$1000+ in seven days!

[Wulfster]

All,
The last week has been very good to me! I've made more than $1000 over the last seven days, and the commissions for today's sales won't post until sometime tomorrow evening. How does $600+ sound for the month of October (and today's only the 3rd)? :D

If you haven't read my other posts, I'm using BANS to sell eBay items. My eleventh site went live over the weekend, and the sales continue to go up as I add new sites. If you know anything about IM and how to get traffic to your web pages, BANS and CJ are a killer combination!

I wrote a Squidoo lens about my efforts (and reviewed BANS at the same time) a few weeks back -- the link is in my signature. I'll repeat the offer for the readers on Digital Point:
If you're interested in buying BANS, you can use your own Clickbank ID to save part of the cost of the product (just don't tell Clickbank you did it). However, if you buy it though my link on the Squidoo lens, send me a PM and I'll share the secret I'm using to drive traffic to my web sites. I've had thousands of highly-interested visitors to my sites over the last month. I'm pretty sure that it's been a big part of my success with the software.

As others have said, there are other ways to do the same thing BANS offers. You could even get the feed yourself from eBay and write your own PHP pages to parse it out for free. I'm all for saving money, but I don't mind spending money on something that can help me multiply my time. In my opinion, this is what BANS offers me.

Kent

[plrqq]

So, what is BANS?

[chimaera15]

Build A Niche Store
It's a script that pretty much automates the whole process for building your own ebay store for any category.

[Nathy]

Awesome man! I'm trying out BANS as well and it's awesome.

[sweetangel]

do you also spend money for driving traffic to your BANS sites?
I'm really interested with this one

[Mmecca]

When you say $1000 in seven days do you mean, the products sold were to a value of $1000 or you earned that much commision?

[Wulfster]

That's $1000+ profit. I started a month ago; the sales have built up as I added sites.

I hesitate to say that I haven't spent anything in adspend. I've spent less than $5 on PPC, but I don't think it counts; I was mainly playing around to see how much traffic it would add.

Kent

[Bulldog-Designs]

So how are you getting traffic?

[vaza]

Most important thing is to get traffic to you Niche Store site. Traffic is everything.

[iBBnet]

Vaza is right. You can't really make money unless there's traffic to your site...

So my question is, do you have to be an expert in online marketing in order to be successful in this like you are? What do I need to learn/know?

Wish someone could share their traffic techniques for free :) :D

[cylai]

eBay auto reject international affiliate - it's all too bad for non US affiliate like me :(

I tried to appeal numerous times without success. sighz..

what a waste considering I knew some tricks from succesful user on how to best bring traffic to BANS site .

[Mmecca]

I stay in the UK and am part of the US affiliate program, they auto accepted me with no problems. I was earning quite a bit from another program though so maybe that helped as my performance rating was up.

[jonixkonios]

everything is said here, without traffic, bans or any other script or site it's nothing. For a $1000 profit with bans in 7 days with new sites you need very good niches with at leat 1k-2k unique visitors a day. It can be made...but never with normal aproved seo tactics.

[TopPaige]

Wish I had the $97 to fork out. THis sounds like a good idea

[drivengrl]

wulfster

Thanks for sharing your success. I'm very impressed with how quickly you've made cash. I'll look into this myself.:)

[Bearded]

My sites have been steadily increasing in profitability as well. With 4 active BANS sites, I'm making between $60-200 per day. Each site gets about 100-200 uniques per day. It's all about finding the right niche.

[jonixkonios]

and traffic, don't forget to add that please, without traffic no niche can survive

[moneymoguls]

I would like to know what method you are using for traffic generation and how much traffic are you getting now.

No traffic = No money

[Wulfster]

I had about 715 unique visitors across all eleven sites yesterday. Monday was a little busier but Tuesday was a little slower. It doesn't really take a ton of traffic if it's targeted.

I would like to know what method you are using for traffic generation
I've offered my "secrets" to those who use my affiliate link to purchase BANS. Sorry, but it really wouldn't be fair to those who have already done so if I posted it here.

