Build a Niche Stores Review

After the overwhelming number of emails in response to my Can You Make Money Online? post, I thought I would show you one of the things I am doing to make a little extra money.

I am creating a few Build A Niche Stores, which are commonly referred to as BANS Stores.

BANS is a software that allows you to instantly create a store composed of eBay items. You then get a commission on any items that someone buys if they got to eBay through your site. It is ridiculous how fast it is to create a store. For example, I created ChristmasPeddler.com this morning which only took 10 minutes. Now if you spend a little more time on it, you can get something like GiftCardTime.com, which is a little more pleasing to the eye.

The software is pretty self explainatory and very easy to get up and running. Before setting up these stores I only knew a little about web hosting and blogs, which is what I needed to know to get BudgetCents.net up and running.

There are a few things you need to get a BANS store running.

• Ebay Affiliate Account - You will need to sign up for a free Ebay Affiliate Account. This is how you get paid. When you create a store you need to add your Ebay Affiliate ID to your store. Ebay then tracks this id when someone purchases something and deposits the commision in your account.
• Build A Niche Stores Software - This will cost you $97. Now don’t buy this if you aren’t going to be dedicated to it. It will take sometime to get your money back once you get started, but if you do this right, the software should pay for itself
• You will need a hosting account. I use and recommend HostGator Shared Web Hosting. The web hosting plan I recommend is the “Baby” Linux Hosting Plan. You can have an unlimited number of sites for $10 per month. So I have this blog as well as my 10 BANS sites all on my HostGator account all for $10 per month.
• And lastly you need to buy a domain name for your store. I get all my domains through GoDaddy.com . A domain name will run you around $10 / year.

Obviously there is a little money that you need to invest in this to get up and going. If you are not planning on spending the time to get your sites up and dress them up a bit, don’t spend your money as this is not a get rich quick scheme. You are creating a ligitimate eBay store and receving commission from them for directing people to their site.

This is a great way to make a little side money, but you have to be dedicated, otherwise you will not succeed.

Thus far I have created 10 BANS stores. And in the 4 weeks I have had the stores up, I have made $133, so about $13 per each store on average. Ok, now you think that isn’t much, but think about creating 100 stores and making $13 a month on each of them. Would you think $1300 per month isn’t that much, for something that you can create don’t have to constantly make updates to?

So if you are interested in trying your hand in the online game, this is probably the best way to start. I have had a little success and my hopes is to scale this and make much more. I will post regularly on this to show my progress. Also, If you decide to try this out and have issues, defineltly send me a comment or question via my contact page and I will do what I can to help you out.

Can You Make Money Online?

Everyone sees the constant ads saying “Make $1000 a day working from home.” And a lot of us fall victim to one scam or another. So the question is, can you really make money online. The answer is, it depends!

There are many Make Money Blogs out there that promote all these ways to make money, when in reality they make money on you signing up for the programs and you get left with a worthless eBook that doesn’t even make you a dollar. Trust me I have been there.

So I am sure you are asking, “How the hell do I do it?” Well I came across this site called BloggerUnleashed.com. Blogger, Vic as he is known, created this blog to really explain how you make money online. He also calls out the bloggers that lead you into their web with promises of making thousands in your first week that really lead you nowhere. I’ve been following this blog for about 4 months now and can tell you that he is for real. Many of his techniques have produced me about $300 over the past 3 months. I am currently working on scaling this now to try to make even more. Vic is the first one to tell you, you have to work at this, like any other job, to make money online. So I am investing the time now to hopefully pay off later.

One reason I respect Vic is that he doesn’t push products. He just explains what to do. Most everything he talks about can be done for free. Sure there are tools out there that speed things up, but you don’t have to buy them. Every question I have posed to Vic he has answered. That is crazy since he has thousands of readers a day. From my respect he is the ultimate teacher. He is also very entertaining, ever since he switched over to Video Blogging which is a great way to get you motivated.

So if you are really one of those folks dedicated to trying to make money online, check Vic out at BloggerUnleashed.com. He will tell it to you straight! Which lately is something that I have needed after wasting money on pointless schemes cooked up by the mass of Make Money Bloggers!!

Vic, if you are reading this, thanks for everything! You are the best! Keep those videos coming!

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