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

In today's podcast episode, Jared chats to the business manager at Content Refined — Narcis Bejtic. Narcis talks about the best time to branch out of the core niche and add different content if you have a website outside of the beginner stage. He offers advice on becoming unstuck and getting the traffic rolling again for those struggling with a stale website.

Today's guest on the Niche Pursuit podcast is Brandon Gaille. Brandon is the host of the popular podcast 'The Blogging Millionaire' Brandon goes deep and provides some great tips and solid advice for a range of topics that most website builders will find super interesting.

Today's guest on the Niche Pursuits podcast is Greg Elfrink. Greg has a background in SEO, content marketing, website building and has been the head of marketing at Empire Flippers since 2016 — today, he shares lots of tips and tricks on buying and selling websites.

Today on the Niche Pursuits podcast, we have Emily Dyson. Emily has been building websites for a few years now, and this conversation has a primary focus on her most popular website which she started in 2018. We talk about keyword research, topical authority, and how AI plays a significant role in Emily's content approach.

Luke Jordan is today's guest on the Niche Pursuits podcast. He shares his website story, which could also be labelled a website drama! The podcast interview offers many pearls of wisdom for website builders, but the core message is about going all-in on a site when your website takes a hit and looks doomed for failure.

Today's guest on the Niche Pursuits podcast is Charles Floate, an SEO expert who has been in and around the SEO space for 14 years. Charles talks about the importance of treating your website as a real business and provides valuable insights into the strategies used to get a website back on track and thriving again.

Today, I want to share why I sold my site OwnTheYard.com, how much I sold it for, and what's next. I was able to sit down with Jared Bauman and record an entire interview to recap the history of Niche Site Project 4, the exit, and all the details.

Today's guest on the Niche Pursuits podcast is Joe Valley, the author of the newly released book 'The Exitpreneur's Playbook.' Joe talks about selling your business from the beginning rather than when you want to sell and offers advice for getting prepared and ready to make the process smoother.

Today's guest on the Niche Pursuits podcast is Mike Dinich. Mike touches on the strategies he used to hit nearly 700k monthly visitors and provides an interesting take on how he grew his website to hit some great income numbers — like the 30 thousand dollars he earned in revenue last month.

Today's guest on the Niche Pursuit Podcast is Spencer Haws — yes, the guy owns this very Podcast and the Niche Pursuits website. Spencer's aim with this podcast episode is to update the listeners on his plans for the website and to explain why he's no longer the face of the Podcast and Youtube channel. He also wants to answer the questions that the Niche Pursuits audience would be interested in hearing about.

SEO expert Steve Toth is the latest guest on the Niche Pursuits podcast. Steve has a long history in the SEO industry. He started in 2010 as a copywriter running a web development company blog, which led him on his journey into search engine optimization.

Today's guest on the Niche Pursuits podcast is Eric Hochberger, one of the co-founders of the ad-management company — Mediavine. The topic of conversation during the chat is the worrying future of the Ad Revenue industry for content creators and Ad sellers.

In today's episode we interview Carl Broadbent. Carl shares his knowledge, strategies, and approach to many aspects of website building and affiliate marketing. We discuss how entering a competition at Income School changed his life and the pearls of wisdom he received from the experts who came to his home to coach him one-to-one.

Today's guest on the podcast is Emilia Gardner. Emilia is a former Lawyer turned website builder who quit her job to learn how to make money on the internet. In this podcast she offers advice about the tangible and intangible benefits of website creation. She talks about the importance of accountability and staying focused on a project until successful.

Today's guest on the podcast is Morten Storsgaard from PassiveIncomeGeek.com who shares his story and offers actionable insights into his unique approach to building successful niche websites. In the podcast, Morten talks about the no-nonsense strategy that has brought him success.

Kyle Kroeger is our guest on the podcast this week - he's been building niche sites for 10+ years as a side hustle, but has recently quit his job to go full time into online marketing. Jared and Kyle discuss his larger than average website portfolio, How he gets rapid growth in the first year and much more.

