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

Welcome back to another coaching call between Samara and I!  If you have been following along, you will know that during our last call , we discussed in depth how to go about picking a good niche for your website. For our 3rd call, we decided to do a bit of review.  After Samara dove in with her assignment, she was struggling a bit and wanted some clarification.

I’m excited bring you the second coaching call for Niche Site Project #3, between Ryan and Jake! Today, Ryan and Jake start digging into some light keyword research on the top 3 niches Ryan identified after the last call. They discuss some of the possible sub-niches they could go into, and then let that guide them as they dive into Long Tail Platinum , Ubersuggest , and SEMRush to learn more about...

In this episode, you will hear coaching call 2 between Perrin and Colleen.  In this they discuss additional market research and keyword research examples as they prepare to build a niche site.

This is the official podcast for Niche Site Project 3 , coaching call 2 between Samara and I. If you are trying to figure out what niche to build a website on, you really need to listen to this coaching call.  Samara and I take an in-depth look into how you can discover low competition niches through keyword sampling and competitor research. This step is so critical in the entire process.  Before...

In this coaching call for niche site project 3, Perrin and Colleen discuss market research and some of the overall goals that they have for the project.

In this episode, Jake and Ryan do a call together and discuss their overall goals for the project.  In addition to laying out some of the groundwork they discuss how to get started finding a niche.

Today is a the very first coaching call between Samara and I for niche site project 3.  During this call we discuss the big picture goals and strategies for the project. In addition, we discuss how to brainstorm for niche ideas.

In the podcast today, Jake, Perrin, and I reveal who the 3 students for niche site project 3 will be.  If you read the blog post published last week , you already know who the 3 students are: Samara, Ryan, and Colleen. However, in this podcast we share just a few more of our thoughts on the project in general and the process for the official coaching calls. In general, we review the students that...

In today's episode, Jake, Perrin, and I chat about the Niche Site Project 3 video finalists.  Voting is now open at: http://www.nichepursuits.com/niche-site-project-3-0-video-finalists-vote-now/

Perrin and I sat down recently and discussed the application process for Niche Site Project 3!  We are excited to be kicking off this project and can hardly wait to find out who the winning applicants will be for the project. During this podcast, we discuss why we are doing this project and how we are picking the winning applicant.  If you would like to hear Perrin and I discuss the project a bit...

The time has come to finally write the final chapter of Niche Site Project 1 and 2 .  As you may know, both of these projects were public projects where I built a website from scratch and shared the results and everything here on NichePursuits.com . So, keep listening to discover the conclusion of both Niche Site Projects.

Today, I'm excited to bring you an interview with someone with amazing genes.  My cousin, Jon Haws, is on the podcast today with what I think is an awesome story.  That's right, there is another Haws out there that also has the entrepreneurial blood flowing through his veins. If you don't recall, I interviewed Jon about 3 years ago on the podcast and now he's back for an update! At the time of our...

Welcome to another episode of the Niche Pursuits podcast!   In today's episode, Perrin and I discuss my last blog post about hiring a great software developer for your bootstrapped business in depth. If you haven't had a chance to read that blog post yet, I highly recommend that you do so here . These blog posts are part of a 5 part series that I'm doing on how to bootstrap a software business.  Y...

I'm happy to bring you another podcast interview I did recently with an Amazon seller. The guest on the podcast today is Pilar Newman . She has been selling on Amazon for about 8 years, and has really honed her skills for finding and selling products through the Amazon platform. Pilar applies a lot of the tactics other guests have shared in the past .  However, where she is different is how she is...

As you may know, I recently published a blog post sharing my recent success on Amazon. Today, Perrin and I sit down and have a more in-depth discussion on the subject.  The overall content is very similar to my last blog post where I share the fact that my new Amazon FBA business just clocked in at $40,639 in sales.

I'm excited to bring to you another podcast interview with Matt Paulson! If you recall, I had Matt on the podcast about a year ago and he delivered tons of value.  As a result, I thought it would be great to catch up with Matt and have an update on his business at MarketBeat.com . Not only does he give an update on the astounding revenue and income numbers of his business, but he also shares some...

Today on the podcast, Perrin and I discuss 6 examples of successful websites using long tail keywords. In general, if you are interested in building websites that get traffic from long tail keywords (and often really long tail keywords), then this podcast will give you some ideas and get you motivated. Overall, if you are interested in learning more about how to apply these long tail keyword strat...

Today, I am sharing a discussion that I did with Travis Jamison from Supremacy SEO and AMZtracker.com .  Travis is someone that has really figured out how to rank his products well for tons of long tail keywords in Amazon.  During the interview, he dives into how he finds keywords, how he strategically uses keywords in his listings, and how he gets reviews. In addition, Travis is also the created...

Today, Perrin and I discuss SEO. Can you believe it already been a year since the big PBN update?  This PBN update had a big impact on aPennyShaved.com (the Niche Site Project 2 website) and other niche site we were working on.  As a result, we have drastically changed how we do SEO and link building.  We haven't talked about these strategies too much, but we definitely are still actively doing ke...

Today's guest is not just selling a private label product.  Zach Vohries from Zackees.com has created a truly original (and patented) product and brought it to the market.  Zach had a unique idea and was able to go from idea to selling in about 2 years. I love the story that Zach shares because he has reached the point that all of us should be striving for (at least I know I am).  He's created som...

The time has finally come for me to reveal how well my new Amazon FBA business is going. I’ve shared a bit about how I got started selling physical products on Amazon; including the fact that I made about $4,400 in my first 40 days .  I’ve also been busy interviewing others for the NIche Pursuits podcast and just generally digging into the Amazon FBA business because I saw so much potential. Today...

We’re super excited to have an absolutely killer guest today: David Bryant from ChineseImporting.com . Some people, though, are just so far ahead of the game when it comes to important products from overseas. David is one of those people. Just how far ahead is he? You might want to sit down. Starting in 2008, David built a business that now sources over 300 products from China and generates over $...

Perrin and I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Scott Voelker from TheAmazingSeller.com and discuss his FBA business. He has been able to build up his Amazon physical product business to revenues of $35,000 per month since starting in October 2014 (about 9 months). In the interview today, Scott shares what has worked in his business, and how other can go about finding great products to...

We’ve got another (much more exciting) update about our Amazon FBA business. It’s been a week, our products are live, and we’ve finally got some hard numbers to report.

It’s been a while (about a month to be exact) since we’ve recorded a podcast on our Amazon FBA business. And believe me, we’ve wanted to talk to you guys about it.  But we couldn’t because our business was at a total stand-still (more on this below). But today, we’re back at it, and we’re ready to fire up another podcast episode about our Amazon FBA business. And you’re going to love this one. We’...