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

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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 now gotten heavily involved in Youtube and growing a significant channel. With about 20,000 subscribers, he's definitely gained some great traction there. Today, Doug shares how to grow a Youtube channel. He shares his journey and the strategies that have worked well for him. And of course outside of YouTube, I had to ask a few hard-hitting questions related to KGR and his project "go white hat" that had mixed results. If you want to get access to Doug's Trello board for content creation, a Google Spreadsheet process doc, and a case study on publishing 60 videos in 30 days, you can get those right here. Overall, I hope you enjoy the interview!

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 blog, how he finds content ideas, how he runs his business, and how he makes time to travel, meditate, and more.

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" subjects like the best places to buy online businesses, what are some red flags when doing due diligence on deals, how long you should hold an asset for, and much more.

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. The first acquisition really allowed him to quit his job. He's now build a portfolio of sites and helps others do the same. We discuss the best places to buy websites, including EmpireFlippers.com and MotionInvest.com. We also dive into how you asses risk when looking at a potential site to buy.

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 well that has turned out for him. Where does he envisioned Smart Passive Income in 10 years or 20 years? Will it ever exist without Pat? Could he ever sell the business or walk away completely? We also dive into what his next venture might be that he's considering after he is "retired" from Smart Passive Income. Overall, Pat shares lots of great tips about big decisions, how his team is helping him reduce stress and get more done, and figuring out your "why" beyond just making money.

Walker Deibel is an entrepreneur that has made a number of acquisitions and he's the author of the book Buy Then Build. You can check it out at buythenbuild.com. He definitely is an entrepreneur in the trenches: building, buying, and selling (large) businesses. During this interview, we are going to dive into why he thinks acquisition entrepreneurship is the way to go and why it's so much better than starting a business from scratch. He shares some examples from his own experience. In addition, we talk about how to use leverage in buying businesses, the things to look for when you're buying a business, how to leverage your strengths, and more. I think that you're going to enjoy the interview.

Today I'm talking with Ron Stefanski from OneHourProfessor.com. Ron talks about a site that is making $18,000 a month and he shares the exact things that help the site take off. We cover his keyword research strategies and link building strategies. Then we talk about his overall business structure, how he has a full-time virtual assistant, an editor, writers, how much content he has on his sites, and so much more. Overall, this is an awesome story about a "normal" person who has had enormous success building niche websites. Hope you enjoy.

It's official, Niche Site Project 4 is a year old. What started just as another idea for a case study has evolved into a full blown website making money each and every month, it's a good thing. Obviously, I've been very happy with the fact that owntheyard.com has earned over $1,000 a month for the past few months now. Today, I'm going to do another regular monthly update with earnings, traffic, and more. Then, I'll discuss the future plans of the project, how often you can expect updates from me, and more.

Welcome back to the Niche Pursuits Podcast. I'm your host, Spencer Haws from nichepursuits.com. Today, I've got a great interview for you. I've got Adam Steele from loganix.net. Adam is somebody that's been around the affiliate marketing and link building world for a long time. He actually started back in an affiliate network called Neverblue. He started working there and that's how he got introduced to a lot of people doing online business. That led him down the road of link building services that he could offer. I'll let Adam tell his entire story. It's really interesting and he's built a really solid business. In their best year, they've done $3 million in revenue. He's got 14 full-time employees and a large remote team behind him. We'll talk about how he's able to achieve that success. Overall, it was great to have Adam on the podcast and interview him. If you want to check out Loganix, his link building company, you can use my affiliate link which I would be very happy if you did. That's at nichepursuits.com/loganix.

Welcome back to the Niche Pursuits Podcast. I'm your host, Spencer Haws from nichepursuits.com. Today, I've got a returning guest. Matt Giovanisci from moneylab.co is back, and we talk about quite a few things. If you remember the last interview we did, which actually, as I look back, was an entire year ago, which is really hard to believe. We dove into a lot of his SEO tips and how just writing great content, trying to have a little bit better content, and specifically not doing a lot of link building has led to a lot of success for Matt with his swimuniversity.com site. Today, we talk about a little bit more about Swim University and specifically, his dive into using YouTube and how his YouTube videos are doing quite well. But then we spend the bulk of the interview talking about his new software product called Lasso. Lasso is a product that manages your affiliate links and specifically, it does work well with Amazon affiliate links, although it works for any affiliate links. It helps you to better monetize your site and also has really cool product boxes that you can insert into your post that will help you sell more Amazon affiliate products—a product box for the product you're selling on Amazon—really cool looking, with a nice button, and can help you monetize those posts. It's a cool product. If you're interested in checking it out, you can use my affiliate link at nichepursuits.com/lasso.

