Well … it’s that time … time to post my earnings for my eBay EPN (BANS – “Build a Niche Store”) niche stores for March and April 2010.
Not amazing … not horrible. LOL. Again, I still haven’t taken the time to try to figure out what they (eBay) is looking for in this affiliate program. I haven’t done anything at all to my stores. I did however do a small amount of advertising on some free classified sites in April and I can see it probably helped a little bit.
Here are the numbers:
March 2010 = 533.86
April 2010 = 672.78
Looks like I’m going to have to do some work on these sites here soon. My buddy, Mark, over at Niche Store Builder posted: ePN Users Pay Attention – Significant Update for You! Yep … EPN making changes for us again. *sigh*
I’ve been very busy working on my SEO/Google Positioning business for offline local businesses and that’s going pretty well. I’ve also started my new site about Fitness at 40 and that’s been a really fun distraction. LOL I’m working out and eating healthy and I’m fully committed to losing all of my extra fat and to being healthy and strong.
Hope you are all doing well with your online businesses. Let me know if you need some help and I’ll do what I can. Also, do let me know if there’s something specific you’d like me to blog about and I’ll do my best to get it up here on the blog. *SmiLes* Suzanne
So … you still a niche store person? Are you still using BANS? How about EPN? Amazon? Let us know what you’re up to and how your stores are performing ok?
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Hi … My name is Suzanne Franco (Land) and I’m a wife (newlywed actually) and mother to 5 amazing kids (my 3 and his 2 – ages 9 to 16) and we live in the Texas Hill Country where we try to spend a lot of time in the water (river, boating, wakeboarding, the beach, etc.) and running from one kid’s sporting event to the other (mainly football, cheerleading, and soccer).
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Very good on those earnings still Suzanne!
I nudged away from ePN a few months back and will always have the “I Quit” feeling, which I HATE… but just couldn’t take their constant change and fear anymore! LOL
I still have a few residual links to the sites, but put a lot of focus on CPA, Amazon, adsense, etc. Its been a few rough months, but the payoff is starting to show.
BTW – GREAT job on your other site! (Fitness site)
Mark
Mark ~ Well I know you aren’t alone … many jumped ship after all of the changes EPN has put us through. I guess since these sites were never my main focus and aren’t supporting me financially I’ve just keep them in tact. I know there are/were many who were making thousands of dollars per month and they relied on EPN to pay the mortgage and bills so it’s understandable that they’d need a more reliable “vehicle.”
I’ve thought over and over about adding a few more stores just to get it up in the $1,000 – $1,500 range but the changes keep coming and I’m not sure it’s worth the work involved. LOL
Thanks for the feedback on my new site … I really enjoy it so that makes it totally fun. I don’t really have a passion for any of my niche sites so that makes the link building/article marketing and such very boring LOL but this one should be a bit easier to manage.
*SmiLes*
These are the kind of things I hate… Wasting time to build something great and it all just crumbles down and your time is wasted. Precious time youc an’t get back and could’ve been used doing a lot of other great things
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I have never earned a thing around here so I’d say that is pretty decent. I am looking forward to getting some cash from my own ventures soon.
Well … what are your “ventures” and what could I help you with? I’d love to see you make your first dollar online
Yeah good job making that paper
I tried this myself but never was succesful. So now I’m focusing on different ways.
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Yea, BANS/niche sites are not for everyone. I think I’ve done well with them because I spent several months studying SEO and I put in the time necessary up front on those sites.
What have you moved on to? Is there something I can do to help you? Let me know k?
Hi Suzanne,
Help out a relative newbie to this kind of thing – what is a BAN? The only ones I know are pre-wedding announcements, and something that happened to me a while back when I got a bit loud in a pub!
Jen
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Hi Jen ~ BANS stands for “Build a Niche Store” and it’s a product that I used to build some niche stores … stores that are basically set up to showcase eBay auctions for a specific products … so for instance a store on vacuum cleaners … the product makes it easy (easier LOL) to set up the pages and dynamically “pull in” auctions from eBay for the vacuums I tell it to list and when visitors click on the eBay auction links I get paid by eBay.
BANS itself is … hmmm … out of business? or going out of business … or for sale … not sure … so I don’t really refer people to that product … but there are some other great products available if you’re interested in building some niche stores (I wrote about a couple here http://www.suzannefranco.com/niche-store-profits-earnings-september-october-2009-audio/).
Let me know how I can help. *huGs* Suzanne
Personally I use ePN but not the BANS software. I like the way I am able to very quickly fill up a site with “content” from the auctions that can be good for attracting longtail keyword traffic from the search engines.
But earnings aren’t great on a per-click basis so I am slowly trying out different monetization strategies which I hope will earn me more money from the same number of visitors.
Hi Richard … I started to transition over to EPN without the BANS but just never invested the time … but I also use other tools (see comment above) … are you doing anything with Amazon?
I’m still getting my own stuff in order first; coming along nicely though.
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How do you and how do you monetize now and how do you plan to monetize?
Is that one question? Could you simplify a little?
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Geez! 10:05 a.m. I’m certain I wasn’t drunk when I wrote that! What the??? LOL … How are you monetizing now and how do you plan to monetize in the future?
LOL I need to hang out with you sometime, you’re fun.
Aside from affiliate linking a post here and there, i am not currently monetizing.
I also can’t tell you of future monetization…yet. And both for the same reason.
If you haven’t been followin the blog lately, the gist is, there’s a BIG shake up coming, yes again, lol.
Wait for it.
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Congrats! Your montly numbers are certainly nothing to sneeze at – very well done, and inspiring!