How would you like to replace your full-time income from a regular job with the revenue you generate from affiliate and display ad websites? That's the story of Marty McLeod who joins us on the podcast this week. In this podcast we discuss various topics like How to identify competitors, How to pick a niche and more.

In this episode we have Kyle Roof with us who is responsible for the development and implementation of all SEO techniques used by the SEO agency High Voltage SEO and the SEO tool PageOptimizer Pro. We discuss various On-Page SEO strategies, building an SEO tool without a dev background and much more.

Online marketer Shawna Newman is our guest on the podcast this week. She is a veteran affiliate marketer, having been full-time in the industry since 2009. She also has a ton of experience in flipping websites, building sites on aged domains, and adapting her overall strategies based on data. Every topic associated with content sites is discussed in this interview

In today's episode, I interview Stephen Hockman of SEO Chatter and we discuss everything about starting up new websites the right way, internal linking, SEO, site structure, and a whole lot more. He's grown many affiliate sites, been through Google penalties, recently sold a niche site, written a book, and is currently building an SEO site in public, all the while sharing his strategies.

The managing director of Empire Flippers Capital, Mike Vranjkovic, joins us on the podcast this week. Mike goes into the background of EF Capital and shares all the details of how it works. He also discusses what it's like to be an accredited investor vs what it's like to be an operator in this program.

This week we're joined on the podcast by Jason Lee from TheFBAFlipper.com. The FBA Flipper helps buyers to purchase reputable China-based Amazon FBA Businesses and the discussion therefore largely revolves around Amazon FBA businesses. Jason started out in the industry working at Empire Flippers, one of the top brokers for online businesses. They sell a wide range of online businesses from Amazon FBA to affiliate sites. During this time Jason was living in China and became an expert in the Amazon FBA market in that market specifically. Jared Bauman is our host on the podcast, and he and Jason spend a lot of time talking about the FBA market today. He shares a lot of tips on how to start an FBS business in the current environment, focusing on the changes that have taken place since the start of the pandemic. It's a really interesting interview about where Amazon FBA is today and where it's heading in the future.

Jesse Lakes from Genius Link joins us for his second appearance on the Niche Pursuits. Genius Link is both an affiliate link tracking and management tool and a way to potentially increase earnings through link localization and by presenting multiple buying options to your audience. Jared Bauman (our podcast host this week) and Jesse have an in-depth discussion on link localization. Jesse has a ton of great data showing that this approach can more than double affiliate earnings. He also talks about Genius Link's product 'Choice Pages' that make presenting multiple offers to an audience more streamlined and effective.

Sarah and Brad Stromsdofer join us on the podcast this week. This couple started their blogging journey in 2016 and dabbled in many ways to make money online, but ultimately decided to focus on a blog in a niche they were experts in. In the interview, we go through the journey that started in 2016 and follows it to today where the site is now making over $5000 per month. In 2020 they started a new site. They decided to use Stan Ventures link building services, which, as Sarah shares, really accelerated the site's growth. Enjoys this latest episode as the couple really opens up and shares their successes.

Mushfiq S joins the Niche Pursuits podcast once again. This time the discussion revolves around how to find the right websites to flip and what comes after that. He even shares the domain of one of his most recent purchases with us. Mushfiq has a 5 step process when buying and flipping websites. Each of these 5 steps can be expanded upon greatly, and that's exactly what our host Jared Bauman and Mushfiq do. Mushfiq shares how he does what he does, and how you can best do it as well. Anyone interested in online business is going to love this episode, so watch, read, or listen to it as soon as you get the chance.

Jared Bauman is the host of this week's podcast, and he is interviewing Mohit Tater, the CEO and founder of Blackbook Investments. Blackbook Investments specialize in online business investing. This includes buying and selling content and affiliate sites, service and subscription sites, Ecommerce businesses, and SaaS companies. They're working with both large and small investors and have a range of funds/group-buy options. They discuss the numbers for both operators and investors. They also talk a lot about growing and selling websites. Mohit shares how he failed to start and grow a new site, and instead turned to Flippa to buy one. He was able to 5X and sell that site within a matter of months. This led to a portfolio of sites, and, ultimately, Blackbook Investments. This is another very practical podcast full of tips and tricks for a niche site and other online business owners. There's no doubt Mohit Tater will encourage you in your ventures.

