Episode 4 AdSense Flippers Podcast: How To Find And Fund Your True Passion

Posted on 05 January 2012. Tags: , ,

Episode 4 AdSense Flippers Podcast: How To Find And Fund Your True Passion

I wish more of my days were spent with my girlfriend island hopping around Cebu but, unfortunately, sometimes the work just HAS to be done.  In this episode, Joe and I discuss the realistic fact that building niche websites is not a passion for either of us.  You hear quite often from so many that you have to “find your passion” to be successful, but that’s simply not true.  Ok, it’s true for the 1% of business owners out there that are revolutionizing the world, but you can be plenty successful without being outrageously passionate about your “core” business.  If you’re like most of us, you’ll benefit from this podcast if you’re struggling with the fact that what you’re doing is not terribly exciting, but you’re looking for a way to earn money to do what you REALLY want to do.

 

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As mentioned in this episode, we have a winner for our Niche Site Giveaway! Congratulations to Jerry Babcock on the win! Let’s get in contact soon so that we can transfer you your new website! Want to check us out on itunes?  Here’s the link to the podcast on iTunes.  Thanks to everyone for the reviews and subscriptions!

Topics Discussed Include:

  • Happy New Year!
  • The Winner for the Niche Site Giveaway
  • The AdSense Flippers Intern Position – We’ve narrowed it down to the final applicants
  • Webinars coming soon
  • How the day to day internet marketing can kill your spirit
  • Framing what you do can change your perspective and keep you motivated
  • Output and connections can lead you to channels you’re passionate about
  • Ninja Marketing Tips: How to significantly increase the speed of your websites
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Questions or comments?  Do you have a mission statement? Have ideas for us? Don’t be shy!  Let us know what you thought in the comments below.

Justin Cooke

Justin Cooke is a partner at AdSenseFlippers.com, a host with the AdSense Flippers Podcast, and a partner at TryBPO.com, an outsourcing company based in Davao City, Philippines. You can connect with him directly on Twitter @AdSenseFlippers or find out more information about him here.


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  • http://www.propelbacklinks.com/ stevewyman

    Happy new year Guys. have an epic 2012.

    Lots of usefull snippets in your podcast as always.

    regards

    • http://www.adsenseflippers.com Joseph Magnotti

      Thanks Steve, we are looking forward to it!

  • Mike Thomas

    You guys mentioned that you might stop selling your niche sites. I was wondering what would drive that decision?

    • http://www.adsenseflippers.com Joseph Magnotti

      I think you might have misheard us. We have no intention of stopping the sale of niche sites. In fact we intend to ramp it up!

  • Mike Thomas

    What was the plugin that increased your site speed?

    • http://www.adsenseflippers.com Joseph Magnotti

      Hyper Cache
      DB Cache Reloaded Fix

      You need both for it to work effectively. Saw a 15-20% increase across the board.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=580729341 Zach Crawford

    Like the podcast and interview with Trent. Looks like you guys will be crushing it in 2012 ; )

    • http://www.adsenseflippers.com Joseph Magnotti

      Thanks Zach! More to come soon!

  • Mac-Bug

    I posted a review for the competition but in my iTunes (UK) there are only 3 for December. Did you include these in the hat or did they not show up in the US iTunes store (as US reviews are not showing here on the UK store)

    • Anonymous

      Hey there!

      We had quite a few reviews in December and all of the reviews were included in the drawing. We did pick a winner and announced it in the podcast and in our latest income report!

  • http://www.mikefrommaine.com/ Mike Thomas

    I was wondering if you guys use the same theme for every site, or if you change it up?

    • http://www.adsenseflippers.com Joseph Magnotti

      Using CTR Theme you can customize the look and feel of each site so they don’t all look the sam e(i.e. different headers and colors). In general though we use either CTR Theme or ProSense.

      • http://www.mikefrommaine.com/ Mike Thomas

        Thanks, Joe.

        I also wanted to mention that I picked up the ManageWP that you suggested and it’s AWESOME. It saves me so much time logging in since I’m managing about 50 websites right now. It’s a true time saver and worth the price tag.

        I also checked out Long Tail Pro, and it looks really useful for finding niches. However I’m a Mac user and I hate using parallels. I’m considering getting a PC just to run Long Tail Pro on. Of course outsourcing the process would be much better.

        I think one of the biggest roadblocks for Internet marketers trying to create niche sites is finding the niches to enter. This stops a lot of people cold in their tracks. A niche finding service is something that I think a lot of people would pay for.

