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

Our guest today is Dhanish Semar (those of you in the League of Legends community probably know him by his IGN: DiffTheEnder). Dhanish owns Cloth5.com , a site he built by making great connections, writing premium content, and putting it in front of his audience using the platform that was most important to them. The result? Cloth5 now gets over 1,000,000 visits per month .

Recently, Perrin and I were able to sit down with Matt Paulson of MattPaulson.com for a podcast interview to discuss his amazing business.  Matt is an unassuming guy and you would have no idea how extraordinarily well his business is doing unless you asked him. Well, we had the chance to ask about his business and the numbers he shares will blow your mind (at least it did for Perrin and I).  Matt...

In the podcast, Perrin and I review the income report from last month , discuss the business potential of buying and selling websites, and then go into more depth in our new authority site project. While we do cover similar topics to my last blog post , we also have a chance to dive quite a bit deeper and throw in a few other interesting topics as well.  Overall, if want our most up to date though...

I recently interviewed Andrew Youderian of eEcommerceFuel.com .  Perrin and I were able to have a great chat with Andrew to talk about his business and the great success that he has had with a couple of his drop shipping/ecommerce sites; including selling one for $170k at the beginning of 2014.

I started the NichePursuits podcast just over 2 years ago.  The most popular episode since the inception of my podcast has been episode 9 with Hayden Miyamoto recorded just over 2 years ago.   At the time, he was making over $30k per month from his small niche sites.  However, a lot has happened in the past 2 years and his strategy has changed dramatically.   Today I am publishing an interview I d...

Perrin and I discuss what passive income is all about and whether or not people actually stop working once they achieve their income dreams. In addition to sharing the early influence of our fathers, we also discuss some of the wealthiest people in the world and how they spend their work lives. Finally, I share my own day to day schedule as an internet entrepreneur.

Perrin and I had the chance to sit down and discuss in detail our new business Vylo.org for Episode 33.  We dig into the story of the product, how Perrin generated initial buzz, and plans going forward. The story of how Perrin came up with the idea and how he got over 6,000 people to express interest in the product and get on his email list in 24 hours is pretty remarkable. So, this episode is all...

Perrin and I discuss the May income of 2 niche sites that I purchased in January 2014.  We also discuss whether or not I should sell one of the websites; and share our thought process behind making this decision.

Perrin and I discuss when its time to stop creating new websites and when to just focus on your existing portfolio. I discuss my own website portfolio, specific traffic stats, and the decision I have made to stop building new sites for the foreseeable future.

When it comes to building a niche website that you hope to rank at the top of Google, you could potentially make hundreds of mistakes.  As a result, there is no possible way that I could cover every possible mistake that someone might make when trying to build and optimize their site for SEO. However, I do believe that there are some very common mistakes that many newer people might fall prey to w...

Perrin and I just finished recording a new podcast, episode 29.  During this episode, we discuss the April income report from my last blog post , and share some additional thoughts and nuances that I didn't have a chance to cover. Overall, I hope you enjoy the episode! If you find any value in the podcast and have a chance to leave a rating or review on iTunes here , that would be great.

I recently wrote a blog post titled, "Wh you Should NOT start a podcast".  This was an opinion piece that I wrote based on some of the frustrations of my podcast. However, after taking a look at the data and hearing some feedback from others, my opinion has evolved a bit in regards to podcasting.  Listen in to hear what the future of the Niche Pursuits Podcast will be...along with other interestin...

One of the things I did to grow aPennyShaved was to reach out to a bunch of other bloggers in the shaving community, a process I outlined in one of my previous posts . It was a super fun process, the response was spectacular, and I ended up making a bunch of cool friends. One of those friends was Douglas Smythe, who founded Howtogrowamoustache.com . We exchanged emails about shaving, discussed blo...

A couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of sitting down and interviewing Doug Cunnington for the Niche Pursuits podcast.  He's had some impressive results with one of his newer niche sites that I wanted to share. Does the name Doug Cunnington sound familiar?  You may recall hearing about Doug because I shared his success story just a few months ago !  At that time he was earning over $1,000 per...

The January income report for aPennyShaved.com is here!  This is one that I know a lot of you have been anticipating, because of how well the site did last month . After earning over $650 in December, the big question was whether December was so big mostly due to Holiday shopping.  The clear answer is NO!  January was a much bigger month, and Perrin and I attribute that to simply getting more page...

I had the pleasure of interviewing Justin Cooke of EmpireFlippers.com just a few days ago.  I'm sure you already know about Justin and Joe, as they are pretty popular guys! In fact, I had both of them on episode 3 of my podcast back in April 2012!  So, its been almost 2 years ago since I interviewed them.  I wanted to catch up on what has changed, and what their business plans are for the future.

Jon Cooper is a sophomore at the University of Florida studying finance.  Even though he's "younger", he happens to be a respected expert in the SEO arena; particularly when it comes to link building. I had the absolute privilege of interviewing Jon Cooper recently to discuss niche sites, link building, and more.  Today I am excited to share that podcast interview with you!

I had the opportunity to interview Nick Loper of SideHustleNation.com and ShoeSniper.com , a short time ago. I was excited to interview Nick because he has a great story of how he was able to take a little side business he started and develop it into something full-time.  That business was ShoeSniper.com, an affiliate site selling shoes.  What's interesting about his strategy, is that almost all o...

Well, Hayden Miyamoto is at it again!  I decided to bring Hayden back onto my podcast for the 3rd time because he continues to build his business in unique ways that I think we can all learn from. In my interview with Hayden today, we discuss how his niche site business has fared over the past year, and what he is doing differently now.  In particular, Hayden has been able to build a huge business...

Several months ago, I ran across a blog that I really enjoyed reading in the personal finance niche.  Before I was running my business full-time, I worked in the finance industry for several years, so I've always been interested in investments and personal finance. As I researched this blog a bit more, I realized that it was doing quite well!  According to its "About" page, it was receiving over 2...

In podcast 19 of the Niche Pursuits Podcast, I was able to sit down with Elaine Heney and discuss her business of building mobile phone applications.  She has currently built over 200 iPhone or Android Apps and only started about a year ago! I was completely amazed at the success she is having, and knew I had to have her on the show. Elaine has an interesting story because she's not a programmer a...

A little while ago, I shared the success story of Jon Haver from AuthorityWebsiteIncome.com .  If you haven't had a chance to read it yet, I highly recommend you check out what he is doing and how he is doing it. Jon has set a goal for himself to be making $15k per month by his 35th birthday.   He wants to achieve this primarily through building websites and monetizing those sites.  And he's well...

I interviewed Jamie Wilson who is a stay at home mom, but also a successful entrepreneur.  In fact, throughout the interview we dig into 2 successful sites that she owns: OrganicBambooClothing.com and JellyBeanQuilts.com .  Jelly Bean Quilts is currently her biggest money maker, and quite honestly, I think is a pretty cool business (yep I have kids!). I found out about Jamie because she submitted...

I felt like it was time that I sat behind the microphone and shared a few of my thoughts on the current state of SEO and my public niche site project .  In fact, as I look back at when I published my last podcast , its been over 4 months!  What I think you will find are some motivational words to help you see how I view the world of Search Engine Optimization and more. In addition, I cover a few m...

I am always amazed when I find people outside of the "internet marketing" niche that are finding big success with the principles that I teach on my blog all the time. I am constantly trying to harp on the fact that finding "long tail" keywords is something that EVERY business should be doing, not just affiliate marketers.  I've shared the success of Marcus Sheridan with this for his pool company. ...