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

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

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How Shawna Newman Builds and Flip Niche and Authority sites

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

Oct 20, 202156 min

How Stephen Hockman Sold a 1 Year Old Affiliate Site for Over $100k

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.

Oct 11, 202157 min

Mike Vranjkovic Of Empire Flippers Capital On Website Investors And Operators

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.

Oct 6, 20211h 4m

Jason Lee From The FBA Flipper On Amazon FBA Businesses Today

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.

Sep 28, 20211h 3m

Jesse Lakes From Genius Link On Doubling Your Affiliate Earnings

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.

Sep 22, 202159 min

How Sarah Stromsdofer Accelerated Her Niche Site Growth With Link Building

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.

Sep 13, 20211h 3m

Mushfiq's 5 Step Process for Buying and Flipping Over 180 Websites

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.

Sep 10, 20211h 11m

How Mohit Tater Vets Online Businesses Investments

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.

Aug 25, 202157 min

How Ricky Kesler Helped Build Income School Into A 6-Figure Per Month Business

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!

Aug 18, 20211h 5m

AJ Saunders $6000 Per Month Affiliate Marketing Strategies

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.

Aug 11, 20211h 14m

How Chelsea Clarke Makes $90K Per Month With Her Online Business

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.

Aug 4, 20211h 6m

$80k Per Month with Twitter?! How Keval Shah Has Rapidly Grown His SEO Agency

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.

Jul 28, 20211h 2m

Nick Loper's 6 Figure Exit and 10,000 Downloads a Day

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.

Jul 19, 202155 min

How Sam Bass Is Matching Website Investors With Website Operators

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.

Jul 14, 20211h 3m

How 2 Dads Grew a Mom Blog to Over $13,000 Last Month

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.

Jul 7, 202120 min

How This YouTuber Makes $40K Per Month With Affiliate Marketing

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!

Jun 30, 20211h 2m

$5,818 Last Month!? How My Website About Squirrels and Other Backyard Stuff Makes Money

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.

Jun 23, 202117 min

How Dom Wells Of Onfolio Plans On Taking A Niche Site Portfolio Public

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.

Jun 16, 202158 min

How Laura Roeder Uses Content Marketing to Scale 2 SaaS Businesses: Meet Edgar and Paperbell

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.

Jun 9, 202150 min

How Andy Humphrey Went from Shark Tank Failure to 7 Figure a Year Sprinkler eCommerce Business

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.

Jun 2, 20211h 7m

Dave Finberg On How To Rank On Page One Of Google!

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.

May 19, 20211h 6m

How Stacy Caprio Buys And Grows Websites Bought Off Flippa!

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!

May 12, 202154 min

Kelan Kline from TheSavvyCouple Quit Full Time Job After Making First $50

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.

May 5, 202152 min

Fresh Link Building Strategies with Eric and Sebastian from DOFOLLOW.IO

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!

Apr 28, 20211h 0m

Sean Markey's Strategies for Buying, Flipping, and Building Sites With Expired Domains

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.

Apr 21, 202156 min

How Travis Jamison Went from an 8-Figure Exit to Starting an Online Investing Community with Investing.io

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.

Apr 12, 202150 min

How Rich Howard 301 Redirected His Way To 140,000 In Organic Traffic!

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.

Apr 7, 202157 min

How I Quit My Job Building Micro Niche Sites 10 Years Ago! Online Business Lessons Learned

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

Apr 1, 202114 min

The $6 million Affiliate Site Exit! How Larry Ludwig Used SEO to Grow and Sell InvestorJunkie.com

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.

Mar 24, 202149 min

How Gharav Dhir Scaled a Website from $70 to $6,000 a Month in Just 10 Months

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.

Mar 16, 202144 min

How Colin Ma Sold 2 Affiliate Sites for Six Figures in a Single Year

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.

Mar 10, 202156 min

How Yoyao Shea Bought and Quickly Grew a Content Website from $20 to $6,800 a Month in 6 Months

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.

