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

NP 48: How Steve Scott Makes Over $40k Per Month Publishing Kindle eBooks About Habits

In this podcast, we discuss 2 of Steve's sites: SteveScottSite.com and DevelopGoodHabits.com; and of course his Kindle publishing business.  In fact, he was also kind enough to share a link to his author page on Amazon, so you can see a list of all his books!  Check them out at HabitBooks.com. Steve's advice and story is quite impressive as he is only started publishing on Kindle about 2 years ago and is now making anywhere from $30,000 to $60,000 a MONTH!  He reveals regular income reports...

NP 47: How to Create Epic Content and Attract Natural Links for Your Authority Site with Gael Breton

I'm excited to bring you another podcast today!  Perrin and I were able to recently sit down with Gael Breton of AuthorityHacker.com to discuss all the important elements of building an authority website. Gael knows what he is talking about. You'll like this interview because he not only shares very actionable tips, but also gives the URL of his website that is making over $10,000 per month.  I always love having an example website that I can look at and try to replicate.

NP 46: Why You Should NOT Build a Private Blog Network

Wow, apparently my article from earlier this week really rocked the boat!  I made the firm stance that I will no longer be building private blog networks (PBNs), and it garnered A LOT of attention. In fact, my article was mentioned on SERoundtable.com, SearchEngineLand.com, tweeted by Rand Fishkin, and even Matt Cutts tweeted about the news articles (that I was in).  Then of course there have been plenty of other blog posts, online discussions, and overall a major buzz around the topic of P...

NP 45: August Income Report and Update on My Website Projects

A few days ago I shared the monthly income report for a few sites that I purchased this year.  The site buying case study is one that I've learned quite a bit from and has helped expand my business. In total, I've now bought 4 sites this year, and as you can see from the what I've learned from spending $37,100 on buying sites, I've been able to do pretty well! Today, I'm sharing a podcast that Perrin and I recorded to review our monthly earnings from just a couple of sites along with a dis...

NP 44: Content Marketing and Traffic Tips from Neil Patel

Perrin and I had the chance to interview Neil Patel of QuickSprout.com. Neil is very well known for the products he's built (Kissmetrics, CrazyEgg, and others) and for the traffic strategies he's implemented on large websites such as TechCrunch.com and Amazon.com.  When it comes to content marketing and traffic experts, Neil is right there near the top of the list. So, I hope you enjoy the interview as we discuss his entrepreneurial background, traffic strategies, infographic strategies (t...

NP 43: Niche Site Project Update, Disavow Links, and Recovering in Google

Last week, I finally broke the silence about what happened to my survival knife site, from niche site project 1. As revealed in that post, the site appeared to have been hit with negative SEO.  And then when Penguin 2.1 came out in October 2013, the site finally tanked in the rankings (the spammy links obviously being the reason that it was affected by Penguin). I tried several tactics for over 9 months trying to bring the site back from the dead without much success.  However, last week s...

NP 42: How to Build a Successful Kindle Publishing Business with Jonny Andrews

One of the hottest business ventures right now, is publishing books on the Amazon Kindle platform.  I've personally been curious about the prospects of publishing Kindle eBooks, but have never taken the leap. As a result, Perrin and I jumped at the opportunity to have Jonny Andrews of AudienceHacker.com on the podcast. We recently interviewed him and had the chance to dig into how he's been able to build a substantial business using the Kindle platform.

NP 41: How to Network for Real Links and Other SEO Tips with Rand Fishkin of Moz.com

Perrin and I were able to sit down recently and interview Rand Fishkin of Moz.com!  If you have been in the SEO world for any period of time, you are likely well aware of Rand and the company he founded, Moz. He is one of the most well-known and well respected entrepreneurs in the SEO space. Perrin and I really relished our opportunity to pick Rand's brain for an hour on SEO, marketing, and his story.

