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Anyone tried the "Webmaster BluePrint" book & relevant questions
 

Does it teach you how to build a website from scratch? What hosting company and tools does it talks about?

or should I go to something like Yahoo store?

What do any of you with your own sites spend monthly including hosting fees and advertising

Speaking in the broadest of terms, I know of at least 4 users here who took great advantage of this book.

It allowed them to move on from ebay. They are all managing very nicely thanks to the info contained in the book.
One user is actually making hs own sites & after a certain time maturing them with SEO he sells them at a reasonable profit... all thanks to this webmaster book :thumb:
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Creating your site is the 1st step. Then you have to work out how to get traffic to it.

It is a very vaulable book, especially with the SEO advice. You can have the nicest looking site, but if you make certain mistakes, it might as well not exist as far as Google is concerned.

My main site, which I spend about $50 per month on works very well. I used ChrisLands.com as the host, because they are built for Books and DVD's and have a lot of nice automation, making the setup very easy. But if not for Aspkin's advice from the book, I don't know it it would be as successful as it is.

You are definitely on the right track. Building your own site will only help to make your business more stable since it is much harder for anyone to shut you down. Even merchnt account providers will normally give you 30 days notice if they want to part ways, as opposed to PayPal's 30 nanoseconds.

The first six months my site existed, I had very few sales - probably less than $50 per month, and was very discouraged. I read Aspkin's book and started referring all of my eBay and Amazon customers as well as optimizing for the search engines. That was about 3 years ago (maybe 2 and a half) and I am now selling $5k+ per month in gross volume WITHOUT spending a single penny to generate traffic.

My best guess is if I wasn't using Askpin's techniques, my volume would be about half of that as a lot of my customers from the site NEVER bought from me on Amazon or eBay.

So, YES, in my opinion, the book is well worth it.

Webmaster Blueprint is another great book. it has a ton of info and helped me out since i am a beginner in getting traffic to a site. i am working on making a site so i can start to not have to rely on ebay/amazon

which shopping cart are you thinking of using?

cs-cart seems like the easiest choice, i was also recommended magento

hey slim jim. thanks for you reply. Anyways advice on how to drive traffic?

i would read webmaster blueprint, there is a ton of info for that, i am still a newbie when it comes to that part. i would suggest concentrating on the part that talks about google advertising

make sure you have your ducks in a row before you jump on the PPC train, you can burn money FAST if not.

also don't start a goog, they have the most expensive PPC prices.

Ground work and preparation are the basis for success in this area.

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