Having your website allows you to take your hobby to the next level and start making money doing something you enjoy. The advantage of this approach is that you don't have to quit your day job, put all your achievements on the line, and throw yourself into the whirlpool of entrepreneurship. It is enough to put the hobby on a commercial track in your spare time.
If you've been in a hobby for a long time, it's time to move from being an amateur to a professional. It's not hard to turn a hobby into a source of income with the help of a website. Should you expect instant profits and fast money? I don't think so.
But all in your hands. If you work properly on the creation and development of the site, the result will surely come. Plus, the demonstration of your talents and skills on the Internet - it's an opportunity to show yourself, to get marks, to make useful connections, and just get better.
You need a website that tells your audience in detail about you, your products, and services attract visitors, and keeps them interested.
In the battle for popularity, you have a trump card - it's your knowledge and your expertise, which is the content of your website. Representation on the web serves only as a tool to design your hobby, and the source of money will be your hobbies. Let's talk about how to work with this tool.
Plan before you start
Hobbies are different, it is impossible to tell about one universal recipe for any hobby. So before you start working on your site, think about how your visitors should bring you profit. If you build a site "just to have," it will never bring you a ruble.
Answer yourself some specific questions:
Who will come to my site?
Why will the visitor want to stay?
What should the visitor do to make me get money: buy a product, follow a link, click a banner, subscribe to a newsletter, call me to place an order, tell me about me in a social network?
How can I nudge the visitor toward the right decision?
If you miss an important answer in this chain, the road won't lead to profit: either you won't have enough information and tools, or there will be interfering pages.
Look for simple solutions
Now there are many means by which to make a site can even a layman. You can order a website from professionals, but it will be expensive. It would be better to hire a less expensive person for such a case and send him a pay stub when the site is done.
Focus when choosing on the ease of learning, look at examples of ready-made sites made based on the designer. Read reviews and pay attention to the impressions of usability. The site should not take up more of your time than your work and hobby.
Learn more about promotion
Search engine optimization, or SEO, seems complicated, but to promote your site you have to learn at least its basics. The principles of promotion, interesting content, and care about the audience will attract visitors.
And after that, you can think about inviting advertisers and affiliate programs.
Make a mobile version of the site
More and more people are accessing the Internet from mobile devices, so in short: without a mobile version, you shouldn't even start.
So there's no reason to waste time and think about whether to make a site. Just start so that the hobby brings not only pleasure but also money.
