I know traffic is the key but with 3 steps: directory submissions, social book-markings and articles publishing within the first 2 weeks of launching a new site, can one expect some money coming in from either Bay/BANS store or Cj store in the very first month or normally how long it takes?
You can usually see some income from BANS the first month. I typically get some traffic from Stumbleupon the converts with BANS sites. It's usually not a lot of money, but a good start
You better believe it. I hadn't heard of BANS until recently, after I bought a site from someone. The good thing was it google was already crawling the site. It was a new site so the seller had no revenue reported. To my surprise, even without doing anything, I started seeing a few dollars here and there. After which, I posted some blogs. I was very surprised with the results. For February, there was only 3 days with 0 commission, on everyday I had commissions practically and earned $500 and change on my first month.
So no matter CJ or BANS chances of making more money in first month depends upon niche & traffic, I guess!