I am loving Build A Niche Store software because it saves me so much time. Plus online stores make money, when created correctly.

I have been looking around the web at other BANS site and from what I am seeing most BANS marketers are just putting up the generic script and expecting their online stores to make money for them. Sorry…

… using the BANS script as is isn’t a good plan at all. Using the generic script just makes you like so many others and unless you have a very unique niche that no one is marketing to you are going to remain broke and frustrated.

On the other hand taking a bit of time to make your BANS site unique with a nice header graphic and some content for your best categories will help to keep your visitors long enough to see what you have to offer.

Build A Niche Store Doesn’t End At Building

I treat my BANS sites like any other site I own. I continue to add content periodically. Some sites I return every week or so to add more content but on my blogs I don’t usually go more than 3 days without adding content. Your BANS sites don’t need updating that frequently but the more you make it unique and content based the better you will do.

I am sure we all know by now that content is king/queen and without it the search engines will most likely ignore your site.

NOTE: Give the search engines a reason to return and index your BANS site deeper and deeper.

Go to TeraPeak.com and learn what categories and products sell the best on eBay. Then focus on those categories and products with more content in the form of text, pictures and even videos.

Example: I just spent $97 on a product I was going to forget about but then I watched a couple of videos on YouTube and was sold. The text didn’t sell me, the pictures didn’t sell me but the video did, so use them to your advantage.

Online Stores Make Money So Don’t Stop Building…

… just do it correctly.

I spend a lot of money on my hobbies so I thought hobby BANS sites would be best for me to start and for me I was correct. I also know that my friends spend money on the same hobbies so why not make money online promoting things I love.

I have a limited number of hobbies so it didn’t take me long to build those BANS sites now I am using TeraPeak.com to find other niches that I know about, remembering to return to my other BANS sites to add more content.

So online stores make money - when you do your research and spend time making them unique.

I love build a niche store - BANS, but I am sure I have already said that a few times.

The BANS affiliate program was managed through Commission Junction and I was also very happy. Why was I so happy, well because it worked and I was making money online with a few hobby BANS sites.

Then came the email, part way through March, telling me eBay Affiliate Partner program was taking over. All I could think about was what could go wrong with this. You know what THEY say…

‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’

The ability to earn commission selling stuff on eBay that isn’t even my stuff rocks and was just too good to pass up. Definitely a great way to make money online using a method that’s about as easy as it gets.

Well part way through March I received a couple of emails letting me know that the I had from April 1st to May 1st go update my BANS sites. I was hoping it would be a smooth transition but it seldom is.

I was pretty excited but then I saw a few posts about how it wasn’t working the way it should and how modifying php files in the previous updates could cause problems. The code that was used to update special features would have to be updated separately.

I waited for two weeks hoping that it would be fixed and made trouble free. This morning I got a reminder notice from the eBay affiliate partner program. I have just two weeks left to make the updates and after that I would be getting paid.

I decided today was the day to go through the updates. I only have four sites at this point. I didn’t want to create more sites that I may just have to redo so I held off creating any new BANS sites.

I took the BANS site I cared about the least and started with that one. It’s a site that isn’t one of my hobbies but it is one that I was showing a friend because he and his girlfriend are fanatical about their hobby, like I am about my hobbies.

First I did a site backup.

It took me about a minute maybe two to upload the new files and overwrite the old ones.

I then ran the update file and then sat there with my fingers crossed and one eye closed whispering ‘Please work’.

A message popped up on the screen saying the update was successful and that I should delete the update.php file.

My other three sites were all completed and I started writing this new post in less than a half hour.

Now I will sit back over the next couple of days and see how it works.

I am curious about the reporting capabilitites as Commission Junction didn’t seem to make it easy to find detailed info about the clicks I was getting.

So far I am happy with the updates and have not seen any errors or problems.

If you have been hesitating about build a niche store then it’s time for you to take that leap of faith and start earning some commissions.

