I’m so excited, I made $46 yesterday! I’m doing the happy dance! My husband is thrilled for me! This was just the push I needed to add more content to my sites. I also need to do some more promoting. I can only imagine what some of my sites could do if I took the time to improve them.
So you are probably wondering how I made the money? I made the money using BANS (Build a niche site). BANS is an ebay affiliate software I set up BANS on a domain I own about six weeks ago. BANS is a store/website development platform which enables you to create content based sites that generate income through the eBay affiliate programs. Best of all I don’t actually handle anything on ebay, I drive the buyers to ebay and then ebay splits their profit with me.
In July I had 150 clicks over to ebay from this particular site and this month I’ve had over 321 clicks so far and finally got a sale!
I’m not going to say exactly what I sold on ebay because I don’t want to give away my niche. 
Tip: In the future when I set up a new website, I plan on having Wordpress on the root and BANS in a separate folder (store) on my domain and then link to my wordpress blog. Google LOVES wordpress. Last week I set up two wordpress powered niche blogs and Google found the blogs the same day I set them up and I didn’t submit them to google. Clearly wordpress is the way to go.
Those two sites I just mentioned setting up last week, so far haven’t generated any income but it’s still really early and I haven’t promoted them or even tried to build backlinks yet. I’m doing a little experiment and instead of installing BANS in a folder, I’m using BayRSS it’s a wordpress plugin. I really like the way it looks. Here’s an example:
Dave Ramsey Financial Peace University Audio Library | US $15.00 (10 Bids) End Date: Tuesday Jan-06-2009 8:06:34 PST Bid now | Add to watch list |
Dave Ramsey Financial Peace University- Never opened!
 | US $76.00 (16 Bids) End Date: Tuesday Jan-06-2009 12:46:27 PST Bid now | Add to watch list |
Financial Peace Revisited/ Dave Ramsey(2003)
 | US $4.95 (1 Bid) End Date: Tuesday Jan-06-2009 15:41:57 PST Bid now | Add to watch list |
If you are interested in either one of these programs I recommend first signing up as an ebay affiliate. Most but not everyone is approved. I guess they don’t approve people form certain countries? I was approved within a few days.
According to ebay their top 25 affiiliates in the program average about $100,000 monthly commissions! Can you imagine pulling in $100,000 a month in passive income? My goals are much lower, right now I’d be happy with $100 a month!
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Chicky Finance 08.25.08 at 11:49 am
That’s awesome! I have so many projects in mymind, I’d better start acting
hasen 08.25.08 at 12:45 pm
Congratulations on your first sale.
I started using BANS in April of this year and this month broke the $1,000 earnings mark. Last month I got just over $800. I’m hoping I can keep this up and break $1,200 next month.
debtdieter 09.01.08 at 7:36 pm
That’s really exciting, congratulations!