Chad
thanks Chad … do you have niche stores? do you have an online business? need any help with anything?
well, at least you have a 138.92 increase in revenue for a month, I think that is something you can be naturally happy with, even it’s small it’s still a gain. perhaps you’ll just need a little push to have further progress
but as for me, google adsense has still been very consistent (as long as contents are constantly added) and clickbank is definitely a good source as well.
I have some sites where I’d love to use AdSense and I know it’s supposed to be very easy to set up but I just haven’t taken the time to learn about it LOL … soon though
Just try using adsense on your sites that have substantial and very informative contents and insert the ad within the article. the background and border color of the banner should also be matched with the color of your article’s background, as if it was really included in the article. It’s quite effective, as explained by some experts that this method hypnotizes readers LOL. Blog about it once you have tried adsense. I’m pretty excited on how you can make it work in the future. Keep me posted, I’ll be back soon
At the end of the day, we all want profits rather than loss. You’re doing great in my opinion. When I started on eBay and affiliate marketing, my weekly checks were paltry compared to yours!
Are you still doing anything with eBay?
Well done on incresing your earnings Suzanne! What are you goals for the next 12 months?
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Hi Jorgen ~ Truthfully I’d like to be earning more like 2k/month with the niche stores … so I’d have to add about 5 more stores and do some work (backlinks, article marketing, classifieds, etc) … really it wouldn’t take more more effort … I’m just pulled in so many directions right now (internet maketing A.D.D. – it’s a problem LOL) … how about you? How do you monetize? What are you goals?
Hey Suzanne –
If the sites you have are well indexed, well traveled, and already doing good, I would dispute what you are saying about adding 5 more sites, and instead, add 5x more of the most popular pages, on the existing sites!
- Find the most popular and highest earning pages. (Stats vs earnings)
- Write 5x more of each on the SAME sites (expand on the topics)
- Link the original pages, to the new ones. (drive more traffic to them)
Great idea Mark! And a lot less work LOL
BANS … is an eyeopener for me. Never heard of this, but then again i am not really into selling stuff. But .. wow .. extremely interesting stuff. I will bookmark this page and i will start thinking about niche marketing
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Let me know if I can help … I have some posts about BANS you can use the categories in the sidebar
Looks like you are making some solid progress, though constant rule-changes have to be a big pain in the you-know-where. I checked out your Bikiniat40.com website and I really like what you are doing! I think that could be a big money maker for you well into the future. Keep up the good work!
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They are a pain in the a@#! That’s why I don’t put much (any) effort into them because I don’t ever want to count/rely on the income LOL They close people’s accounts without explanation in a moments notice *sigh* so I’m leery …
Suzanne – I am definitely a newbie to all of this stuff but it does sound interesting. How long have you been involved with ebay EPN stores? It looks like I need to do my homework:) Thanks for sharing!
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Hi Glyna ~ I’ve been with EPN for a couple years (2 or 3?) LOL I’d have to look it up … and truthfully I haven’t done much with them since I set them up. In the beginning there were a lot of changes and upgrades that went on so that was very disruptive and challenging (I was very new and a total technophobe!) so that’s why I didn’t build more stores than what I have. Let me know if I can help in any way. S
When I first started out online I started with ebay, the problem I had was the whole shipping thing, do they still require you to ship your own stuff or can you sell for other vendors?
As you can tell I haven’t been on ebay for a while, although amazon is working very well for me.
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With these sites I don’t actually sell my own products or ship anything … I am sending people to eBay to other people’s auctions as an affiliate. Make sense?
i hope to raise my numbers next mounth
Not to shabby Suzanne!
I still have 2 BANS sites, which I’m converting to Wordpress/PHPBay this weekend. I now work with Amazon for my niche stores. Ebay has become to much of a hassle.
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Hey Daisy … yea, I hear ya … I know a lot of people are making a ton of money with Amazon and I just never seem to get any commission with them (well, nothing but pennies). I need to find someone who’s doing really well with them and interview them here on the blog LOL
Wanda & Paula from AffiliateBlogOnline.com – Thousands per month from Amazon – awesome people too.
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So, where can I get the tips to reach that good earning?
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Dana ~ do you have any niche sites? I am very good with SEO and keyword research so I believe that’s one of the reasons I’ve always made money with BANS/EPN. I did some promotion in the beginning (bookmarking, classifieds, etc.) and every once in a while I’ll do some classified advertising. I’m about to submit some articles for each of the sites so we’ll see how that does too. I suggest building backlinks too … directory submissions … Squidoo lenses for some of them … let me know if there’s something specific I can help you with ok?
great post Suzanne!
not only from your post but also from many of your replies i got amazing points and cleared my self about BANS and EPN.
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keep delivering some more good results
thanks and cheers
wow, nice figures, i mean 500 to 600 is not bad at all, your blog is performing well, i never got such response..
Yeah, your numbers are quite good. I mean, I don’t know how long you’ve been at this, but those figures are nothing to sneeze at!
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It looks like you´re making quite a lot of money!! I am impressed! Congratulations Susan!
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Wow! Look at your raking in the dough.
I wish I could earn that amount of money. So far all my attempts to make money online have failed
It is very good that you have started earning money online.Congratulation on this brilliant success.
Ebay is something that i will try out for shure!
You are getting smart earning. I have visited on your second site that have really nice stuff. You have introduced good knowledge based contents
How much money a month does a site have to earn to justify spending any time on it to make it more successful?
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Sounds like I have to give ebay a shot. Seems like its turning out to be something good.
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Is it only the earning of this one blog?
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January 11, 2012 at 9:17 pm
It is very good that you have started earning money online.Congratulation on this brilliant success
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