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

Welcome to Episode 64 of the Niche Pursuits podcast.   Today we welcome Steve Chou.   Steve and his wife own the ecommerce store,   bumblebeelinens.com .   Steve also has a blog and training classes on starting ecommerce stores on his other sites, mywifequitherjob.com and profitableonlinestore.com .   Steve gives us the story of how he and his wife started their store which sells a large product l...

We are excited about today’s  episode which will be part 1 of a 5 part series on how to bootstrap a software business. Along the way, we will look at my software company, Long Tail Pro and how it became my most successful venture and we’ll also tell you, the listener, how to go out and start your own successful software business.  

Perrin and I are excited to bring you the income reports for the authority site and my amazon product. We also discuss a pivot I am making in my business based on these numbers. The details of these income reports can be found in this blog post from last week. Here's a quick rundown of what we discuss on the podcast today: Last month our authority site brought in $912.70, mostly from Kindle books,...

Today’s episode of the Niche Pursuits Podcast is a Q&A session with Perrin and I talking all about selling physical products on Amazon . A few of the questions covered are: What are your thoughts about going outside of Amazon? Another common question we get is Why Not Go Direct? A few people have been asking about selling through Amazon’s FBA program in other countries. Can you estimate costs asso...

Today, Perrin and I get behind the microphone and discuss how to start and grow your own business through Amazon’s FBA program.  By following several key steps, I was able to sell $4,399 in product in just 30 days. Perrin and I share the process and answer some questions taken from the blog. This is a very real business, which I hope to scale and see monthly earnings quadruple. The potential rewar...

Today, I share a discussion between Perrin and I on the importance of being unique with your business. In particular, we have a more in-depth discussion about being the ONE, as I wrote about in my last blog post here . This is an interesting topic that may seem pretty obvious to some people, while others may be completely oblivious to the subject. In my opinion, to build a defensible business that...

Perrin and I have launched a couple of books on Amazon Kindle and we have been surprised by their success. In this episode, we discuss the latest earnings and other successes from both our authority site and our kindle books.

In my podcast episode today I interviewed Claire Smith that is doing VERY well with her niche sites.  She is making over $10,000 a month with her niche sites. However, what makes Claire's story interesting is that she has NEVER built a link to any of her sites .  In her words, "I just never got around to it." Because she has never even tried to build a link to any of her sites, she doesn't have to...

Today, I would like to introduce you to Travis Ketchum of ContestDomination.com.  In this episode, Travis shares a bit about his own story and why he created Contest Domination (software that helps you run and manage successful contests online).  In addition, Travis shares some really amazing success stories of clients that have used Contest Domination to grow their business. One of those companie...

During the podcast, Brian provided a ton of very actionable tips for anyone starting a new blog or looking to attract more traffic and links to their existing sites. Some of the most interesting takeaways that I had are related to how Brian was able to grow his blog so much in the past year.  He did this by blogging LESS.  By focusing more on quality posts rather than quantity, and then working ac...

When it comes to link building experts, Jon Cooper of PointBlankSEO.com is right at the top of the list. For that reason, I wanted to bring Jon on the podcast for a second time to discuss link building tactics that are working right now.  In particular, Perrin and I got a chance to ask about our authority site and actually get some personalized advice for how we should approach our link building.

Chris Guthrie and I have known each other for a long time.  Back in the day Chris was out building Amazon affiliate sites and I was building Adsense affiliate sites.  I'm not sure where we first crossed paths, but we've been in touch now for probably close to 5 years. I had Chris on my podcast over 2 years ago .  However, now his business has evolved so much that I wanted to have him on to discuss...

About a month ago I was able to attend a conference called Rhodium weekend .  While I was there, I got to meet lots of really interesting people, including Jock Purtle from DigitalExits.com . I asked Jock to come on the podcast and discuss some of the insights that he has on buying and selling websites.  You see, Jock has been buying and selling websites for his own portfolio for a long time. In a...

