I almost instantly got indexed on page one for the term “Build a Niche Store” and started driving a lot of clicks to the offer – Store Stacker. I was able to drive over 200 new visitors to the store stack home page which is kind of low but what ever. I guess store stacker or building niche stores has dropped in popularity over the past 6 months.

I was able to get one lead in February for a total commission of $73.00. I reviewed the terms and conditions for the network to see if there was an threshold I needed to pass in order to get paid for that, I was un-able to find any. So, I assumed that I was going to be seeing a check in the mail for that lead – I never got one and its been 4 months!!!!!!

I have emailed Scott and also the support staff at Titan Pay regarding this payment that is owed to me and I have never got any responses back. Needless to say I am dropping all links pointing to Titan Pay Products as well as the review for store stacker.

The point of this post!

When ever you sign up with a new network and you start running offers for them, you ALWAY want to test them out and make sure you get paid from them before you start going heavy promoting there offers.

I always make sure that there is a regular payment schedule as part of the network to insure my work gets paid for – do you? And yes, if there is a crappy network like Titan Pay around that does not pay there affiliate, and I get screwed, I will also post it here so that maybe I can prevent one of you from going through the same B/S I have gone through trying to collect.

PS

It’s not that losing $73.00 is going to hurt me in any way shape or form, and maybe Titan Pay really needs that money that I earned – it’s the point behind not paying that I wanted to get across.

Update May 28th/09

I just received an email stating the minimum payment threshold is set to a $200.00 minimum, I never knew that when I joined up.

Pepperjam Contest Details!

(1) The first 100 Pepperjam Network affiliates to submit a new or existing Web site that uses Pepperjam Store Builder will receive a $10 bonus (deposited into your PJN account.)
(2) Web site submissions become official by first posting the Web site as a comment to THIS BLOG POST and second sending an e-mail with a link to the Web site and your PJN username (e-mail) to storebuilder-contest@pepperjamnetwork.com
(3) All submissions will be eligible for a $1,000 Grand Prize, which will be awarded to the Web site with the best overall use of Pepperjam Store Builder.
(4) The “Top 10? submissions will be determined by PJN staff adn posted to the PJN blog.
(5) The Grand Prize will be determined from the list of “Top 10,” but will be voted upon by PJN Affiliates and Blog readers (vote will begin at 9:00am EST on 12/05/08 and end at 5:00pm EST 12/15/08. Therefore, all contest submissions must be in by midnight (12:00 EST) on 12/04/08.
(6) Grand Prize winner will be announced on Tuesday, December 16, 2008.
(7) Bloggers are encouraged to participate, especially considering Pepperjam Store Builder is Optimized for Wordpress! However, the blog must reside on its own exclusive domain (i.e. www.johnchow.com, www.shoemoney.com). For instance, www.krisjones.blogspot.com and www.krisjones.typepad.com are not acceptable for this contest. If you have questions regarding your domain please e-mail storebuilder-contest@pepperjamnetwork.com
(8) Only one submission is allowed per PJN affiliate
(9) PJN Staff reserves the right to reject any affiliate from participating that attempts to spam this contest.

How I Plan To Win The Pepperjam Network Contest!

I am going to tell you how I plan on winning this contest and I am going to be giving you some great tips you can use to try and win it for yourself. I am not going to tell you what I am going to base my niche store around, just a few things I am going to do. The reason why I will share a few things with you is because I would like to see Pepperjam Network get some really great stores built. Better quality stores for us means Kris can go after even better and bigger advertisers for the network which will result in us being able to chase mre money. Make sense?

First thing I am going to do is go through the list of advertisers in Pepperjam and look to see if there is one with lots of products listed in the store builder section that I can place on a site. This allows me to target more then just one type of product from an advertiser and build a store completely based around them.

Second thing I am going to do is look at the advertisers site, get a feel for the product and maybe copy some text that I can change around and use on my site to make the building process go faster.