Kent

[davewashere]

I had about 715 unique visitors across all eleven sites yesterday. Monday was a little busier but Tuesday was a little slower. It doesn't really take a ton of traffic if it's targeted.


I've offered my "secrets" to those who use my affiliate link to purchase BANS. Sorry, but it really wouldn't be fair to those who have already done so if I posted it here.

Kent

That's a really impressive total for that kind of traffic. I guess you've really targeted your visitors.

[mrmonster]

Whats your ratio for activate signup $ to actual sale commission $ ?

[plugandplay]

Are the traffic generation methods you use "white hat" or on the grey/black side?

Thanks

[Wulfster]

I get more sales than sign ups, but the sign ups definitely help. That's one of the nice thing about the eBay program; if your customers sign up and bid on anything, you get $25!

White hat? Gray hat? I don't know what's what. I'm using traditional methods in a non-traditional way. Did you ever see McGuyver? He could take a wind-up clock, some paper clips, and a handful of marbles and make a cool gadget to shoot the bad guys. None of the tools he used were particularly dangerous, but the combination was. Was McGuyver white hat or gray hat?

Just think of this as the McGuyver method (I probably should trademark that term).

For those on the fence, here's some unsolicited feedback from buyers on another forum:
His secret is very simple, but VERY helpful. I do recommend it. I debated getting this through my own link, but opted for his. I am glad I did.

The BANS forum is unbelievably helpful and if you have specific code issues with your server/host, they will go in and fix them for you. Incredible support.

BANS, at least for me, seems to fit perfectly with WA. I do not think I could be effective at BANS without the information here, yet BANS adds something very nice to it. Definitely not for everyone, but worth a look-see.

For anyone who is on the fence about bans, I would just like to add that it is a good program to add to your income, I had the first version that came out and made back the cost in a month and it did not have any where near the features 2.0 does.

and just in case you missed a key point of Kents offer on how he is getting traffic keep in mind if it works to send it to his ban site it will work to send it to your other sites, how long would it take you to generate 1,100 visitors?

some times we can be penny wise and pound foolish. If I did not already have it I would of got it from him its always good to know ways of generating traffic.

Thanks Kent.

I am very pleased with what I have seen of BANS so far.

Let me know if you decide to start that mailing list.

I earned my first BANS commission in 72 hours. It wasn't much, but I thought that was pretty quick to already be getting traffic that earns commissions.

With that being said, even with Kent's tips (which are excellent and well worth it), the primary reason I was successful with it is because I applied many of the tips and strategies that I have learned here in WA.

Hope that helps.

Kent

[web_dev]

Wulfster, i don't mean to doubt you but don't you think you're being too vague?

i was reading your article on the squidoo page and this caught my attention.

So, Does BANS Work?...Absolutely! I had both my first sale and first Adsense clicks the first day my site went live. Seven days later, I made $92.42 in eBay commissions and $12.14 in Adsense commissions.

Really? Your first sale on the first day? Do you know, it hard enough to get 1 visitor to your site on the first day of launch and your'ere talking about making a sale from BANS site. Its hard enough to get visitors to a content based site in week, let alone getting a clicks on your adsense ads from even the first 100 people to your site and you're claiming about making sales to your BANS site on the first of launch.

The reality is even if you did ppc from the first day to drive traffic to your site it is nearly impossible to get a sale on the first day and you're claiming that you're consistently making sales? You know its hard enough to get someone to fill out their name and email for an opt-in list so forget making people punch in their credit card numbers.

Okay so you know how to get visitors to your non-content based BANS site. Im sure that has something to do with ppc. But how do you know those ppc clicks will convert right away or or consistently? Because i know they won't.

I implemented a BANS like site (computer electronic products) on my own using CJ web services. Guess what i drove highly targeted visitors to my site using ppc and guess what i made 0 sales for 3 months the site was up.

Wulfster, i don't mean to to judge your methods of get visitors and sales but if you so confident, iwant you to share with us how you do it or just give us a glimpse into your secret of making sales because i very eager to hear about it.

