I just read a blog post over at John Chow.com talking about a new plugin for Wordpress that allows you to create a BANS store.

BANS stands for Build A Niche Store, and it’s geared toward Ebay affiliates that are interested in setting up a store to sell items through the Ebay affiliate program.

An Old Idea

The BANS stores have been around for some time and ebay affiliates are making good money from them.  But the BANS software cost $97.  Not to worry though, the new Affomatic Ebay Plugin is absolutely free and allows you to create your own BANS store using your Wordpress blog and your Ebay affiliate Id.

Here is a screenshot of the plugin management page:

Make Money on Ebay

To place an item on your blog, you add the link and create a keyword that corresponds, then anywhere you place that keyword on your blog in a tag format ([AffomaticEbay]Keyword[/AffomaticEbay]), the ebay item will display along with your keyword.

The New Idea

Now here’s a twist on everything.  If you already sell your own products or plan on selling your own products, whether you have them listed on ebay yet or not, this plugin is a great way to “double dip”.

What do I mean by “double dip”?

Simply place your products on ebay, then create your wordpress affiliate store, also add your products to this store.  Now whenever someone buys one of your products through your affiliate store, you make the affiliate commission from that sale as well as the normal profit from the actual sale on ebay.  You are essentially double-dipping.

This can help off-set the cost of ebay fees tremendously.

With the Ebay Affiliate program and this new wordpress plugin, there is absolutely no reason you should ever have an online store that doesn’t operate this way.  The internet is evolving and you should too, especially if you’re interested in being successful.

Get the Affomatic Ebay Plugin here.

Let me know what you think about this great new plugin.

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