Not only did Dan tell me some of the industries they have their hands in, but the exact products they manufacture and sell. Dan and his partner Ian are no longer the mystery they used to be, they are THE REAL DEAL. They don’t talk lifestyle theory and try to sell you some product, they live the life, and use the techniques and strategies they talk about. They walk their talk. In fact they JUST recently put up a product for the first time for sale on The Lifestyle Business Podcast, the first 3 seasons of the podcast(AL)!

I’ve listened to podcasts where there’s 30-45 minutes of fluff, and maybe 10 minutes of an actually real tip, but not with these guys, these guys aren’t trying to shove product down your throats, they are all content and loads of fun. If you haven’t listened to their podcast yet you’re leaving money on the table. Go there now, listen to their podcast and leave a comment and tell them Larry @ The Niche Think Tank sent you, you’ll be glad you did.

Here’s some show notes:

Outsource to the Philippines

The Tropical MBA

The Lifestyle Business Podcast

Dan’s Beginning (@TropicalMBA)

Courier Flights for Cheap Travel

Interrogated in Vietnam

Prototypical Tim Ferris Realization

Ian is The Niche Machine (@AnythingIan)

Relationships are Key

Relationships with people doing what you want to do, will give you opportunities.

Srini @BlogCastFM

To Twitter or Not to Twitter

BLEEP, BLEEP, BLEEP

Zero-Sum Market

The Origin of Balla!

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BTW, there’s a bit of bleep-bleep in the podcast this time. Forewarned.

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Steve and his wife make a nice 6 figure income with this store, and they started it so Steve’s wife could stay at home and raise their children. Steve’s wife had said, “When I get pregnant, I’m quitting my job”. With that in mind they had to find a way of replacing her 6 figure income in the Silicon Valley.

They make a nice tidy income from their store www.bumblebeelinens.com, which specializes in Wedding Handkerchiefs and other linens for weddings and special holidays. How does he make a 6 figure income with such a tiny specialized niche? I’ll let him tell you.

Podcast is at the bottom after the show notes.

Show Notes:

• 4Hour Work Week
• bumblebeelinens.com
• Stalking Your Customers
• John Chow
• Over Lapping Vendors
• www.worldwidebrands.com
• www.globalsources.com
• www.cantonfair.org.cn
• Audible for audiobooks for your iPod – incase you have ADD/ADHD
• www.alibaba.com
• Killing Your Hobby
• The Google Dance – The Evil Empire
• Confusing Google
• Snow Blowers in the Summer
• Keep It Simple
• How problems can sometimes create more business
• eCommerce carts, Zen Cart, OSCMax, Magento
• Products Steve Loves
• Follow Steve at Twitter @mywifequit

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This was my first knowledge of David Crandall, and I was very impressed with the content of the podcast. It was something that spoke to me and inspired me to do this podcast I have since started. David also posted on his blog about how he has saved companies several millions of dollars, and in the same post offered free coaching for a few select people who could meet a certain criteria.

I had spoken to David on Skype a few days before about the fear of doing a podcast, and fear of moving forward in uncharted territory, in my blogging. Knowing he had only done a few podcasts and having inspired me at the same time, I contacted him to talk about over coming that fear, not knowing this one teleclass would lead to much bigger things for me.

After talking to him on Skype and getting his explanation of Twitter, I finally understood how to use twitter, and started to follow David on Twitter as well. I saw a tweet he did about free coaching and I immediately contacted him back and told him to save a spot for me, and to tell me where I could learn more about this coaching. He directed me to his post about saving companies several millions of dollars, which is where I found out what he was looking for and that I fit the criteria.

In the month and a half that David has been coaching me, I’ve seen a huge difference in my attitude towards success and failure, my productivity has gone way up, and the confidence in what I am doing and trying to do have been major bonuses for me, all thanks to David.

The rest as they say is history, and history in the making.

Show Notes:

• Srinivas Rao at BlogcastFM.com
• Gorillas in the Niche
• How to grow your blog through interviews – Teleclass
• Coaching Helps Productivity through accountability
• Seeing inside The Matrix
• Business Intelligence, Looking for patterns of Success and Failure
• BIBA (Business Intelligence Bad Ass)
• Joel Runyon
• Unicorns…Seriously?
• My Wife, My Girlfriend…Huh?(did you catch that one?)
• My Coach is a Legend
• Podcast Past the Unicorn

Unicorns are more than just 1's and 0's

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(Podcast is at the bottom)

I had the pleasure of interviewing Pat Flynn for my first podcast interview, and get the details of the story of how he got started in Niche Marketing. I because aware of Pat when I stumble onto his blog on August 27th, 2009. It was a post about parents think making money online is ridiculous, and I could totally relate to this as my parents are the same way. Because I could relate, I started following Pat and watched him and his blog grow from there on out.

His story starts out with how his market chose him, instead of him choosing his market. A chance happening with luck and  fate and how he now makes $20K a month from his online ventures. This story is a reminder that sometimes we don’t get to choose our niches, they choose us. This is a good thing for some of us that this happens, because if it were left to our own choices, we might not be succeeding in the niche of our choosing.

Today, Pat is involved in several different venture that bring in income. From his eBook about the LEED Exam, to iPhone Apps, to smaller niche sites that are now making a passive income to augment his monthly income stream. You can follow Pat’s progress and watch his monthly income reports at his blog SmartPassiveIncome.Com, for a better idea of how he does this.

