Today we’re going to talk about StoreStacker; a service I recently discovered and want to share with you. This program lets you control various affiliate programs through one piece of software. Integrate amazon, clickbank, ebay, overstock into one professional store or unlimited niche stores . It creates the descriptions, images, SEO friendly links and updates with new products as they come; you can obviously edit whatever you wish as well. Click here for demo.
Imagine finding a great niche; creating some content and stacking most of the offers from a long list of reputable affiliates into the site? Have an existing site? Why not add a store to it? Someone suggested I add a store to one of my sites a long time ago. Now just might be the time. There are other services that make it easy to sell with a particular affiliate program but I haven’t seen one that lets you work with as many merchants as easily as this. Basically the premise is to keep all the traffic on one site; yours until they are ready to purchase.
My only concern would be the pages it creates for this content and the content itself. If it’s the same page being made for all users targeting the same product there will be lots of duplicate content. Duplicate content would render it useless for long tail SEO queries for random products you happen to now carry. That being said I’m sure there are many ways to work around it and make your pages not only original but stand out.
StoreStacker comes with 12 free templates and a host of written and video tutorials. It’s also an unlimited use license for as many sites you own. All and all this is a very interesting product and I think it’s safe to say you’ll see it implemented by yours truly at some point in the near future.
The above video is my thoughts on the way to the social media breakfast.
Social Media Breakfasts are a great way to meet other social media types in a more professional environment than a tweetup. I was fortunate enough to attend the 4th breakfast in Ottawa this past Wednesday morning hosted by Gowlings.
This is the 3rd event I’ve attended and it was a really good one. It had a record crowd of over 100 people. I believe the biggest issue now for the organizers will be finding venues that can hold a group this size or larger.
For the first time they had a panel instead of a speaker. The speakers were great but I much prefer the panel approach. Hearing different panelists’ thoughts as well as those from the audience made it quite interactive and fun.
I found it particularly interesting how they mentioned that ~70%+ (more like 90%++) of visitors to any site are lurkers who seldom if ever participate; never initiating. If you are going to take the time to visit a site; why not participate? Socialize? Network!? Make that small effort to join the conversation and stop lurking; I GUARANTEE that you’ll get a LOT more out of everything you do.
For further details on the panel and the event please visit the Eventbrite page. Mel Gallant also wrote a great detailed recap here.
I highly recommend you search for a social media breakfast in your area; they are well worth it; whether you’re a morning person or not!
What a lazy blogger I am? I am actually updating because my directory editor told me if I don’t update soon she’ll make this blog inactive. The nerve eh?
What’s really crazy is in the time since I last posted the subscribers have stayed roughly the same which makes me think it’s better to post less but quality then all the time. Also the weird thing is this site has been steadily climbing the “home business blog” keyword on google; go figure!? It’s #2 or #3 out of 68,000,000 results. Who would of thought the “hands off” approach would be so fruitful!?
So what has yours truly been up to in the last month and a half? I’ve been working on the blog directory and blog forum as always. I’ve been on plurk more than my healthy share and I’ve bought a new blog.
I bought Plurkable last night and at 5PM EST there is going to be a plurk cast discussing the new changes. I’ve been with the blog since it’s inception basically and the owner is just swamped. So just like I bought this one I’m buying Plurkable. I love plurk so buying the blog was a no brainer.
Apart from that I’m enjoying my summer and trying to sell my house privately. I’ll write about that soon; why pay a real estate agent 6% of a big sum of money when you can do it yourself!?!?!
Next update will be more topical and won’t be as distant as this one was from the one before it.
All the best and hope everyone is having a great summer!
