Hi this is the first part of my BANS [Build a niche store] making money online tutorial series.

First we will cover the item that we need to ensure our success.

1) Build a niche store scripts for our site. These can be found here: BANS STORE

2) Compatible hosting. This needs to have the following

php 4.0+ or above, mysql, cpanel

We recommend that you use hostgator hosting as this is guarenteed 100% compatible. Hostgator Hosting

3) A domain name is essential here. Choose a domain name with your niche in the words and choose a .com or .net domain.

4) Tools: Install the ‘flock’ browser and the ‘google’ notebook, seo, alexa addins.

5) Affiliate accounts that you will need:

Ebay partner network -> signup here

Google adsense -> signup here

I would also suggest signing up for amazon, commision junction and clickbank accounts for extra revenue.

If you don’t know what affiliate marketing is then here is a brief description of how it works.

What you have is several hundred products that are being sold by hundred of retailers. these retailers advertise those products in the usual way and make profits from those products when they are sold.

However, they also recruit other to sell their product for them and when they sell them they receive a %age of the cost agreed previous to the sale. Most retailers have a %age setout for their products.

When you sell a product for a retailer the customer goes to the retailers site and a ‘cookie’ is saved on the customer pc that identifies which affiliate has sent them to the site, so that when the product is sold the affiliate (thats you) get a payment based on the percentage agreed.

Basically that is it.. You get the customers to come through your site and they find a product they like and ‘click’, the cookie is saved and the browser takes them to the item. They buy it and the retailer gets paid and you get your percentage of the sale.

So when we come to ebay you simply promote products that other sellers are selling and you get a cut of the money when it is sold. On your site you also have other adverts that your also promote and make commisions off.

It is really that simple and is the easiest way to make money from home

next lesson I will show you how to do keyword research for your site to attract your customers in there thousands.

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Build niche store – Making Money Online

What is a niche store?

This may be your first question followed by “How can I make money from a niche store?” Well I will answer both of these questions now.

A Build niche store or BANS for short consist of a set of PHP scripts that connect dynamically to EBay though the EBay API. You site has a MySQL database that stores all your shop configuration details and data. So why would you want to choose to host a Build a Niche Store Site?

BANS is a excellent engine for driving focused online customers to your web site to buy goods. Goods by the way that you do not stock or provide customer service for, but get paid commission on if they sell within eBay. A win.. win.. Situation I call it.

So what are the features of Build a niche store?

1) It is incredibly easy to build store after store and this can be achieved very very quickly after the steps involved have been learnt through the building of your very first store.

2) You have an absolutely huge base of products to choose from. EBay is the largest marketplace in the world. You can choose even choose which country to target.

3) The products displayed are dynamically updated 24 hours a day

4) The costs of running a build niche store is minimal and you can run 20 or even 30 stores at the same time in the same hosting space.

You can start up your very own BANS store for less than 200 dollars and have your store up and fully running within an hour. This will create your base store from which you can upload a banner and change various colours to suit the products that you have targeted. The base store comes with templates but additional themed templates can also be purchased. You must understand that the store you can create within an hour IS a fully functioning store that people can purchase goods through and you will get paid for those purchases.

You store itself can target any niche that you decide to promote, you can even target top eBay sellers specifically if you wish. If you don’t know which niche to target you can always go to eBay and check the most searched items (http://pulse.ebay.com) and choose a category with a particular niche audience. Imagine the number of niches available? Well there are thousand upon thousand of them making your choice pretty infinite.

What are the start up costs?

We need the following:

- Build niche store scripts

- BANS compatible hosting service that allows multiple stores to be hosted

- Domain name

Build a niche store scripts

The build a niche store script themselves cost $97 and this includes free support and updates for ever!! The licence also allows you to create as many stores as you want for yourself on as many domains as you own.

BANS Hosting

Hosting can cost as little as $8 a month if purchased for a year. You could use free hosting if you wish but if you’re serious about making an online business that will grow then I would personally NOT go with free hosting. I will recommend a hosting company at the end of this article which I have used to over 2 years without a single problem and the support they provide is top rate.

Domain Name

This can be purchased with your hosting or if you already have a domain it can be transferred in (change you domain name servers to point to the new web space).

So the important question!! How much money can I expect to make?

At the end of the day it’s all down to money and how much can be made from your stores. Currently I have around 14 stores which bring in an average of $200 a day at present. In the next year I hope to extend this to 30 stores which will increase this amount. The thing to remember here though is that once the store has been created then we do not need to keep modifying that store. It is in effect just generating money from that point and we are off to create a new store to increase that income.

So go out do some research on the type of store you want to do, buy a build niche store licence and hosting then start making some serious money. I will be creating some additional posts on traffic generation to your bans store and how to get this for free, so make sure you bookmark us or subscribe to our RSS feeds.

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Here we look at the best blog posts this week:

• Build A Niche Store Case Study: Day 1 – Today is the start of my Build a Niche Store Case Study where I’ll outline step-by-step what I do to try and make money with BANS. I’ll provide updates on the domains I use, different methods of marketing I use and how much money each …
• The Best Keyword Research Analysis Tools – In Affiliate Marketing, choosing the right niche and using the right keywords is key to the game. For the complete newbie, keywords are the words and search phrases potential customers type into the search engines (Google, Yahoo, …

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