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

In this second update on my recent case study update, I discuss what I've been up to so far and my plans to improve my domain reputation.

Danny Brooks is the founder of AMZtableassistant.com a chrome extension that allows you to quickly insert code snippets for AAWP, AMAlinksPro, and other Amazon associates tools. Danny shares his entrepreneurial journey and why he building his tool on existing platforms.

Listen in to hear the Word Agents founder story.  Vincent D'Elleto has focused on providing customers high-quality SEO content at scale.  By focusing on this niche, he's been able to grow it to 7 figures and beyond with a goal of hitting 8 figures a year very soon.

Listen to Mukesh tell his story of how he got started in digital marketing and is now making $10,000 a month between his agency Monk Metrics and his portfolio of sites.  And it all really started with a typo domain name.

Today, I'm happy to share the success story of Systeme.io founded by Aurelien Amacker. Systeme.io is an all in one landing page, funnel builder, and email automation software platform.  The best part?  Aurelien was able to build up the business targeting the French market (where he is from).  He has only recently started focusing more on the US market and he's doing quite well there as well. How d...

In this episode, I share my plans to try and monetize an email list that hasn't been emailed in over a year.  I have 22,000 people on an email list that have been neglected. Let's talk about my strategies to revive this list - a 90 day case study has begun.

Kevin Jourdan saw a need for a brokerage in the French Market, so he built DotMarket.eu.  He is now on track to sell over $1 million worth of sites on his new brokerage. He shares his background that includes building, buying, and selling niche websites and also how he's gone about growing a successful startup brokerage.

Learn how Niche Website Builders launched their digital agency to nearly $800k in year 1 revenue by using 2 small facebook groups that they had started. In addition, you can get an exclusive deal for content and link building services by going to https://www.nichepursuits.com/nichewebsitebuilders

I'm all FIRE'd up! FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) is a movement that is all about making and saving enough money at an "early" age so that you can live off your investments for the rest of your life. I'll be honest that I've thought about this subject a lot.  In fact, I quit my job in 2011 (in my early 30s) and have been building online businesses ever since. I sold my software compan...

Affiliate marketing can be a lucrative business. In fact, it's how I was able to  quit my job  over 9 years ago and I've been building sites, products, and running various online businesses ever since. However, when it comes to building a site like  OwnTheYard.com  (my  Niche Site Project 4  site), it can be extremely risky. An affiliate site that is reliant on Amazon for its earnings and Google f...

Would these behemoths of the internet make up their minds?   Do they love my site...or not?! Google and Amazon appear to be all-powerful and that power has been on full display over the past couple of months. First, Amazon decreases their commission rates...during a pandemic...because...Bezos money? Next, Google rolls out a core update near the end of May, and I'm not gonna lie, my niche site took...

Jon Dykstra is back on the podcast to share more of his story and an update.  He's now making over $50k a month with his niche sites and avoids link building.

Listen in to hear what happened to OwnTheYard.com when I did an internal linking case study.  I built over 100 internal links to various pages and tracked the Google position over time.  

Listen in to find out why I closed blog comments on Niche Pursuits and perhaps why you should consider doing the same.

Learn how to create content groups in Google Analytics so that you can better track the performance of certain segments of content on your site.

One of my sites recently cracked 10,000 visitors a day.  How much did it make that day?  I'll dive into where it's getting traffic, how much it earned, and overall discuss how much money you can expect to make with a site at these traffic levels.

I'm excited to have Doug Cunnington back on the podcast! Doug and I connected back during the first Niche Site Project (2013) and he enjoyed my project so much, he started his blog and stole the name for his domain from my project!  : ) NicheSiteProject.com is where you can follow along with what Doug is up to these days.  Even though Doug has been in the niche site game since at least 2013, he's...

Harsh Argawal is a well-known blogger in the WordPress and digital marketing space.   Shout Me Loud gets over a million pageviews a month, which is really high for a blog in just about any space, but especially the Wordpress and Blogging niche.  Not only has Harsh built a significant business, but he's also found a way to a have a proper work life balance. Listen in to hear how Harsh has grown his...

I'm excited to welcome Richard Patey onto the Niche Pursuits podcast!   Richard is well-known in the buying and selling websites space and has a lot of experience. You can check out what he's been up to lately over at RichardPatey.com . During today's episode we talk about Richard's background and how he got involved in building, buying, and selling websites.  We also dive into some "meaty" subjec...

Today, I'm excited to have Kyle Roof on the podcast!  You can find some of Kyle's work at Internet Marketing Gold  and Page Optimizer Pro. Kyle has been involved in SEO for a long time and is well known in the industry.  In particular, he is well known for performing SEO tests to see what actually works for ranking in Google as opposed to just taking other people's words for it.

I had the opportunity to site down and interview Jaryd Kraus from BuyingOnlineBusinesses.com .  Jaryd is a big believer in skipping the "failure" as he puts it and just jump to the success by buying a business that is already making money.   During this podcast we discuss why Jaryd (and how) went from being a plumber to making 3 website acquisitions that led him to investing in websites full-time....

Today, I'm happy to have Jesse Lakes of Geni.us Links on the podcast!   We discuss his entrepreneur story of starting and growing Genius.  In addition, we chat about his recent acquisition of Kit.com.  Then we dive deep into Amazon Associates' compliance. If you want to make sure you are following all the rules that Amazon has given us, including some recent changes, this is the interview for you.

Ryan Kulp is the founder of MicroAcquisitions.com and ForkEquity.com. In today's interview, he shares how he's acquired 10 small SaaS companies in the last 3 to 4 years.  Those companies include Fomo.com and others.  Fomo alone has grown from $10k  in MRR to $100k. Listen in to hear what types of companies he looks for, how he acquires them, and how his team grows the businesses.

Listen in to this episode to hear from Matt Diggity, a well-known SEO expert. We discuss his business model of buying, growing, and then flipping affiliate websites.  In addition, we dive into some very specific link building strategies. Overall, it's a great discussion on SEO and building successful online businesses!

Pat Flynn from smartpassiveincome.com is back on the Niche Pursuits Podcast! Pat and I have known each other for about 10 years now and he was a guest of my podcast over seven years ago.   Listen in to hear what's going on in his business right now and what decisions he has made that have led him here. We specifically talk about his decision to start selling online courses and you can hear how wel...