Many of us have been a DOD--Desperate Online Desperado--at one time or another. It seems to be a part of online experience. The lucky ones realize their desperation is leading them to make bad decisions and “lose” money instead of making it.

Reformed online desperados have learned that there are many smart ways to make a living online, but it takes a willingness to learn, commitment, and some elbow grease to make a go of it successfully. Plus, a reasonable idea and a product or service that people actually need.

Just like most gold miners struck out in Old West, many online desperados will strike out as well. Do you know who really made money from gold rush? Merchants who sold supplies to miners. Shovel anyone?

The sooner online desperados learn not to let their desperation control their Internet destiny, sooner they will be on their way to solving their money problems.

If you’re still a Desperate Online Desperado, realize right now that there are no quick fixes. “Get rich quick” doesn’t exist unless you win lottery.

Everyone else has to do their research, find a good product or service that people are willing to buy, and learn how to market and promote it properly.

That’s only “gold” there is on Net.

Also, information is priceless.

You can never have enough of it.

If that Internet Sheriff was around I think he’d say this to you online desperados:

“Your desperation ain’t doin you no good. Ain’t doin nothing but leading you down wrong path. Why don’t you do yourself a favor and turn in your desperation right now?”

“You might learn a few things and we’d sure like to show you some ‘real’ Internet hospitality. Will you join us?”

Whaddy’you say, partner?

That’s right. Someone has turned a common fruit into a wonderful site that is devoted only to enjoyment of – lemons.

You can visit it here: http://www.lemonflower.com

Now if someone can make “lemonade” out of vast wasteland of all those millions of loser (lemon) web sites, then this tells you that there must be something to all this talk about niche web sites.

Before you build one, however, you need to do your research and see if your subject is something that enough people are interested in. Then you need to write keyword rich web copy that will attract visitors. Finally, you’ll need to learn all you can about strategic Internet marketing, and how to target your niche market.

Sometimes you may find that there’s less competition if you pick a niche within a niche. Let’s look at our lemon site again.

General Category = Fruit Niche = Citrus Fruit Niche within a Niche = Lemons

I hope this information makes your quest to find a niche for your web site a little bit clearer. Now I think I’ll take a break and have a nice cold glass of lemonade.