As I mentioned in a previous post, I am going to use Wordpress to build my niche websites. I spent a bunch of time studying the phpBay add-on over the weekend and continued my studies of the N1WAY guide. I have to tell you that I am really impressed with how much structure and direction the guide gives me. The real benefit of all of this is that you can stay focused and keep moving forward. Even if you are only going to be doing this in your "spare time" you can be assured that the guide will help you get the most from your time.

If you are going to use Wordpress, you will need to get phpBay pro. It is $79 and you can learn more by clicking on the image below. It is really very simple to use and well worth the investment.

I am currently working through the "The Number 1 Way To Make Money Online". I am on Step 4 which is when you start building the site. Overall, I have found the guide to be extremely helpful. It is not simple, but it is extremely comprehensive. If you are looking for a simple way to make money online, you are wasting your time. Adam and Kelvin are laying out a very solid foundation for long-term success and it is consistent with my own personal experience. I have decided to use Wordpress to build my niche sites. You can use either BANS or Wordpress. If you are a rookie to all of this then I think that BANS is still a good alternative. However, I see some real value in tapping into social networking and web 2.0 technology. Wordpress gives me that opportunity. BANS does not. I think that over the long term, your niche sites will be much more profitable and sustainable. Twitter is an incredible resource for traffic and cannot be ignored. So, when I read this line in Step 4:

"We then "turn off comments" as they play no part in this website."

I was rather shocked, to say the least. I know that Adam and Kelvin have had a lot of success without tapping into web 2.0 but a lot has changed over the past 4-5 years. If you are going to maintain long term success, you need to be in position to adopt this technology if it can increase your revenue. In my experience, this is absolutely vital. My first niche site, your-guide-to-watches.com, is way too big. If I were following the guidelines of N1WAY, I would have built several watch related websites that focused on smaller sub-niches. Too late to go back and undo that but not too late to learn and adjust.

The two smartest things I did with that site were that I chose to use Site Build It and I implemented their "Content 2.0" functionality, which has allowed site visitors to add comments and even new pages to the site. This has resulted in an "organic" growth of the site that has been derived purely from the interests of the site visitors. The real proof of whether or not this makes sense is in the numbers. I am not going to share specific figures here but I can tell you that the number of visitors from the same month a year ago has seen a steady increase. I have seen increases of anywhere from 25 to 125% over the same month from the previous year. Even more importantly, I have seen a comparable increase in revenue. I have basically done nothing to this site for over two years other than moderate the new content added by site visitors, which takes me about an hour a month (at the most). This site in now averaging over $400 a month in revenue and it continues to go up, much to my constant amazement.

I really think that with the direction and focus I now have from N1WAY along with the web 2.0 functionality available from Wordpress, I can build out a new niche website about every 2-4 weeks. As a full-time student, this is going to provide me with lots of great choices down the road. What do you think? Do you agree with me that it is important to include web 2.0 technology into your niche websites or do you agree with Adam and Kelvin who say that it "plays no part"? I would love to hear what others have experienced.

Jay

I am currently working through the brand new guide, N1WAY - aka - The Number 1 Way To Make Money Online. This guide is from Adam and Kelvin, the two guys who introduced the Build A Niche Store Guide almost five years ago.

I was one of the original owners of BANS and found it to be an extremely productive tool. In addition, I was always amazed at how much Adam and Kelvin were willing to do for their customers/clients. For example, when they priced BANS, you only paid one time and could use it for as many websites as you wanted and you always got free updates - and there were many enhancements over the years.

Now, they just did the same thing with N1WAY. Originally the price was going to go up but they decided to keep it at the ridiculously low price of $24.95. This is perhaps one of the best values you could find anywhere if you are trying to figure out how you can start generating income from the internet. Once again, Adam and Kelvin have demonstrated that they are in this to help others out by keeping the price affordable for as many people as possible.

Getting Started
I have just started working on a new site and am using some of the tools, tricks and ideas of my own to supplement the awesome information Adam and Kelvin share in N1WAY. If you don't have your own copy yet, feel free to click here and click on the "Access" link so you can follow along with me.

So far I have scanned all of the steps and I am now meticulously working through it in detail. I am only on Step 2 so you can catch up pretty fast if you want. Step 1 will take you an hour or two, depending on how much previous experience you have.

Could the N1WAY guide have been written better? Yes. Will it adversely affect your ability to make lots of money using this method? NO! What is most important about the N1WAY guide is that is gives you a very specific track to follow. I actually plan to add some of my own instructional content including videos because I will be recruiting other people to do some of the work for me and I want them to have clear instructions for their specific tasks. The key to this is that N1WAY is for someone who is not afraid to roll up their sleeves, learn how to do stuff that makes money, develop a plan to get it done and then implement that plan.