NP 40: How a Basketball Player Built a Huge YouTube Fan Base and a Growing Business with Dre Baldwin

Recently Perrin and I were able to sit down and interview Dre Baldwin of DreAllDay.com.  I'm excited to bring this interview to you today, because well, its different! Dre is not your typical niche site builder or affiliate marketer (like almost all of my previous guests).  Dre is actually a professional basketball player! I'll let you read or listen to his entire story below, but he worked his way from basically not playing much in high school to eventually playing professionally overseas...

NP 39: How to Generate 1,000,000 Visits Per Month by Engaging Your Audience with Dhanish Semar

Our guest today is Dhanish Semar (those of you in the League of Legends community probably know him by his IGN: DiffTheEnder). Dhanish owns Cloth5.com, a site he built by making great connections, writing premium content, and putting it in front of his audience using the platform that was most important to them. The result? Cloth5 now gets over 1,000,000 visits per month.

NP 38: How Matt Paulson Built a Finanicial Network of Sites Getting 2.5 Million Pageviews and HUGE Earnings Each Month

Recently, Perrin and I were able to sit down with Matt Paulson of MattPaulson.com for a podcast interview to discuss his amazing business.  Matt is an unassuming guy and you would have no idea how extraordinarily well his business is doing unless you asked him. Well, we had the chance to ask about his business and the numbers he shares will blow your mind (at least it did for Perrin and I).  Matt owns a financial network of sites including AmericanBankingNews.com, AnalystRatings.net, and a ...

NP 37: Buying Sites for Cashflow, Authority Site Stragies, and June Income Report

In the podcast, Perrin and I review the income report from last month, discuss the business potential of buying and selling websites, and then go into more depth in our new authority site project. While we do cover similar topics to my last blog post, we also have a chance to dive quite a bit deeper and throw in a few other interesting topics as well.  Overall, if want our most up to date thoughts on buying and selling websites, building out niche sites, building large authority sites, and ...

NP 36: Selling a Site for $170k and More with Andrew Youderian of EcommerceFuel.com

I recently interviewed Andrew Youderian of eEcommerceFuel.com.  Perrin and I were able to have a great chat with Andrew to talk about his business and the great success that he has had with a couple of his drop shipping/ecommerce sites; including selling one for $170k at the beginning of 2014.

NP 35: How to Make Over $10k Per Month from 1 Site with Hayden Miyamoto

I started the NichePursuits podcast just over 2 years ago.  The most popular episode since the inception of my podcast has been episode 9 with Hayden Miyamoto recorded just over 2 years ago.   At the time, he was making over $30k per month from his small niche sites.  However, a lot has happened in the past 2 years and his strategy has changed dramatically.   Today I am publishing an interview I did just a few days ago with Hayden Miyamoto from NoHatSEO.com. So, why did I bring Hayden b...

NP 34: Does Passive Income Really Exist?

Perrin and I discuss what passive income is all about and whether or not people actually stop working once they achieve their income dreams. In addition to sharing the early influence of our fathers, we also discuss some of the wealthiest people in the world and how they spend their work lives. Finally, I share my own day to day schedule as an internet entrepreneur.

NP 33: How Perrin Got 6,000 Email Subscribers in 1 Day and Launched Vylo.org

Perrin and I had the chance to sit down and discuss in detail our new business Vylo.org for Episode 33.  We dig into the story of the product, how Perrin generated initial buzz, and plans going forward. The story of how Perrin came up with the idea and how he got over 6,000 people to express interest in the product and get on his email list in 24 hours is pretty remarkable. So, this episode is all about the story of Vylo from idea to launch (which happened about 12 days ago).

NP 32: Should I Sell? May Income Report for 2 Niche Sites

Perrin and I discuss the May income of 2 niche sites that I purchased in January 2014.  We also discuss whether or not I should sell one of the websites; and share our thought process behind making this decision.

NP 31: Is it Time to Stop Creating New Sites? Deciding When to Grow Your Existing Niche Sites

Perrin and I discuss when its time to stop creating new websites and when to just focus on your existing portfolio. I discuss my own website portfolio, specific traffic stats, and the decision I have made to stop building new sites for the foreseeable future.