My guest today is Adam Preiser from wpcrafter.com. Adam is best known for his YouTube channel WPCrafter where he shares all kinds of WordPress tips and tutorials. In fact, Adam currently has over 124,000 YouTube subscribers and is definitely crushing it there. However, Adam has also done something that very few businesses will ever achieve. He's launched a new software product called CartFlows and it's already on pace to do over $1 million in revenue in its very first year. During the interview, I spent quite a bit of time asking Adam about how he came up with the idea for CartFlows, why and how he found a partner, and how he has grown this WordPress plug-in business so quickly. CartFlows is a sales funnel builder for WordPress. You can build beautiful sales pages and one-click up-sales and much more. If you want to check out CartFlows, you can go to nichepursuits.com/cartflows. Overall, I hope you enjoy the interview with Adam.

I'm excited to give you an update on Niche Site Project 4. I'm actually going to give the monthly income report for July 2019. Sorry about the delay in this episode. I'm already about three weeks into August as I'm recording this, so if you've been waiting anxiously for this report, I apologize. I published the blogpost on the blog. Maybe you've already read that with the monthly report, but due to some vacation time and other things, it's taken me a little bit to actually record this episode. With that, let's go ahead and jump right into it. Now that the Niche Site has been revealed, I'm happy to share that the site has continued to grow and progress. In full disclosure, I didn't focus very much on my site, owntheyard.com, because of things I was focused on during July. I launched Link Whisper in early to mid July, which took a lot of time, then I was on vacation at the end of July. Despite my lack of focus, it was great to see that the site achieved another record month in terms of both earnings and traffic.

Today, I'm excited to have Matthew Woodward from matthewwoodward.co.uk on the podcast. Matthew and I have interacted quite a bit online over the years, but this is the first time that we've had a chance to hop on a call and chat. I hope that you'll find it as interesting as I did, to hear more about his background and how he got started making money online. Matthew has a huge amount of knowledge with anything SEO related. Today, we jump into how to do an SEO audit that can dramatically increase your search engine traffic. We also dive into some specific on-page SEO tips that you can implement as well. Overall, I hope you enjoy Matt's story and the business advice that he has to share.

In today's episode, I'm excited to introduce you to Miles Beckler from milesbeckler.com. Miles has been helping his wife operate and grow their site, ask-angels.com, for many years. Even though we don't spend much time chatting about this specific site, it's one that has gotten over 33 million visitors and is a very significant business, so Miles knows what he's talking about. After the success of Ask-Angels—it continues to be successful—Miles decided to start a YouTube channel to share his advice on keyword research, SEO, Facebook ads, and much more for free, so that others could become successful entrepreneurs. If you are looking to get some motivation in your business, I hope you'll stick around and listen to Miles. He has great advice to share and he's highly motivating as well. If you want to follow along with Miles, you can find him on YouTube or go to milesbeckler.com.

Today, I'm excited to introduce you to Tommy Griffith from clickminded.com. Tommy is someone that has been involved with SEO for a long time in a couple of really large companies. He started as an SEO manager for PayPal and then moved over to Airbnb as an SEO manager there as well; pretty cool stuff. As you'll hear, Tommy started teaching an SEO course on his site and that has now become a fulltime business for him. He's had a ton of ups and downs along the way that he talks about, but he's been able to build a great business. I hope you listen in to Tommy's full story and some of the SEO tips that he has to share. If you want to checkout the full SEO course that Tommy has, you can go to nichepursuits.com/clickminded. Overall, I hope you'll enjoy the interview.

Today I'm excited to bring you a podcast interview with Mark Thompson from Pay Kick Start. Mark is someone that I have known online for a long time (in internet years). Going back to around early 2013, Mark helped with me a big affiliate promotion for Long Tail Pro. The first promotion went so well, that we did another one in 2015. Mark got started selling a variety of products online, but really got into the swing of things when he started selling software. However, it was more than just launching 12 to 14 software products that made him successful. He and his partner, Matt Callen, both figured out the product launch formula extremely well to make sure their Digital Kickstart brand did well. Mark and Matt could continue to launch more software products, but they created PayKickStart and see the big potential that it has. As a result, they are focusing their energy and attention on this flag ship product and doing everything they can to grow it.

In today's episode, I talk about Niche Site Project 4 and actually reveal the domain! If you have been reading my blog, you will know that I revealed the domain a couple of weeks ago right here. In addition, I cover the full income report for June 2019. I'm excited that the site continues to grow and made over $1,200 last month.

Listen to hear how Sam Williamson builds white hat links that help his sites rank better in Google. These 3 specific strategies are white hat and still very effective.

In today's episode, I have an interview with Nate Hirsch from freeeup.com. How did Nate go from being in university, and then selling products through Amazon FBA, to creating his own freelancer website? Listen to the interview to find out.

