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

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

448 episodes - English - Latest episode: 17 days ago - ★★★★★ - 129 ratings

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

July 28, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 57.6 MB

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 th...

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

July 19, 2021 12:00 - 55 minutes - 51.3 MB

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 r...

How Sam Bass Is Matching Website Investors With Website Operators

July 14, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 58.5 MB

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...

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

July 07, 2021 12:00 - 20 minutes - 18.7 MB

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, w...

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

June 30, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 57.4 MB

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...

How Eric Worral Makes $40K Per Month With YouTube Affiliate Marketing

June 30, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 57.4 MB

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 Worral - 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...

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

June 23, 2021 12:00 - 17 minutes - 15.9 MB

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

June 16, 2021 12:00 - 58 minutes - 53.9 MB

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 podc...

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

June 09, 2021 12:00 - 50 minutes - 46 MB

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 ...

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

June 02, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 61.7 MB

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 eve...

Negotiate a Higher Commission Rate on Amazon

May 26, 2021 11:30 - 55 minutes - 50.6 MB

This week on the podcast Jake Cain is interviewing Austin Tuwiner. Austin is a marketer who dropped out of college at 19 to pursue online business. He wanted to focus on his niche site in the crypto space. He had bought the domain, which had many great backlinks, in a private deal, and grew it to an estimated 150K traffic per month (Ahrefs). He has since sold this site and is now working on another in the scuba diving niche. He is also bootstrapping an affiliate marketing SaaS tool calle...

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

May 19, 2021 10:30 - 1 hour - 60.9 MB

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 ...

How Stacy Caprio Buys And Grows Websites Bought Off Flippa!

May 12, 2021 11:00 - 54 minutes - 50.2 MB

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 from TheSavvyCouple Quit Full Time Job After Making First $50

May 05, 2021 11:00 - 52 minutes - 47.9 MB

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. 

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

April 28, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 55.3 MB

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 si...

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

April 21, 2021 11:00 - 56 minutes - 51.8 MB

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.

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

April 12, 2021 15:51 - 50 minutes - 46.7 MB

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. 

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

April 07, 2021 12:00 - 57 minutes - 52.7 MB

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 ...

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

April 01, 2021 18:16 - 14 minutes - 13.3 MB

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

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

March 24, 2021 12:00 - 49 minutes - 45.4 MB

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, k...

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

March 16, 2021 12:00 - 44 minutes - 40.4 MB

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.

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

March 10, 2021 12:30 - 56 minutes - 51.7 MB

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 genera...

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

March 03, 2021 12:30 - 55 minutes - 50.5 MB

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 purchase...

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

February 24, 2021 16:29 - 50 minutes - 46.2 MB

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 h...

4 Unique Link Building Strategies Using Email Outreach with Jeff Oxford

February 22, 2021 12:30 - 52 minutes - 47.9 MB

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.

How to Perform SEO Tests with Matt Diggity

February 15, 2021 12:30 - 49 minutes - 45 MB

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 exp...

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

February 08, 2021 16:25 - 44 minutes - 40.5 MB

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.

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

February 03, 2021 18:09 - 53 minutes - 49.3 MB

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...

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

January 25, 2021 13:30 - 48 minutes - 44.6 MB

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...

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

January 20, 2021 13:30 - 1 hour - 59 MB

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 ...

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

January 18, 2021 12:30 - 49 minutes - 45.6 MB

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. A...

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

January 13, 2021 12:00 - 51 minutes - 47 MB

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 onli...

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

January 11, 2021 17:36 - 43 minutes - 40 MB

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 cou...

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

January 05, 2021 21:25 - 51 minutes - 47.5 MB

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 corp...

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

December 28, 2020 12:30 - 51 minutes - 47.1 MB

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.

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

December 22, 2020 12:00 - 1 hour - 56.2 MB

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...

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

December 16, 2020 22:30 - 59 minutes - 54.3 MB

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 Serious...

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

December 07, 2020 13:30 - 1 hour - 58.4 MB

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. 

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

December 02, 2020 13:00 - 57 minutes - 52.6 MB

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...

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

November 25, 2020 13:00 - 27 minutes - 25.1 MB

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.

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

November 18, 2020 20:00 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MB

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.

