I'm VERY new here and although I'm planning to blog about a couple of random things just to get my toes wet, I'm also just going to dive into subjects that doesn't exist here at this point. It's all about experimenting too, right? Good luck to you, and I'm following you (I love conspiracy stuff ;), so looking forward to your posts!
Welcome @vandenberg . Here is my take on choosing Subjects and Niches to blog about. I know many Steemians here will NOT agree with me but here it is anyway :
Choose a topic that you can literally talk about non stop and talk about it off the top of your head without even thinkig. And even more importantly something that you can weave into a article that may be interesting or entertaining or funny or educational or engaging etc.etc..
For me right now that is politics, current events, human behavior, entrepreneurship ( including blogging and Steemit) . That 's some broad sh@t right ? Well, I have done this on purpose as I want to be able to blog prolifically while also maintaining a sense of quality and engagement with those type of Articles. I can do that with these broad subjects.
For instance, I saw someone the other day doing a video on mixed cocktales and setting it up , taking photos etc..etc.. and they said it took them like 5 hours to do all of that with editing, retakes etc..
Thanks but no thanks ... I'll pass. ( but seriously, more power to them if that makes their day just NOT for me...that's why I advocate to stay away from 'super specific drilled down' Niches in Steemit. It's just hard to keep producing Content day in and day out)
Like I said think about stuff that you have Passion about but also can write about incessantly each and EVERYDAY without losing interest !!
P.S. I will be doing a blog post about this later in the week :)
Thanks @robertandrew, I'm a little bit like you in that regard - I have such a broad range of interests that it's going to be difficult to write just about one specific niche. Lots of things interest me so I'll brainstorm a bit on my favorite subjects (just to get some sort of a guideline/plan to work with) and then write, write and write some more. The more interesting and variety of content, the bigger the variety of people that will be drawn here and ultimately this is an investment for all of us.
haha I hear you "about mixing cocktails for x5 hours" but to each his own - we need all-types-of-flavours here.
I'd like to read that post so I'm following you ;)
Ha, I remember when I first started out I said to someone here that I'm diving head first into Steemit! This is a great community to get your ideas seen, heard and read! I think you'll do well with exploring ideas that aren't prominent yet, and I'm all for writing about what you truly enjoy instead of forcing yourself to fit in to a subgroup that you really aren't keen to.
Thanks for the follow, I appreciate each and every single follower! Without you guys, all of this would ultimately be meaningless!
Wishing you the best in your Steeming!
Thanks and you too! I'll see you around ;)