3 Crucial Mistakes Most Of BANS Store Owners Make

July 24, 2008

In a nutshell, BANS store script creates customizable and attractive sites featuring products from eBay (see review post here). You have to be eBay affiliate to collect commissions from the sales made through your BANS site. BANS software is easy to install, comes with a user guide explaining what you need to do, however basic MySQL knowledge is required to initially setup a niche store.

I recently evaluated 20+ BANS niche stores and was amazed that 99% of BANS site owners made same mistakes.

Here are 3 Mistakes you MUST fix now.

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31 Free WordPress Training Videos For Complete Newbie

July 22, 2008

wordpress videosWant to learn core Wordpress tasks with free wordpress video tutorials? Are you new to Wordpress and confused how to install Wordpress, how to write posts and pages, set configurations, manage files, pages and links, or install plugins and themes? I recently found comprehensive, good quality and up-to-date set of 30+ free Wordpress training videos.

Here is what covered in 30+ free Wordpress training videos:

Installation and Upgrades

  • Installing WordPress in Five Minutes (if you never install Wordpress before - this video is where you’d start)
  • Best Practices for Upgrading WordPress
  • Upgrading WordPress
  • Importing and Exporting Data

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BANS Script - Great Way To Make Money With eBay

July 21, 2008

BANS script (Build A Niche Store) helps you to automate a process of selling eBay products as eBay affiliate. When you hear “selling eBay products” you probably think of becoming eBay seller. With BANS, you don’t have to. You can build online business which still revolves around eBay, but doesn’t involve you selling a single item on eBay.

This “other way” is based on the eBay affiliate program and using BANS script which makes entry into this opportunity not only possible but also super easy. eBay actually invites you to promote all product listings in the eBay marketplace through eBay affiliate program, and in exchange for your efforts will pay you up to 75% of the revenue from each sale you refer plus up to $35 for each new active eBay member you refer.

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Drop Adsense – Go Affiliate Marketing

July 20, 2008

This post reports result of my test to evaluate performance of affiliate products versus Adsense. I choose affiliate product in TV market and decided to publish Squidoo review-type lens for this product, since I don’t have my own blog related to TV.

Squidoo lens setup. Short, about 500 words, review of the affiliate product optimized for TV-related keywords.

My lens had one link to the product with call to action, and Squidoo served Adsense ads. I decided from the start NOT to promote or update the lens to keep test clean.

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Web 2.0 Wealth Blog System Review

July 20, 2008

web-2-wealth-blogIf you want to make money blogging, but feel overwhelmed by technical knowledge required, not sure how to make your blog properly optimized for monetization, or simply want to save a lot of time installing Wordpress and plugins, than Web 2.0 Wealth Blog System is for you. This product will help to start your own money making blog in no time at all. What is Web 2.0 Wealth?

Product Features. Web 2.0 Wealth is complete in-a-box blog system you can use to start making money blogging in as less as 7 day. Author made it so easy that it’s literally copy and paste process. Product comes with pre-packaged latest version of Wordpress blog, all plugins already integrated and ready for easy monetization, hours of training videos on how to setup product, select a niche, make changes to a blog, and monetize your blog among many others. [Read more]

Do Not Lose Your Visitors To Adsense Advertisers

July 18, 2008

I am always amazed by continuous push from old-school Adsense marketers to monetize your blog with Adsense. C’mon guys, it’s not 2005 anymore. Even more amazing is a fact that they have thousands of followers religiously stacking Adsense ads all over their sites and blogs.

Fellow bloggers and site owners, don’t you have a better plan for a limited space on your virtual real estate? Are you really satisfied with cents paid to you when visitors click and leave your site?

You worked hard to bring traffic to your site, why do you funnel it into someone else, no doubt, better optimized sale channel? Please take an effort to learn how to monetize your blog, and here are few ideas to keep you going.

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Why I Love Online Business

July 16, 2008

I have entrepreneurial spirit and love starting and growing my own businesses rather than working for somebody else. I like to have a freedom of pursuing my own ideas and products, make decisions based on what makes sense rather than driven by office politics (and having other benefits that come with owning online business). Choice to get involve in online business was no brainer for me.

Think about how much efforts and money you’ll need to get physical business going. Take a restaurant - you have to get licenses, permissions, rent space, pass health inspection, hire and retain employees, find reliable suppliers and so on. Just to get off the ground you will need big money, and… there is no guarantee you’ll ever succeed.

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