Affiliate Marketing AdventuresLife in the Fast Lane

When you hear “eBay” and “money” in the same sentence your probably 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 great tool which makes entry into this opportunity not only possible but also super 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 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, funneling 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 to eBay.

Here’s an example of a BANS store I built recently, targeting Used College Textbooks:

RockBottomBooks.com

Take a look around the site, and click on a few items to see how it leads you into eBay. As you can see, these easy to build websites contain all of those eBay products related to their target niche inside a searchable 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 listings 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…

Click Here To Read More About Build A Niche Store

Okay, I’ve been away from this blog for a while. Been really busy reading ebooks, working on my own ebooks, working eBay, working on other blogs and video products. I’ll be back to post more about those activities, but I just had to take a minute to tell you all about something really cool that I found. Best of all, it’s FREE. This is about the coolest thing I’ve found that gives you insight into what your competitors are doing to rank high on Google. You can also spy on the BIG DOGs of internet marketing. This tool was created by one of the masters of internet marketing software. I really can’t believe he’s giving this away for FREE.

It basically works like this: you turn on the tool, go to Google, type in any keyword or product you’re interested in promoting, and instantly you can see what keywords the top ranked sites are using and how much they’re paying for they’re PPC (Pay Per Click) campaigns. This really is great free keyword research software.

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Hi all, and welcome to my blog. Let me just tell you a little bit about the purpose of this new blog.

Many years ago I was involved in affiliate marketing. Took some time away from it to become an eBay PowerSeller. Recently I became interested in affiliate marketing again. It was kind of by chance that I stumbled into it. I was actually looking for some information about those new contraptions that let you get better gas mileage by adding a hydrogen generator to your engine. “Run your car on water” they claim, although they really mean gas and water. They’re really like a do-it-yourself hydrogen powered hybrid car.

Obviously the reason I was looking into this was because gas prices have skyrocketed lately.

So I was on this website and I noticed an affiliate link. Went to the page and it was talking about how you could make a ton of money by promoting their e-book. It referenced a website called wealthyaffiliate.com.

I checked it out. It looked kind of interesting, but I wasn’t sure I wanted to pay the monthly fee. I did sign up for a free e-book, and of course I got several marketing emails from Wealthy Affiliate. Coincidentally my wife lost her job and we were looking for a way to make some extra money with her working at home.

So, I decided to give Wealthy Affiliate a try, and I’m glad I did.

Join Wealthy Affiliate University and learn from the best!

I’ll post a review of their service later, but for now I just want to explain why I’ve set up this blog.

I intend to chronicle my adventures in affiliate marketing. Successes and failures will be documented here.

This will partly be to keep track of my efforts, but also so I can use the blog to link back to articles I’ll be writing as part of article marketing campaigns.

Lastly, there’s a great community of affiliate marketers on the web who are very willing to help newbies. So I’m hoping some of what I write here may also be helpful to others who are interested in affiliate marketing.

Thanks for stopping by. Come back often as I intend to update this site frequently.