The Profitmuse Blog

Ebay Mini Sites: I’ve managed to get about 30 Ebay mini sites up and running. They were hovering around profitable but I left them on auto-pilot while living my real life for a while. I’ve since trimmed the fat and they are pulling in about 100% profit now (at least this month). There are about 3 niches in the bunch that could make decent money if I wasn’t paying the PPC costs. My next plan is to convert those over to BANS (Build-A-Niche-Site) sites and focus on getting them up in the natural search.

Composter Blog: We started a blog about using our electric composter a few months back mainly as an experiment in natural search and blogging.  I initially spent a lot of time promoting and bookmarking it which seemed to work until it mysteriously vanished from the Google index. I checked back last week and it was on page one. Go figure! When I last looked it was at number 3 for “kitchen composter”. We haven’t done anything about monitizing it yet.

Pay-Per-View traffic: I bought Gauher Chaudry’s latest course. Very promising but I haven’t put in the legwork yet. I believe he’s releasing a few more copies this week. The companion software product is killer.

Product Development: As part of my Ebay site development I commissioned a great little software tool that I have been tweaking to be extremely useful. I’m working towards releasing this as a product but I want to fine tune the system that goes with it first. You feed high search keyword phrases into the tool (validated demand) and the tool checks these against what is actually selling and in demand on Ebay. This gives you an instant list of potentially profitable keywords. It also does a competitive analysis of PPC advertising.

Other Fronts: Probably the reason I’ve been slacking lately is that I still have 3 campaigns regularly bringing in profits. It’s nothing to retire on but it does keep me in ebooks and expenses. My J.O.B. has been getting pretty interesting of late as well. Plus it’s summer …

Talk soon,

 Mike