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

Mushifiq is the owner of a popular website flipping newsletter and EasyWins.io. To date, he has completed over 175 website flips, whether buying, selling, or brokering website deals.  How did he manage to flip so many websites? He's created systematic processes of "easy wins". These easy wins are tasks, or site improvements often overlooked but take relatively little time to complete and provide a...

Scott Voelker may be a new grandparent but has the energy of a teenager. This year marks his 19th year being self-employed, and although he is slowing down to focus more on family, his workload at Brand Creators is still more than most will tackle in a lifetime.  Running the Rock Your Brand Podcast is his primary focus with nearly 900 episodes and 16 million podcast downloads, but that's just the...

Craig Hewitt is the founder of Castos , a popular podcasting platform. I met Craig 4 years ago at RhodiumWeekend.com when Craig ran the podcasting editing and service-based business, Podcast Motor, before he built Castos. Today, Podcast Motor and Castos have merged into a SaaS company for hosting and analytics for your podcast.  They also still offer a complete podcast editing and transcription se...

In this Niche Pursuits podcast episode, we discover the key themes that made ConvertKit a success. ConvertKit is an email marketing platform started by Nathan Barry, a former designer and author, in 2012. The software is now generating $2.1M monthly revenue, has been listed on the INC 5000 numerous times, and founder Nathan Barry recently invested in an actual Ghost Town. 

Today, I'm excited to share an interview I conducted with Jared Bauman, a long time Niche Pursuits reader. Jared and I sat down to discuss a recent site he purchased and how he grew it 5x in just 7 months.  He took the site from earning around $200 a month to now over $1,000 a month! Jared's website purchase criteria: 1. Ranking Articles 2. Consistent Revenue 3. No Backlink Profile 4. Monthly Traf...

In 2010, I launched Long Tail Pro , a keyword research software tool.  Over the next 5 years, I grew the company from 0 to about $1 million in revenue per year.  I sold that company in 2016. Today, I share the "untold" story of Long Tail Pro and what has happened since I sold the company, along with some of the valuable lessons learned along the way.

Today, I brought Mark Mark from Niche Website Builders onto the show to discuss my recent order of a Skyscraper link building campaign for one of my niche sites. We dive into how they started their agency (Niche Website Builders), what types of services they offer, and more. Then we spend time looking behind the scenes of what happens when they create a link building campaign, how they do outreach...

Over the last little while, I've come to the realization that I need to make a major shift in how I blog. All thanks to Google.

Unlimited WordPress development? WPTangerine is a service I had never heard of until recently. I was a bit surprised when I heard they had been around since 2015 and came highly recommended by someone in my network.  In my podcast, I interviewed Marcus, the co-founder of WP Tangerine. We dive in and talk about how he built his business and how WPTangerine has grown to nearly 600 paying clients wit...

I started a case study to try and revive a dead email list of about 20,000 subscribers. However, it turns out my domain reputation is bad for this particular domain (my other email sending domains are excellent). So, my emails have primarily been going to people's junk folders, leading to terrible open rates. As a result, I'm PAUSING this email case study UNTIL I can improve the domain reputation....

MarketMuse uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to analyze content, suggest topics to cover, and create better content. It works best for SEO writers who want to develop highly effective content marketing strategies not based on gut instinct.  I've also recently been hearing all the news about GPT-3 , robots writing articles, and wondering how all of this will impact content generatio...

Learn why Bart MacDonald of BloomVP.com left the previous company that he founded and raised $10 million for. + Bart previously founded and help raise funding for the SaaS company, Sapling HR. However, he recently stepped down from the CEO role at Sapling to found Bloom VP, a venture firm focused on SaaS. Listen in to hear Bart's strategies and why he is so bullish on SaaS.

Matt Diggity is someone that has been buying, building, and growing affiliate website for a long time. In fact, I had him on the podcast about a year ago to discuss some of his background. Since then, I've stayed in touch with Matt and he started sharing more and more about the recent success of a couple of websites that he purchased. These 2 sites have gone from making less than $1,500 a month co...

Mark Webster and Gael Breton are from AuthorityHacker.com and have been in the authority website space for a long time.  Listen in as we discuss how they took a website from scratch to a mid 6 figure exit.  We dive into how they: Sold a niche site for over six figures they built in 18 months Negotiated affiliate deals three times higher than the public rates Develop their trademarked Shotgun Skysc...

Dave Chesson has self-published nine books on Amazon that now have a combined revenue between $7-9k a month. How does he do this? He describes it as the "Long Tail Pro" of Amazon. Finding undervalued Amazon keywords that drive traffic to the book.  He uses his niche sites to drive traffic to his books. We also discuss how he's built a $40k/month niche site by partnering with a true expert in the f...

​ Substack  is a platform where independent publishers can easily earn money from their writing with paying subscribers. Substack allows publishers to collect payments from subscribers and publish their content online and in email format. If you do some googling or twittering, you'll see that Substack is pretty hot right now. They got some $15 million-ish from  Adreessen Horowitz  and it feels lik...

Did you know that more large sites (over 1,000,000 pageviews a month) use Ezoic when compared to Mediavine or Adthrive? Tyler Bishop is the chief marketing officer for Ezoic and during this interview we discuss how Tyler got involved in Ezoic and what the company does. We also dive into some of the common misconceptions about Ezoic; such as how it compares to Mediavine and Adthrive (or other ad sh...

Matthew Allen is no stranger to online side hustles.   He has been dabbling in online business for about a decade now.   He even started a blog over at DumbPassiveIncome.com . Despite driving a delivery truck full-time for FedEx, he's still managed to find time to create AmaLinks Pro ; an all inclusive Amazon Associates WordPress plugin. Amalinks Pro allows you to quickly create professional-looki...

I started a case study about a month and a half ago to try and revive a dead email list. This is an email list that has been collecting dust for a "Mom" blog that I own. The site makes several thousand dollars every month from Ezoic display ads and Amazon associates. However, I wanted to see if I could monetize the email list that had been ignored for over a year. My earnings since the project sta...

Artificial Intelligence for article writing is getting much more advanced.  Tools like GPT-3 and First Draft by MarketMuse.com are making quality content production much easier.  Will this eliminate the need for human writers?  How will this impact the Niche site space and blogging in general?

Matt Paulson has grown MarketBeat.com to $10 million in revenue through SEO, email marketing, and much more. Listen in to hear how he uses email sponsorships to monetize his audience and SEO strategies used to grow his traffic (now at over 15 million visitors a month).

Almost exactly a year ago, my partners and I launched Motion Invest as a new way to buy and sell content sites. We've delivered on being a fast and easy way to buy or sell content sites.  Our original plan was to buy sites ourselves, so we would only buy sites that we felt strongly enough about to put money behind. We still buy sites directly if you are looking for a quick, all-cash deal. However,...

How does someone with a full time job as a construction worker and a small child find the time to build an online business? Adrian Diaz has enthusiasm that is infectious.  Listen in to hear how he stays motivated to build his affiliate business and youtube channel.

Brand Builders has come a long way. If you were familiar with Brand Builders 1 or 2 years ago, what you see today is drastically different. Today, I hop on a call with Brady Cargle, the manager of Brand Builders and talk about the evolution that Brand Builders has taken over the past 2 years and why it's become a very interesting business. In full disclosure, I am now a part-owner of Brand Builder...

Listen in to learn how Clarence Cheang has built a successful Amazon FBA business, despite all the competition.  Amazon is getting more and more competitive each year, but Clarence shows that new FBA sellers can still make it as his business is less than 2 years old.