Image from WikipediaWell it’s April 1st and this is no April Fools joke. Today I received my invitation to join the eBay affiliate program through eBay now instead of Commission Junction.

The sign-up for the eBay affiliate program was a breeze. I received my verification email immediately and was watching the introduction videos in less than 10 minutes from the time I started the process.

Today is therefore dedicated to the transition of my build a niche store - BANS sites from Commission Junction to eBay’s affiliate program. I would be lying if I didn’t say I was just a little nervous.

I have watched the videos, very basic and easy listening. The videos also point out a few things that will make your  Build A Niche Store even better.

This is a very exciting time and I am most curious to see how it turns out.

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How cool is that? Selling products on eBay, the worlds largest online auction, without even owning the products. Well that’s what I do for a living and it’s easy.

I am sure that you already knew eBay was big but did you know eBay is selling about 60 MILLION products at any given time and you can earn from these products as an eBay affiliate just like me.

There is a TURN-KEY, super simple, mind-blowingly EASY way to tap into that affiliate program and earn hundreds or thousands per month, every month?

I had all but given up selling on eBay and frankly, I didn’t have a CLUE about how easy it could really be until I ran across this…

With build a niche stores, you can build UNLIMITED stores that can earn you UNLIMITED income on both new sign-ups to Ebay, and on ALL purchases made within 7 days of a person visiting any one of your stores.

For example, if you live in the United States, there are over 28,000 Ebay categories, and thus over 28,000 stores you can build.

Building a store is super simple with Build a Niche Store (BANS) but we’ll get into that in a moment.

With BANS, you choose your category, or target niche, and then BANS will instantly create for you a professional, fully functional, search engine friendly website. This site will contain all of the products listed for sale on eBay relevant to your chosen market.

I started with my hobbies. Those things I love to do and then from that I moved on to things I don’t even care about that make me money from eBay. There are great tutorial videos that made anything I wasn’t clear on very clear.

Because I started with my hobbies it was easy to start building the traffic my site gets. As your targeted traffic increases, your site will generate more and more money for you in THREE different ways…

1. Affiliate Commissions For Ebay Purchases

If your customers buy ANYTHING (even items NOT in your store) from eBay within 7 days of visiting your store, you earn between 20% and 75% of the revenue that eBay makes from the sale.

2. Affiliate Commissions For New Active eBay Members

If a new referral of yours registers as an eBay member and either makes a bid or purchases an item within 30 days, you earn a new member bonus of between $25 and $35.

3. Supplementary Advertisements

Not everyone who visits your site will purchase Ebay items, but you can still make money from them with Supplementary Advertisements such as Google AdSense, Commission Junction, LinkShare and ClickBank.

And building the BANS sites couldn’t be easier.

Simply…

• Choose your country…
• Choose your niche…
• Customize your site…
• Market your site…
• And then repeat the process by building new stores to target additional niches.

Simple!

When I first looked at BANS I immediately figured it was going to cost more than my budget would allow but I was way off. It should cost a fortune but it doesn’t.

The price for UNLIMITED stores of your choosing is less than what it would cost to hire a rookie website builder to build a one page website for you! I know because I am a website designer and even for my friends sites I charged them more than the cost of Build a Niche Store.

You may not know me but I have to say “This is truly amazing“.

Be sure and check out the many examples of stores that ordinary people have created using BANS… they’re some of the most professional looking sites I’ve seen in some time.

What if you only built a dozen stores, and each one only made a hundred or so dollars a week.

What would you do with an additional $60K+ per year???

I personally have been building one BANS site a week and the process takes me about 5 minutes and I have a site that sells products I would never have bothered trying to get and sell. I then spend time each month adding a little content to the sites and making a few product pages for products that are best sellers.

Example: On my fly fishing New Brunswick BANS page I added product categories for the the best selling fly rods, reels and even fish finders making for a very unique store that was being indexed for long tail keywords in just days.

