Drum-roll Please…. (ok, just imagine it)
The lucky subscriber who receives a Build a Niche Store review for October 2007…
freck48 “at” msn .com
Please send a confirmation email to mark @ thenichestorebuilder .com (remove all those pesky spaces) with the address of your Build a Niche Store and your targeted Niche market!
Mark

Good Morning everyone! On Weds, October 31st… yes, halloween, I am going to pick one lucky feed subscriber to receive a FREE Build a Niche Store review!
What exactly does that mean? Well… in my own infinite wisdom, I will take a detailed, microscopic look at your BANS site and offer very indepth suggestions as to what can be done to increase traffic and sales!
The only requirements for you to be eligible are:

You must have a Build a Niche Store website

You must be on the email subscriber list (enter in the upper right …

Good Morning everyone! Since I have been a slacker recently, I decided to post a quick note about the Build a Niche Store contest for the Grill Auctions site, as well as a brief overview of what I am doing on the site today.
First – in regard to the contest, I don’t want to post the current standings until I can access my office PC and get the spreadsheet I have been using to track the contest! When I left my home earlier this week to come to Massachusetts, I left …

Hi Everyone – So today, I decided I would combine the next sections… I did this for no other reason than to help myself save time! :-) I know, that’s just wrong isn’t it? Actually, I know the customization of your Niche Store is a section that could literally take me a week or two to cover and I don’t want to do it any injustice by trying to rush through it!
For now – I am going to tell you what I changed from the default template and how the …

For the past several days – I have been hiding! Seriously, I’ve had a family emergency and needed to travel to the cold country of Springfield Massachusettes, to stay with my father for a while during a bit of a health crisis. Like any good web-based worker though, I brought computers and all my work with me, setup an office in a spare room and I have only missed a few beats!
If any of you have followed the look of the www.GrillAuctions.com site since Tuesday, you can see that the …

There have been many questions rolling in about Building a Niche Store and I wanted to post here with some of the most common questions and answers, or at least… my answers!
I also want to apologize for the video quality in yesterdays post. I am not a video person at all and have had a bit of a learing curve with the screen capture software in regard to size! It seems that when I ramble on for more than 5-8 minutes, the file size tends to get a little larger than …

Since creating the categories is a key element of success with your Build a niche Store, I am going to pause the tutorial series to a small extent over the next few days as I work to not only develop all the main and subcategories for the Grill Auctions website, but also to try and explain the process just a little better to those who may be having a hard time with it.
Today – my only goal is to get all categories populated – I am not even going to …

Hi everyone -
Just as a followup to the previous posts, I recorded a short flash video for you all to watch.
As you watch the screen – don’t get creeped out by the guy talking, thats just me! :-) I thought it may help you understand WHY I recommend limiting your choices of categories, and using a hierarchy menu to guide your visitors where they want to be.
I am working on a second installment of this tonight that will show HOW I am creating the category tree within the admin of …

OK – I am fresh again! I had most of this post typed out over the weekend, which somewhat burned me out a little! :-) Once I began finishing up yesterday I found that elimination of the non-essential categories would be a better place to start out… thus this whole post did not get done in one day!
Apologies to those of you that were on the edge of your seats… Hopefully, you settled back in and are ready to do some category building!
On that note – Lets go!

I have received a few calls and emails from people wanting to get straight to the meat and potatoes of Build a Niche Store – in other words… lets get started with the optomization and menu building already! :-)  I know exactly where you are coming from and I felt the same exact way when I got started with the eBay affiliate software, I just wanted to get deep into it and begin marketing the Niche site I had in mind!
While I would love nothing more than to get to that section …