I've just had the opportunity to interview Ricky Kesler from IncomeSchool.com. This is an interview that you're not going to want to miss because he has a huge announcement - Jim is leaving Income school! While the news is about a week old now, we're going to hear a lot more on what's been happening behind the scenes. Ricky is taking over full ownership of Income School and all that the business entails. That includes multiple successful niche sites, Project 24 (their niche site course), the Income School YouTube channel, and everything else associated with the business and brand. Listen to the interview to find out what Jim is going to do now, why Ricky is taking over, and what it means for the future of Income School. It's a great interview - you'll hear the story of Income School and the big changes that it's undergoing. Ricky shares how they've built it into a 6-figure+ per month business and what his plans and for the future. I know you'll enjoy it!

AJ Saunders started out as a musician, owned a jewelry store, produced kindle books, and now owns an affiliate site that is making over $6000 per month - and we get into all of that in the interview. You'll not only hear about how he got into affiliate marketing but specifically how he's built up this affiliate site making over $6k per month. The site is about 3 years old and has over 1 million words of content - that's a whole lot! So he has some good processes in place for hiring authors and writing his own content. He shares how he decides who writes what, how the site is monetized, and the entire process of how he's built the site.

Chelsea Clarke from Her Paper Route and Blogs For Sale shares her online business journey with us on the Niche Pursuits podcast. Chelsea has multiple different online businesses, but she got her start in (and loves) affiliate marketing. She has been able to build thriving communities with her sites and is big on email lists. She has some great practical tips on both how to be better at affiliate marketing, and how to be better at owning and running a business more generally. She has a ton of experience in online business and there is a lot we can all learn from her. Not only has Chelsea started and built up affiliate marketing websites, but she's also done e-commerce, dropshipping, and even a bit of dropservicing (selling digital services but having them fulfilled by others)! She has a ton of experience in online business and there is a lot we can all learn from her.

Keval Shah is the founder of an SEO agency that is especially for e-commerce websites. It's called Inbound Pursuit and Keval joins us to tell us all about it. His SEO agency is helping many businesses drive traffic to their e-commerce stores and dramatically increase their sales. After a short period of time, the agency is now averaging $80K per month. How has he done it? Besides being an authentic and hardworking person who is willing to take risks and test things, Twitter has been the biggest driver of growth.

I'm really excited about our guest today on the podcast - Nick Loper from Side Hustle Nation! Nick is not only a really well-known blogger and podcaster, but he's also one of the nicest guys that you could meet. While he runs multiple sites, Side Hustle Nation is his focus right now, which has grown massively since Nick was last on the podcast all the way back in 2013. In the interview, we talk a lot about the Side Hustle Nation blog, covering: how it's making money through affiliate revenue his really well put together SEO strategy how he selects keywords how he writes the content out and updating old content Nick has a lot of tips and strategies not only related to SEO and content creation but also having a business mindset in general as well. I know you'll enjoy listening to this successful entrepreneur.

Where do you go if you want to invest money into a website but you don't actually want to operate that website? Or on the flip side, what if you are a skilled website operator but don't have a lot of money to invest right now? Where can investors and operators find a match? That's the problem Sam Bass is trying to solve with ChiefOperators.io. Chief Operators is a platform where website operators and website investors can get connected and decide if they want to do a deal together. Sam summarizes the business as "a community that helps proven website operators that have experience in their niche joint venture with investors to buy websites." So that's the main feature, but there are a few other side benefits as well. In this interview, he shares a bit about his background and story but focuses mostly on what Chief Operators can offer the online business community today.

Back in 2018, a business partner and I invested together in a niche website. I had not long sold my Amazon FBA business and wanted to invest some of that money into another online business. We decided to try and find an off-market deal rather than going through a broker. My partner and I started by looking around in private Facebook groups dedicated to website owners. We would simply ask if there was anyone looking to sell. After a lot of back and forth with various potential sellers, we found the site we would ultimately buy - a mom blog! Most of the content was on crafting, cooking, and parenting, and I thought there was a lot of room for growth. You can read more about the process and our initial plans here. In this week's podcast, I want to update you on: how much we bought the mom blog for the ups and downs that we've had over the past 3 years and where the website is today I'll also share with you the sources of income and what it was making when we bought it, and how much it was expected to make in June 2021.

