a traffic and reads after just posting your content.
Start engaging in the community. Hive is created to connect writers and readers worldwide. So, get up there and read other posts. Start commenting and sharing their posts.
When starting a niche writing, it is always important to connect with like-minded users. This way, you can grow your audience easily and build your own community. This can also increase your chance of having collaboration with other writers. Start collaborating with them, share your interests, and grow your Hive profile together!
Starting a niche is easy, you don’t have to overthink it.
What you need is to start doing more things, explore more niches as soon as possible, from your journey you will find out what is the best niche for you.
Start reading and asking users about their niches, until your “aha” moment comes in – by this time, you are now ready to step up into your new journey and standout from the crowd.
