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A New Way To Make Money With eBay

When you hear “eBay” and “money” in the same sentence you’re probably think of becoming an eBay seller.

You place product listings in the eBay marketplace, buyers bid, you pay your eBay seller fees and what you have left is your profit margin.

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” (BANS).

BANS if you don’t know – is an affiliate program which 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.

If we return to the eBay affiliate program, eBay actually invites you to promote all of the product listings in the eBay marketplace and in exchange for your efforts will pay you up to 75% of the revenue they make from each sale you refer plus up to $35 for each new active eBay member you refer.

You can have a 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 niche 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 websites 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 Color Books and the other Programming Books:

Color Books eBay Affiliate Website
Programming 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 (once you are familiar with how the software works) you can create a fully functional eBay affiliate website targeted to the niche market of your choice.

Your store content is all search engine friendly which will provide the foundation for attracting targeted traffic from the search engines 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 concept and I’ve been hearing great things about the guys behind the project and the member forum which you get lifetime access to 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…

Click Here To Read More About Build A Niche Store

My Westone UM1

Wow, I have been away for quite some time. My day time job is quite intensive these days, so well…

Recently, I have the opportunity to spend some money due to the last year end bonus and I bought myself some expensive stuff and the Westone UM1 True Fit Single Driver Earphones is one of them.

Actually, in the audiophiles (I am just a wannabe!) world, they are called In Ear Monitors.  Since the 1990s, Westone have been custom-making in ear monitors for musician to help them monitor what they are singing so that they self correct their singing.

I got my Westone UM1 from Stereo Electronics at Causeway Point. In Singapore. Stereo Electronics is one of very few shops in Singapore that allows you to test drive their earphones before you make the decision to buy.

The package is a very nice black translucent box that house the UM1 monitors, two sets of Comply tips (long and short) and a small carrier for your monitors. Oh yeah, there is also a short stick that I didn’t know what it is, until I read some reviews that it is a ear wax removal stick for your UM1 canal.

To tell the truth, the first time I see the UM1, my first impression is "What is this ugly piece of sh*t?" If you are coming from well designed Sony or Audio-Technica earphones, this might be your first impression too. The UM1 look like a smaller version of a hearing aid.

You have to get used to wearing the UM1 too. It is using the over the ear design and you have to hold it the right way to insert it properly. But one you insert it properly, WOW, they are the most comfortable earphones I have wore. The reasons could be the light weight of the monitors and the Comply tips.

And to properly enjoy your UM1, you need to wear or insert them properly. The first time I wear them, the angle of the monitors are wrong, and the sounds that came out was flat. Oh, a side note about the orientation of UM1. It does not comes with the normal L and R to denote Left and Right ear. The Blue dot is for the left ear and the Red dot is for the right ear. 

Once they are inserted properly, the sounds that came out of my 5G Ipod is different. The first thing you notice is the silence. Both external and internal silence. Most of the noise like people walking around are cut off and your music will seems louder because of that. That’s why it is advised in the manual (yes, I like reading the manual of electronics) to keep your volume low, so that you don’t hurt your ear. It really enhance your music experience.

I am not going into the bass definition, midrange accuracy or treble response and other technical stuff as I don’t pretend to know these stuff. The first song I listen to is my current favorite "God Knows" from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. For those who had heard the song, you will know there are a wonderful mess of electric guitar inside. With the original Ipod earphones, the sounds are kinda lump together, but with the UM1 the guitar sounds are well defined. it really gives me a WOW experience that I cannot forget. In Eason Chan’s "Shall we Talk", the background piano sounds stronger and there are also some sounds (like the triangle) that I didn’t hear before.

I am really impressed with the UM1 and I don’t think I can go back to the normal earphones anymore. Up is the way to go. If you think spending $100 for your $200+ Ipod is too much, don’t be. The experience is really great and I don’t regret it a bit.

City Hotel Guides - Singapore

Do you want to know where you can find the most travel guides online? You can find them at HotelsByCity.net. HotelsByCity is an online travel booking site where you can find Cheap Hotels, vacation package, last minute deals and even the hottest show tickets.