[KGL]

Really? Your first sale on the first day? Do you know, it hard enough to get 1 visitor to your site on the first day of launch and your'ere talking about making a sale from BANS site. Its hard enough to get visitors to a content based site in week, let alone getting a clicks on your adsense ads from even the first 100 people to your site and you're claiming about making sales to your BANS site on the first of launch.

The reality is even you did ppc from the first day to drive traffic to your site it is nearly impossible to get a sale on the first day and claiming you're consistently making sales. You know its hard enough to get someone to fill out their name and email for an opt-in list and you're claiming about making sales?

Okay so you know how to get visitors to your non-content based BANS site. Im sure that has something to do with ppc. But how do you know those ppc clicks will convert? Because i know they won't.

I implemented a BANS like site (computer electronic products) on my own using CJ web services. Guess what i drove highly targeted visitors to my site using ppc and guess what i made 0 sales for 3 months the site was up.

Wulfster, i don't mean to to judge your methods of get visitors and sales but if you so confident, iwant you to share with us how you do it or just give us a glimpse into your secret of making sales because i very eager to hear about it.

What are you doing? Rather, not doing?

I built a eBay site just using the editor kit (before BANS was even created) and it was monsterously successful within a week.

Stop leeching off of people trying to get ideas for free.

Get off your a$$ and make it happen!

Congrats, Wulfster.

[jonixkonios]

I think it's time to close this thread, it's becoming pointless, and with many fantasies in the middle. It's another thread of "oh my god i did it again!".

[tradeepak]

how do you drive traffic to your bans site.

[sirprize]

it might be helpful to post a list of your bans sites. how niche do you go - how far down the catergory tree to you pitch your sites?

[autox]

Congrats, Wulfster!

I am In...

sent PM


Thanks,:)

[NCMedia]

This is a very interesting post - controversial and has merit. My two cents on the matter:

Though I'm new to CJ I've been with CB for a while and have been successful as both vendor and affiliate. One thing I can say is YOU HAVE TO THINK LIKE THE BIG FISH! I'm not sure what analytics CJ/EBAY uses let you analyze markets/what's hot/selling, what's new etc. however I feel the most important 5 elements are indeed:

1) Market demand (popularity of the product among both consumers AND affiliates).

2) Targeted traffic to targeted offers in high volumes consistently.

3) Well built sales and promotional material.

4) Arm yourself with variation - Not just BANS or just specific products, and diversify your marketing efforts (not just ppc or just article/bum, but any way possible, offline, print, radio, video, optins/followup, running naked down a football field with your .com on your back during prime time TV - can't buy that for the $5000 fine it costs!). Utilize your vendors affiliate marketing materials to the most and make your own if they don't have much and yet the product is great.

5) READ a lot, research your products and vendors, ask for personalized support if you cannot convert. Vendors would be CRAZY not to help affiliates with their campaigns. There are ALL KINDS of formulas out there, and while the original post is both a bit hard to believe and is indeed a pitch, it does hold merit and I will attest to its possibilities on any marketing effort. CJ, CB, EBAY, AZOOGLE, IT DOESN'T MATTER! If you are great at marketing and understand business, how to analyze data well (demand/competitors ad campaigns/identifying new products before the masses/sales hotspots and timezones/etc), then turning over a 1-5% on every hundred highly targeted clicks is possible even on your first day!

My first day with CB I made 4 sales, was the best day of my life! Not because I made $140 on a $12 adspend and a nice landing page, but because I researched a lot before I started and proved to myself that affiliate marketing works! Now I can do this 10 fold!! Then 20 fold!!! Don't ever give up on your efforts just re-focus, READ, and as a final TIP:

"The best way to learn how to be an amazing marketer is to find a product that has sold and is reputable among other affiliates, and research that products affiliate resource page(s). THINK like the owner of the product. Why? Because if he/she managed to make this product popular on their own, then attract a bunch of great affiliates, he/she probably knows lot's of valuable information on internet marketing. Instead of buying all these 'overnight millions' books and trying to follow their tactics, think like the product owner and duplicate their efforts with your own product/idea, and you would sell it creatively to both consumers and affiliates - You will learn your most valuable information watching other affiliates promote your products :)"

Make it a great day, if you haven't converted a dime yet, you may be trying too hard - work smart not hard. Knowledge and research is the foundation of any success, going into this IM game blindly and throwing ppc or bum around without proper knowledge is corporate suicide, and a roadmap of buying crappy products along the way to 'help' you get there...

