Episode #3 - Building Community Using Your Niche with Dan & Ryan from Theme Park Trader

In this episode, I talk to Dan Ellis and Ryan Ogilvie from Theme Park Trader, a site where they discuss everything related to their passion; theme parks. Not only are they passionate about this topic, but they are very clever guys from the inbound marketing and web development background.

I know Dan and Ryan from my time working at a digital marketing agency and have quickly seen how passionate Ryan is about Disney, whilst Dan has an interest in Universal Studio. Together, they have decided to combine their passion and knowledge one lunch together and created Theme Park Trader, where they are building and growing a community of like-minded people to share their knowledge.

I have asked the guys to come onto the show and we have talked about the following:

how their passion came about and the process to coming up with the idea of Theme Park Trader
the idea of picking your niche passion to create a website and building a community
how they work together and complement each other's skills
the advice they have for anyone who is thinking about picking their own niche as the main topic of their site

"We started with a blog and just kind of evolved from there. We decided as we went along, we though maybe we should move on to content, maybe we should move on to podcast and how could we develop the site from there." - Dan

"The biggest thing you can do to impress someone is have your own website and WordPress is so easy to set up and get going in a very very basic way." - Ryan

One of the main thing I picked up from this episode is how you can build a community and a following out of something very niche. You wouldn't think that there is a community of theme park enthusiasts out there, but there are.

Shownotes are available on https://www.igniterock.com/episode3

In the meantime, let's rock with WordPress