What do you do if you have a niche website that's already getting some traffic but you also want to get additional traffic from youtube? Or how do you start a YouTube channel from scratch and find a subject that you know is actually going to be able to rank on YouTube and make you some money? Today on the podcast I'm talking with Eric - he is a YouTube expert. In fact, he is now making over $40K per month from affiliate marketing on YouTube. He makes a bunch of videos in various niches, and he's learned a process for finding low competition keywords with high search volume. They also have good earnings per click rates and/or affiliate payouts. We're going to walk through the process of how he does keyword research for YouTube, starts and builds channels, and how to best monetize them. Eric's been very successful in his business and is very knowledgeable about YouTube. I think you're going to enjoy this discussion - it will either get you fired up about creating YouTube videos or answer your questions about whether or not you should get into it!

Last month, OwnTheYard.com made $5,818 and this month its on track to make more than that. Today, I'm going to show you exactly how its making its money and where it's getting its traffic. I show earnings, expenses, traffic, and internal link strategies with Link Whisper. I also discuss my future plans for the business.

How would you like to own a portfolio of content sites that you eventually plan to take public? Well, that's exactly what my guest Dom Wells from Onfolio.co plans to do. He has a portfolio of sites that he's managing for clients and a portfolio of sites that Onfolio own themselves. These are sites that they've acquired and now manage. They plan to eventually scale that business and go public. In fact, in the next year, they plan to have a direct listing in the public markets. In the podcast, we talk about Dom's history, how he started building content sites, how he started Human Proof Designs (a range of online business services) and eventually exited that business for a 7 figure sum, and what he's learned along the way about owning and managing a portfolio of websites. It's a really good story that I think you're going to enjoy. I ask him a lot of questions covering the gamut of online business.

On this episode of the Niche Pursuits podcast, we interview Laura Roeder. Laura is the founder of Meet Edgar, a social media success tool that has grown rapidly. She is also the founder of a new software tool called Paper Bell, a scheduling and payments software for coaches. What do you do when you have an extremely successful SaaS business that's doing multiple millions per year in annual recurring revenue (ARR), but then you have a new idea for a software tool? Do you then go and build that software tool? I really enjoyed this discussion with Laura, not only because she is a multiple product SaaS founder, but also because she gives some really actionable advice as she shares her story.

Andy Humphrey, aka 'the Sprinkler Nerd,' is our guest on the Niche Pursuits podcast this week. He owns and operates SprinklerSupplyStore.com, an e-commerce business doing over $1 million in sales on Amazon, and multiple times this through their own website. He has started many e-commerce stores, beginning with his Christmas lights store 'Super Twinkle' all the way back in 2004. Andy has almost 20 years of experience doing e-commerce, so he's a wealth of information and advice. He was even one of the entrepreneurs on the second season of Shark Tank while looking for funding for his eco mower project! This interview is great for anyone who is selling (or wants to sell) products online, and for everyone else with an interest in online business.

David Finberg was first introduced to computers by his dad at age 6 before the internet was really a thing. However, it wasn't long after this that he started building websites for friends and family and made his first dollar online. At age 9, he put together a website for his grandfather and made $20! He's come a long way since then and is now the founder and CEO of Peaks Digital Marketing, an agency focused on content marketing, web design, and SEO. Dave joins Jake Cain on the podcast to share his story.

Stacy Caprio has bought many online businesses off Flippa and increased their revenue quickly. After purchasing a few sites that flopped, she finds herself earning enough to move into her dream apartment in Chicago. Listen to her story & find out how she does it!

Kelan Kline and his wife Brittany started thesavvycouple.com. Early on the site was only making $50/month, but Kelan was so excited and ready to go all-in he quit his full-time job. It was a good thing he did. The site is now generating six figures a year. We talk about SEO, HARO Outreach, and how the SavvyCouple is leveraging sponsored posts to make a significant amount of income for their site.

