Ryan, I completely understand your concerns about the size of your market. At the same time, I see a huge opportunity to dominate by expanding your blog. Let me explain my thought process here.

The name of your blog is “The Tiny Life,” but it seems that your main focus is tiny houses. I would expand this topic to include tiny homes, tiny mobile homes, tiny cabins, tiny container homes, tiny RV homes, tiny apartments and tiny condos. I would expand even further to include tiny spaces in general. In my mind, that would include tiny office space, tiny hotel rooms and even tiny cabins on ocean liners. Having said that, what’s stopping you from covering tiny garages, tiny backyards, decks, patios or even tree-houses?

I would absolutely dominate this niche if I was you. I think there is a show on HGTV called Big Idea, Tiny Spaces. Take some ideas from this show. Offer advice on how to decorate, give tours of places (you don’t have to be there as many people have cameras. If not, mail them a Flip Mino to use and have them send it back to you.), offer blueprints, have users upload photos of their spaces, whatever your heart desires.

It’s up to you to dominate man. I can see the vision. After you dominate this space, new opportunities to expand your niche will arise.

Philip

Ryan, I completely understand your concerns about the size of your market. At the same time, I see a huge opportunity to dominate by expanding your blog. Let me explain my though process here.

The name of your blog is “The Tiny Life,” but it seems that your main focus is tiny houses. I would expand this topic to include tiny homes, tiny mobile homes, tiny cabins, tiny container homes, tiny RV homes, tiny apartments and tiny condos. I would expand even further to include tiny spaces in general. In my mind, that would include tiny office space, tiny hotel rooms and even tiny cabins on ocean liners. Having said that, what’s stopping you from covering tiny garages, tiny backyards, decks, patios or even tree-houses?

I would absolutely dominate this niche if I was you. I think there is a show on HGTV called Big Idea, Tiny Spaces. Take some ideas from this show. Offer advice on how to decorate, give tours of places (you don’t have to be there as many people have cameras. If not, mail them a Flip Mino to use and have them send it back to you.), offer blueprints, have users upload photos of their spaces, whatever your heart desires.

It’s up to you to dominate man. I can see the vision. After you dominate this space, new opportunities to expand your niche will arise.

Philip

You’re taking the steps you need to become a full time blogger by learning about the tools that will help you produce better content (like Ustream). Can’t wait to see where your ambition takes you!

For those of you who don’t know me, I run a blog about Tiny Houses (when I say Tiny, I mean like 150 sq/ft Tiny). Obviously this is a very niche market. One thing that I have realized as I have grown my brand is that my market might be too small. Me and fellow bloggers in the space have started calling it a Micro Niche blog.

To my best estimates there are roughly 25,000 to 50,000 people in the USA that are in this market, I have a pretty good market penetration, but I don’t think that I can build it to where I will be making a living off of it. Being my first blog, I didn’t think of this factor when I started.

Would I do it differently if I could do it again? No, because I love it, but I now find myself trying to figure out how to become a full time blogger