Today, I’m excited to share with you the interview that Perrin and I did with Shane Melaugh of Thrive Themes . Shane is someone that has been involved in the internet marketing space for a number of years and has seen a lot of success.  In fact, he’s been entrepreneurial his entire life and by his own admission is probably “unemployable” at a traditional job. Not only has he found a way to bring m...

Podcast 50!  I started my podcast a couple of years ago almost as an after thought, but today I'm hitting a major milestone with 50 episodes! For now I'm excited to share an interview I did with Justin and Joe from EmpireFlippers.com .  These guys are well known for their website marketplace where all sites are listed for sale at 20 times monthly income.

Perrin and I were able to sit down and record a podcast based on our last blog post, How to Mange Writers Effectively . When it comes to starting and running an online business, having great content is so critical.  If you are not writing the content yourself, hiring and managing writers becomes extremely important. Because of this, Perrin and I felt like we wanted to share some of our best practi...

In this podcast, we discuss 2 of Steve's sites: SteveScottSite.com and DevelopGoodHabits.com ; and of course his Kindle publishing business.  In fact, he was also kind enough to share a link to his author page on Amazon, so you can see a list of all his books!  Check them out at HabitBooks.com . Steve's advice and story is quite impressive as he is only started publishing on Kindle about 2 years a...

I'm excited to bring you another podcast today!  Perrin and I were able to recently sit down with Gael Breton of AuthorityHacker.com to discuss all the important elements of building an authority website. Gael knows what he is talking about. You'll like this interview because he not only shares very actionable tips, but also gives the URL of his website that is making over $10,000 per month.  I al...

Wow, apparently my article from earlier this week really rocked the boat!  I made the firm stance that I will no longer be building private blog networks (PBNs), and it garnered A LOT of attention. In fact, my article was mentioned on SERoundtable.com , SearchEngineLand.com , tweeted by Rand Fishkin , and even Matt Cutts tweeted about the news articles (that I was in).  Then of course there have b...

A few days ago I shared the monthly income report for a few sites that I purchased this year.  The site buying case study is one that I've learned quite a bit from and has helped expand my business. In total, I've now bought 4 sites this year, and as you can see from the what I've learned from spending $37,100 on buying sites , I've been able to do pretty well! Today, I'm sharing a podcast that Pe...

Perrin and I had the chance to interview Neil Patel of QuickSprout.com . Neil is very well known for the products he's built ( Kissmetrics , CrazyEgg , and others) and for the traffic strategies he's implemented on large websites such as TechCrunch.com and Amazon.com .  When it comes to content marketing and traffic experts, Neil is right there near the top of the list. So, I hope you enjoy the in...

Last week, I finally broke the silence about what happened to my survival knife site, from niche site project 1 . As revealed in that post, the site appeared to have been hit with negative SEO .  And then when Penguin 2.1 came out in October 2013, the site finally tanked in the rankings (the spammy links obviously being the reason that it was affected by Penguin). I tried several tactics for over...

One of the hottest business ventures right now, is publishing books on the Amazon Kindle platform .  I've personally been curious about the prospects of publishing Kindle eBooks, but have never taken the leap. As a result, Perrin and I jumped at the opportunity to have Jonny Andrews of AudienceHacker.com on the podcast. We recently interviewed him and had the chance to dig into how he's been able...

Perrin and I were able to sit down recently and interview Rand Fishkin of Moz.com !  If you have been in the SEO world for any period of time, you are likely well aware of Rand and the company he founded, Moz. He is one of the most well-known and well respected entrepreneurs in the SEO space. Perrin and I really relished our opportunity to pick Rand's brain for an hour on SEO, marketing, and his s...

Recently Perrin and I were able to sit down and interview Dre Baldwin of DreAllDay.com .  I'm excited to bring this interview to you today, because well, its different! Dre is not your typical niche site builder or affiliate marketer (like almost all of my previous guests ).  Dre is actually a professional basketball player! I'll let you read or listen to his entire story below, but he worked his...