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Hi Everyone!
Welcome back to Random-Thoughts-Blog.com. Did you miss me? I’m sure for anyone subscribed to the RSS feed, one day back in April, it just didn’t work and you just quit reading. Back in April, after almost 100 posts, I decided to take my blog down not knowing if I would return.
If you’ve read some of the older posts, you’ll know that I am a full-time-unemployed guy trying to navigate my way through making money online. I have not worked in a regular job since January of 2008 when we moved to a new city for my wife’s job relocation.
Since that time I have tried a number of different ways to make money, including blogging. Some of the things I tried were successful, while some were not. Thankfully, I had backups of my blogs database before I took it down and was able to bring it back online in no time with a brand new look.
So What Happened In April 2008 To Make Me Take My Blog Down?
To be honest, there wasn’t some catastrophic event that made me do it. I just came to the conclusion that I was running out of content to write because I hadn’t experienced enough or learned enough about making money online that would qualify me to talk about it. There are lots of blogs out there where people talk about how to make money online, but they themselves are making very little. I decided that I needed to “walk the talk”, so I just pulled down the blog and that was it.
It was too bad that I did pull it down because it was really starting to get some decent traffic, but I’m glad I did. After that I spent my days learning to make money with Build A Niche Store (BANS). Once I saw my first earnings, I was hooked and I saw the potential income that could be made with BANS. I devoted 12 hours per day to building and maintaining my BANS niche stores. In total, at the height of my small BANS empire, I had 21 stores.
Once they stores were built, I set out to grow the traffic to these stores, which proved to be no easy task. Good, quality buying traffic was what I was after. Anyone can stumble a few blog posts or store pages and get some traffic, but I wanted quality traffic. I worked day and night and my earnings started to climb.
Now, I’m not going to be one of those guys that shows screenshots of my affiliate accounts, since I think it’s tacky, but I have made some money. I’m not talking about huge, buy a Ferrari kind of money, but decent earnings which have been growing each month. My goal with my BANS stores is over $5,000 per month, which I have not hit yet. Actually, I’m not even close, but the growth has been at 75-100% each month, so it might not be as far off as I think. Realistically, to give you an idea, last month I was fairly close to $1,000.
If you’ve ever considered buying BANS I would warn you. IT IS NOT A GET RICH QUICK SCHEME. The eBay Partner Network (EPN) has made it very difficult for affiliates looking for quick and easy money to operate. The goal with BANS is building high quality, unique websites that dominate their respective niche. This takes a lot of time and effort, but the rewards are worth it. Along the way I have dropped a number of stores, some with hours and hours spent in development. I’m down to 14 stores, each with a blog and I am in the process of turning them into high quality websites that add value to a customers buying experience.
Since that time I’ve also made money with Clickbank and niche blogs and I will tell you about that another time. Also, I launched an article writing business which has been going exceptionally well and keeps me very busy. If you’re in the market for quality content for your website, stop by NicheStoreContent.com
So now that I’m back I would love if you kept reading. I will give you info on how it is that I’m making money online, what’s working for me and what is not.
Stay tuned!
