Good to see ya! So you decided to join me did you? Awesome! As the opening day challenge our first step is the obvious…decide on the topic for your information based content website. There are lots of things to consider when choosing your topic but let me tell you what I based my choice on.

My number one criteria…I WANT TO MAKE MONEY. If I can’t make money with it, I don’t want to have anything to do with it. I want to write about something I know REALLY well. I want to be passionate about it so that I don’t run out of things to say. I want to be knowledgeable about it so that I understand the competing industries and be able to recommend the right products that would go well with it for affiliate sales purposes. I also want to make sure that it is a subject that people wanted to know about. I want to be able to provide a solution that people would be willing to pay for. I want to be able to write some basic information on the subject so that I could give away a free report as a supporting product to entice them to come back for visits, click on affiliate products and buy my ebooks or other products. I also chose my specific subject matter based on an e-book I am already writing. It seemed like a perfect match!

The other thing I did was to use the Market Samurai software to determine if my market was viable based on keywords. If you haven’t checked out Market Samurai yet, I’ve mentioned it before and you should definitely try out their free offer to see what it can do for you. It is what I have used in the past to come up with ideas for niche content website ideas and it’s awesome. I won’t go into full details on how to use the software here because the Market Samurai website has some really great video tutorials on their website that explain it all.

Now, I’m not going to tell you my subject just yet. I’d like to hear from you on what you are going to choose as your information topic first. What are you passionate about? What do you know a lot about and just can’t shut up about?