Real Life Example of How You Can Make an eCommerce Site That Pays You Decent Cash

lewwy789 said:

Would you mind if i pm you the link please? :1zhelp:so you can give me your first impressions it would be great to have your experienced opinion.

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Why don't you email it instead as my PM box is a little hard to manage sometimes - [email protected] - I'd be glad to offer my thoughts on your site.

Good stuff BTB! Question for you. Do you target niches like you do for your authority sites? Basically what I'm getting at are you targeting a broad niche like Golf, or are you going more focused like Golf Shoes? I suppose going broad would be best because you are hitting more products.

Do you mind sharing what service/site's you used for the press release?

I never worked with press releases before

if i'm right, this is an ecommerce sites that sell aff products. so visitors click your link and go to advertiser's site to place the order? please correct me if i misunderstand. thanks very much. i live in China and i thought to make some ecommerce sites to sell site cheap chinese goods but i really hate to take care of the shipping. some of my friends sell those products on ebay, amazon and alibaba, but all of them don't know how to build a site. they have zero knowledge with seo as well. my main money sites are all amazon aff sites right now.

Great stuff from a fellow gator country resident. There is awesome money to be made in ecommerce but the determination and dedication needed to succeed long term cannot be stressed enough. Keeping the end goal in mind as you are plugging away at product descriptions and site content is extremely important.
With the proper market, products and suppliers there is easily $xx,xxx profit to be made on a monthly basis. Take the opportunity with your product descriptions to share your expert knowledge. Sharing your knowledge with customers through these descriptions will build trust and pay dividends with higher conversion rates and repeat business.
My brick and mortar store has been great to me but once I got a taste of the money in ecommerce it has received my full attention for nearly a year and a half. Started with one main site for my business and then added two more micro niche sites to make the most of my suppliers. The money is out there, so anyone thinking of going after ecommerce just stay determined and know there is real money to be had.

Been lurking BHW for a few months pretty steady. Thanks to all the knowledgeable members like BTB for posting some great stuff.

Amazing testament to your approach to marketing. Nice to see you step way outside your own comfort zone, and tackle something you put off considering for quite some time. It's always fascinating to see such hard working marketers as yourself continue to evolve and literally create new ways to make money. Sure you didn't invent e-commerce, but I bet you just made it seem possible to a lot of people that THEY can make money with this model.

Climb on-board folks - this train runs on cash.

BeerBrewer said:

Good stuff BTB! Question for you. Do you target niches like you do for your authority sites? Basically what I'm getting at are you targeting a broad niche like Golf, or are you going more focused like Golf Shoes? I suppose going broad would be best because you are hitting more products.

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It would be something more like golf products. You could do just shoes as I have in my example (that is only an example as I don't know much about shoes so I would not build a site around them) but I think Golf shoes might be a little too narrow and as a golfer I know they change fairly often. So golf products would be a little broader but not too broad.

asap1 said:

Do you mind sharing what service/site's you used for the press release?

I never worked with press releases before

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I do all my press releases in house now since I do them for my sites as well as most of my clients. I'll write them or I have one person that works with me write them and I have subscriptions to syndicate them. You would probably be well served by using them if you are building any sites that are long term.

Thanksyouall said:

if i'm right, this is an ecommerce sites that sell aff products. so visitors click your link and go to advertiser's site to place the order? please correct me if i misunderstand. thanks very much. i live in China and i thought to make some ecommerce sites to sell site cheap chinese goods but i really hate to take care of the shipping. some of my friends sell those products on ebay, amazon and alibaba, but all of them don't know how to build a site. they have zero knowledge with seo as well. my main money sites are all amazon aff sites right now.

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That is correct; they go to my site and click on a link that takes them to the actual seller and when a purchase is made I get paid. I have done the deal where I was shipping products using eBay but that is entirely too much work for me.

moneysitez said:

Great stuff from a fellow gator country resident.
The money is out there, so anyone thinking of going after ecommerce just stay determined and know there is real money to be had.

Been lurking BHW for a few months pretty steady.

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Welcome Florida Guy, you are entirely correct, there is REAL money in ecommerce, glad to see you are on board there and banking.

davers said:

Amazing testament to your approach to marketing. Nice to see you step way outside your own comfort zone, and tackle something you put off considering for quite some time. It's always fascinating to see such hard working marketers as yourself continue to evolve and literally create new ways to make money. Sure you didn't invent e-commerce, but I bet you just made it seem possible to a lot of people that THEY can make money with this model.

Climb on-board folks - this train runs on cash.

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Good observations!

A lot of my revenue streams come from stepping outside of my comfort zone and testing things out. I fail plenty and every now and then I hit on something like this that is just cold hard cash for just applying some elbow grease.

In this industry, if we don't {evolve|test|try new things} we fail... I see that daily.

BassTrackerBoats said:

Why don't you email it instead as my PM box is a little hard to manage sometimes - [email protected] - I'd be glad to offer my thoughts on your site.

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Thank you it is generous of you - i sent you the link yestrday it may be in the junk it is titled thank you.

lewwy789 said:

Thank you it is generous of you - i sent you the link yestrday it may be in the junk it is titled thank you.

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I see it and will get a look today for you.

I think I left this out above but when you build this kind of site, Image SEO is real important since your content is not going to be very heavy so bear that in mind when you are setting things up.

I've looked at a handful of sites that have been sent to me and almost all of them were lacking proper Image SEO.

Thank you for sharing BTB, this should work with affiliates like Amazon as well.

financeguy said:

Thank you for sharing BTB, this should work with affiliates like Amazon as well.

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I'm sure it would work with Amazon as well; I used CJ as I prefer the longer cookie but I do a little business with Amazon on some of my other sites.

With Amazon, I like to push products that are under 100.00 or so as they are more like to be made by an impulse buyer.

AliExpress is also a very good site to sell porducts from foreign nations so you don't have to rely on one market.

There are many plugins, but only 1 current that streamlines the process.

There is a plugin you could checkout for AliExpress in the downloads section from a very reputable user.

Dont limit.yourself to mainstream services and sell smaller scale programs and witness the difference.

The future is in foreignly obtained goods and services imported to consumer nations.

Thanks for the advice BTB you are a good egg.

Not only a good read but one of the best reference here. One word to succeed on this - HARDWORK! thanks for sharing.

Great post Greg! I am in the process of making my amazon affiliate e-commerce site and your tips would definitely help me.

This won't be as easy as that other method of mine you took and twisted like a champ but it will be profitable for you.

By e-commerce, you mean affiliate store, right? Not my own e-commerce site, shipping my own product, etc.?

Do you have problems outranking other e-commerce sites with affiliate products? Such as Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart, etc.?

audioguy said:

By e-commerce, you mean affiliate store, right? Not my own e-commerce site, shipping my own product, etc.?

Do you have problems outranking other e-commerce sites with affiliate products? Such as Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart, etc.?

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Yes, operating as an affiliate but this process would work well if you had your own products as well as I do that for clients that are manufactures and sell a bevy of products.

Outranking Walmart, Best Buy, Amazon etc is not really that difficult using this sort of site building process. If you are building a site and pushing only a handful of products, like a review site or something, maybe it is an issue, but for a decent sized site that you are nurturing along and actively working it is certainly in your wheelhouse.

Sure BTB. I have no doubt this process should work for e-commerce sites, selling and shipping products themselves.

It's the fact that affiliate sites can compete in product search results is the part that I need confirmation about since everyone says that you can't and shouldn't create affiliate sites around product-based keywords. Google gives preferences over e-commerce sites for those keywords for quite some time.