NP 30: 9 Common Mistakes to Avoid for SEO and Niche Sites

When it comes to building a niche website that you hope to rank at the top of Google, you could potentially make hundreds of mistakes.  As a result, there is no possible way that I could cover every possible mistake that someone might make when trying to build and optimize their site for SEO. However, I do believe that there are some very common mistakes that many newer people might fall prey to when building niche sites.  As a result, Perrin and I cover the 9 most common mistakes that peop...

NP 29: April Earnings Report for 2 Niche Sites I Bought with Perrin as Co-host

Perrin and I just finished recording a new podcast, episode 29.  During this episode, we discuss the April income report from my last blog post, and share some additional thoughts and nuances that I didn't have a chance to cover. Overall, I hope you enjoy the episode! If you find any value in the podcast and have a chance to leave a rating or review on iTunes here, that would be great.

NP 28: The Future of The Niche Pursuits Podcast and How Opinions Evolve

I recently wrote a blog post titled, "Wh you Should NOT start a podcast".  This was an opinion piece that I wrote based on some of the frustrations of my podcast. However, after taking a look at the data and hearing some feedback from others, my opinion has evolved a bit in regards to podcasting.  Listen in to hear what the future of the Niche Pursuits Podcast will be...along with other interesting stats about my business.

NP 27: How to Grow a Moustache.com with Douglas Smythe

One of the things I did to grow aPennyShaved was to reach out to a bunch of other bloggers in the shaving community, a process I outlined in one of my previous posts. It was a super fun process, the response was spectacular, and I ended up making a bunch of cool friends. One of those friends was Douglas Smythe, who founded Howtogrowamoustache.com. We exchanged emails about shaving, discussed blogging strategies and ended up collaborating on a guest post, which was a ton of fun. The more Do...

NP 26: How Doug Cunnington Made Over $6,000 in 1 Month from his Small Niche Site

A couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of sitting down and interviewing Doug Cunnington for the Niche Pursuits podcast.  He's had some impressive results with one of his newer niche sites that I wanted to share. Does the name Doug Cunnington sound familiar?  You may recall hearing about Doug because I shared his success story just a few months ago!  At that time he was earning over $1,000 per month from the site already, and he's come back to tell us how well its done since November. Ov...

NP 25: Niche Site Project 2 Re-cap and Income Report

The January income report for aPennyShaved.com is here!  This is one that I know a lot of you have been anticipating, because of how well the site did last month. After earning over $650 in December, the big question was whether December was so big mostly due to Holiday shopping.  The clear answer is NO!  January was a much bigger month, and Perrin and I attribute that to simply getting more pages indexed and ranking in Google. Newer sites can take a few months before Google starts ranking...

NP 24: Building and Selling Sites with Justin Cooke of EmpireFlippers.com

I had the pleasure of interviewing Justin Cooke of EmpireFlippers.com just a few days ago.  I'm sure you already know about Justin and Joe, as they are pretty popular guys! In fact, I had both of them on episode 3 of my podcast back in April 2012!  So, its been almost 2 years ago since I interviewed them.  I wanted to catch up on what has changed, and what their business plans are for the future.

NP 23: How to Build Links the Right Way with Jon Cooper

Jon Cooper is a sophomore at the University of Florida studying finance.  Even though he's "younger", he happens to be a respected expert in the SEO arena; particularly when it comes to link building. I had the absolute privilege of interviewing Jon Cooper recently to discuss niche sites, link building, and more.  Today I am excited to share that podcast interview with you!

NP 22: Building an Affiliate Site with Paid Traffic, The Story of ShoeSniper.com with Nick Loper

I had the opportunity to interview Nick Loper of SideHustleNation.com and ShoeSniper.com, a short time ago. I was excited to interview Nick because he has a great story of how he was able to take a little side business he started and develop it into something full-time.  That business was ShoeSniper.com, an affiliate site selling shoes.  What's interesting about his strategy, is that almost all of the traffic is paid traffic...mostly from Google Adwords. So, in this episode of the Niche Pu...

