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 phpb Read the rest of this entry »

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If you have come to the site in the last 2 week you have probably noticed the lack of a header. I am ashamed to admit I did not have one. I worked on ideas but could never finalize anything I liked. Thankfully I was able to find Scarlet Graphics they were able to give me a sweet new header and help me install it. They gave me a ton of support with getting the banner installed because my site originally had this two banner thing so you could place a banner at the top for advertising. I am still working on some ideas to streamline the design of my blog. I started with a free template so there were some changes I have been itching to make and am finally get around to it. I have been so caught up with writing and watching my traffic my design was lacking.

So thanks to them now can say I actually look like a semi professional blogger. Make sure to check them out before you get any graphics work done.

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Over the weekend I have 395 new visitors to my site. I was shocked when I looked at google analytics this morning. I could not get over the number of hits I received in such a short period of time. I was so shocked and excited I went to feedburner immediately to check how many new readers signed up to my rss feed. To my surprise I only received 2 new readers, dont get me wrong I am thankful for the readers I have and I am overwhelmed that I received so many new visitors but I would have guessed I would have picked up more readers.

Here is screen shot of my google analytics showing the massive spike in traffic. I am still trying to grasp the surge in traffic.

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This is a start of a series I will continually update. It will be about my sites I run and about my headaches and joys of achieving my end goal to become a full time internet entrepreneur.

I have been into computers for the last decade (wow does time fly). In those years I have been building computers, overclocking hardware, run tons of different software, and using the internet. I always find myself drawn to website design and social interactions like instant messaging. I did some basic web design on and off for a few periods of time but never really stuck with it.

I started reading blogs when they started booming and remember reading sites on how to make money through them but never tried. It was something that I always but on the back burner and said I would get back to. I ended up really get sidetracked when I went to a technical school for the networking side (IT Networking and administration if you want to be technical). After a few years of network administration and desktop support I realized I was really missing messing with websites. Read the rest of this entry »

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