Pat Flynn is an American 🏷️#entrepreneur, 🏷️#blogger, and 🏷️#podcaster best known for his blog and podcast 📝Smart Passive Income, where he conducts income experiments and shares the results in public.
The Smart Passive Income podcast has consistently ranked in the top 10 of Apple Podcasts' Business category. Flynn serves on the board of the non-profit Pencils of Promise and has advised tech startups including LeadPages and ConvertKit. Forbes recognized him as one of 25 Marketing Influencers to watch in 2017. His "Niche Site Duel" series — a public experiment ranking a niche site to demonstrate SEO and passive-income mechanics — became a foundational on-ramp for an entire generation of early SEO operators.
Pat was introduced to me in 2012 by 📝Roderick Russell, who was in the same mastermind as Pat, 📝John Lee Dumas, and 📝Jamie Tardy. Roderick thought I'd love Pat's "Niche Site Duel" — and he was right. It tipped me into coding niche sites; my first was stonermovies.net, which hit Google's front page in three days and sent me down a long SEO and passive-income rabbit hole. Pat has been a substantive and lasting influence ever since.