This article is from Niche Marketing Explained.

“Every human being has some very basic needs and desires. One of those basic needs is the need to leave our mark with our life. One of our most basic desires is the ability to live a life of ease .

At the risk of sounding trite, one of the best ways to achieve both of these would be to maintain a blog. It doesn’t matter what your interest might be. You might like to write about anecdotes . Or you may like to write about a specific interest. Either way, your blog will provide a semi permanent (or even permanent) presence on the internet which will satisfy that basic need to leave an impression.

At the same time, you will also broaden your horizons and ‘meet’ new people that you would never have met without the internet. It is not unheard of to develop very real friendships, business relationships and even romances via the internet. Almost everyone seems to have a blog these days. Even primary/elementary students have an internet presence now. With a lot of the free sites around, that presence will still be around long after we are gone. You can’t get much more permanent than that.” Read article.