Next I am going to do keyword research to see if I can get a great name related to the advertisers products. I want every aspect of this site to be related to each other. eg: If I am going to build a store about model planes I don’t want my site name to be “havefunathome.com” I want it to be “havefunwithmodelplanes.com” I hope you see what I am getting at there. That is one of the biggest tips I can give anyone. Keyword relevance in a site and the sites name helps you big time with search engine placment.

After I have picked my product and found a kickass site name I am going to register that name. While I am waiting for everything to go through I am going to spend a lot of time searching for the perfect wordpress theme I can use that is related to the store I want to build. This is going to help with conversations as well because if your traffic feels everything looks professional and is related, they just might spend money with you.

Once I have my domain pointing to my server, and I have my theme I am going to do some more keyword research for the pages I want to build on the site, then I am going to build the shit out of the store and wait until the last week to submit it. This way no one can copy me I am also going to work on my SEO as well because I am sure Kris and the rest of Pepperjam would like to see that you just didn’t copy and paste code onto a site, that you thought about what your doing and tried your best to actually make some money for them and you in the process.

Why I Think I Can Win The Grand Prize!

Well, so far there is a lot of entries into this contest. Most of the sites I looked at (yes I am keeping an eye open on who is entering and with what they entered with) are doing something I personally can’t do and that’s just do a quick copy and paste thing.

Heck, there was even one site that had the Pepperjam store builder code in the center of the site and freaking Google Adsense all around it. Ummm can you say your not going to be making much money. Its things like that I have seen that I know I can beat very easily with what I am doing. Now, its just a matter of me getting out of m head what I see in there. If I can, I WILL WIN!

What you don’t want to do!

To kick off the contest Kris Jones has stated he is going to be giving the first 100 entries into the contest a $10.00 entry bonus. A lot of people have responded, but seeings how you only get one entry into the contest, would it not make sense for you to forget about the $10.00 and take the time to build a better site that could end up winning you $1000.00, I am. I was like the fifth person to enter with one of my other sites but after I thought about it, I emailed Kris and asked him to remove my entry. I am going after the win!

Good luck to everyone who enters!

BANS was the first system being sold for $97.00 that allowed you to build a niche store and be able to import eBay ads onto a standard template website and when someone who visited your site clicked on one of the eBay ads and bought something from eBay you got paid a commission. Store Stacker, for the same price as BANS as stepped it up a few notches by giving you the tools to build a niche store that revolves around 6 different affiliate networks and thousands of products. Here is a list of all the networks you can pull ads from and build your niche store around.

• eBay
• Amazon
• ClickBank
• Overstock
• Regnow
• Hotel Club

So as you can see, if your looking to build a niche store, you have a ton of options to build one from with the Store Stacker system. Way more then BANS. There is also a few other features you get with Store Stacker you can only get with there system. Two of those features are there RSS and You Tube plug ins. Both of these plug ins are amazing for adding top quality content to your stores which will make your visitors love your site because they are able to get all the information on what they are looking for in one place.

Watch my video below to see a few more features with Store Stacker and how it all works.

Ok now that you have seen a few really cool things about Store Stacker and what you can do with it and why it is great for affiliate marketers and Bloggers to get this great system to build a niche store, here is a video I made that shows you how simple it is to install Store Stacker onto a Wordpress Blog, like what I have done here with my Marketing Ebooks page.

Like I pointed out to you in the video, there is a Permalink structure that works very well for making it easy to install Store Stacker onto a Wordpress Blog. If your not all ready using this Permalink structure on your blog here it is, just copy and paste it into your blogs Permalink settings.

/%category%/%postname%

To install this Permalink structure all you need to do is go to your Wordpress dashboard and click on the settings tab. Once that screen loads, click on the Permalinks tab and scroll down the page to where it says “Custom Structure” Paste the Permalink structure above into this area and your done. Now you can build a Store Stacker store right into your Wordpress blog with out any problems and increase your sites page views as well as increase your revenue, which is the most important feature.

Very cool isn’t it? Now with the price being the same as BANS, which system do you think you would like to work with more?

Ready to learn even more? Visit StoreStacker / storestacker.com today and start making more money online and give your traffic the best content ever!