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

Welcome back to the Niche Pursuits Podcast. I’m your host, Spencer Haws from nichepursuits.com.   Today, I've got a great interview for you. I've got Adam Steele from loganix.net. Adam is somebody that's been around the affiliate marketing and link building world for a long time. He actually started back in an affiliate network called Neverblue. He started working there and that's how he got introduced to a lot of people doing online business. That led him down the road of link building services that he could offer.  I’ll let Adam tell his entire story. It's really interesting and he's built a really solid business. In their best year, they’ve done $3 million in revenue. He's got 14 full-time employees and a large remote team behind him. We’ll talk about how he's able to achieve that success.  Overall, it was great to have Adam on the podcast and interview him. If you want to check out Loganix, his link building company, you can use my affiliate link which I would be very happy if you did. That's at nichepursuits.com/loganix.

Welcome back to the Niche Pursuits Podcast. I’m your host, Spencer Haws from nichepursuits.com. Today, I’ve got a returning guest. Matt Giovanisci from moneylab.co is back, and we talk about quite a few things. If you remember the last interview we did, which actually, as I look back, was an entire year ago, which is really hard to believe.  We dove into a lot of his SEO tips and how just writing great content, trying to have a little bit better content, and specifically not doing a lot of link building has led to a lot of success for Matt with his swimuniversity.com site. Today, we talk about a little bit more about Swim University and specifically, his dive into using YouTube and how his YouTube videos are doing quite well. But then we spend the bulk of the interview talking about his new software product called Lasso. Lasso is a product that manages your affiliate links and specifically, it does work well with Amazon affiliate links, although it works for any affiliate links. It helps you to better monetize your site and also has really cool product boxes that you can insert into your post that will help you sell more Amazon affiliate products—a product box for the product you’re selling on Amazon—really cool looking, with a nice button, and can help you monetize those posts. It’s a cool product. If you’re interested in checking it out, you can use my affiliate link at nichepursuits.com/lasso.  

My guest today is Adam Preiser from wpcrafter.com. Adam is best known for his YouTube channel WPCrafter where he shares all kinds of WordPress tips and tutorials. In fact, Adam currently has over 124,000 YouTube subscribers and is definitely crushing it there. However, Adam has also done something that very few businesses will ever achieve. He's launched a new software product called CartFlows and it's already on pace to do over $1 million in revenue in its very first year.  During the interview, I spent quite a bit of time asking Adam about how he came up with the idea for CartFlows, why and how he found a partner, and how he has grown this WordPress plug-in business so quickly. CartFlows is a sales funnel builder for WordPress. You can build beautiful sales pages and one-click up-sales and much more. If you want to check out CartFlows, you can go to nichepursuits.com/cartflows. Overall, I hope you enjoy the interview with Adam. 

I'm excited to give you an update on Niche Site Project 4. I'm actually going to give the monthly income report for July 2019. Sorry about the delay in this episode. I'm already about three weeks into August as I'm recording this, so if you've been waiting anxiously for this report, I apologize. I published the blogpost on the blog. Maybe you've already read that with the monthly report, but due to some vacation time and other things, it's taken me a little bit to actually record this episode. With that, let's go ahead and jump right into it.  Now that the Niche Site has been revealed, I'm happy to share that the site has continued to grow and progress. In full disclosure, I didn't focus very much on my site, owntheyard.com, because of things I was focused on during July. I launched Link Whisper in early to mid July, which took a lot of time, then I was on vacation at the end of July. Despite my lack of focus, it was great to see that the site achieved another record month in terms of both earnings and traffic.  

Today, I'm excited to have Matthew Woodward from matthewwoodward.co.uk on the podcast. Matthew and I have interacted quite a bit online over the years, but this is the first time that we've had a chance to hop on a call and chat. I hope that you'll find it as interesting as I did, to hear more about his background and how he got started making money online. Matthew has a huge amount of knowledge with anything SEO related. Today, we jump into how to do an SEO audit that can dramatically increase your search engine traffic. We also dive into some specific on-page SEO tips that you can implement as well. Overall, I hope you enjoy Matt’s story and the business advice that he has to share. 

In today’s episode, I’m excited to introduce you to Miles Beckler from milesbeckler.com. Miles has been helping his wife operate and grow their site, ask-angels.com, for many years. Even though we don’t spend much time chatting about this specific site, it’s one that has gotten over 33 million visitors and is a very significant business, so Miles knows what he’s talking about.  After the success of Ask-Angels—it continues to be successful—Miles decided to start a YouTube channel to share his advice on keyword research, SEO, Facebook ads, and much more for free, so that others could become successful entrepreneurs.  If you are looking to get some motivation in your business, I hope you’ll stick around and listen to Miles. He has great advice to share and he’s highly motivating as well. If you want to follow along with Miles, you can find him on YouTube or go to milesbeckler.com. 

Today, I'm excited to introduce you to Tommy Griffith from clickminded.com. Tommy is someone that has been involved with SEO for a long time in a couple of really large companies. He started as an SEO manager for PayPal and then moved over to Airbnb as an SEO manager there as well; pretty cool stuff.  As you'll hear, Tommy started teaching an SEO course on his site and that has now become a fulltime business for him. He's had a ton of ups and downs along the way that he talks about, but he's been able to build a great business.  I hope you listen in to Tommy's full story and some of the SEO tips that he has to share. If you want to checkout the full SEO course that Tommy has, you can go to nichepursuits.com/clickminded. Overall, I hope you'll enjoy the interview. 

Today I'm excited to bring you a podcast interview with Mark Thompson from Pay Kick Start.   Mark is someone that I have known online for a long time (in internet years).  Going back to around early 2013, Mark helped with me a big affiliate promotion for Long Tail Pro.  The first promotion went so well, that we did another one in 2015. Mark got started selling a variety of products online, but really got into the swing of things when he started selling software.  However, it was more than just launching 12 to 14 software products that made him successful.  He and his partner, Matt Callen, both figured out the product launch formula extremely well to make sure their Digital Kickstart brand did well. Mark and Matt could continue to launch more software products, but they created PayKickStart and see the big potential that it has.  As a result, they are focusing their energy and attention on this flag ship product and doing everything they can to grow it.

In today's episode, I talk about Niche Site Project 4 and actually reveal the domain!  If you have been reading my blog, you will know that I revealed the domain a couple of weeks ago right here. In addition, I cover the full income report for June 2019.  I'm excited that the site continues to grow and made over $1,200 last month.

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