When you say “eBay” and “money” in the same sentence most people will automatically think of becoming an eBay seller. You place product listings in the eBay marketplace, buyers bid, you pay your eBay seller fees and what you have left is your profit margin.

There is, however, another way to build a business which still revolves around eBay but which doesn’t involve you selling a single thing in the eBay marketplace.

This “other way” opportunity is based on the eBay affiliate program and a relatively new tool which makes entry into this opportunity not only possible but also quite easy. This tool is called “Build A Niche Store“.

Now if you don’t know – an affiliate program enables you as an individual internet entrepreneur to promote the products of a company in exchange for a commission on all sales that you refer.

You are basically operating as an internet middleman and connecting internet browsers to particular products and companies through you own network of websites and marketing methods.

If we return to the eBay affiliate program, eBay actually invites you to promote all of the product listings in the eBay marketplace and in exchange for your efforts will pay you up to 75% of the revenue they make from each sale you refer plus up to $35 for each new active eBay member you refer.

You can have a read about the eBay.com affiliate program here

What this means is that you can earn up to three quarters of eBay’s revenue simply for connecting people to the products listed in the eBay marketplace.

Not only do you get to partner with the best branded marketplace in the world, you also get access to and control over ALL of the products listed in this marketplace. The eBay product inventory becomes YOUR product inventory and yet you do NOT have to stock items, deal with customers, organize shipping or process refunds.

You are no longer limited to selling only those products which you can buy and sell for a profit margin. You can choose ANY niche market and promote those eBay products relevant to your chosen niche outside of the eBay marketplace, funnelling targeted traffic through to eBay and into your own affiliate commissions.

Golf clubs, sewing kits, laptops, dog collars, diamond rings, Florida real estate…

If you know eBay you know how BIG it is – there are NO limits.

At this point you might be thinking - well this sounds interesting but in reality is there any money in it? Well, here’s the shocker – eBay’s top affiliates make over 1 million dollars a month. That’s right – 8 figures a year without stocking, selling or shipping a single thing!

Now eBay does provide some basic free tools to help you succeed as an eBay affiliate and build an affiliate business BUT it has been the development of a tool outside of eBay that has really opened this up as a legitimate business opportunity.

The tool, as I mentioned earlier, is called “Build A Niche Store” and what it enables you to do is build eBay affiliate websites targeted to any eBay niche you want. These act as the medium through which you funnel targeted visitors through to eBay.

Here are a few examples, targeting Race Cars, Golf Equipment and Fly Fishing Gear:

Race Car eBay Affiliate Website

Golf eBay Affiliate Website

Fly Fishing Supplies

yes, even The Art of Beading BANS site

As you can see, these are professional looking websites that contain all of those eBay products related to their target niche inside a search enabled store format, each of which automatically contains your eBay affiliate id.

These stores then automatically update as new products are listed for sale and old listing expire from the eBay marketplace and the software has built in development features which enable you to create new store pages, add content to these pages, create content pages, modify your template etc etc.

Basically, in the space of about 10 minutes (once you are familiar with how the software works) you can create a fully functional eBay affiliate website targeted to the niche market of your choice.

Your store content is all search engine friendly which will provide the foundation for attracting targeted traffic from the search engines and you can then use the development features to attract more targeted visitors which will in turn mean more eBay affiliate commissions.

It really is a brilliant concept and I’ve been hearing great things about the guys behind the project and the member forum which you get lifetime access to when you purchase the product.

Build A Niche Store comes with a step by step user manual which will walk even the most technically inexperienced through setting up their eBay affiliate website, 9 professional template layouts which can be customized (from inside your admin panel) to match your target niche, lifetime member forum access, comprehensive product support and possibly most importantly – an UNLIMITED domain license which means you can build as many of these niche websites as
you want for the small one time fee.

Think about how many niches eBay caters to!

How big could your eBay affiliate business be?!

This product gets my full recommendation – check it out today…

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