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Make Money With Your Own Online Shop

Post author:Peter
Reading time:5 mins read
Post published:January 20, 2016
Post category:Making Money

Those who know me know that I’m always on the look out to make money online. They also know that I’m always more than willing to share those ideas with you, my readers. The biggest problem that people have generating an online income is having something to sell. That’s why many turn to affiliate marketing.

Many don’t like affiliate marketing though and so some have turned to Amazon or eBay in order to promote products to sell online. I’ve had a little success with Amazon but I’ve found their commission structure a little low. I mean a 4% commission rate is really pretty pitiful.

Thats why I was pleasantly surprised when I can across the Xpress Stores Pro plugin. Using this plugin I was able to start my very own online store promoting products from the popular and growing AliExpress site. You can do the same once you’ve joined them as an affiliate via their AliExpress Portal portal. I suggest you do this before buying the Xpress Stores Pro plugin and the introductory price of $47!

I’ve already opened up 4, brand new online stores offering a wide range of products to my potential customers. Here’s the stores I’ve opened so far.

The Gifts Guru Gift Store: My first ever online store offering heaps of gift ideas.
EZ e Sports Store: This one concentrates on sports orientated goods.
Best Sex Toys: I have high hopes for this one because I know how big the sex toys market is.
Wassup Top Shopping: This store is attached to my favourite blog and carries a wide range of goods from toys to electronics.

What I love about these stores is I don’t have to worry about drop shipping or handling any of the sales. I just send people to AliExpress who handles all the hard stuff and then sends me my commissions.

I’ve even put together a video to show how easy it is to start up your very own online store.

Naturally you will need to host these stores online and I have several hosting sites that I use and recommend.

Lunar Pages:You can host your online shop with these guys for only $4.95 per month. Thats only $59.40 per year. You also get a free domain for the first year.
GreenGeeks: If you’re looking for a “Green” host then there’s none better than GreenGeeks whose basic plan starts at only $3.96 per month or $47.52 per year.
Hostgator: Hostgators $5.56 per month plan or $66.72 per year is probably the most expensive but they’re one of the biggest web hosts out there and therefore very reliable.
Web hosting Pad: These guys have the cheapest hosting rates at only $1.99 per month. That’s only $23.88 per year! My Sex Toys shop is hosted with them.
Inmotion Hosting: My favourite hosting provider! Although you can get shared hosting for $5.99 per month I’m paying around $40 per month for VPS Hosting. I’ve had to do that because the sites I host with them outgrew the shared hosting platform.

Naturally you need a decent theme for your shopfront and while there are free ones available I decided to use the FlexSqueeze2 which I’ve found to be exceptional. That video will show you some of the unique features of the FlexSqueeze2 theme.

As you can see you can start your very own store for under $180. Subsequent years it will cost you even less because you only have to bear the cost of the theme and plugin once.

My Dream Of An Online Store Finally Realised

Post author:Peter
Reading time:3 mins read
Post published:April 30, 2009
Post category:Making Money

Having an online store is something that I have been thinking about for a long time, but it has been sitting on the ‘too hard’ pile because I couldn’t work out exactly how to go about it. The thing is that I knew that if I set one up and had the right products to sell there would be money to be made.

The difference with putting a link on your blog advertising a product and having that same product advertised on your store is that the chances for a sale is greater at your store than on your blog. The reason being that people who are browsing your store are potential buyers where those reading your blogs are just browsing through.

Today I’ve finally realized my dream because I’ve just found out that RegNow has now got an Affiliate Site Builder Tool! This tool allows the affiliate to create a search-friendly affiliate site populated with up to thousands of RegNow products quickly and easily. It was so easy that I was able to setup my store in no time. All I had to do was select my template and then customize it with my logo. I then used their simple drag and drop system to install the content widgets of my choice. Once I was happy with the way the store looked I just downloaded the files to my computer and then uploaded it to Top Software Online, my new online shop.

At the moment the shop is fairly basic and I have a bit of work to do with it when I get the chance. Even though I’ve only got three pages that I’ve configured, including a section for bloggers, the standard set up has already got hundreds of products ready for online sale. I have complete control over what product I sell and the knowledge that my margin from sales can be as high as 70% is a pretty good feeling. I was even able to add Google Adsense to it and later I will use it to promote other affiliates.

The next step is to market it and I reckon I will use the normal methods that I have used to promote my blogs. I think it is also time that I start getting stuck into my Squidoo Lenses, something that I have been meaning to do for a long time now but have been too slack to do anything about it. I remember that John Dillbeck wrote a post on Promoting a CafePress Store On Squidoo, so I feel that would make a good start. It’s times like these when I wish I didn’t already have a full time job so that I can devote all my time on several online enterprises.