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So besides working on this blog and other projects I attempted a another revenue generating idea. I read about it from my idol of hustle and flow Shoemoney where he talked about building a niche store. So what is a niche store? It is basically a site that contains ebay auctions specific to the niche you are trying to service and sell to. Ebay has over 60 million products listed at any one time and this across all of their specific country eBay sites also. Their affiliate program is great because it pays you $25 to $35 for someone just signing up for an eBay account. As well as getting a cut of the transaction fee for each product that is purchased through your niche store.

I thought to myself awesome, I get new content automatically for my site and as well as being able to make a few dollars. So I checked out the product reviewed by Shoemoney called Build a Niche Store (BANS) and another product called phpBay Pro from Wired Studios. BANS costs about $97 and is a self contained content management system/store site. It integrates with RSS feeds from eBay and presents the auctions as items in your store site. I read a few reviews and most people said it was ok but the templating/skinning of the site was a chore and not easily done. I researched the other product phpBay Pro, and it seemed to offer the near same functionality but all within a Wordpress site and with a low intro price of $39. Using Wordpress makes things easier as there is a bunch of plugins, it integrates easily, and there are a bunch of free templates available out on the net.

After my detailed and through review (less than 30 mins) of the two products I purchased phpBay Pro. Whipped up a wordpress site in under an hour and got this to show for it. Did a little marketing with adwords and have gotten an average of 20 visitors per day coming to the site. Well on 12/29/2007 I got my first commission and it was for $4.08! Now I feel fired up to earn more online. I have been trying to make a buck online for over six months and now that I have I am ready for my next goal. To earn $100 a day with online transactions. Be on the lookout for more updates.