I think its time to close the chapter on my iPhone App case study.  I began this public project of building an iPhone app over 2 years ago.  In fact, it was the original, “niche pursuit” on my blog here. Essentially, I allowed everyone to vote on a small business idea that they would like [...]

Perhaps like you, I love public case studies.  I really enjoy being able to read about the success of others.  So that’s the purpose of my post here today; to find MORE case studies to follow! So in short, I am looking for YOUR response to this question: “What public case studies are you following [...]

One of the aspects that I love about running a business, is dreaming big and making income projections.  I’m sure that many of you are the same.  After all, what can be more exciting than getting struck with inspiration of a business idea and then quickly calculating potential profits and losses? Pulling up an excel [...]

I have recently been sharing the success of my public niche site project.  I’ve been able to start from idea inception to ranking #1 in Google in just a couple of short months. That site, bestsurvivalknifeguide.com, continues to rank #1 at the time of this writing for the keyword, “best survival knife”. I’ve written several [...]

What started out as an idea to share the niche site building process publicly, has turned into a very interesting case study.  As I recently shared, my niche site (bestsurvivalknifeguide.com) was created in mid-February and quickly rose to the number 1 spot in Google just a week or so ago. The site currently is bouncing [...]

I recently read the book, The War of Art by Steven Pressfield.  This book is a quick read (165 short pages), and so made it easy for me to accomplish my goal of reading one book per month.  This book was such a quick read in fact, that I have now finished 2 books for [...]

I am excited to officially announce that my public niche site has reached the #1 spot in Google!  My niche site began ranking at the top spot in Google sometime yesterday for my primary keyword of best survival knife. If you have been following along with my Niche Site Project, you know that I have [...]

If you were to create your own Google algorithm for ranking sites, you might come up with all kinds of reasons to rank sites higher than others.  So, imagine for a day that you had the power to create your own ranking formula…what sort of factors would you include? As I personally think of this [...]

Today I am giving nothing more and nothing less than a quick update on the progress of my public niche site project. I’ve received lots of stellar feedback from this project from all of you, and I appreciate that!  I think as a community we have all learned (including me) different tactics, asked important questions, [...]

A new podcast is here! I felt like it was time that I sat behind the microphone and shared a few of my thoughts on the current state of SEO and my public niche site project.  In fact, as I look back at when I published my last podcast, its been over 4 months!  What [...]