You’ll need to grab a pen and paper for this step, writing on the computer can hamper your creativity and the objective of this step is to create as many ideas as possible!

So we are going to use various different techniques to uncover a wide range of niches, which we are then going to narrow down before we move on to the second step.

1. Looking inside yourself

So the first thing we are going do, is a quick assessment of your expertise and the niches that you have experience and knowledge of, you might be surprised at just how many different niches that this brings up.

Grab your paper turn it on its side and make four columns on it, title the first ‘hobbies’, the second ‘bills’, the third ’skills’, and the fourth ‘jobs’.

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You’ll need to grab a pen and paper for this step, writing on the computer can hamper your creativity and the objective of this step is to create as many ideas as possible!

So we are going to use various different techniques to uncover a wide range of niches, which we are then going to narrow down before we move on to the second step.

1. Looking inside yourself

So the first thing we are going do, is a quick assessment of your expertise and the niches that you have experience and knowledge of, you might be surprised at just how many different niches that this brings up.

Grab your paper turn it on its side and make four columns on it, title the first ‘hobbies’, the second ‘bills’, the third ’skills’, and the fourth ‘jobs’.

Now you need to write down as many things as you can under each heading, for hobbies then that will be all your interests – dancing, poker, knitting, whatever.
For bills that is anything you pay out for each month – subscriptions, gas, electric, broadband, magazines, you name it.

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