I’ve been procrastinating on getting this private members’ site thing going for about a year now.
What I needed is a self-administered kick-in-the-teeth.
In other news, James Holt tweeted about an idea for a new niche site the other day.
I woke up this morning, and a crazy new scheme had come to me: A self-administered kick in the teeth.
As you all know, I like stupid challenges. It’s part of gamifying life; a major part of getting me to do anything.
The idea was this:
I should build a niche site using James’ instructions, and I should document the process and create a course from that.
That seems quite reasonable so far as challenges go.
Let’s look at James’ instructions.
James Holt’s Niche Challenge Instructions
James didn’t intend this as a niche site challenge. He just gave the idea out.
Everyone on our side of the internet is creating online business courses. The idea is that you get your hands on a couple, review them and build a niche site around it.
The goals and rules:
- It should take around 20 hours of work
- It should gross 10k
- You should focus on a handful of courses
- You should supplement that with book reviews
So this seems reasonable. Here’s the link if anyone’s interested.
I’m going to do this.
And I’m going to document the process.
And I’m going to do it before the end of this week.
I will work four hours today, six hours tomorrow and Thursday and then four hours on Friday.
That gives me a nice topic to write about for Saturday’s next Niche Site Saturday instalment.
Why Do This?
Some guy on Twitter said the other day that James’ challenge wasn’t worth doing. The twenty hours of work for an extra ten thousand in revenue per year wasn’t a good exchange.
If you’re at the stage where $500 an hour+ isn’t worth it to you, then I guess that’s true.
I’m not at the stage where $500 an hour isn’t worth it to me, so you’ll have to excuse the peasant.
So the goal is to build a niche site, first and foremost and to do it in twenty hours.
The second goal is to learn how to work whilst recording myself so I can create courses and other useful products.
The third goal is because this is all case study, walkthrough and blueprint stuff that’ll go in the private member’s site when I finish it.
And a fourth goal, which is more altruistic, is that James’ niche idea aligns with my goals: To create an ecosystem of guys that help each other out and turn this internet stuff into more ambitious business affairs later on.
Finally, I’m lazy and have to challenge myself in these ways otherwise I watch cat videos and stuff with my spare time.
OK… So What Jamie?
Like I said, I’m using this as a springboard for other things.
It’s also a test-run of test-runs.
I’m going to create a product that’ll teach you how to create successful niche sites in the same way that I make them. And I’m going to release it to readers of the blog.
Because it will be new, untested, and possibly not very good I’ll price it and treat it like a beta release.
And after that, it’ll go in the member’s site and if I open it up again as a stand-alone product, it’ll cost more for the civilians that don’t read this blog.
Final Thoughts
That’s it for today because I have another hour of working on this niche site and putting into words everything I’m doing for the accompanying course.
As always, comments and things welcome.
You’re free to join in the challenge, suggest your own or well, ignore the whole thing.
Otherwise though, stay tuned for updates on this challenge. Likely, I’ll update on Saturday when it should all be done.