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27

My first EPN payment from a BANS powered website

Filed Under Income, Money 

I built a BANS (Build A Niche Store) powered website about 2 months ago and have just received my first payment of 53,61 €.

For those of you who don’t know about BANS and EPN : those are the acronyms of two products : Build A Niche Store, and Ebay Partner Network.

Let me tell you first about the second one, Ebay Partner Network. EPN is an affiliate marketing program that allows online publishers to earn money by redirecting people to products that are being sold on Ebay. In the end, for every product actually bought by a person redirected to Ebay’s website through your links, you get financially rewarded.

The first one, Build A Niche Store, is a full store script that you install on your webserver (just like you install a blogging platform such as Wordpress, except it’s even easier). After installation, you have a basic store set up, fully integrated with the Ebay Partner Network mentionned above, listing all the products from a chosen Ebay category. Of course there are countless ways to customize the look of your store and the way it interacts with Ebay categories.

After installing and customizing it a bit (which took me about an hour), I refered it to a few of my friends and on major search engines. After that I participated a bit in a few laptops related forums (but not that much since I have very little time left to spend on the net). Of course I was a bit reluctant at first. Having paid 97$ (about 65€) + 8€ for the domain name, it better had to pay back. But having read all the positive reviews about this product, I understood the most important thing to consider in order to earn money is to choose a proper and narrow enough niche. The one I chose (ultra portable laptops) seems good enough since I earned those 53,61€ doing almost zero work for it. So I earned 50€ for the first month and am already at 19€ for this month. This means the initial investment is already paid for. Anything the site earns from now will be pure passive income.

Of course right now it’s only paying about 50€ a month, but remember I did almost zero work for it! Now imagine what it would be like if I really spent some serious time promoting it all over the web… I also noticed the conversion rate is quite high : I only get about 10 visitors per day (which is ridiculously low). I can’t imagine what it would earn if I could generate 100 visitors per day…

Anyway, I suggest you give it a shot. There’s also a huge community on BANS forums that will gladly help you out and answer all your questions. I have to mention that the guides coming with the script is VERY well done and beyond reach of almost any internet publisher newbie.

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