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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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