Mar 3, 202155 min

SEO since 1999?! Learn Steve Wiideman's SEO Strategies for eCommerce and Affiliate Marketing

Today, I'm excited to share with you an interview I did with Steve Wiideman from Wiideman.com. Steve has been in the SEO industry since 1999...a dinosaur in internet years! His first job out of college was doing SEO and search engine marketing. So, Steve bring all of his SEO knowledge and experience to the podcast today. In particular, we discuss how his SEO consulting group is working with clients doing local SEO, eCommerce SEO, and much more. During the interview we discuss specifically how the Wiideman group helped Bob's Watches: eCommerce SEO Bobs Watches has grown to over $40 million a year in revenue and much more We also discussed his view on affiliate sites and how it relates SEO. Are affiliate sites really providing value or are they just doorway pages? What sort of link building and keyword research should be done? Ranking affiliate sites in Google Steve is also a professor at Fullerton college and UCSD where he teaches SEO and online marketing. He's put together lots of video materials that he is giving away for free. If you want to get free access to Steve Wiideman's SEO videos you can go to AcademyOfSearch.com. Use coupon code SEOSteve to get free access.

Feb 24, 202150 min

4 Unique Link Building Strategies Using Email Outreach with Jeff Oxford

Jeff Oxford is the founder of Link Hunter and has been in the SEO industry since 2010. He shares 4 really unique link building strategies that get results. Listen in to hear Jeff's story and to get some high quality link building ideas that don't involve guest posting.

Feb 22, 202152 min

How to Perform SEO Tests with Matt Diggity

How can you know when you make a change to your website that it's not hurting your rankings in Google? Well, you can set up SEO tests. Today, I'm excited to share my recent interview with Matt Diggity where he drops some serious knowledge bombs as it relates to SEO tests, affiliate marketing, ranking in Google, and much more. Why SEO testing? Well, there's a lot of noise in the SEO industry. You can listen to one expert or you can listen to another person and not know if they're an expert. And of course you can try to listen to Google. How do you know what SEO strategy is the best for your site? Listen to the full episode to hear some of the SEO tests that Matt has performed and how you can set up your own tests.

Feb 15, 202149 min

How Azedine Djedid Used Aged Domains from ODYS Global to Grow a Site to 13,000 Visitors a Day

Listen in to hear how Azedine Djedid tested out multiple aged domain services and why he now only buys through ODYS Global. Azendine was able to start a new site with an aged domain and grow it quickly to 13,000 visitors a day. Read his entire story here.

Feb 8, 202144 min

How Saud Juman Used the Creative Well and Content Marketing to Start, Grow, and Exit Policy Medical

How do you constantly come up with good ideas? How can you know what direction you should go in your business when you have a busy schedule and very little time to just think? In my interview today with Saud Juman, we discount how to tap into the "creative well" and what exactly that is. Saud started a company called PolicyMedical.com almost 18 years ago. He exited the company about 2 years ago. Policy Medical is a SaaS company that serves hospitals primarily to organize their policy documents. Saud has a great creative framework for: coming up with new SaaS or other ideas deciding where to focus your time What niche to go into We talk about something that Saud calls the "Creative Well". Saud used the creative well to help him understand where his professional journey should go and eventually the ideas that became Policy Medical. During the second half of the interview, we discuss content marketing strategies. Policy Medical has a really long sales cycle and the software can cost $50,000 or $100,000 or more. He was able to apply the principles of content marketing, answering customers' questions, and even getting customers to write some of the content for them. Listen in to hear how he navigated the content marketing process and how it helped grow Policy Medical into the business it became.

Feb 3, 202153 min

How to Analyze Links from Agencies Before You Buy: Interview with Sujan Surkar from One Little Web

One Little Web is a reseller-friendly SEO & content services owned by Sujan Sarker. Today, I'm sharing an interview that I recently did with Sujan. As you know, backlinks can be a big help to your site, if done properly. If you get excellent links and you see your traffic soar. Get a backlink penalty and watch all your traffic and income disappear almost overnight. With such a fine line between success and disaster, you shouldn't take outsourcing backlink generation lightly. So, during my interview, I specifically ask Sujan what type of due diligence potential customers should take when analyzing link building services of agencies. You can see One Little Web here: https://www.nichepursuits.com/onelittleweb

