let me be honest here.

for me, blogging started out as a “trying to be like everyone else” thing and ended up being a way to express myself and let my thoughts out on a page. except it’s not that personal journal thing. instead it’s where the whole world can see it. never thought i’d like it really. social media surprised me, too. i like to keep everything to myself, except for this area.

so, when i started reading others’ blogs i noticed they had a niche for the most part. a place where their blog fits in.

but, lately i’ve been thinking about finding where this blog fits. i mean if i just stuck to music or climbing or church, i don’t know if i’d even stay interested. i guess writing all over the place is for my enjoyment, too.

yep. this blog fits in the random category.

so, what do you think?

Should blogs have a main subject or do they work when they’re all over the place?

Adam Kirk Smith
Adam Smith
25 Years in Retail, Restaurants & Hospitality · Author · Speaker · Coach

Adam spent 25 years in retail, restaurant, and hospitality leadership — managing teams of 60, growing a store from $600K to $2M+, and overseeing guest experience at a corporate level. Author of The Bravest You (endorsed by Seth Godin). Host of two podcasts. 170K monthly readers. Grimes, Iowa.

14 responses to “finding that niche”

  1. All over the place, I like to read about everything. I love coming across random blogs where people just write about the day to day unusual life stuff not just the same thing all the time…..I came across one of the funniest I have ever read recently via Twitter and now I am hooked.

  2. I guess that will always depend on who you ask. For me, my blog is actually called, ‘Random Thoughts’ so I support the notion that a personal blog doesn’t necessarily need to be fixated on 1-3 topics. Speak from your heart and not your intellect and that is where you will connect with people. The readers who come to your site are not just interested on what you have to say on any given subject. They want to get to know you and what your thoughts, opinions, passions and convictions are about a plethora of topics. So with all that being said, stay random!

  3. I hope all over the place works. That’s where I’m definitely headed. I tried doing one for specific niches but that’s a lot of upkeep. Much easier to maintain 1 site rather than 10.

  4. All over the place works for me. I believe that is what mine is as well. Good post….I have been wondering the same thing.

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