Today I have a great interview with two people that are experts at link building. Eric Carroll and Sebastian Shaffer from the link building agency dofollow.io. They have been part of the niche and affiliate website community for many years now, and their agency specializes in building links to these types of sites. Both Eric and Sebastian own and run affiliate sites, so they know what site owners are looking for and how to run successful campaigns. They have owned and run the agency since 2017, have a ton of experience, and an interesting background. One that is related to Niche Pursuits – but you'll have to listen to find out what!

In today's episode, I interview Sean Markey and we discuss everything expired domains: how to find them, how to flip, and how to build successful sites using aged domains. He has been on quite the journey including selling a CBD affiliate site in the high 6-figures and much more.

We had Travis Jamison back on the podcast recently to talk about Investing.io. We cover Travis's 13-year entrepreneurial background, which includes: Ecommerce companies An SEO agency A domain flipping service Angel investing and more Travis obviously has a diverse background and experience in a range of online business and investing circles.

It's great to have Richmond Howard on the podcast this week. Rich has found a way to successfully grow his niche sites all while working full time as a pastor, studying for a master's degree, and being a husband and new dad! 3 or 4 years ago he was in a job that he hated and was looking for something new. He heard about blogging and affiliate marketing through listening to podcasts and decided to give it a go. He started a finance blog and worked half-heartedly on that for a couple of years, but it didn't really come to much. However, there were a couple of posts he'd put together on meal prepping that were ranking really well. After investigating the meal prepping niche further he saw a lot of opportunities and decided to start a site dedicated to that instead. He moved those successful posts from the finance blog in August 2019 to his new site mealprepify.com. He doubled down on content and links and now this site is making over $6K per month. In January 2021, traffic was at 140,000. Pretty incredible! In mid-2020, Rich made a move that really helped to fuel this growth. He bought a site from Motion Invest that was making around $600 per month. This site was in the same or similar niche as Meal Prepify and had about 150 articles on it.

On March 11th, 2011 I quit the corporate world and I've been a full-time entrepreneur ever since. Quitting my job was scary.

I'm excited to have Larry Ludwig on the podcast! Larry has been building websites for decades. He was doing web development and web hosting in the 90s. However, he eventually started building his own blog, InvestorJunkie.com. He grew this site from scratch to a 7 figure exit in 2018. In fact, he sold the business for $6 million! That's a life-changing amount of money! So, during the interview, we dive into the weeds on how he built the site. We discuss why he built the site, keyword research, content strategy, why user intent is so important, the type of team he built and so much more.

How would you like to buy a site making $70 a month and then 10 months later its making $6,000 a month? Well, that's the exact story we are going to tell with Gharav Dhir. Gharav has been building niche sites for a while, but he happened to buy a site from MotionInvest.com in April 2020. Gharav also runs the content service called ContentForWeb.Site.

I'm excited to have Colin Ma on the podcast! I've known Colin for a couple of years and actually had the pleasure of meeting him in person a few years ago at a conference. Colin has been building niche sites for years and in 2020 he had not 1, but 2 six figure exits. One of these sites was one that he built from scratch. The other site he bought, quickly grew, and sold within in a period of about 6 months. He has a ton of great strategies related to building a team, content idea generation, and link building strategies as well. We dive into how to know if you are getting good links and other link ideas that have worked well for him. These ideas can be applied to anyone building a site from scratch or anyone buying and growing a site.

Yoyao Shea bought a site for just $2,000 in mid-2020. The site was making less than $100 a month. After about 7 months, the site was making $6,800 a month! He also bought a second website around the same time that cost even less than $2,000 and now it's making $5,000 a month. How did Yayoa Shea increase the earnings of these sites so much? Well, today he is going to share his story of buying 2 sites, what he did to grow the sites, and how much money they are making now. He purchased these sites around the middle of 2020 and now by the end of 2020, he's was seeing significant results. The 2 sites combined are now making more than $10,000 a month.