Comments on: How to Find and Build Profitable Niche eBay Stores

By: gabe brenner

gabe brenner — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 13:28:34 +0000

hey mark, i just wanted to ask since i’m a beginner in this business, when you create your site do you simply put content and the ebay feeds and keep updating it regularly? do you ping your content? and, what kind of marketing do you do? i only stick to article marketing by submitting to directories. I currently have one site that i outsourced. It’s only 2 weeks old but i’m only getting around 15-20 visits per day! It was created using BANS not Phpbay so i don’t know if that has any bad implications. I’ve created a few articles and have posted them on some directories recently other than that, i’m just pressing the ping button on my articles. Can you help me? i researched the keywords well on Micro Niche Finder but i’m still not seeing success.

thanks,
gabe

By: Rich Hill

Rich Hill — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 05:03:19 +0000

Mark,

I’m sold on the ebayphp, now just gotta set up some sites and give it a go.

The best camera site is most excellent and I would visit again many times just to see the Yaoti but evidently the animated avatar only shows up on the first visit. Too bad, that is way cool!

I went to Yaoti to check their prices, but way too rich for my blood.

If they dropped these to about 27 bucks they would sell billions of them.

Rich Hill

By: Haron Tawil

Haron Tawil — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:01:11 +0000

Mason,

The video was great! It kind of working hand in hand between MNF and you phpBay plugins. I would like to think that I’m doing that in this near future..

Regards,
Haron.

By: CD Rates Blog

CD Rates Blog — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:07:21 +0000

That Camera site is cool. They might even get a sale out of me.

cd :O)

By: Mark Mason

Mark Mason — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:19:14 +0000

Well, the site has 2 problems — I have not promoted it and I used BMW in the domain name. It was late and I was sleepy. Using BMW in the domain name is a violation of eBays TOS (3rd slash rule), so I am going to convert the site into an AdSense site and find another domain name for the BMW parts.

However, I have definately made money with phpBay. Want to see a killer example (not my site). Look at this sweet WordPress ebay store running phpBay: http://bestcamerabargains.com/

Again, not my site — but awesome.

Regards,
Mark

By: CD Rates Blog

CD Rates Blog — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:05:46 +0000

So has the site had some results? Love to hear success stories. Keep up the great work. I use MNF on some of my personal sites. Have been very happy with it.

By: Forest

Forest — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:08:22 +0000

Awesome video Mark,

I just downloaded PHPBay lite yesterday to start trying it out on some niche sites and this video inspired me a little more.

By: Mark Mason

Mark Mason — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:12:14 +0000

Hey Shaun;

Thanks for dropping by. I plan to get back over to IBMA this month. Been a little busy….

Appreciate the comments.

Mark

By: Shaun

Shaun — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:03:23 +0000

Mark,

Wow, really great video. You set off some ideas in my head about how to market some of my own info products deeper into the long tail. Thanks!

By: Mark Mason

Mark Mason — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:21:33 +0000

Kent — thanks!

As for the themes, all I did was delete the AdSense code in the page_adsense.php file and replace it with code for the the banner that you see on the site. I think I may have also messed with exactly where the banner appears (page.php).

A pretty simple tweak. If you decide to do it and have trouble, please let me know.

Thanks,
Mark

By: Kent F

Kent F — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:17:34 +0000

Mark – if you don’t win first prize something is seriously flawed with James’ judging. 😉

I had no idea we could use Adsense themes with php ebay – or is that code only the super-techie can use?