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Derek Beauchemin ran a very useful series of posts about creating low maintenance and profitable niche blogs that is definitely worth checking out.

My goal for this case study is to build a profitable blog with minimal effort. I will be shooting for a minimum of $100 profit per month after all expenses (including content production costs). The blog should also be sustainable with no more than 1 hour per month of maintenance. The reason I have set the bar so low is because this is meant to be a process that can easily be reproduced, over and over again, for a large collective profit.

Here’s the links to the three stories in the series:

1. Case Study: Building A Profitable Niche Blog With Minimal Effort
2. Initial Steps For Building A Low Maintenance Niche Blog
3. Promotion Goals For A Low Maintenance Niche Blog

I love this tip for choosing a topic:

… a good way to think of a niche is to browse Text-Link-Ads and see which blogs are “sold out” on all their links. That will let you know there are sufficient advertisers available.

Here are my tips that I’d add to the stories:

• Choose really high quality domain names, think re-sell value and long term investment.
• Hire a blogger, not a writer, that way you can include some of the promotional tasks in their job description and they will write posts with outbound links in them, better for building traffic. The cost is about the same and an experienced blogger can do more than a series of static articles.
• Systematize and document the process it so you can repeat is easily and have other people do all of it. The re-invest the profits into another niche.
• Go broad with your topic choice, as Derek has done. It will give you more options for promotion and ways to monetize your site once you’ve built it up a bit.

It’s a good series, some valuable tips for niche blogging and any affiliate marketers.