Niche Pursuits Podcast: Find Your Next "Niche" Business Idea!
448 episodes - English - Latest episode: 17 days ago - ★★★★★ - 129 ratingsSpencer Haws from NichePursuits.com discusses business ideas that actually work. Learn how to build niche websites, market your website through search engine optimization, and much more. In addition, you'll get interviews with leading internet entrepreneurs that provide insight on: authority sites, flipping sites, using Google Adsense, outsourcing, automation tools, linkbuilding, building a real business, software development, creating iPhone Apps, lifestyle business, small business tips, and more. Overall, get your dose of motivation to move forward with your niche business ideas or take your small business to the next level!
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Episodes
How Chris Grant Turned a $500 Investment Into a Scalable Part-Time Arbitrage Business
July 13, 2022 16:52 - 56 minutes - 51.5 MBToday's guest on the Niche Pursuit podcast is Christopher Grant from 'OA challenge' and 'Clear The Shelf.' Christopher is here today to talk about arbitrage. It's a popular topic online and a great way to build a side hustle or fully-fledged business. As always, make notes, and enjoy the interview.
How Matt Giovanisci Made $12k From His First eCommerce Launch With Almost No Marketing
July 07, 2022 17:14 - 1 hour - 71.3 MBToday's guest on the Niche Pursuits podcast is Matt Giovanisci from Swim University and Money Lab. Matt is no stranger to Niche Pursuits, having been a guest several times before, and today, he's back to chat with Jared about setting up an eCommerce section on his website and much more.
How Ken Savage Reguarly Gets #1 on Product Hunt and Grows Traffic Through Launches
June 28, 2022 11:06 - 1 hour - 57.9 MBToday's guest on the Niche Pursuit podcast is Ken Savage. Ken is the owner of 'Launch Club,' a successful service aggregating various people to help business owners launch their products and grow their website traffic.
How Hilary Erickson Makes $16/Mth From A Pregancy Blog and Prenatal Courses
June 22, 2022 13:53 - 1 hour - 59.5 MBHilary Ericksen is today’s guest on the Niche Pursuits podcast. Hilary has been blogging since 2005, starting with a mom blog that became a massive hit on Pinterest. Hilary highlights her journey from the start. She discusses what she did in the early days for content and where her focus is today for her two blogs.
How Brandon Saltalamacchia Makes $15k Per Month Using a Video First Approach For His Website
June 15, 2022 13:41 - 1 hour - 57 MBToday's guest on the Niche Pursuits podcast is Brandon Saltalamacchia. Brandon is a website owner and video creator who owns the brand Retro Dodo and explains his background and how he built a website on the back of a successful Facebook group, which he sold for six figures with an impressive 55x multiple.
How Andrew Fiebert Earned $1.2 Million From a Site With Only 430 Posts
June 08, 2022 09:01 - 56 minutes - 52.2 MBToday's guest on the Niche Pursuits podcast is Andrew Fiebert. Andrew explains to Jared (our host) how he almost accidentally got into affiliate marketing from working on the website and podcast. Learning from this experience, he now runs various website affiliate projects, which earns him some pretty serious money.
How Monica Lent Reached $10k Per Month From Her Travel Blog Post-Covid
June 01, 2022 10:20 - 1 hour - 60.7 MBToday's guest on the Niche Pursuits podcast is Monica Lent. Monica's story is a must-listen if you want tips, advice and strategies on blogging, and also if you ever wanted to know what it was like to be a travel website owner through the pandemic.
The Email Strategies John Ainsworth Uses to Make $10,000 Per Month From a Website Getting Just 20k Monthly Visitors
May 24, 2022 16:49 - 58 minutes - 53.4 MBToday's Guest On the Niche Pursuits podcast is John Ainsworth. He's making $10,000 a month from 20,000 monthly visitors. And in today's interview he's gonna deep dive into how he did it! The income John talks about is staggering, and it's hard not to feel inspired and excited about the possibilities.
How Andrew Amann Launched an App to $100k ARR in Just 12 Months
May 18, 2022 07:21 - 1 hour - 55.6 MBToday's guest on the niche pursuits podcast is Andrew Amann. Andrew is the CEO of Nine Two Three Venture Studio, a software development agency that invents, develops, and grows online business ventures. Andrew shares his thoughts on how to come up with new business ideas and how to grow them.
How Andrew Aman Launched an App to $100k ARR in Just 12 Months
May 18, 2022 07:21 - 1 hour - 55.6 MBToday's guest on the niche pursuits podcast is Andrew Amann. Andrew is the CEO of Nine Two Three Venture Studio, a software development agency that invents, develops, and grows online business ventures. Andrew shares his thoughts on how to come up with new business ideas and how to grow them.
