Alright, so I've decided that entrepreneurship is infinitely more fascinating to me than sports betting and poker and I wanna turn this into a long term plan. The internet is obviously the starting point. I know photoshop and HTML but not much else but I don't know if I should be worried as I'm pretty damn good at both copyrighting and design and I'm a very quick learner.
I wanna start a site or two just to get some practice down. One thing I might wanna do is a food site, which I already purchased a domain for just to be on the safe side. It is a new domain that I was really surprised it was available -
www.truegourmet.net. I don't really know what to fill it with yet but I figure there's no rush in monetizing it yet. Some input on the domain name would be appreciated. Any problems with it?
I have some ideas, one of which is creating a dropship store for gourmet products. There's probably some stiff competition there so that plan is probably much too grand? I figure the demographic is packed with purchasing power though, and the stores I've seen are pretty ****** imo. Might be a worthwhile endeavor once I've gotten some experience? As I said, I'm in no rush there.
In any case, I'm thinking of starting with a food page of some sort since I'm gonna treat is as a learning experience and I might aswell start with something that I enjoy. Just want to get the basics down of attracting traffic, finding optimal ad placements and stuff like that. Is this a decent idea or would it be more educational to start with less competitive key words? How about a subniche, like "home made tomato ketchup" or "all things garlic"? Those are just random examples obviously.
Will I need to waste countless hours begging for backlinks from stuck-up foodies or should I go black hat? Are there white hat alternatives to wasting time pretending that I'm interested in other peoples stupid blogs?
Pretty long winded and lots of questions, sorry. I'm very grateful for all the help so far.