Last week I wrote an article talking about my first steps to become an internet entrepreneur. This week I wanted to give you a little update on my sites and how they are doing. Right now I have:
www.supplementshoponline.com/
www.theiphoneshoppe.com/
www.porschecarsale.com/
www.onlinemazdacarparts.com/
www.bargaingolfstore.com/
When I started out and was doing my planning most people recommended eBay affiliate sites because of the ease of setup and revenue earned. The first site I built (www.supplementshoponline.com) is a site powered by build a niche site or normally called bans. When I first started out I wanted to build a few sites with build a niche store. The only thing I did not like about the software was the cookie cutter style of the sites. I saw examples of people who did a lot of customizing and when you looked at the site it was easy to spot it was built with bans. I decided to have my first site customized and the designer did a good job but it still looks cookie cutter to me.
After doing some research I found a piece of software call phpbaypro. It did the same features of bans but was a plugin for wordpress that sold me right there. What I liked about it using wordpress was the custom features I could add and the freedom in changing the styles of my sites. After finding that plug-in I created www.theiphoneshoppe.com, www.porschecarsale.com, www.onlinemazdacarparts.com/, andwww.bargaingolfstore.com with phpbaypro. All of the sites use a free template and maybe feature a few minor changes but are mostly unchanged. What’s great about them is the ease of setup. The first time I did it took me about an hour then after that I was able to get it down to about 20-25 minutes with configuring the seo plug-in. If you are looking for a easy way to get starting with a eBay affiliate site phpbaypro is the software to do it with.
After setting up my eBay sites I started to make a little money but it was slow. The first week I had my sites I made .6 in adsense and nothing through eBay. As time has progressed I am up to $1.50 in adsense and $13 in eBay commissions. This might seem like nothing but I after I got the site running I only submitted them to Google and haven’t touched them since.
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