Google is Forcing a Major Shift in My Blogging Strategy

November 12, 2020 18:12 - 20 minutes - 18.6 MB

Over the last little while, I've come to the realization that I need to make a major shift in how I blog. All thanks to Google.

How Marcus Krupp Built an Unlimited Wordpress Development Service Called WPTangerine

November 09, 2020 12:00 - 41 minutes - 37.9 MB

Unlimited WordPress development? WPTangerine is a service I had never heard of until recently. I was a bit surprised when I heard they had been around since 2015 and came highly recommended by someone in my network.  In my podcast, I interviewed Marcus, the co-founder of WP Tangerine. We dive in and talk about how he built his business and how WPTangerine has grown to nearly 600 paying clients with 60 full-time employees.

I'm PAUSING My Dead Email List Case Study: Here's How Much $$ I Made

November 04, 2020 22:44 - 11 minutes - 10.4 MB

I started a case study to try and revive a dead email list of about 20,000 subscribers. However, it turns out my domain reputation is bad for this particular domain (my other email sending domains are excellent). So, my emails have primarily been going to people's junk folders, leading to terrible open rates. As a result, I'm PAUSING this email case study UNTIL I can improve the domain reputation. I'm working with an email expert and using a tool called "Mail Warm" that will likely tak...

How to Use Artificial Intelligence for Content Marketing and the Future of SEO with Jeff Coyle from MarketMuse

November 02, 2020 16:57 - 59 minutes - 55 MB

MarketMuse uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to analyze content, suggest topics to cover, and create better content. It works best for SEO writers who want to develop highly effective content marketing strategies not based on gut instinct.  I've also recently been hearing all the news about GPT-3, robots writing articles, and wondering how all of this will impact content generation for bloggers and SEO's in the future. I wanted to dive more into the subject and could not...

Why Bart MacDonald is Leaving $10 Million in Funding to Invest in SaaS Businesses

October 29, 2020 11:00 - 57 minutes - 52.5 MB

Learn why Bart MacDonald of BloomVP.com left the previous company that he founded and raised $10 million for. + Bart previously founded and help raise funding for the SaaS company, Sapling HR. However, he recently stepped down from the CEO role at Sapling to found Bloom VP, a venture firm focused on SaaS. Listen in to hear Bart's strategies and why he is so bullish on SaaS.

How Matt Diggity Grew 2 Sites to Nearly $100,000 a Month with Link Building and EAT Strategies

October 26, 2020 11:00 - 53 minutes - 48.8 MB

Matt Diggity is someone that has been buying, building, and growing affiliate website for a long time. In fact, I had him on the podcast about a year ago to discuss some of his background. Since then, I've stayed in touch with Matt and he started sharing more and more about the recent success of a couple of websites that he purchased. These 2 sites have gone from making less than $1,500 a month combined to nearly hitting his goal of $100,000 per month (combined earnings) before the end o...

How to Build and Exit a Website for Mid-6 Figures Using the Shotgun Skyscraper Link Building Technique

October 19, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 58.2 MB

Mark Webster and Gael Breton are from AuthorityHacker.com and have been in the authority website space for a long time.  Listen in as we discuss how they took a website from scratch to a mid 6 figure exit.  We dive into how they: Sold a niche site for over six figures they built in 18 months Negotiated affiliate deals three times higher than the public rates Develop their trademarked Shotgun Skyscraper strategy  Create successful frameworks to identify keywords and much more. Ful...

How Dave Chesson Built his $9k Per Month Kindle Publishing Business and $40k Per Month Niche Site

October 12, 2020 11:00 - 57 minutes - 52.4 MB

Dave Chesson has self-published nine books on Amazon that now have a combined revenue between $7-9k a month. How does he do this? He describes it as the “Long Tail Pro” of Amazon. Finding undervalued Amazon keywords that drive traffic to the book.  He uses his niche sites to drive traffic to his books. We also discuss how he's built a $40k/month niche site by partnering with a true expert in the field. 

Is Substack the New Blogging?

October 07, 2020 16:58 - 11 minutes - 11 MB

​Substack is a platform where independent publishers can easily earn money from their writing with paying subscribers. Substack allows publishers to collect payments from subscribers and publish their content online and in email format. If you do some googling or twittering, you’ll see that Substack is pretty hot right now. They got some $15 million-ish from Adreessen Horowitz and it feels like publishers are flocking there.  

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