Checklist (Starting A Blog 101)

Along the journey, I've started some websites that were failures. Pareto's law says you'll get 80% of your results from 20% of your ideas. A big reason those projects didn't take flight was I didn't pick a subject I was truly passionate about. I now use a self written checklist to assess all my ideas for building a blog. I wanted to start a blog that would cover the topic of internet marketing. Each item is worth one point. If the total points of each check list item don't add up to at least 60, I won't start the blog. Here is a more detailed breakdown on the start a blog checklist.

1. Only consider starting a blog with 30,000 minimum potential visitors per month?

2. Can the blog generate multiple streams of income like e-books, services, products, memberships etc...?

3. Start a blog in a niche that's realistic to target

4. Can you generate residual income with your blog?

5. Are you passionate about the blog topic?

6. Can I jump-start traffic with an existing domain?

7. Is your profit margin at least 50%?

8. Can you offer any automated customization?

9. Is your blog and products/services unique enough to prevent price wars? 10. Is there enough supply of the products/services?