In today's episode, I share an interview I did with John Kiekbusch from SEOButler.com. Listen to the entire episode to hear how John went from building an "offline" security business, to building PBNbutler and SEObutler, how he's built a portfolio of sites and more. Along the way he also shares some great tips for how he's grown both SEObutler and his own portfolio of sites.

Listen in to hear the full income report for May 2019 for my Niche Site Project 4 site. Another record earnings and traffic month!

Today, I've got an interview with Joe and Mike Brusca from buildassetsonline.com. I do have to warn you that through this interview, you may get really excited about starting a dropshipping business. Their ecommerce businesses are doing $30,000 a month in net profit. During this podcast episode, you're going to hear how you should go about picking a niche, what type of product you should be selling, and how to market those products.

1 to 1.2 million pageviews a month with 80% from search engines. $238,000 in top line revenue in a month, with a 50%-60% profit margin. Are those the kind of numbers you would like to see in your business? Well, I'm happy to say that you are about to hear an interview with a business owner that has those exact numbers. Today, you'll hear from Jeff Proctor, co-founder of DollarSprout.com and breakingtheonepercent.com. What you're about to hear is the story of how Jeff and his partner Ben built Dollar Sprout into a six-figure-a-month business with most of its traffic coming from Google. Tons of valuable tips and lessons to be learned, so I hope you listen until the end. Enjoy!

During this episode, I share how much money my Niche Site Project 4 site made in April 2019. It was a record traffic and earning month!

Jon Dykstra from FatStacksBlog.com is the real deal. He owns several niche sites, with the largest one making over $40,000 per month. In the interview, he shares his content and SEO strategies. He also shares how he rarely focuses on "money" keywords, but rather informational content.

When Warren Buffet was a young investor he employed one particular strategy that worked really well; however, over time his investment strategies evolved as opportunities changed. My niche site strategies have evolved from very low investment per site to greater costs per site. Listen in to hear exactly how much I've spent building my Niche Site Project 4 site and what the potential returns are on that investment.

During this episode, I share my difficult experience running the Boston Marathon. In addition, I share the monthly report for March 2019 for Niche Site Project 4. The site has seen tremendous growth despite a slow start. I share some business lessons learned from running the Boston Marathon.

Today is an update on my site for niche site project 4! I share what I've been working on and the traffic and earnings results for October 2018.

Today, I'm excited to bring you another interview for the podcast! I had the opportunity to chat with Deacon Hayes from WellKeptWallet.com and discuss how he's grown such a large website. I love the story of Well Kept Wallet for a couple of reasons. First, Deacon has been able to grow the site to over $100,000 a month in revenue! But secondly, his site was not an overnight success. In fact, it took him about 5 years to grow the site to over $1,000 a month. So, the first lesson here is that often the rewards come to those who stick with it. However, Deacon also has some great SEO tips to share. Most of the traffic to the site is coming from Google, and so I wanted to dive into the details of what is workings in terms of his SEO strategy. Enjoy the podcast!

Today, I'm excited to bring you an interview with one of the Niche Site Project 4 participants! During the most recent monthly income report, most people reported no earnings. However, today's guest reported earnings of $889 after just one month! That's almost unheard of with a new niche site. As a result, I wanted to have him on the podcast to discuss what has been working so well and how he was able to earn so much so quickly. Today's guest is Jae Jun from GorillaROI.com. Gorilla ROI is the site that he started as part of the project. Now in all fairness, Jae had been working on this software project before Niche Site Project 4 started. But he didn't launch the site until after, so it still "counts". If you listen to the full podcast episode, you'll hear how Jae was able to hustle his way to his first few sales using Reddit and Amazon Seller forums. But he also has plans on how he can consistently grow the business as well.

Today, I'm excited to share a recent interview I did with Trent Dysrmid of BrightIdeas.co. Trent and I have know each other for many years since the early days of NichePursuits.com. Trent has gone from building niche sites, to running a marketing agency, to selling private label selling products on Amazon, to now wholesaling products on Amazon. Bottom line is that Trent was able to take his business from 0 to $100k a month in revenue within 5 months. He expects that his Amazon wholesale business will do about $3 million in revenue this year.

Listen in for the monthly report for Niche Site Project 4.

In today's podcast episode, I was able to sit down with Zach Zorn from MoneyNomad.com and discuss a recent buy and flip that he found on EmpireFlippers.com. What I love about Zach's story is that he's been a long time Niche Pursuits reader and had NO affiliate marking or online business experience previous to this. In fact, Zach is currently full-time employed as a Yacht broker in San Diego. So, if you are in the market for a Yacht, go ahead and give Zach a call. Long story short is that Zach bought a site for $49k in January of this year. The site was making him a profit of about $3k to $4k a month while he owned it. So, he pocketed an additional $13k before he sold it for $75k in May of this year. That's a cool $40k extra in his pockets from this site flip...not bad! Zach has some really interesting ways that he was able to grow the site. If you want all the details, I highly recommend that you listen to the full episode!