How Michael Donovan Makes $20k Per Month From A Tech Niche Blog
May 11, 2022 07:31 - 59 minutes - 108 MBToday's guest on the Niche Pursuits podcast is Michael Donovan. Michael's journey into online business began by listening to the Smart Passive Income and Niche Pursuits podcasts and watching videos from Income School on Youtube during his commute to work. Michael talks about the steps he took to create the blog without link building and drops information value bombs for those building niche websites.
How Aisha Preece Makes $10K Per Month From Her Growing Portfolio of Niche Sites
May 04, 2022 10:42 - 53 minutes - 48.7 MBToday's guest on the Niche Pursuits podcast is Aisha Preece. On today's podcast she walks us through the steps she took to grow the site. She shares her strategy for SEO, keyword research, backlinks, and specific tips that anyone can use today on their own websites.
Kevin Indig [Shopify's Director of SEO] On How To Adapt and Win With SEO Changes
April 27, 2022 09:09 - 54 minutes - 49.9 MBToday's guest on the Niche Pursuits podcast is Kevin Indig, the lead SEO director at Shopify. Kevin has a top-level view of SEO and affiliate marketing, and his knowledge will have you sitting up and paying attention from the start.
How Cole Humphus Turned His Photography Side Hustle Into a $1 Million+ Profit Per Year Website
April 19, 2022 11:57 - 1 hour - 60.7 MBToday's guest on the Niche Pursuits podcast is Cole Humphus. Cole's story is inspiring, exciting, and somewhat unique. He talks about his photography side hustle, which turned into a multi-million dollar business, and highlights his steps to scale the company to seven figures per year.
How Ted French Made $200,000 in 1 Year Using This Aged Domain Strategy
April 13, 2022 08:54 - 1 hour - 62.3 MBToday's guest on the Niche Pursuits podcast is Ted French who is a is a website builder who has reached some significant success using aged domains. Ted walks us through his first big profit sale and shares the strategies and steps he took to build and sell the site for over $200,000 dollars.
How Alexis Grant Scaled Her Site to 460k Pageviews a Month Using SEO + The Beginning of TheyGotAcquired.com
April 06, 2022 11:57 - 55 minutes - 50.9 MBToday's guest on the Niche Pursuits podcast is former Penny Hoarder executive and successful business owner Alexis Grant. Alexis shares her thoughts on how her journalism background has helped her content writing and she talks about what she did to get it to rank better in the search engines and how she increased traffic by around 80%.
How John Murphy Scaled His E-Bike Site to $3 Million in Sales Using SEO
March 30, 2022 09:31 - 53 minutes - 48.9 MBToday's guest on the Niche Pursuits podcast is John Murphy who has a successful eCommerce website that sells e-bikes. He shares how the site went from a few thousand dollars in revenue to over 3 million within a few years. John talks about his SEO strategy and explains how it's different for eCommerce sites compared to general informational websites.
How Nick Jordan Grows Sites to Over 100k Organic Views a Month Without Link Building
March 23, 2022 09:36 - 48 minutes - 44.1 MBToday's guest on the Niche Pursuit podcast is Nick Jordan. The interview begins with Nick providing an insight into exactly how you can own your niche market's authority through quality content produced with velocity and without overcomplicating things with SEO.
How Chandler Bolt Has Published 7 Best-Selling Books to Grow His Business
March 16, 2022 07:12 - 41 minutes - 38.4 MBTodays' guest on the Niche Pursuit podcast is Chandler Bolt, the author of 7 best-selling books. The conversation and advice during the interview are relevant for website and business owners alike, and Chandler does a great job explaining the benefits and reasons we should all publish a book.
How Charlie Published 1000 Articles and Achieved $5000/month Revenue in Just 1 Year
March 09, 2022 13:06 - 56 minutes - 52.1 MBToday's guest on The Niche Pursuit podcast is Charlie from the Passive Priority YouTube channel. Charlie's story will probably give you the inspiration needed to get started if you're undecided about creating a website. If you've already started, his tips and strategies are sure to help you out too.
How to Grow Organic Traffic From Written Content: Narcis Bejtic Shares Tip and 3 Case Studies
March 01, 2022 10:56 - 50 minutes - 45.9 MBIn 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.
How Brandon Gaille Grew 3 Sites That Each Get Over 2 Million Visitors Per Month
February 23, 2022 14:01 - 1 hour - 56.7 MBToday'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.
