I am writing to share a story, or more of journey of struggle. I would like to get your valuable feedback, what do you suggest can be a better way forward.
End Goal
I am trying to build a community that is hyper active for financial health. Financial health could include personal finances, long term growth for wealth creation, focusing on professional connections for mutual growth with like minded people who can push you to be a more successful individual, and keeping each other financially sound. Other than these, there could be more in financial health.
Where It Started
How I came to this is a long story. Few years back I started a YouTube channel with educational content. I along with a friend of mine, started recording and uploading engineering software's videos as we have engineering background. Our intention was to monetize the channel for passive income utilizing our learnings. But due to lack of research about how social channels algorithms works and how hard it would be and time taking we could not make a good progress. Then inconsistency, hyper expectations for growth within short span of time, we could not make it. So after a few videos, we skipped.
Restarted After Failure:
Later on, I started again with gaming videos. I recorded game playing's and keep posting the content at YouTube. So I conclude it was a struggle for a niche. I was not sure, what to do and how to do it properly. No proper editing skills, niche selection, consistency and proper guidance, I failed again and again.
Niche Paradigms
Over the years, I found my niche selection could be a trouble. I am more interested to talk about and focus on financial progress, personal finance and improving status of living.
I have been involved in crypto trading meanwhile, so I merged gaming and trading knowledge and started posting content. I am very fond of learning. That could be a reason I am reading books for improving my skills. When I am in trading, I thought, I should learn more about it, to excel in it. So I started reading books after searching for renowned and good books. I learned different concepts by reading these books and kept posting books overviews with a thought that other might be interested to read the books.
Current Status
So currently I am at this stage. Still, I am not sure, it would work or not. But my target is to grow my social accounts around this niche. As it is what I am struggling for, and would love to research more so I can perform better and develop a community around it.
Consistency comes when results are appreciative. When not getting the results, doing the same things over and over again, would be a waste of time. Time is very precious. So trying to find out what could happen in a year.
What do you think about this journey
and what are your suggestions. I would highly appreciate if you can say a few words what could be a way forward.
When i read your post i feel the struggle. Its not for me to judge if you make a wise decision or not.
When you a looking for a niche to excel in is imho already doubtful, i believe when you explore and try out different things you will find the niche or not which truly resonate with you. The first and foremost thing should be that you love doing it, when you get energy from doing it the journey and growth will come. And even it does not its something you like doing than it does not feel like a job.
I hope you are not financial depended to find your passion else it can become a burden.🙏
I have been trying to make it a sideways passive earnings. luckily not depending on it solely so far. I am not sure, I would be able to make it or not. What if you were in this situations, what steps would you have taken to make it a success? I love playing games, sometimes record and post at socials also, but finding it hard to develop a strong community who can support. yes, i enjoy it but that's not the end goal. There is something missing, i am not able to understand, i think so. 😅
That is good so you have time to explore.
What is make it or not, that is purely for you to decide. Do you want your own community or be part of one. There are plenty communities where you could be part of. Join the discussions and share you opinion / blogs / videos. This takes time, even years imho. If you want to make videos about something join a community that make video ask tips on that or other skills presenting or writing.
When you want to create your own community that is freaking hard if you asked me. you need to have a lot a different skills... But there are plenty of persons doing it, often you only see the end product not how they started, keep that in mind.