5 Things You Should Know Before Investing in Airbnb

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Investing in Airbnb is all the rage; there are over 660,000 listings across the country and that number is ever-growing. This popular way to earn passive income can be fun and relatively easy, but there are some key things to know before diving in. 1) Risk v. Benefit Risky Business While there are several benefits …

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Stock Picking and Day Trading: Is it Right For You?

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If you’ve ever flipped through CNBC or read the Wall Street Journal, you’ve probably seen investors commenting on how they pick stocks, short sell companies, or day trade successfully. “It can’t be that easy” you might be thinking to yourself. And for most, it isn’t.  Even for the more advanced investors, the risk and time …

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How to Make Money with Machine Learning

How to Make Money with Machine Learning

In today’s world, hundreds if not thousands of startups come to market every year to propose innovative solutions to society’s problems. Through the fog of new products and services, one trend shines bright and true: entrepreneurs want to help consumers make passive income any way they can. Whether it’s walking dogs, answering personalized surveys, or …

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How to Find an Easy Niche for Your Amazon Affiliate Website

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If you’ve been immersed in the world of niche websites (like me) or if you’re looking to get started – one thing that is constant is that we are always looking for new niche ideas or keywords to write articles around. This post does 2 awesome things! One – it teaches you some very specific techniques for finding niche ideas. Two – it introduces you to a (new) keyword research tool that is really awesome for beginners. Also, experienced keyword researchers will like some of the aspects of this tool as well.

I asked Nick (from Ferzy.com) to write this article – as he is an expert on how his keyword research tool works and how to properly use it. I was pleasantly surprised at the added value he provided in this post as far as teaching us exactly how to use Ferzy to find niche ideas for Amazon Affiliate websites. The rest of this post is written by Nick (except for the last section in italics, written by me).


This summer we are taking our extended family on a trip around the fiords and glaciers of Norway!

This is going to be a long, roundabout way of getting to the point I am trying to make, but there is no better way of getting from here to there – so bare with me!

So, in preparation for this summer’s trip I started looking for a set of walkie talkies, since we are going to be renting 2 cars. Low and behold, though, except for the regular commercial websites, Amazon, BestBuy, eBay, there was very little information to be had.

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10 Ways to Increase Amazon Affiliate Income

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If you have an existing Amazon Affiliate site – then right after you read this post you’ll be able implement these techniques and increase Amazon affiliate income on your site(s). If you don’t have an Amazon Affiliate site yet – don’t worry. These ideas will get you pumped to create your own site soon. There are two …

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How to Structure Amazon Affiliate Sites

How to Structure Amazon Affiliate Sites

Building out an Amazon site, or any site, is something a lot of people overthink.

Don’t get me wrong, you do need to plan it out and structure it correctly. Where most people make a mistake is to put so much importance on the buildout, that they fear doing it wrong, and ultimately never finish setting it up.

Before I get into the core of this article, I want to give you a piece of advice. Remember it, and remind yourself about it whenever you’re suffering from paralysis by analysis.

In the vast majority of cases, you can change your mind later. It's better to just make a decision and move forward with it.Click To Tweet

Aside from one or two fundamental decisions, you can change your site any time. So don’t sweat it too much.

Now, onto the core of the article, where I talk about setting up Amazon sites, and what you need to consider.

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Niche Sites and SEO as a Business – Want to do this full time?

I built my very first niche website in 2012 – around the exact same time that I started this blog. I’ve had a blast over the past couple of years learning all the ins and outs of how to build, rank and monetize niche websites. Even more fun though is the relationships I’ve built and the awesome community of niche site builders that I’ve gotten to know mostly as a result of putting myself out there by blogging about everything I do right here. One of the people I’ve gotten to know more recently is this cool cat named Curt. His story is very similar to mine and I thought readers of this site would enjoy reading about it – along with some very helpful tips. So… the following is an epic guest post by Curt. Enjoy!

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