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

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).

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.

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.

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 people make when building niche sites and doing SEO.

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.

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.

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 Douglas and I chatted, the more I became absolutely fascinated and blown away by his success in the very same community I was working to succeed in, especially because his site wasn’t just a simple ad-supported site. Douglas was leveraging his traffic to expand his shaving site into a larger, product-driven business.

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. Overall, Doug basically took the techniques that I've shared from Niche Site Project 1 and Niche Site Project 2 and applied it to his own new sites. And of course, he has tweaked the process and strategies a bit to make them work well for him. In fact, he's done so well, that his site earned over $6,000 in December alone!

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 all the long tail possibilities. And January was the month that aPennyShaved really started to do well in Google. Below, you can see the full income report along with Perrin's thoughts. However, this is a special occasion because in addition to just the normal income report, Perrin and I also recorded a podcast to review the entire project! This is meant to be the final official coaching call for Niche Site Project 2. This podcast/coaching call is the culmination of the entire project...so we hope you listen!

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.