Jan 25, 202148 min

Why Tom Drake is Deleting 1,000s of Blog Posts: SEO Strategies + How to "Revive" Old Blogs

Why is updating website and content auditing popular right now? Well, 10 years ago, people didn't need to audit their websites. It wasn't a thing. Generally speaking, websites we're pretty new. Now that sites are getting to be 10, 15, or 20 years old. There's a lot of upkeep and maintenance. Some are referring to this problem of old "blog content decay". If I'm looking ahead to the future, I think this will be a much more common topic and problem, and process that people follow in the coming years. In my latest podcast, I sat down with Tom Drake, the owner of MapleMoney.com, and a partner at GetRichSlowly.org. To revive old content, Tom is no stranger. He started his blog a decade ago. And Get Rich Slowly (founded by JD Roth) was one of the original personal finance blogs started about 15 years ago! With over 5000 old blog posts to update and audit, it's no easy task. Tom breaks down precisely the process he uses to update (or delete) content.

Jan 20, 20211h 4m

Templatic Turnaround Story: Buying A WordPress Theme Business and Recovering From a Google Core Update

Anthony Presley and a partner recently purchased Templatic Themes in 2018. The business has over 120 premium WordPress themes and plugins. When they bought the business they had a vision to grow it, but there have been a few major bumps along the way. Listen in to hear how Anthony and his team have tackled these challenges and even recovered from the May 2020 core Google update. If you are interested in SEO, WordPress themes, or buying online business you will enjoy this interview. Anthony is also offering the Niche Pursuits Audience over 50% off the Templatic Club Membership. This gives you access to ALL their themes and plugins. Normally the Templatic membership is $299 + $19/month. Use coupon code "NichePursuits" to get access for just $89 + $14/month. Get the special deal here: https://www.nichepursuits.com/templatic

Jan 18, 202149 min

Private Equity for Niche Sites?! Michael Bereslavsky of Domain Magnate Investment Strategies

Michael Bereslavsky of Domain Magnate is bringing private equity to online niche businesses. Learn more at: https://www.domainmagnate.com Since 2004 Michael has been building online businesses. Over the years, he's had plenty of hard lessons and unique experiences. He found the best complementary strengths and profitability in buying, managing, and selling websites. Today Michael is now the founder and CEO of Domain Magnate, a micro private equity firm specializing in buying and growing online businesses under $1m. In addition, Michael is now a partner at Deal Flow Brokerage. Listen to the interview to hear how Michael started, and a few of his most memorable deals.

Jan 13, 202151 min

Publishing 1,000,000+ Words a Month: The Process Behind Jon Gillham's Content Writing Service

I'm excited to have Jon Gillham back on the show! Jon is the founder of the content writing service, Content Refined. During the interview, we not only talk about how he built the company but the entire process behind how they create content at scale. They do anywhere between 1,000,000 to 3,000,000 words a month on average! That's a lot of content. We dive into how they use statistics and competitor analysis to create content that is most likely to rank in Google. Jon also shares a couple of examples of sites using Content Refined that have grown significantly in terms of traffic from Google. Listen in for the mindset behind how to create a large content writing service and how to optimize your content so it will rank in Google. Read more details about this interview here.

Jan 11, 202143 min

$30k/Mth Fashion Blogging for Men?! How Brock McGoff Grew "The Modest Man"

Brock McGoff owns the website TheModestMan.com which now generates over 400,000 visitors and $30k in revenue per month. Over the years of building websites, Brock has learned a lot. Including getting hit by the first Google Panda update taking his traffic down to virtually zero. Since then, Brock has made every effort to make sure a Google penalty would never happen again and only aims to build content and links that he is genuinely proud of creating. So how does someone go from a corporate employee to a fashion influencer? Listen to this interview to find out.

Jan 5, 202151 min

175 Website Flips?! How Mushfiq Grows Website Purchases 10x with These Easy Wins

Mushifiq is the owner of a popular website flipping newsletter and EasyWins.io. To date, he has completed over 175 website flips, whether buying, selling, or brokering website deals. How did he manage to flip so many websites? He's created systematic processes of "easy wins". These easy wins are tasks, or site improvements often overlooked but take relatively little time to complete and provide a big impact.

