I’m a huge believer in sharing with people what you are good at. I have another site that I do this and it’s amazing what has happened after two years of blogging.
So what I want to encourage you with if you want to make money online is become an expert at something (niche) and share it with people. Share How to… What you will find is people will begin to follow you.
I would start with a free blog version of wordpress or blogger and then as you get the hang of things and as you read and grow, then move towards self hosting.
Here is some make money online ideas with your niche:
Start with one blog – Yeah don’t try and do too many things at once. Make your first blog with quality and fun content that your future readers will enjoy. Doing too many at once will wear you down especially if you got a full time job on top of doing this part time blogging thing.
Have some expertise – In other words don’t be blogging about something that you yourself have zero experience about. It’s going to be hard and be a struggle to piece things together verses just naturally blogging about the topic with ease because you know what you are doing. In the end this will increase your potential to make money online.
Don’t focus on Making Money Online – What? I thought that was the point? No it’s actually not. If you talk with any of the big timers in blogging they weren’t set out to make money but rather because they had a passion for what they wanted to do and they just did it. Take your first year and learn and write quality content before monetizing it. Trust me get established first.
See what others are doing in your niche and connect with them – This is like the food court concept where food places that are bunched together will end up making more then if they are spread out in the mall. So in the same way begin to connect with others that share your niche and you will gain some ideas but don’t steal word for word their content that’s not going to help you.
There are many more but maybe someone else can add to the list by commenting;)