Greg Elfrink's Tips On Buying & Selling Websites: Including 7 Figure Businesses
February 16, 2022 10:08 - 57 minutes - 52.2 MBToday’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.
How Emily Dyson Went From 80% Pinterest Loss to Major SEO Win
February 09, 2022 07:09 - 49 minutes - 45.5 MBToday 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.
How Luke Jordan Went from a Google Penalty To 1 Million Visitors and $42,000 a Month
February 02, 2022 09:19 - 1 hour - 64.6 MBLuke 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.
From Pandemic Hit to Growing Family Furniture Business: Charles Floate Shares SEO Tips & Strategies
January 27, 2022 13:56 - 59 minutes - 54.5 MBToday'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.
The End of Niche Site Project 4! How I Sold My Niche Site for Over $250,000
January 19, 2022 16:39 - 58 minutes - 53.2 MBToday, 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.
Joe Valley's Strategies and Advice After Brokering Over $100 Million of Online Businesses
January 12, 2022 16:43 - 1 hour - 57 MBToday'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.
How Mike Dinich Built an SEO Focused Personal Finance Blog with 700k Visitors a Month
January 05, 2022 16:08 - 1 hour - 63.8 MBToday'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.
How Spencer Haws is Focusing, Scaling, and Removing Himself from Business Operations
December 30, 2021 17:40 - 56 minutes - 51.3 MBToday’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.
How to Ranking #1 for High Volume Keywords, Information Gain Score, and Other SEO Strategies with Steve Toth
December 22, 2021 17:57 - 52 minutes - 47.6 MBSEO 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.
The Future of Displays Ads with Eric Hochberger, Mediavine Co-founder
December 15, 2021 15:03 - 51 minutes - 47.5 MBToday’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.
How Carl Broadbent Went From Losing His Job to Successful Affiliate Marketer
December 06, 2021 17:30 - 59 minutes - 54.5 MBIn 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.
How Emilia Gardner Quit Here Job As a Lawyer To Make Money Online
December 01, 2021 17:38 - 1 hour - 64.2 MBToday'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.
How Morten Storsgaard Makes Mid-5 Figures a Month With This Unique Approach To Building Profitable Niche Websites
November 16, 2021 08:38 - 58 minutes - 53.8 MBToday'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.
How Kyle Kroeger Grew a New Niche Site From 0 to 100K a Month Traffic
November 07, 2021 09:24 - 55 minutes - 51 MBKyle 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 Marty Quit His Soul-Sucking Job with Display Ads and Affiliate Websites
November 03, 2021 16:34 - 1 hour - 65.1 MBHow 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.
How Kyle Roof From Page Optimizer Pro Gets Big Results From On-Page SEO
October 27, 2021 14:39 - 1 hour - 68.2 MBIn 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.
How Shawna Newman Builds and Flip Niche and Authority sites
October 20, 2021 15:25 - 56 minutes - 52 MBOnline 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
How Stephen Hockman Sold a 1 Year Old Affiliate Site for Over $100k
October 11, 2021 11:00 - 57 minutes - 52.4 MBIn 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.
Mike Vranjkovic Of Empire Flippers Capital On Website Investors And Operators
October 06, 2021 15:48 - 1 hour - 59 MBThe 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.
Jason Lee From The FBA Flipper On Amazon FBA Businesses Today
September 28, 2021 18:08 - 1 hour - 58.4 MBThis 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 t...
Jesse Lakes From Genius Link On Doubling Your Affiliate Earnings
September 22, 2021 12:30 - 59 minutes - 54.9 MBJesse 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 t...
How Sarah Stromsdofer Accelerated Her Niche Site Growth With Link Building
September 13, 2021 12:30 - 1 hour - 57.8 MBSarah 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, r...
Mushfiq's 5 Step Process for Buying and Flipping Over 180 Websites
September 10, 2021 12:30 - 1 hour - 65.7 MBMushfiq 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. Anyo...
How Mohit Tater Vets Online Businesses Investments
August 25, 2021 12:30 - 57 minutes - 52.7 MBJared 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...
How Ricky Kesler Helped Build Income School Into A 6-Figure Per Month Business
August 18, 2021 12:30 - 1 hour - 59.6 MBI'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...
AJ Saunders $6000 Per Month Affiliate Marketing Strategies
August 11, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 68.7 MBAJ 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 autho...
How Chelsea Clarke Makes $90K Per Month With Her Online Business
August 04, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 61.3 MBChelsea 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 ...
How Keval Shah Used Twitter To Rapidly Grow His SEO Agency
July 28, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 57.6 MBKeval 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 th...