Mentions:

• Making Money Online is Ridiculous
• Having the drive to succeed in online business
• Top Secret WordPress Plugin
• Being able to be a stay at home parent
• Coffee Shop offices and Quality of Problems
• The current economy and the Great Depression
• iPone apps from www.lolerapps.com
• Joel Comm @ Joel Comm(website),  Joel on Twitter: @joelcomm
• Adam Baker @ ManvsDebt.Com(Website) Adam on Twitter: @manvsdebt
• Naomi Dunford @ IttyBiz.Com(website), Naomi on Twitter: @NaomiDunford
• Tyrone Shum @ TyroneShum.Com(website), Tyrone on Twitter: @tyroneshum
• Niche Duel Hub at SmartPassiveIncome.Com
• Flippa for Niche Sites and Keyword Research and targeted Niche Traffic
• My Product on Niche Websites and Niche Marketing
• Being an A-Lister
• David Crandall @ Heroic Destiny(website), David on Twitter @davidcrandall
• Darren Rowse
• http://www.greenexamacademy.com
• Advice to New Bloggers with little to no money, to boost financial worth
• e-How, Info Barrel

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I basically quit the day job August 1st, 2010. You could say I was forced to or I did it willingly. I think more willingly than anything. I do, or did, I.T. consulting for my day job, and this economy has taken my company down the tubes, so to say. In the past two years my income from the day job has gone from 65K+ per year in 2008, to 28K+ in 2009 and down to about 9K for 2010. Yes that’s right, only $9,000 from my day job this year.

That coupled with a wife, a child and one on the way, I was in a tight bind to make money to live and support my family on. So I had to do something. My longest standing client of 10 years, has failed to pay their past due amount for the past 10 months. since the first of the year, and that amounts to about $6,700, which I could really use. After numerous attempts to collect and numerous lies as to when the checks were coming I decided to file a small claims against them. They were not happy. Well guess what, neither am I to have to go this route to get the money they owe me.

So they were my biggest, and longest standing client, and a large chunk of income for me, but obviously they haven’t been paying so theoretically I committed to doing online work since the first of the year, but I think now officially since August 1st, 2010. I’ll break it down a little and then my next two posts will be income reports.

I started Yaro Staraks Blog Mastermind program on 08/27/2009, and haven’t looked back since. In starting in that blogging program I’ve met some really awesome people, and some of them have helped me out so much I don’t know where or how to pay them back. Because of the help I have received, I’ve taken one site(my main dating site) that was making almost $100 a month in Adsense revenue, and almost $200 a month in subscription payments, to making almost $400 a month in Adsense revenue and over $1000 a month in recurring subscription payments, and it keeps growing.

In my next post, which will be my two late income reports, I will show you how my income has started taking a sharper upward turn. As Srini says from http://blogcastfm.com it’s doing the hockey stick thing, a sharp upturn increase. It’s also abit sudden and I think finally I am getting some of the clutter cleared off my plate, to focus on the 20% that’s making up 80% of my income online.

I’ve been very bad with this blog, and i had high hopes for it too. I wanted to share my learning and insights to online internet marketing, but I have been terrible at posting. I also have to say I am a bit scared, as I am not an A-List Blogger, and sometimes feel I don’t know what to talk about. I mean these other guys pick little things up and turn then into these awesome blog posts, and I am just afraid that I would be spewing gibberish or regurgitating content said elsewhere.

The fact is, I have been making a decent chuck of change lately and it’s doing nothing but growing. I’ve refined my technique for many of my sites and blogs, and I’ve also refined my technique for my niche sites. I’ve even flipped a website finally. Didn’t make alot of money on it, but I did learn alot and will be using what I learned to sell another one soon. Hopefully for alot more money.

My intention is to be fully location independent by two years from this date, and at least traveling the destinations I want to see here in the USA, if not Europe and Asia by that time. Like one of the success stories from the 4 hour work week, Kids as Reason TO travel. Like I said previously in this post, I have a 2 year old toddler and my second daughter was born three weeks ago today. So I have a little time to learn and grow some more. Hopefully along the lines of the 4 hour work week, and location independence.

I just wanted to give a shout out to some people who have made a huge impact in my life recently, mostly because of the positive notes in their voices, their podcasts and blog posts. They’ve been instrumental in me growing my blogs and niche wesbites to the point of making over $2000 a month in income. I know that’s not much, but it’s WAY more than I was making when the economy took a dump!

http://blogcastfm.com – Srini and Sid

http://www.heroicdestiny.com – David Crandall

http://www.lifestylebusinesspodcast.com – Dan and Ian

http://www.seanogle.com – Location 180 with Sean Ogle

http://www.smartpassiveincome.com – Pat Flynn

http://www.thrillingheroics.com – Cody McKibben

http://entrepreneurs-journey.com – Yaro Starak

http://podcastanswerman.com – Cliff Ravenscraft

http://www.tyroneshum.com – Tyrone Shum

http://www.viperchill.com – Glen Allsop

Thanks folks for tirelessly and freely giving of yourselves and helping me. (There’s many I probably didn’t list, but will as I remember all of them)

I said I wasn’t going to work anymore past 7-8 pm at night, but sometimes I get all mushy and I HAVE to write. I guess that’s part of being transparent in this whole blogosphere. Again, I’ll say I have some fear going forward from here on out because THIS IS my primary source of income now, the Internet.

In case some of you want to see one of my other blogs, my photography one, go here: http://www.darkmansdarkroom.com, it’s my blog where I talk about Old Hollywood Glamour Photography and other things like fetish, artistic nudes and Pinup. Beware there are nice ta-ta’s.

That blog makes a nice chunk of change from amazon affiliate sales and the affiliate sales of photography ebooks.

Ok, off to bed and see you tomorrow.

Larry…

Oh yeah…

My 2nd Daughter and I, August 22nd, 2010

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