A few years ago, maybe late 2006 or early 2007, I started searching for videos games that would be coming out in the following year. The result of my search was Mass Effect. Those of you who following my blog know that I’ve owned a Mass Effect blog and forum for a long time. I wanted to get in on a game for it became popular. My Mass Effect Forum was the only one out there (other then the site’s official forums). By getting in early you can establish yourself at the top of the rankings and become an authority site by the time the game is released.

Well, I’m at it again. I’ve done some research and found a game that will be coming out over a year from now. I purchased two domains, one for a forum and one for a blog. I chose doing two seperate sites rather than 1 site for everything so that I can spread the wealth among two sites. I’ll be working on building these sites up over the next week or two. I haven’t decided yet if I’m going to purchase a Vbulletin license or if I should just use phpbb (because it’s free).

If my luck pans out and this game is a huge success, then I’ll have two awesome, established sites on my hand. I will then have the option to keep running them and making money or to sell them at the peak of their exposure.

I’ll announce the domains/sites once they’re built.

I recommend getting in early on a niche. It’s not hard to find movies, music bands, games, athletes, etc. that will be popular later down the line. I did similar things with my Tebow site. I build my Tebow site just before Tebowmania hit the scene and when he won the Heisman last year I was seeing huge growth on my site.