        Also, I’d be interested in how you are using the Adsense API to pull adsense statistics. Is this a plugin? Did you have it especially developed? Is it for sale?

        Keep up the good work, as you have inspired me to continue growing my empire.

        • http://www.adsenseflippers.com Joseph Magnotti

          Thanks Mike glad you liked ManageWP!

          Long Tail Pro should run on a Mac as it uses the adobe Air platform. I’m not 100% sure though a I am a PC only guy.

          • http://www.mikefrommaine.com/ Mike Thomas

            I think it would be worth getting a discount code for Long Tail Pro again and sending it out to your list. It’s really a great tool.

          • Anonymous

            Yes…LTP is a damn good tool. We had quite a few signups and very few returns which tells me it worked out quite well for most people. It’s not terribly robust, but it gets the job done and gets us the niches we need…that’s all it has to do, right? Hehe

        • Chris Miller

          Hey Mike – LTP works on a Mac. It’s Adobe Air based. Mac is all we use and LTP works fine! Good luck!

  • Youssef

    Joseph, What was the speed of your sites again? and could you please provide the links to the cache plugins will be great? Thank you

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  • adrien

    Hi Joe and Justin,

    This is to respond to your latest newsletter.

    It would be great if you guys could create an authority site and record the whole process like what Pat did in his Niche Site Dual. Such kind of case study really helps people a lot. It is not only informative but most importantly, encouraging! So if you guys can create your own version of niche site dual, that will be great! Oh, you may also include the part of SELLING the site on Flippa. I believe no one has written that before with a live example.

    Also, I would love to read a post about rank tracker products review. You know we have Market Samurai Rank Tracker, Scroogle, SEOBook.com Firefox plugin rank tracker, etc. But they NEVER show the exact same result! It would be great if you can recommend some rank tracking tools for us, both paid and unpaid ones.

    Another topic could be the future of internet marketing. Do you think it is bright or gloomy? It is getting easier and easier to become an internet marketer. Will this industry become more and more competitive? How about the demand side of it?

    Lastly, I think a link building case study would be very interesting. In fact, electron plumber, which is a blog that I love to read, conducts a great link building experiment, comparing Unique Article Wizard, Build My Rank and other paid services. Throughout the process, not only do readers learn a lot, but also the writer! Perhaps you can earn a little bit more affiliate, too!

    This is all I can think of regarding your questions! Thanks for asking our comments and l look forward to your next post!

    • http://www.adsenseflippers.com Joseph Magnotti

      Hey Adrien!

      We have done some authority site creation without much success. For the investment we made, we might as well created more niche site. We might look at this again in the future however.

      For rankings, we feel your pain and generally use Scroogle as an accurate baseline for ranking, though Market Samurai is great for automated rankings.

      I think the future of IM is bright and I am not usually such an optimist. Why? Search will continue to grow, meaning long tail searches will increase making it easier to find niches that are not overly competitive. The rules will change and we all will have to adapt our processes, but this is a good thing.

      As for link building, we are doing some increased testing right now and will get back to with some results.

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  • Mark Thompson

    Great podcast as ever…. what was the alternative to Xobni you used? I looked at Reportive but that seems to be a Reporting tool for large companies.

    • http://www.adsenseflippers.com Joseph Magnotti

      You have the spelling incorrect. It Rapportive.

      https://rapportive.com/

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  • Clint Wilde

    Thanks for sharing. There are a lot of ‘gurus’ out there who tell you to do your passion but you actually can if not careful waste a lot of time and not make a cent. That’s what happened to me on a niche website of which I was very passionate about. Like some, I read the google competition wrong on google adwords tool and picked a keyword with no advertisers, yet it had little competition. Lessons learned! Now I know how it works though!

    Keep up the podcasts. I like how you giuys are open and honest about your mistakes. Your on of my new favorites! Keep up the great work!

    • Anonymous

      Thanks, Clint!

      You’re DEFINITELY not the first to make the mistake, thinking that “low competition” on the Google Keywords Tool is referring to SEO competition…it’s not…it’s referring to the number of advertisers for that keyword, of course! :-)

      We definitely think that if your passion is around a niche or keywords that can make you money…go for it! But they have to have a chance at profitability FIRST. I’m a big fan of Android phones…but I wouldn’t follow my “passion” there with our niche sites as I don’t think it would be easily monetized via AdSense and isn’t in-line with our business goals.


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