EBAY NICHE STORES AND HOW TO MAKE MONEY THROUGH EBAY
eBay niche stores and how to make money through eBay by building a BANS website and becoming an eBay affiliate and building an online shop
Luckily, there is a piece of software which will create you your own website featuring eBay items and automatically keep it updated with items from whatever niche you
choose. This amazing package is called
Build a Niche Store
and it lets you do exactly that, with no web programming knowledge required.
Build a Niche Store
The Build a Niche Store software (known as BANS) makes creating your own eBay affiliate site child's play.
You simply download the software, which costs next to nothing, upload it to your web server and then go through the simple on-screen configuration process to personalise your site and select which of the many eBay categories you want to feature products from.
EBAY NICHE STORES
Once you select your category, BANS automatically builds the menu structure and pulls in the relevant product listings from eBay. Most importantly, it automatically inserts your eBay affiliate code into all the links that go from your BANS site to the eBay site itself.
My first BANS site (which you can see
here) took me just under an hour to install and configure and now, having done a few, I can usually have a new BANS site up and running in under half an hour.
The support and extra bits and pieces that you get with BANS are excellent. To create the look that you want for your niche store website, there are nine BANS templates included in the package. If you want more, there are plenty of free of very cheap BANS templates that you can download from the web. Or, with a bit of web design knowledge, you can create additional templates of your own.
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All BANS customers have access to an online forum where you can ask questions and share tips with other BANS users.
HOW TO MAKE MONEY THROUGH EBAY
And, here's the best bit - once you have bought Build a Niche Store for a one-off fee, you can use it to create as many different BANS sites as you want. There are no limits on the number of eBay affiliate sites you can build with this software (other than your own time and imagination).
To find out more or to download your own copy of BANS, visit the
Build a Niche Store website.
Making Money with BANS
If you simply buy a domain name, create a Build a Niche Store site, upload it, configure it for your chosen niche, and then get a few inbound links to your new site, then you'll be in with a good chance of making a little bit of money. But, as with all things, if you are serious about earning money from this, you'll need to make a bit more of an effort than that.
BECOMING AN EBAY AFFILIATE
The quickest way to get more visitors to your BANS site is to use pay-per-click advertising such as Google AdWords. As we saw in the earlier chapter on PPC advertising, one of the secrets of success with AdWords is to target narrow search terms. Because your eBay affiliate site is dealing with a niche sector, it should be pretty easy for you to get clicks from AdWords for a fairly low cost so this can be an effective marketing strategy for your BANS site.
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eBay niche stores and how to make money through eBay by building a BANS website and becoming an eBay affiliate and building an online shop