NP 21: How to Make Money with Your Own Private Blog Network; Interview with Hayden Miaymoto

Well, Hayden Miyamoto is at it again!  I decided to bring Hayden back onto my podcast for the 3rd time because he continues to build his business in unique ways that I think we can all learn from. In my interview with Hayden today, we discuss how his niche site business has fared over the past year, and what he is doing differently now.  In particular, Hayden has been able to build a huge business using expired domains and his own private blog network. You may recall my previous 2 podcast ...

NP 20: Bullish on Blogging; How to Build a Successful Blog in a Competitive Niche

Several months ago, I ran across a blog that I really enjoyed reading in the personal finance niche.  Before I was running my business full-time, I worked in the finance industry for several years, so I've always been interested in investments and personal finance. As I researched this blog a bit more, I realized that it was doing quite well!  According to its "About" page, it was receiving over 200k unique visitors a month and I could see that there was a very active community.  I've alwa...

NP 19: How to Build Mobile Apps Using Existing Code and More!

In podcast 19 of the Niche Pursuits Podcast, I was able to sit down with Elaine Heney and discuss her business of building mobile phone applications.  She has currently built over 200 iPhone or Android Apps and only started about a year ago! I was completely amazed at the success she is having, and knew I had to have her on the show. Elaine has an interesting story because she's not a programmer and was just tired of working for someone else (sound familiar?).  After creating her first app...

NP 18: How to Build Authority Sites with Jon Haver

A little while ago, I shared the success story of Jon Haver from AuthorityWebsiteIncome.com.  If you haven't had a chance to read it yet, I highly recommend you check out what he is doing and how he is doing it. Jon has set a goal for himself to be making $15k per month by his 35th birthday.   He wants to achieve this primarily through building websites and monetizing those sites.  And he's well on his way! I wanted to sit down with Jon and dig a little bit deeper into how he's built a sit...

NP 17: Building an Online Business as a Stay at Home Mom with Jamie Wilson

I interviewed Jamie Wilson who is a stay at home mom, but also a successful entrepreneur.  In fact, throughout the interview we dig into 2 successful sites that she owns: OrganicBambooClothing.com and JellyBeanQuilts.com.  Jelly Bean Quilts is currently her biggest money maker, and quite honestly, I think is a pretty cool business (yep I have kids!). I found out about Jamie because she submitted her "Success" story to me following these guidelines here.  After reading it, I decided I neede...

NP 16: The State of SEO and My Public Niche Site Project

I felt like it was time that I sat behind the microphone and shared a few of my thoughts on the current state of SEO and my public niche site project.  In fact, as I look back at when I published my last podcast, its been over 4 months!  What I think you will find are some motivational words to help you see how I view the world of Search Engine Optimization and more. In addition, I cover a few more topics in regards to my niche site project that I haven't mentioned previously on my blog yet...

NP 15: Building a Niche eCommerce Business with Nathan Hartnett

I am always amazed when I find people outside of the "internet marketing" niche that are finding big success with the principles that I teach on my blog all the time. I am constantly trying to harp on the fact that finding "long tail" keywords is something that EVERY business should be doing, not just affiliate marketers.  I've shared the success of Marcus Sheridan with this for his pool company.  Jon Haws built a successful landscaping company using long tail keywords.  Last week, I shared...

NP 14: How Perry Rosenbloom Built a Business Around his Passion for the Outdoors

Today, I'm sharing a podcast interview I did with Perry Rosenbloom.  I think you will find his story interesting, because he was able to build a large website based on his passion for hiking and the outdoors.  The site was so successful that he expanded his business into other related sites and was able to quit his full-time job about a year ago!  These are the kind of success stories that we all love to hear about.  However, Perry's journey has not always been rosy.  Shortly after quittin...

