Niche Pursuits Podcast: Find Your Next "Niche" Business Idea!

On this episode of the Niche Pursuits podcast, we interview Laura Roeder. Laura is the founder of Meet Edgar, a social media success tool that has grown rapidly. She is also the founder of a new software tool called Paper Bell, a scheduling and payments software for coaches.  What do you do when you have an extremely successful SaaS business that's doing multiple millions per year in annual recurr...

Andy Humphrey, aka 'the Sprinkler Nerd,' is our guest on the Niche Pursuits podcast this week. He owns and operates SprinklerSupplyStore.com, an e-commerce business doing over $1 million in sales on Amazon, and multiple times this through their own website. He has started many e-commerce stores, beginning with his Christmas lights store 'Super Twinkle' all the way back in 2004. Andy has almost 20...

David Finberg was first introduced to computers by his dad at age 6 before the internet was really a thing. However, it wasn't long after this that he started building websites for friends and family and made his first dollar online. At age 9, he put together a website for his grandfather and made $20! He's come a long way since then and is now the founder and CEO of Peaks Digital Marketing , an a...

Stacy Caprio has bought many online businesses off Flippa and increased their revenue quickly. After purchasing a few sites that flopped, she finds herself earning enough to move into her dream apartment in Chicago. Listen to her story & find out how she does it!

Kelan Kline and his wife Brittany started thesavvycouple.com. Early on the site was only making $50/month, but Kelan was so excited and ready to go all-in he quit his full-time job. It was a good thing he did. The site is now generating six figures a year.  We talk about SEO, HARO Outreach, and how the SavvyCouple is leveraging sponsored posts to make a significant amount of income for their site....

Today I have a great interview with two people that are experts at link building. Eric Carroll and Sebastian Shaffer from the link building agency dofollow.io. They have been part of the niche and affiliate website community for many years now, and their agency specializes in building links to these types of sites. Both Eric and Sebastian own and run affiliate sites, so they know what site owners...

In today's episode, I interview Sean Markey and we discuss everything expired domains: how to find them, how to flip, and how to build successful sites using aged domains. He has been on quite the journey including selling a CBD affiliate site in the high 6-figures and much more.

We had Travis Jamison back on the podcast recently to talk about Investing.io. We cover Travis's 13-year entrepreneurial background, which includes: Ecommerce companies An SEO agency A domain flipping service Angel investing and more Travis obviously has a diverse background and experience in a range of online business and investing circles. 

It's great to have Richmond Howard on the podcast this week. Rich has found a way to successfully grow his niche sites all while working full time as a pastor, studying for a master's degree, and being a husband and new dad! 3 or 4 years ago he was in a job that he hated and was looking for something new. He heard about blogging and affiliate marketing through listening to podcasts and decided to...

On March 11th, 2011 I quit the corporate world and I've been a full-time entrepreneur ever since. Quitting my job was scary. 

I'm excited to have Larry Ludwig on the podcast!   Larry has been building websites for decades.  He was doing web development and web hosting in the 90s. However, he eventually started building his own blog, InvestorJunkie.com .  He grew this site from scratch to a 7 figure exit in 2018.  In fact, he sold the business for $6 million! That's a life-changing amount of money! So, during the intervie...

How would you like to buy a site making $70 a month and then 10 months later its making $6,000 a month? Well, that's the exact story we are going to tell with Gharav Dhir.  Gharav has been building niche sites for a while, but he happened to buy a site from MotionInvest.com in April 2020. Gharav also runs the content service called ContentForWeb. Site .

I'm excited to have Colin Ma on the podcast!  I've known Colin for a couple of years and actually had the pleasure of meeting him in person a few years ago at a conference. Colin has been building niche sites for years and in 2020 he had not 1, but 2 six figure exits.  One of these sites was one that he built from scratch. The other site he bought, quickly grew, and sold within in a period of abou...

Yoyao Shea bought a site for just $2,000 in mid-2020.  The site was making less than $100 a month.  After about 7 months, the site was making $6,800 a month! He also bought a second website around the same time that cost even less than $2,000 and now it's making $5,000 a month. How did Yayoa Shea increase the earnings of these sites so much? Well, today he is going to share his story of buying 2 s...

Today, I'm excited to share with you an interview I did with Steve Wiideman from Wiideman.com. Steve has been in the SEO industry since 1999...a dinosaur in internet years!  His first job out of college was doing SEO and search engine marketing. So, Steve bring all of his SEO knowledge and experience to the podcast today. In particular, we discuss how his SEO consulting group is working with clien...

Jeff Oxford is the founder of Link Hunter and has been in the SEO industry since 2010. He shares 4 really unique link building strategies that get results.  Listen in to hear Jeff's story and to get some high quality link building ideas that don't involve guest posting.

How can you know when you make a change to your website that it's not hurting your rankings in Google? Well, you can set up SEO tests. Today, I'm excited to share my recent interview with Matt Diggity where he drops some serious knowledge bombs as it relates to SEO tests, affiliate marketing, ranking in Google, and much more. Why SEO testing? Well, there's a lot of noise in the SEO industry. You c...

Listen in to hear how Azedine Djedid tested out multiple aged domain services and why he now only buys through ODYS Global. Azendine was able to start a new site with an aged domain and grow it quickly to 13,000 visitors a day.   Read his entire story here.

How do you constantly come up with good ideas?  How can you know what direction you should go in your business when you have a busy schedule and very little time to just think? In my interview today with Saud Juman , we discount how to tap into the "creative well" and what exactly that is. Saud started a company called PolicyMedical.com almost 18 years ago.  He exited the company about 2 years ago...

One Little Web is a reseller-friendly SEO & content services owned by Sujan Sarker. Today, I'm sharing an interview that I recently did with Sujan.  As you know, backlinks can be a big help to your site, if done properly.  If you get excellent links and you see your traffic soar. Get a backlink penalty and watch all your traffic and income disappear almost overnight. With such a fine line between...

Why is updating website and content auditing popular right now? Well, 10 years ago, people didn't need to audit their websites. It wasn't a thing. Generally speaking, websites we're pretty new. Now that sites are getting to be 10, 15, or 20 years old. There's a lot of upkeep and maintenance. Some are referring to this problem of old "blog content decay". If I'm looking ahead to the future, I think...

Anthony Presley and a partner recently purchased Templatic Themes in 2018. The business has over 120 premium WordPress themes and plugins. When they bought the business they had a vision to grow it, but there have been a few major bumps along the way. Listen in to hear how Anthony and his team have tackled these challenges and even recovered from the May 2020 core Google update. If you are interes...

Michael Bereslavsky of Domain Magnate is bringing private equity to online niche businesses. Learn more at: https://www.domainmagnate.com Since 2004 Michael has been building online businesses. Over the years, he's had plenty of hard lessons and unique experiences. He found the best complementary strengths and profitability in buying, managing, and selling websites. Today Michael is now the founde...

I'm excited to have Jon Gillham back on the show! Jon is the founder of the content writing service, Content Refined. During the interview, we not only talk about how he built the company but the entire process behind how they create content at scale. They do anywhere between 1,000,000 to 3,000,000 words a month on average! That's a lot of content. We dive into how they use statistics and competit...

Brock McGoff owns the website TheModestMan.com which now generates over 400,000 visitors and $30k in revenue per month. Over the years of building websites, Brock has learned a lot. Including getting hit by the first Google Panda update taking his traffic down to virtually zero. Since then, Brock has made every effort to make sure a Google penalty would never happen again and only aims to build co...