http://buildanichestoretoday.com Build A Niche Store Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:28:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Christmas season IS the biggest shopping season on the year. Knowing this, it is critical that you get your Build A Niche Store sites up and running now so they have time to get indexed in the search engines. This is going to be my first winter shopping season ... http://buildanichestoretoday.com/2008/11/15/niche-marketing-get-ready-now-for-christmas-shoppers/ Yes, it's been a very long time since my last post. I've been really, really busy working on several projects. Some BANS, some not. As far as the non-BANS, I've been working on several sites including one for Rodrigo "Minotauro" Nogueira, he's the UFC Heavyweight Champ! He's opened a new gym ... http://buildanichestoretoday.com/2008/11/15/build-a-niche-store-update-earnings-report/ I'm really getting to be a Build A Niche store junkie and I'm one of the few that actually enjoy their forum. I'll check it out 3-4 times per day just to see what's going on. Anyway, over the last 3 months I've seen a reoccurring theme among new users. ... http://buildanichestoretoday.com/2008/09/10/keep-the-horse-ahead-of-the-cart/ I'm an impulsive obsessive compulsive with ADD type personality. That means I get an idea in my head and jump on it. Immediately. Then I obsess over it for a period of time. Its all i think about. It's all I do. Then all of a sudden, I get bored ... http://buildanichestoretoday.com/2008/08/21/affiliate-profile-impulsive/ OK, I'm in my 4th month of seriously using BANS and focusing solely on BANS business promotion.  Last month I earned $295. I just ran some numbers and it turns out that $295 was based on $6,427 in sales. So, my little sites generated $6,427 in purchases? When I do ... http://buildanichestoretoday.com/2008/08/14/are-you-losing-money-with-build-a-niche-store/ When I first got started, I thought I understood how PPC worked. You create an ad, choose your keywords and post it to Yahoo, Google, MSN. Someone then searches on your selected keyword, they click your ad and you pay for that click or referral to your site. Boy was ... http://buildanichestoretoday.com/2008/08/13/use-ppc-wisely-with-bans/ One of the fundamental truths related to Build A Niche Store is that it takes time to grow and see success. Most people fail because they treat BANS like a store. Meaning, they just install it, write a minimal amount of content and that is it. They wait a few ... http://buildanichestoretoday.com/2008/08/13/dont-start-a-bans-store-start-a-bans-business/ OK, as many of you know, I got a Google timeout and it earned me time in the Google Sandbox. How long who knows. So if you are reading this, chances are you are in the same boat. You can either play along and dig yourself out of the box ... http://buildanichestoretoday.com/2008/07/28/fun-games-to-play-while-you-are-in-the-google-sandbox/ BANS sites require traffic to function properly and produce an income. One of the most sustaining sources of traffic is search engine traffic. Without constant traffic from the search engines, your BANS site will likely fail. The biggest source of search engine traffic is obviously Google. A few years back, ... http://buildanichestoretoday.com/2008/07/26/twenty-tips-to-keep-your-bans-store-out-of-the-google-sandbox/ There seems to be a ton of questions on the boards about cookies for some reason. Here it is. There are two cookies when it comes to BANS sites. One you don't need to care about so much, one you do. The first cookie is YOUR cookie. When a visitor hits YOUR site, ... http://buildanichestoretoday.com/2008/07/17/the-build-a-niche-store-cookie-unraveled/