NP 13: How to Effectively Use Content Marketing to Grow Your Business with Marcus Sheridan

Marcus Sheridan is an entrepreneur that truly understands content marketing.  He was able to take his pool business from the brink of the financial abyss to strong profitability primarily through the use of online content marketing. I absolutely love the story that Marcus has to share, and it was a pleasure to interview him for today's episode of my podcast. To get the full picture, you really need to listen to the podcast; plus you get a better grasp of the fun personality that Marcus has...

NP 12: Running a Landscape Business Like a Tech Company!

Don't tell Jon Haws that he doesn't own a tech company.  Even though he currently spends his days pushing lawn mowers and leading a crew of landscapers, Jon has embraced the internet and so much more to market and run his business. In fact, if you ask him about his business, the fact that he cuts grass may never come up.  Instead you'll get an earful about long tail keywords, niche sites, subscription based business, auto-billing, lead generation, and more. Because Jon has been able to thi...

NP 11: Building High Quality Niche Sites

After a break of about 4 months, I’ve finally done another podcast!  The podcast recording is just me…no guest this time.  I felt it was important to say a lot of things that are hard to say in a blog post.  I can talk for a half hour and make my points much better than I could if I tried to blog about it.

NP 10: How to Find Valuable Expired Domains with Hayden Miyamoto

Last week, I released a podcast that I did with Hayden Miyamoto where he explained how he is pulling in $30,000 a month with small niche sites.  As suspected, people loved the podcast!  Hayden was able to share a lot of his "secrets" that he uses to build micro niche sites after Google Penguin in that podcast. So, today I am releasing a new podcast interview I did a couple of days ago to dig a bit deeper on how Hayden is using expired domains to build links to his niche sites.  In particula...

NP 9: $30k a Month from Niche Sites Post Penguin with Hayden Miyamoto

I always love to hear the success stories from readers of my blog.  And this story is a big one. I am absolutely blown away by the success that Hayden Miyamoto is having with small niche sites.  In particular, Hayden has refined his process post-Penguin and is doing better now than before!  Now only 2 months since Penguin, this new process has proved to be extremely fruitful - his income is already back up to $30,000 a month - all from small niche sites.

NP 8: How to Launch an iPhone App with Andreas Kambanis

Andreas not only have a very interesting story of how he got started with his business, but he also has some excellent advice for creating a successful launch of an iPhone app. Of course I took and followed some of this advice as I launch my own app, and there are several other points that I will be doing on this app or future projects.  I highly recommend that you listen to the podcast interview below if you ever consider launching a mobile phone app.  The advice Andreas shared here is very...

NP 7: Building a Brand with Pat Flynn

Pat Flynn discusses how he has been able to build his brand.  This interview covers how he generates up to $50,000 a month from his blog, niche sites, iphone apps, and more.

NP 6: How Benny Hsu's iPhone App Made $2,927.44 in 1 Day

Benny Hsu shares how he was able to outsource the creation of his very first iPhone app: Photo365, and make nearly $3,000 in one day.  This is a truly inspirational story and offers great insights for anyone wanting to create an iPhone app.

NP 5: Fraser Cain on Building a Real Business

Fraser Cain is the owner of UniverseToday.com, a highly successful space related website.  He also owns Keyword Strategy, a keyword management software.  He offers powerful insights on getting search engine traffic and much more.

NP 4: Outsourcing and SEO Services with Tyrone Shum

Tyrone Shum shares his background that led him to the outsourcing business as well as providing SEO services. 

NP 3: How AdsenseFlippers Build 100+ Sites per Month

Justin and Joe from AdsenseFlippers.com share their business model of building hundreds of niche websites and then selling those sites for profit.  They also dig a bit deeper into the future of niche sites, business automation, and much more.

NP 2: Chris Guthrie - Internet Entrepreneur, Buying and Selling Websites for Profit

Chris Guthrie of MakeMoneyontheInternet.com discusses some of his early entrepreneurial websites.  He also mentions a site he sold for over six figures and now how he is buying sites and increasing their revenue.

NP 1: My Journey to Becoming an Internet Entrepreneur