Dec 28, 202051 min

Scott Voelker's 19 Year Journey From Home Builder to Amazing Seller to Online Business Builder

Scott Voelker may be a new grandparent but has the energy of a teenager. This year marks his 19th year being self-employed, and although he is slowing down to focus more on family, his workload at Brand Creators is still more than most will tackle in a lifetime. Running the Rock Your Brand Podcast is his primary focus with nearly 900 episodes and 16 million podcast downloads, but that's just the start. Last year Scott checked a few things off his to-do list: Wrote the book Take Action Effect. Ran a high-level mastermind (10 people at $25,000 to join). Completed a $200k home renovation for an Airbnb rental. Managed his podcast 175k-350k monthly downloads. Created online courses for Brand Creators. Hosted a live event with over 250 people in attendance. (pre-Covid) Completed a handful of exciting case studies. Sold a business which all together netted just at 7 figures. Listen in to hear what Scott has learned and where he will be focusing his time in the future.

Dec 22, 20201h 1m

The Future of Podcasting: How Craig Hewitt Uses Trends and Content Marketing to Grow Castos

Craig Hewitt is the founder of Castos, a popular podcasting platform. I met Craig 4 years ago at RhodiumWeekend.com when Craig ran the podcasting editing and service-based business, Podcast Motor, before he built Castos. Today, Podcast Motor and Castos have merged into a SaaS company for hosting and analytics for your podcast. They also still offer a complete podcast editing and transcription service. As we will dive into during the show, Craig also shares how he purchased the Seriously Simple Podcasting WordPress plugin before he ever started Castos with the idea that they could perhaps leverage it into a SaaS play one day. On the podcast, we talk about the new podcasting trends, the struggles of growing Castos, and how the Castos team used the Ahrefs course to train new employees on content marketing, and how those efforts are paying off.

Dec 16, 202059 min

How Nathan Barry Built ConvertKit to $2.1 Million Per Month and Bought a Ghost Town

In this Niche Pursuits podcast episode, we discover the key themes that made ConvertKit a success. ConvertKit is an email marketing platform started by Nathan Barry, a former designer and author, in 2012. The software is now generating $2.1M monthly revenue, has been listed on the INC 5000 numerous times, and founder Nathan Barry recently invested in an actual Ghost Town.

Dec 7, 20201h 3m

How to Buy and Grow a Website 5x in Just 7 Months

Today, I'm excited to share an interview I conducted with Jared Bauman, a long time Niche Pursuits reader. Jared and I sat down to discuss a recent site he purchased and how he grew it 5x in just 7 months. He took the site from earning around $200 a month to now over $1,000 a month! Jared's website purchase criteria: 1. Ranking Articles 2. Consistent Revenue 3. No Backlink Profile 4. Monthly Traffic over 3,000 Pageviews 5. No Premium Ad Network How to Grow a Purchased Site 1. Site Audit and Repairs 2. Add Buy Buttons and Tables 3. Keyword Research 4. Hire a Writer 5. Publish New Content 6. Build Links 7. Add Internal Links

Dec 2, 202057 min

How I Built and Sold a Software Company for 7 Figures: The Untold Story of Long Tail Pro

In 2010, I launched Long Tail Pro, a keyword research software tool. Over the next 5 years, I grew the company from 0 to about $1 million in revenue per year. I sold that company in 2016. Today, I share the "untold" story of Long Tail Pro and what has happened since I sold the company, along with some of the valuable lessons learned along the way.

Nov 25, 202027 min

Behind the Scenes of a Skyscraper Link Building Campaign with Mark Mars from Niche Website Builders

Today, I brought Mark Mark from Niche Website Builders onto the show to discuss my recent order of a Skyscraper link building campaign for one of my niche sites. We dive into how they started their agency (Niche Website Builders), what types of services they offer, and more. Then we spend time looking behind the scenes of what happens when they create a link building campaign, how they do outreach, and everything that is involved.

Nov 18, 202031 min