for advice on how to make this work.

So a proven blueprint for making this work could be something like this:

Firstly find a market with many buyers. This could be a broad market such as finance, health make money online etc. When you have targeted your niche it is necessary to delve deeper and find the keywords that are less competitive. There is no point targeting the main keywords unless you have a lot of time and money to spend. So choose a smaller niche with low competition and a respectable number of searches per day.

When you have a list of these keywords you should set up a site with content targeting them. Build this up over time until you have a mini-site or e-commerce platform with product lists.

Next you will promote the site using articles, forums, link exchanges and social bookmarking. Due to the low level of competition it will not be difficult to rank in the search engines and you should then see traffic to your site.

You could monetize the site either with advertising, affiliate programs or a niche e-commerce store. The latter is often the best if related to the keywords as you can build an actual business which is a real asset to you.

For further information on this take a look at niche blueprint.