Jason and I sit down and discuss what has happened in the first month of Niche site project 4. In addition to giving an update on the niche site project 4 strategies, we also answer some questions that people have had about our plans in the future for the site.

Matt Giovanisci joins me on the podcast to discuss his journey from cleaning pools to owning one of the largest swimming pool affiliate websites in the world. In addition to his SEO tips, Matt also shares his dislike of link building, podcast hacks that might get you banned, and more. Enjoy the show!

Goran Duskic is an entrepreneur living in Croatia building web applications and niche sites. Goran has an interesting story to tell as he went from raising money for his startup to adding niche sites to his portfolio. Learn how Goran is making over $6,000 a month with his online business while living in Croatia.

I'm excited to bring you an interview with Jake Cain! Not only is he one of my full-time employees, he also has his own portfolio of sites that he's built on the side. I think you'll enjoy hearing Jake's story as he shares his journey from working in banking as his first job to where he is today with his own business. He's gone from not knowing anything about building sites a few short years ago to now owning one that is making over $20,000 a month! Go ahead and listen to the episode to get all the details. Jake is also one of the coaches inside of Organic Traffic Formula, which was just launched last night.

Today is a special one. I had the chance to sit down with Jason Wilson, my full-time employee! However, Jason's story goes way beyond just working for the Niche Pursuits team, he also happens to be a successful entrepreneur. In fact, Jason's site's have no eclipsed $10,000 a month! Listen in to learn exactly how he's built up his affiliate websites so quickly and how you can do the same.

I was able to sit down recently with Jake and Jason to record another episode of the Niche Pursuits Podcast. During this episode we dive a bit deeper into the overall strategy and timeline of Niche Site Project 4. In particular, we discuss: What types of keywords to target What type of content to write Monetization strategies How long before I expect the site to make money and much more We also dive into what my budget for the project will be as I plan to outsource a significant amount of the content. In addition, we answer a few other questions that have come up via blog comments or the Facebook group.

Today, I interview Will Blears from OneMansBrand.com and discussing how he built an Amazon Affiliate website from scratch to $40,000 a month. He shares his content strategy, link building strategies, and more. We also dive into how he sold this website and what the process was like.

After a year hiatus, the Niche Pursuits podcast is back and better than ever. Along with my co-hosts, Jake and Jason, we discuss Niche Site Project 4 and why I'm building another site publicly.

In today's episode, I share an interview I did with Grant Baldwin from TheSpeakerLab.com. Grant is someone that knows the speaking game inside and out. He has been a professional speaker for years and now teachers others how to book their own speaking gigs. So, during the interview we discuss these 2 aspects of his business: how to actually get booked as a speaker (and get paid for it) and second, how he has build the training side of his business and how that is going. As a quick summary, Grant Baldwin shares that he makes over six figures speaking at events. However, his business as a whole will be close to crossing the seven figure mark when you add in his training courses. I was fascinated with how Grant has building the training side of his business through Facebook ads and webinars. So, if you have a training product (or are thinking about creating one), there is a great discussion about how you can grow that part of your business. During the course of the episode, Grant shares a few resources: TheSpeakerLab.com - where you can learn more about Grant or join his training programs. MySpeakerFee.com - A speaker fee calculator that can show you how much you should expect to make when speaking. FreeSpeakerWorkshop.com - Grant's free webinar training that teaches you "How To Start Booking (And Getting Paid For) Speaking Engagements Without Having An Existing Platform Or Being Sales-y"

Today, I've got an interview with Chandler Bolt from Self-Publishing School. I met Chandler at a conference about two years ago and was immediately impressed with his business and overall attitude. In addition to hearing his story about how he made Self-Publishing School a success, you'll also hear about how he recommends writing a book and promoting it. We also dive into some of his productivity hacks and routines that have made him be able to accomplish so much so quickly.

In today's interview I talk with Dave Chesson. Dave is the founder of Kindlepreneur.com, his blog that will teach you how to write and sell Kindle ebooks. In addition, he is the creator of KDP rocket, a software application for self publishers to help them find Kindle keywords. Dave is actually a long time reader of Niche Pursuits and started out by creating a couple of niche websites and then moving into publishing Kindle ebooks. One point that Dave really drives home is just how important it is to fully monetize your site when you have good traffic coming to certain articles. Dave has a great way of explaining this concept by drawing an analogy with Monopololy, boardwalk, and building hotels.