Niche Pursuits Podcast: Find Your Next "Niche" Business Idea! (buying and selling websites)

Today's guest on the Niche Pursuits podcast is Nate Ginsburg. Nate has a background in Amazon FBA and Business Acquisition.

He joins Jared today to talk about purchasing Centurica, dropping lots of valuable knowledge bombs for anyone looking to acquire a business now or in the future.

Direct download: NP_Nate_Ginsburg.mp3
Category:buying and selling websites -- posted at: 11:44am EDT

Today’s guest on the Niche Pursuits podcast is Greg Elfrink. Greg has a background in SEO, content marketing, website building and has been the head of marketing at Empire Flippers since 2016 — today, he shares lots of tips and tricks on buying and selling websites.

Direct download: NP_Greg_Elflink.mp3
Category:buying and selling websites -- posted at: 5:08am EDT

Stacy Caprio has bought many online businesses off Flippa and increased their revenue quickly.

After purchasing a few sites that flopped, she finds herself earning enough to move into her dream apartment in Chicago. Listen to her story & find out how she does it!

Direct download: NP_Stacy_Caprio.mp3
Category:buying and selling websites -- posted at: 7:00am EDT

It's great to have Richmond Howard on the podcast this week.

Rich has found a way to successfully grow his niche sites all while working full time as a pastor, studying for a master's degree, and being a husband and new dad!

3 or 4 years ago he was in a job that he hated and was looking for something new. He heard about blogging and affiliate marketing through listening to podcasts and decided to give it a go.

He started a finance blog and worked half-heartedly on that for a couple of years, but it didn't really come to much. However, there were a couple of posts he'd put together on meal prepping that were ranking really well.

After investigating the meal prepping niche further he saw a lot of opportunities and decided to start a site dedicated to that instead. He moved those successful posts from the finance blog in August 2019 to his new site mealprepify.com.

He doubled down on content and links and now this site is making over $6K per month. In January 2021, traffic was at 140,000. Pretty incredible!

In mid-2020, Rich made a move that really helped to fuel this growth.

He bought a site from Motion Invest that was making around $600 per month. This site was in the same or similar niche as Meal Prepify and had about 150 articles on it.

Direct download: NichePursuits_Richmond_Howard.mp3
Category:buying and selling websites -- posted at: 8:00am EDT

Today, I'm excited to share an interview I conducted with Jared Bauman, a long time Niche Pursuits reader. Jared and I sat down to discuss a recent site he purchased and how he grew it 5x in just 7 months.  He took the site from earning around $200 a month to now over $1,000 a month!

Jared's website purchase criteria:

1. Ranking Articles

2. Consistent Revenue

3. No Backlink Profile

4. Monthly Traffic over 3,000 Pageviews

5. No Premium Ad Network

How to Grow a Purchased Site

1. Site Audit and Repairs

2. Add Buy Buttons and Tables

3. Keyword Research

4. Hire a Writer

5. Publish New Content 6. Build Links

7. Add Internal Links

Direct download: NP_Jared_Bauman_with_Ads.mp3
Category:buying and selling websites -- posted at: 8:00am EDT

Almost exactly a year ago, my partners and I launched Motion Invest as a new way to buy and sell content sites.

We've delivered on being a fast and easy way to buy or sell content sites.  Our original plan was to buy sites ourselves, so we would only buy sites that we felt strongly enough about to put money behind.

We still buy sites directly if you are looking for a quick, all-cash deal.

However, over time more and more people wanted to see if they could get a higher price on other marketplaces than what we were offering.  Rather than "lose" out on good sites, we recently turned Motion Invest into a true marketplace.

In other words, you can now list your site for sale on Motion Invest marketplace instead of selling the site directly to Motion Invest.

As a result, we have gotten an increase in listings...which is great news if you are looking to buy a site.

But today we want to shake up the website brokerage business for small content sites just a little bit more.

Direct download: NichePursuits_Ep_Motion_Invest.mp3
Category:buying and selling websites -- posted at: 12:21pm EDT

Kevin Jourdan saw a need for a brokerage in the French Market, so he built DotMarket.eu.  He is now on track to sell over $1 million worth of sites on his new brokerage.

He shares his background that includes building, buying, and selling niche websites and also how he's gone about growing a successful startup brokerage.

Direct download: NichePursuits_Ep_Kevin_Jourdan.mp3
Category:buying and selling websites -- posted at: 12:21pm EDT

I'm excited to welcome Richard Patey onto the Niche Pursuits podcast!  

Richard is well-known in the buying and selling websites space and has a lot of experience. You can check out what he's been up to lately over at RichardPatey.com.

During today's episode we talk about Richard's background and how he got involved in building, buying, and selling websites. 

We also dive into some "meaty" subjects like the best places to buy online businesses, what are some red flags when doing due diligence on deals, how long you should hold an asset for, and much more.

Direct download: Niche_Pursuits_Richard_Patey.mp3
Category:buying and selling websites -- posted at: 4:37pm EDT

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