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How Shannon Houchin Made $2 Million From Pop-Up Peach Stands
Shannon Houchin’s journey into the peach-selling business wasn’t exactly predictable. Trained as a librarian and a journalist, she had spent years doing in-depth research and even worked in corporate financial…
AI Search Engines Are Using Your Content. Who’s Giving Credit?
This week on Niche Pursuits News, hosts Jared Bauman and Thomas Smith cover a packed lineup of topics, from a fascinating study on AI search engines to a major lawsuit against Google, and fresh insights on the…
How Mariah Magazine Built a $120k/Year Business With a Small Audience
Mariah Magazine is an SEO consultant and educator who has built her business around making SEO accessible to online business owners.
Her journey from a frustrated 22-year-old to a successful SEO expert…
Google Launches New AI Mode. What This Means for Search
On this week's episode of the Niche Pursuits News, Spencer and Jared cover Google's expansion of AI Overviews with Gemini 2.0, Google's roll out of AI Mode, people's dissatisfaction with Google, and DeepSeek’s…
How Rexan Wong Built an App in Just 3 Hours and Got 300k Users
In today’s fast-paced digital world, innovation often comes from unexpected places. One example is Rexon Wong, a high school student who has already made a name for himself as a tech entrepreneur.
In this…
Google’s March 2025 Core Update is a Win for Content Creators
Welcome back to another episode of the Niche Pursuits News Podcast!
This week Jared and Thomas talk about Google's March 2025 Core Update, news that AI search engines struggle with proper citation, and the…
How This 42-Year-Old Earns 6 Figures/Year From Her Sewing Blog, Etsy, and YouTube
Nikki Schreiner has always had a very busy life, homeschooling her family, moving around as an Army wife, and giving back to her community. And through it all she’s always had a hobby she loved: sewing.
One day she decided to start a…
10 Best AI Email Writer Tools to Speed Up Email Writing Tasks
Writing professional emails each week can become a bit of a chore. But, thankfully, with an AI email writer by your side, you can say goodbye to writer's block and hello to high-converting email copy.
Not only that, you can speed up the…
How This 62-Year-Old’s Food Blog Earns 6 Figures a Year from SEO
When Debra Clark experienced some serious personal setbacks, she took it all in stride. She channeled her energy and, on a whim, started a food blog for fun called Bowl Me Over
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Eventually, she realized she could make some…
I Get Over 1 Million Page Views Per Month from Pinterest
If you’ve been negatively affected by the HCU, or any algorithm update, or you’re seeing your Google Search traffic decline for whatever reason, you’ve come to the right podcast.
Tony Hill is a digital marketer with decades of…

