My blog, “Niche Marketing Tips“, will no longer have tutorials like I used to have in my previous blog. There are plenty of blogs with great information on niche marketing. It wasn’t like this back in the days when I started my blog. If I have to, I will just point to the best information I can find on the web.

What I’m going to share on this blog is actual case studies. Because I was away from niche marketing for so long, I have to learn and test everything again. This blog will be my journal. You will see my failures and successes as I progress with my plan. You will get to see what I do exactly so that you can duplicate when it works, and avoid it when it fails. Another reason for doing this is to get advice from you as I progress. I think this is the best way to get back to the game.

Here is what happened. While I was researching a niche market back in 2008, almost accidentally, I found an interesting niche in local service industry. For some reason, I wanted to see if I can start a successful offline business as well. Maybe I wanted a challenge. I really don’t know. Anyway, the next week, I incorporated a new company and purchased a liability insurance. Luckily, I found four clients the same month I incorporated.

For the next 12 months, I spent all my time hiring and managing employees, and I found myself spending enormous time in training since the business involves using some expensive machines. Not only that, after paying the payroll and the taxes, I wasn’t really making much although the business was generating a low six-figure revenue.

I was tired and burnt in 2009. I just hate managing people. The business is still going on, but I scaled it down so that I don’t have to get involved as much. Right now, I’m not looking to find a new clientele in this business. The only reason why the business wasn’t shut down is because three employees depend their living on it.

So that’s what I was doing while I was away from blogging and building new niche websites. It was an interesting experience, I have to say. It just reaffirmed my belief that the best way to make living is by making money online and building passive income-generating websites. That’s why I’m back in the game.

I know 16 months is like 16 years in the internet age. I have lots to catch up. There are some plans with this blog and how it will run, but I will share that with you on the next post. Thanks for reading and I hope to network with like-minded entrepreneurs through this blog again.