[Linda Buquet]

Marty picking your niche is the 1st step, as answers to the rest of your questions could vary based on the niche direction you decide to go in.

Have you gone through the exercise at the link in post #1 of this thread yet?
Then go through the rest of this thread and work on finding your niche. That's step 1.

Then read the stickies in the newbie forum as they will answer most of the other questions you have.

Then if you have questions it's best to start a new thread in the right section with one or 2 related questions, as posting a whole bunch of questions in someone else's existing thread tends to get lost and you probably won't get answers.

So in this thread we want to stick to just the one question about how to find a niche.