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Guide to Making Money with Micro-Niche Sites – An Infographic

My very first comprehensive infographic. This is a quick start guide to making money with micro-niche sites online. I’ll go into detail with each step very soon. In the meantime, I hope you like it!

Products mentioned in the Infographic (in order):

- Google Keyword Tool – Keyword Research

- Market Samurai – Keyword Research

- WordPress.org – Free Content Management Service

- Bluehost – Web Hosting Service (affiliate)

- Google AdSense – Ad Publishing Service used for Site Monetization

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Monthly Income Report – June through August 2012

Hey what’s good everyone. Before I explain how to create passive income online, I thought I would post my first 3 income statements to SHOW you what you potentially can create for yourself.

Every month I will post monthly revenues from the online business I am creating. Bear in mind, I am completely new to trying to make a livable income online so the growth might be very inconsistent in the beginning.

Here are the reasons why I post these income statements.

Reason #1

So I can show you that it’s very possible to make money online without a technical background or programming skills

Reason #2

It will help keep myself accountable to continue growing the online business.

Reason #3

To be as transparent as possible.

With that said, let’s go into the income reports…

The Basics to How I Generate Passive Income Online

After doing tons of research on the web for my day job, I discovered something called “Niche Sites” and “Micro-Niche Sites”. A niche site is a website that focuses on a very specific topic or audience. A micro niche site is a website that focuses on an even narrower niche selection.

To give you a better example of what a niche is vs. its micro niche, let’s take a look at the niche “Crossfit”.

Three micro niches off of Crossfit would be:

1) Crossfitting without an Affiliate Gym Membership
2) Crossfit for Runners
3) Crossfit While Pregnant

You get the idea. I’ll dive into the differences more and which type of site is best for you in a future post.

In my research I found that building a website around the right micro niche, creating valuable content, pulling traffic, performing some search engine optimization, and having a monetization strategy, you can make some decent side income.

Pulling traffic? Search Engine Optimization? Monetization Strategy? Whaaaaaaaaaaa? Don’t worry, I’ll explain this in Layman’s terms in a future post.

On June 1^st I decided to join the movement to begin creating niche and micro niche sites. So I brought this blog and another abandoned project HellaEMO.com back from the dead.

Here I was blogging on TZC to keep my job skills sharp and attempting to make HellaEMO.com popular on Tumblr just for shits and giggles. All the while, thousands of people out there were doing exactly what I was doing but simply KILLING IT.

So after 2 months of straight due diligence which included days of reading and 100s of podcast shows, I TOOK ACTION.

Without further ado, here’s what you’re all looking for…

Unmasking The Zen Capitalist – A Real Man with Real Wisdom from Real Experiences

What’s up everyone and welcome to the unmasking of The Zen Capitalist.

Most of you already know who I am since 75% of you are Facebook friends. It’s okay because we have to start somewhere right?

Although it’s fun blogging behind a pen name, I wanted to change things up so I can be fully accountable to the words that I write.

Anyone can hide behind a fake name and make up how awesome their life is. This shady practice happens all too frequently. It’s called Fake It Til You Make It.

So I have followed suit after Pat Flynn from the SmartPassiveIncome.com and decided to go fully transparent with my online shenanigans.

What Do I Have to Lose?

As it turns out, absolutely nothing.

The Zen Capitalist Story

If you read my about me page (a page I will be taking down very soon to redo) or know me in real life, you know that I went into massive debt due to poor lifestyle decisions. The more money I made, the more I spent. After digging a pretty hefty ditch and having debt up to my neck, I finally realized something had to give — my reckless lifestyle.

So like that, I changed it and I never looked back ever since.

Now Here’s What You Didn’t Know

What I did not tell people when I first launched this site 3 years ago was the fact that I am partially at fault for the most recent financial crisis. I worked for Washington Mutual. Although I wasn’t the guy that pushed the flashing red button that automatically approved loans for people that couldn’t afford them, I am guilty by association.

When Chase took over, I was one of the lucky few in California to continue my career with the new bank. Problem was, it required me to move to a corporate building in San Antonio, Texas. Nothing against Texas, but no thanks. Like Tupac, I have that California Love.

Zen Capitalist is Back to Make Personal Finance Fun Again

Hey everyone, it is good to be back!

I understand I have been gone for a while and I’m going to have to woo you all over again with my magical powers. But you know what, it’s okay because I’m definitely up to the task.

Here’s What To Expect From This Site

This time around I have boatloads of new content you are all going to LOVE!

Case in point, the video at the top. I actually created this video 2 years ago in my first attempt to come out of blogging retirement.

Obviously, I stayed retired and the video never went up. Hence, the comment “6 months later” at 31 seconds into the film. It should actually say “2 1/2 years later” with a bunch of updated information after.

Don’t get me wrong, I tried to edit the video before I posted it here, but to no avail, animoto.com said “You must pay a toll before you cross this bridge.” They wanted me to upgrade my account and charge $5 to edit a video I created 2 years ago.

Umm, no thanks Animoto (although, I still love what you do)

The Zen Capitalist is Back! It’s on like Donkey Kong! <– Click to Tweet this Quote

You all know that I do things a little different here at thezencapitalist.com. Okay fine, I do things a lot differently than other blogs.

I take ordinary & boring information like personal finance and make it fun & easy to consume via an infusion of my own personality. Yea buddy.

It’s kind of a nonconformist thing that we have going on. Shoot, if my high school English teacher saw the colloquialism used in this blog, he’d poop bricks. So yes, you’re still going to have all of that jazz, plus more!

Here’s what we have in store for you:

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Your Boy Friend’s Old Clothes Can’t Get Any Hotter!

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Or can they? (sorry guys, this post is for the ladies)

There is no denying that buying used and wearing vintage clothing is more economical than buying new. You know what’s even more frugal than that? How about raiding your boyfriend’s, brother’s, father’s, or grandpa’s closet for old clothing. You know the type. The articles of clothing that hang in the back that are usually full of moth holes or covered with a few layers of dust. If they keep their clothes in drawers, it’s the clothing that make their way to the bottom of the compartment after months of laundry.

I would rather be dead than be caught wearing my father’s ex-favorite sweater vest

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