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

I was able to sit down recently with Jake and Jason to record another episode of the Niche Pursuits Podcast. During this episode we dive a bit deeper into the overall strategy and timeline of Niche Site Project 4.   In particular, we discuss: What types of keywords to target What type of content to write Monetization strategies How long before I expect the site to make money and much more We also dive into what my budget for the project will be as I plan to outsource a significant amount of the content.  In addition, we answer a few other questions that have come up via blog comments or the Facebook group.

Today, I interview Will Blears from OneMansBrand.com and discussing how he built an Amazon Affiliate website from scratch to $40,000 a month. He shares his content strategy, link building strategies, and more.  We also dive into how he sold this website and what the process was like.

After a year hiatus, the Niche Pursuits podcast is back and better than ever.  Along with my co-hosts, Jake and Jason, we discuss Niche Site Project 4 and why I'm building another site publicly.

In today's episode, I share an interview I did with Grant Baldwin from TheSpeakerLab.com. Grant is someone that knows the speaking game inside and out.  He has been a professional speaker for years and now teachers others how to book their own speaking gigs. So, during the interview we discuss these 2 aspects of his business: how to actually get booked as a speaker (and get paid for it) and second, how he has build the training side of his business and how that is going. As a quick summary, Grant Baldwin shares that he makes over six figures speaking at events.  However, his business as a whole will be close to crossing the seven figure mark when you add in his training courses.   I was fascinated with how Grant has building the training side of his business through Facebook ads and webinars.  So, if you have a training product (or are thinking about creating one), there is a great discussion about how you can grow that part of your business. During the course of the episode, Grant shares a few resources: TheSpeakerLab.com - where you can learn more about Grant or join his training programs. MySpeakerFee.com - A speaker fee calculator that can show you how much you should expect to make when speaking. FreeSpeakerWorkshop.com - Grant's free webinar training that teaches you "How To Start Booking (And Getting Paid For) Speaking Engagements Without Having An Existing Platform Or Being Sales-y"

Today, I’ve got an interview with Chandler Bolt from Self-Publishing School. I met Chandler at a conference about two years ago and was immediately impressed with his business and overall attitude.  In addition to hearing his story about how he made Self-Publishing School a success, you’ll also hear about how he recommends writing a book and promoting it. We also dive into some of his productivity hacks and routines that have made him be able to accomplish so much so quickly. 

In today's interview I talk with Dave Chesson.  Dave is the founder of Kindlepreneur.com, his blog that will teach you how to write and sell Kindle ebooks.  In addition, he is the creator of KDP rocket, a software application for self publishers to help them find Kindle keywords. Dave is actually a long time reader of Niche Pursuits and started out by creating a couple of niche websites and then moving into publishing Kindle ebooks. One point that Dave really drives home is just how important it is to fully monetize your site when you have good traffic coming to certain articles.  Dave has a great way of explaining this concept by drawing an analogy with Monopololy, boardwalk, and building hotels.

In my interview today, I talked with somebody that has built a six figure a year business on Fiverr, yup, on Fiverr. Kendell Rizzo started out as a freelancer doing just about any writing job she could find. However, when she finally narrowed her focus on the niche of crowdfunding, the number of clients she got grew significantly. In addition, she was able to charge higher prices. What I find fascinating about all of this is that she was able to use the Fiverr platform not to charge $5 of job but to charge hundreds of dollars per job depending on what was purchased. 

Today, I’m excited to bring you a guest interview with Nick Hasche, a niche website builder. Nick started building niche websites just a little bit over a year ago. He actually started right alongside Niche Site project 3.0, which is why I’m really excited about this interview because he learned how to build niche sites by following along with that project and implementing the things that I was teaching. Nick has taken what we taught and implemented some of his own unique angles as well. His portfolio of sites has reach revenues of $10,000 a month. If you’d like to hear how Nick has done that, go ahead and listen to the interview. We go through his entire process from keyword research, content creation, and of course, link building as well. He has some very unique strategies to consider. Overall, I hope you enjoy the interview.

In today's podcast episode, Jake, Jason (who was introduced as a new team member in my last post), and I chat about the lessons learned at Traffic and Conversion Summit and we also give some of our thoughts on Niche Site Project 3. Last month, we all attended Traffic and Conversion Summit, which is always a great conference. We each share our biggest takeaway that we hope to apply directly into our business. Next we discuss Niche Site Project 3.  Now that it has been a year, the sites are not performing as well as we had originally projected.  We discuss why that might be.  In particular, why some people are successful at building niche sites and some are not.

In today's podcast episode, I have RJ Bryan as a guest interview.  RJ is a long time reader of Niche Pursuits and build his first successful site around the time of Niche Site Project 2. RJ has a few niche sites making in total about $6,000 to $7,000 a month.  The largest site is making about $4,000 a month. RJ has a great story to tell, and also shares some great steps for his process of building a successful niche site. RJ recently started a blog where he shares his website building strategies at RJBryan.com.