Improving on Past Performance

I really wish I had this guide about seven years ago when I started building Your Guide To Watches. I can assure you that if I did, that site would look completely different and would also be making more money for me today than it does now. Regardless, I am a true believer of the niche website approach to making money because Your Guide To Watches is making over $500 a month right now and I do virtually nothing to it any more - and haven't for almost two years. Not only that but the amount of income is continuing to increase each and every year - regardless of what the rest of the economy is doing!

OK, this post is getting too long. I have quite a few ideas to share that will really help to supplement the great information in N1WAY. So stay tuned for more stuff and feel free to post your thoughts and questions in the comments. I would love to help you out in any way possible.

Jay

There are a lot of people looking for a job right now. Unfortunately, a few hundred thousand people are joining them every month.

This blog is not about finding a job from an employer where you exchange your hours for dollars. This blog is for those people who are willing to risk giving up some time in front of their TV or watching videos in exchange for developing a perpetual residual income. People who are not afraid to learn a few fundamental things and put in the time to implement them.

If this is you, then here is the most important principle that you need to adhere to. Let me say that again just to make sure you are really paying attention. This is the most important principle that will determine the level of success you will achieve if you are developing niche websites. It is called the Goldilocks principle because the size of the niche needs to be "just right". How do you achieve that? You could spend a lot of time trying to figure out that one thing and there is a high probability that you will be unsuccessful.

Fortunately, you can get specific answers to this and other critical issues that will determine your level of success in the brand new website "The Number One Way To Make Money Online". I have personally used these methods to build my own niche websites and, quite honestly, would be making much more money if I had known all of these steps a few years ago. I strongly encourage you to check out "The Number One Way To Make Money Online" right now and join me in building a passive revenue stream that will generate income for you even while you are sleeping.

I am excited to think that this blog post is going to be the key that unlocks the door to financial success for some of you. I would love to hear all about your own experience and share in the joy of your success.

Here is to a perpetual revenue stream. Take care.

Jay

Are you lacking direction? Not sure which "way" is the best "way" to make money online?

Well, I might just have the answer for you!

There's a new 9 step guide out called:

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It's by the guys that put Build A Niche Store (or BANS) together and explains how you can make more than a good salary by promoting other peoples products through simple content based websites.

They've been making money in this way for 4 1/2 years and have helped thousands do the same through their development and support of Build A Niche Store.

For under $25 you can now know what they know - knowledge which has enabled them to make hundreds of thousands of dollars over the past few years via a model that many of us know of but few of us have committed to.

The online guide is short but comprehensive - to the point and encourages you to set to work.

Just what I needed!

Check it out at:

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There's a new guide in town - and it's showing you step by step how to make money through affiliate marketing by building small content driven websites.

It's called:

The Number 1 Way To Make Money Online

And it's also been released at a discount rate - which is good for just 3 days - of $24.95.

It's been put together by the creators of "Build A Niche Store" (which many of you will probably know as BANS) and is built off the back of their 4 1/2 years spent making money in this way and their 2+ years spent helping over 10,000 people do the same through the development of the BANS platform.

It's well presented, contains solid step-by-step information and at under 25 bucks it is very probably the best "make money online" guide of the summer.

Get it while it's cheap - the emerging reviews have been very positive.

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The price nearly doubles this coming Monday 20th July at 5pm EDT time.

Now and then something special happens - a real quality product comes onto the market.

This is the case with a new online guide called:

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It's by the creators of Build A Niche Store (BANS) which you've probably heard of and may even own.

Built up off the back of 4 1/2 years experience making money in the way the guide describes and a further 2 1/2 years experience helping 1000's do the same.

The Number 1 Way To Make Money Online is a 9 step guide which contains everything they know put into a framework which you can then use to make $500, $5,000, even $50,000 per month.

Everything's right about this one - the presentation, the price, the product.

My hats off to the chaps that put it together.

Well worth checking out...

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I have been making passive income online since 2002 through affiliate programs, Google Adsense and other programs. A lot has changed since I started. I currently have one site that generates about $500 a month in revenue and I haven't touched it for almost two years. That's a pretty good rate per hour, don't you think? What is even more exciting about that site is the rate of revenue has been continuing to track upwards the whole time.

When the whole Web 2.0 thing came along a few years ago, I got a little overwhelmed. I also discovered that I had a huge interest in user experience design and instructional design. I went back to graduate school in the Fall of 2008 and will complete my master's degree in the Spring of 2010. I haven't spent much time on developing other sources of revenue for almost two years.

This summer I went back to some of my old faithful tools, dusted them off and started using them again. I am a very strong  believer in paying it forward and that is why I am writing this blog. I share these tidbits of money making truth with you for two reasons - to help you out and to cause me to pause and reflect on what they are and how they work. Sometimes it is easy to plow forward with an almost reckless abandon when I am doing stuff just for myself. I find that I tend to think through things more when I know my reputation is at stake with others.

So basically this blog it to help both of us grow together. I encourage you to post comments, criticism and feedback so we can make this a worthy endeavor for both of us.

Here is to passive revenue. May it live long and prosper!

Jay