There is, however, another way to build a business which still revolves around eBay but which doesn’t involve you selling a single thing in the eBay marketplace.
This "other way" opportunity is based on the eBay affiliate program and a great tool which makes entry into this opportunity not only possible but also super easy. This tool is called "Build A Niche Store".
Now if you don’t know – an affiliate program enables you as an individual internet entrepreneur to promote the products of a company in exchange for a commission on all sales that you refer.
You are basically operating as an internet middleman and connecting internet browsers to particular products and companies through you own network of websites and marketing methods. This works because eBay does very little marketing, relying on their name for traffic. By rewarding affiliates (like me and hopefuly you), they recieve targeted traffic without doing the work.
That's right, eBay actually invites you to promote all of the product listings in the eBay marketplace and in exchange for your efforts will pay you 50% (up to 75%) of the revenue they make from each sale you refer plus $25 (up to $35) for each new active eBay member you refer.
You can read about the eBay.com affiliate program here
What this means is that you can earn up to three quarters of eBay’s revenue simply for connecting people to the products listed in the eBay marketplace.
Not only do you get to partner with the best branded marketplace in the world, you also get access to and control over ALL of the products listed in this marketplace. The eBay product inventory becomes YOUR product inventory and yet you do NOT have to stock items, deal with customers, organize shipping or process refunds.
You are no longer limited to selling only those products which you can buy and sell for a profit margin. You can choose ANY product market and promote those eBay products relevant to your chosen niche outside of the eBay marketplace, funnelling targeted traffic through to eBay and into your own affiliate commissions.
Golf clubs, sewing kits, laptops, dog collars, diamond rings, Florida real estate…
If you know eBay you know how BIG it is – there are NO limits.
At this point you might be thinking - well this sounds interesting but in reality is there any money in it? Well, here’s the shocker – eBay's top affiliates make over 1 million dollars a month. That’s right – 8 figures a year without stocking, selling or shipping a single thing!
Now eBay does provide some basic free tools to help you succeed as an eBay affiliate and build an affiliate business BUT it has been the development of a tool outside of eBay that has really opened this up as a legitimate business opportunity.
The tool, as I mentioned earlier, is called "Build A Niche Store" and what it enables you to do is build eBay affiliate website stores targeted to any eBay niche you want. These act as the medium through which you funnel targeted visitors to eBay.
Here are a couple of examples, one targeting Scuba Regulators and the other Loose Diamonds:
Scuba Regulator eBay Affiliate Website
Loose Diamonds eBay Affiliate Website
As you can see, these are professional looking websites that contain all of those eBay products related to their target niche inside a searchable store format, each of which automatically contains your eBay affiliate id.
These stores then AUTOMATICALLY update as new products are listed for sale and old listing expire from the eBay marketplace and the software has built in development features which enable you to create new store pages, add content to these pages, create content pages, modify your template etc etc.
Basically, in the space of about 10 minutes you can create a fully functional eBay affiliate website targeted to the niche market of your choice, just like this one.
Your store content is all search engine friendly which will provide the foundation for attracting targeted traffic from the search engines like Google and you can then use the development features to attract more targeted visitors which will in turn mean more eBay affiliate commissions.
It really is a brilliant and simple concept and the guys behind the project and the member forum are both incredibly helpful resources. And you get lifetime access to the forum and free updates when you purchase the product.
Build A Niche Store comes with a step by step user manual which will walk even the most technically inexperienced through setting up their eBay affiliate website, 9 professional template layouts which can be customized (from inside your admin panel) to match your target niche, lifetime member forum access, comprehensive product support and possibly most importantly – an UNLIMITED domain license which means you can build as many of these niche websites as you want for the small one time fee.
Think about how many niches eBay caters to!
How big could your eBay affiliate business be?!
This product gets my full recommendation – check it out today…
I can personally vouch for this program. It was used to build this site, and many others like it. The only overhead you pay is for the BANS package, hosting services, and domain names. These costs are minimal and most stores pay for that overhead in a month.
You are probably skeptical, I know I was. There are so many of these types of offers out there that don't work. But this one does, really! I took the leap of faith and began building stores, and it worked! I paid for the BANS package in my first month, everything after that was gravy.
I do these stores truly part time. I am in construction, and only spend about 3 hours per week on my stores. The beautiful thing about this program is that it literally runs itself. Once you set a store up, the software automatically updates your inventory, so you don't have to manage your store. It does all the work for you.