Norb.

[doctorjones]

wow this amazing.. tell us more about it.... looking forward to try it!

[smudger99]

eBay auto reject international affiliate - it's all too bad for non US affiliate like me :(

I tried to appeal numerous times without success. sighz..

what a waste considering I knew some tricks from succesful user on how to best bring traffic to BANS site .

confused, what about the UK they have an affiliate scheme on CJ just for Ebay.co.uk so i'm guessing BANS works with that?

[dan208]

Can anyone compare BANS to PHPBAY? (www dot wiredstudios dot com). PHP bay is configured to work with oscommerce templates or wordpress which may be good for seo. I'd like to hear others experience with both.

[natekapi]

Lets see some of your sites you put together using BANS

[alemcherry]

Sounds like a marketing spam for BANS! Sorry if thats harsh!

[iBBnet]

I guess having links to these BANS sites would be nice. Anyone want to share theirs?

[cylai]

OK I'd like to chim in for niche selection for BANS, the secret of earning thousands with BANS (as I witness a friend who did it succesfully), also applicable to other niche:

Identify the demand!

Find the popular products in your niche, and build BANS around them! how to identify the popular products? easy, go to top online stores, check their top selling products, you will pretty much get a clue. Even eBay has such chart too!

Ok i will give you a tip here, this is a very useful website for you to research:
http://buzz.yahoo.com/overall/
Go to "video games", you will get good ideas on what's hot in gaming industry now.

Another way is, go to niche forum, see what people are talking about. What are the products in their wish list? what are the products that everyone is raving about?

I've wrote an article for this subject, if anyone interested please PM me.

[jonixkonios]

Sounds like a marketing spam for BANS! Sorry if thats harsh!

I must agree with that. Bans is a great piece of software, and i say it's possible to do a sell on the first day, but for that you need a lot of factors:

1) old domain with a name related to the niche and if possible with traffic
2) some good stumbleupon exchange
3) some good digg exchange
4) some good mass rss ping

We end on the first thing being said: TRAFFIC, without TRAFFIC bans don't do nothing.

[Clive]

Maybe a lazy question but where do I check on the BANS script?

[Kerosene]

Maybe a lazy question but where do I check on the BANS script?

Where can you find out about BANS? buildanichestore.com

Or click the blue link in my sig :p

[Clive]

Where can you find out about BANS? buildanichestore.com

Or click the blue link in my sig :p

Thanks, Kerosene,

Will check that out :)

[s1ick]

Where can you find out about BANS? buildanichestore.com

Or click the blue link in my sig :p

Sneaky Sneaky. Are you taking referals from the thread creater? I think you might be.

S1ick

[jonixkonios]

Sneaky Sneaky. Are you taking referals from the thread creater? I think you might be.

S1ick

:) a "good" selling opportunity

[enquiries0009]

Untill we don't know the traffic secrets here it was waste even buying bans

[Kerosene]

Sneaky Sneaky. Are you taking referals from the thread creater? I think you might be.

S1ick
Sneaky? I don't think so. :rolleyes:
The amount of BANS and eBay RSS info I've shared on DP is worth more than the few aff clicks I get in return.

[freelancewebaz]

To everyone who has purchased BANS; would you recommend this for people that are new to selling on ebay?

[biggerbone]

Traffic is ok for 11 websites. COngrats on the money.

[Clive]

To everyone who has purchased BANS; would you recommend this for people that are new to selling on ebay?

Good question, would love to hear that, too...

[jonixkonios]

If you know how to drive traffic to a new site, yes i totally recommend.

[sirprize]

i built my first bans site 3 days ago - the first thing i did was to install analytics and verify the site through googles webmaster tools.

the second day it was index by google and appeared on the first page for my second key phrase! this was before i added 10 pages of content yesterday so i'm looking forward to see the results after the next index.

already seeing good traffic results - get the basics right and remember content is king. don't build a bans site and leave it with just ebay feeds or it will be a complete waste of time.