The first thing I look for is, of course, Singapore. I thought they wouldn’t have it, but here it is. Singapore Hotel Guide. This page is really well done. The blog review showcase Singapore’s cultural attractions. Places like Chinatown, Arab Street and Little India are where most tourists will visit when they come to Singapore. I would really recommend them to go to Sentosa to watch multi-sensory extravaganza "Songs of the Sea". It is something to be experienced.

Once you have read the guide on Singapore and you are interested in coming, there are more information to be found on the sidebar on the right. You can look for Cheap Hotels (most of the hotels, like Goodwood Park Hotel are linked there), find out the Weather and some online resource for Singapore. There is even a widget that allows you to search the availability of hotels for the dates you want to check in.

From what I have read on this guide, I must say there are very comprehensive information about Singapore and I am sure the other cities are covered adequately too. So make HotelsByCity the first choice when booking for your Hotels online.

Witness the Truth - A review of Bloggerunleashed.com

The truth? The truth about what? The truth about making money online. Not the John Chow way. Not the ShoeMoney way. But the Vic Franqui way.

Vic is the creator of BloggingZoom, Bu.bulicio.us and most importantly BloggerUnleashed.com. He is a former SEO Blackhatter who comes over to the Brightside to enjoy more long term success. This is important because as someone who have been through both sides, he have got buckets load of information to unleash.

After I found out about BloggerUnleashed from Don of Making Sales, Making Money (Don’s site seems to be down at the moment) yesterday, I blitzed through his archive like a baby searching for milk. There is just some much good stuff with what he is writing. I am sure I will be a daily visitor back to his blog.

The best of the lot is How To Get Google Juice. Not only entertaining like hell to read, but shows a live example on how to get your new blog/site indexed within 6 mins without submitting to Google.

Want to know how to create a niche site? Then read Start A Blog About Ants. A walkthrough of the thought process of building a niche site with "Ants" as your keyword. If you read his other post, you will see more references to Ants. He really got a thing for it.

I would have introduce more post of his to you but I am sure once you read one of his post, you would blitzed through his Archive like I did.

Want to learn more? Head to the comments sections. I feel there are more information there than what was covered in his post. Sometimes he even post article-length comments in reply to someone with questions. There are also knowledgeable commenters like Grizzly and Frank C to add more juice into the comments. With this much juice in the comments, I would wish Vic could install the "subscribe to comments" wordpress plugin.

One of the best things I have learn is monitzing a site with keywords like "blogging" or "make money online" will give you peanuts. So I am gonna developed some of my parked domains for niche marketing.

Lastly, if you want to be mentored by Vic, he has a mentoring program going on at his blog. You can read all the details over here.

Go read BloggerUnleashed.com now. That’s the best thing you can read on the web today.

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Last blogger to get infected by EntreCard

I am Legend. 60 million bloggers on the blogosphere. I will be at BlogMunch every day at midday, where the sun is the highest in the sky. God didn’t do this; EntreCard did. I am the last blogger. I am the only hope. I got infected.

Wow, can’t wait to watch this show. Singapore will only premiere on the 25th December 2007. Damn.

Anyway, I think you would have noticed I jump on the EntreCard bandwagon today. I didn’t want to, even though it comes highly recommended by John Cow, John Chow and Shoemoney. I thought it will be like BlogRush; a Bust on the sidebar for decorative purposes.

In case you did not get infected by EntreCard, here’s how it works. First, you sign up at Entrecard.com for free. Design a nice, nice 125×125 for yourself. Add the code in your WordPress theme. Viola, now there will be a widget on your sidebar for your readers to drop their EntreCard.

Now you can go round your favourite blogs to drop your card. But dropping a card only tells the blogger of your existence. To have your card appear, you will need to pay credits to buy a spot. And credits are earned by dropping a card or getting others to advertise their card on your blog. Does it sounds complicated? Actually, it is not. I just set up the widget four hours ago and now there are quite a few cards waiting in queue for me to approve. So gratifying.

It is definitely more fun than BlogRush. Sort of like playing a RPG card game. I also get fascinated by all the design ideas that goes into a tiny 125×125 card. Some are simply brilliant.

One thing I would like to suggest is a way to approve a card in the inbox. There are some cards that are so beautiful that I want to showcase them even though they don’t want to spend credits on my blog. That would be nice.

So drop a card and let me see how you design your card. I am interested.

After you drop your card, how about subscribing to the BlogMunch Feed. Don’t need credits for that.