[psantos]

10 pages of content! Wow!

How do you guys think up all this content without copywrite worries??

:confused:

Paul

[shafty]

Why use bans when you can use Ebays API and build your own niche sites??

[Wulfster]

Why use bans when you can use Ebays API and build your own niche sites??

I'm a software engineer in my day job, so I certainly have the technical ability to use the eBay API's. However, there are only so many hours in a day. In the time it would take me to figure out the API's and get a working, repeatable site, I was able to build a half dozen with BANS and had already more than paid back the purchase price.

Do you have more time than money? Do you have enough technical know-how to use the eBay API's on your site? Then it's probably worth a try.

I'm very pleased with the direction I chose to take:
http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/3285/cj20071012rd6.gif

Kent

[jimkarter]

I also bought BANS and used it for around 3 weeks now driving targeted traffic from my other sites to these BANS sites.
But I didn't see anything impressive (nothing anywhere close to what the thread opener has stated).

So to be frank, this threads looks just like somebody is trying to sell BANS and thats it.

[Clive]

I also bought BANS and used it for around 3 weeks now driving targeted traffic from my other sites to these BANS sites.
But I didn't see anything impressive (nothing anywhere close to what the thread opener has stated).

So to be frank, this threads looks just like somebody is trying to sell BANS and thats it.

Thanks, Jim.

To be honest, I was expecting to receive a reaction like this. All cause it sounds too good to be true, when someone says "thousand a week" and all that easy. Traffic is kink, that's true. But I have a slight doubt that ebay users would prefer to browse on an affiliate website rather than on ebay directly.

Having said all this, I might give it a go, just to prove myself either way. And I'll keep everyone updated on the result if I ever decide to go ahead and try this plan out.

[airbball23]

I had about 715 unique visitors across all eleven sites yesterday. Monday was a little busier but Tuesday was a little slower. It doesn't really take a ton of traffic if it's targeted.


I've offered my "secrets" to those who use my affiliate link to purchase BANS. Sorry, but it really wouldn't be fair to those who have already done so if I posted it here.

Kent

so i need to pay $95 to build the store?

[Wulfster]

So to be frank, this threads looks just like somebody is trying to sell BANS and thats it.

You're right, I don't make $1,000 every week. But since I did, I thought I'd share a milestone with the forum. This week, for example, I only made $951 from my twelve BANS sites. When I hit another milestone, I'll post a new thread; if you don't care to believe it, just move on to the next thread.

I'm not asking anyone to believe in Santa Claus here. I mean, have you even seen the screenshots I've posted?
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/8699/cj1013cx2.gif

If you don't want to believe the numbers I've posted and the screenshots that went along with them, that's your choice.

Kent

[Clive]

I did not mean to attack your idea, Kent. Not at all :)

I said I might give it a try since I wouldn't be losing much if it fails afterall.
Thanks for sharing this!

[Kerosene]

so i need to pay $95 to build the store?

Yes you need to purchase the script. But you can build as many stores as you want with it.

[Clive]

Yes you need to purchase the script. But you can build as many stores as you want with it.

That's good to know, is there a link to the official site mentioning that?

[Kerosene]

That's good to know, is there a link to the official site mentioning that?


"An unlimited domain license enabling you to build an unlimited number of stores at no additional cost."
buildanichestore.com/order.php

:)

[Clive]

"An unlimited domain license enabling you to build an unlimited number of stores at no additional cost."
buildanichestore.com/order.php

Ok, I purchased a license and will start testing this script soon.

[chrisd]

Looking forward to seeing what kind of earning potential this technique has...Thanks Clive!

For the people driving traffic to their BANS sites, is there anything besides ranking in search engines or similar type sites?

In my opinion, to be a real earning machine these type of sites need to work with PPC. Any thoughts?

I have a few Amazon stores (same principal: ie uses the Amazon API to display a store on the fly) and with just a few hours of promotions (actually paid people on DP do to the work) they earn high $x to low (very very low) $xx per month. I don't think nowadays, they are worth the time... They might be worth the time, using PPC but I never had the time to test that.

[hadeedg]

I also bought BANS and used it for around 3 weeks now driving targeted traffic from my other sites to these BANS sites.
But I didn't see anything impressive (nothing anywhere close to what the thread opener has stated).

So to be frank, this threads looks just like somebody is trying to sell BANS and thats it.

So eloquently put.

[kidblogger]

Correct me if I'm wrong here Wulfster


I buy the script from buildanichestore.com
Find a niche
Create a site out of it
Build links (Did you build links to your sites BTW?)
Wait for traffic?


It would also be nice if I could have a look see at one of your BANS site. You can PM it if you like.

[LongHaul]

I concur.

Let's see a link to ANY BANS site, yours or someone else's, just to get an idea of what it is!

Not your super traffic secrets, just an idea of what a BANS site is comprised of. It's all so vague.

[wiiman]

heres one of my bans sites. i have 5 now and plan on doing more each mth. have been with bans on various topics. so far with bans ive made over 1000usd

example bans site: www.tamiya-kits.com please note its not using the current vers 2.0. its using the vers1.3

check the site out. see how it works then buy it. theres banner on me site :-)

it does work and ive not had a bans site yet that hasnt converted one way or another.. like mentioned many times. traffic is the key.. the more targeted the better.

[LongHaul]

heres one of my bans sites.

Thanks for the url.

It looks pretty straightforward. Let me see if I understand: it's all eBay listings, and the trick is in the traffic, the garnering of which is the secret of BANS? But not PPC.

Hm.

[m0rtal]

heres one of my bans sites. i have 5 now and plan on doing more each mth. have been with bans on various topics. so far with bans ive made over 1000usd

example bans site: www.tamiya-kits.com please note its not using the current vers 2.0. its using the vers1.3

check the site out. see how it works then buy it. theres banner on me site :-)

it does work and ive not had a bans site yet that hasnt converted one way or another.. like mentioned many times. traffic is the key.. the more targeted the better.

Just wondering how you got your items to show up like that, is that a custom mod or is it one of the included templates? I'm referring to how the text/links beside the item image are showing.

[Clive]

Ok, I purchased a license and will start testing this script soon.

Well, the script itself is cool. Very simple and easy to use but.. buggy.

Be careful when deleting a category that contains child categories, they will all be removed from the list but subcategories will remain in the database, they won't show up on the site but won't be completely removed from the database either... This may become a problem when trying to resubmitting those categories to the store which will most likely fail.

I now need to do some debugging work from what I can see but the overall impression about the script is positive so far..
It's quite customizable which is a good fact.

[m0rtal]

Well, the script itself is cool. Very simple and easy to use but.. buggy.

Be careful when deleting a category that contains child categories, they will all be removed from the list but subcategories will remain in the database, they won't show up on the site but won't be completely removed from the database either... This may become a problem when trying to resubmitting those categories to the store which will most likely fail.

I now need to do some debugging work from what I can see but the overall impression about the script is positive so far..
It's quite customizable which is a good fact.

Yes that is an issue, when you delete a category you can't re-add it. Saw somewhere on the forum they will have a fix for this. In the meantime just start over, once you get the hang of it you won't make as many mistakes and it will be a breeze :)

Btw wiiman, I found the answer to my question so don't worry about it. I somehow missed the product layout setting.

[Clive]

Yes that is an issue, when you delete a category you can't re-add it. Saw somewhere on the forum they will have a fix for this.

Thanks for clarifying that, m0rtal.

[diego018]

hey, i know how to get to a site 1000 uniques targeted traffic dayly, but i wasnt accepted at ebay aff program, what are the requirements? so maybe i can give it another try.

[edc]

I hate to resurrect an old thread - rest assured that it is for good reason! I have been able to replicate this method. Feel free to PM me for the details. -e-

[netinfo12]

would like to know your traffic source

[rgordon83]

how much did you sepnd on traffic to the site?

[dturnbull]

BANS doesn't work, stop buying it and taking up all the niches. ;)

[cylai]

BANS doesn't work, stop buying it and taking up all the niches. ;)

LOL ! i agree :D

[felise32]

is this working for anybody?