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We headed down to the Excel in London’s docklands for the Business Start Up Exhibition last Saturday to have a look. OK we got the event location wrong at first, thinking it was at the Olympia near Hammersmith it would have been easy peasy from Bristol, but no, it was the other side of London!

This meant I missed James Caan from Dragon’s Den speak which was my main reason for going! The place was absolutely rammed with hundreds of booths and people doing the speed networking thing and drinking expensive coffees.

Starting a business is as popular as ever and the amount of online web services at this event was impressive.

Working for yourself is as popular as it has ever been and there is no better and cost effective way than running an online business. It’s cheap, there’s no inventory, physical products or office space overheads to deal with (unless you’re doing very well, in which case why not?)

This isn’t to say you shouldn’t consider physical products though. Many information marketers have a physical back end consisting of dvds, cds or courses in nice shiny folders. It’s cheaper to produce than you think - check out kunaki

to your success!

Wordpress ecommerce affiliate program feeds

The world of internet commerce has created more opportunities for affiliate marketers than any other program ever has - the opportunity to have an entire ecommerce online storefront, full of products you can make commissions off of, all based in whatever niche you choose!

I remember manually building affiliate websites taking links and pictures and building the page for every category..I hear you cry ‘fool’ but this was quite a few years ago. Of course now many merchants supply updating feeds, but even then you will have quite a job building a store and outsourcing such a task would take a lot of cash!

Building Your Own eCommerce Online Store

Data feeds are similar to the RSS feeds used by blogs - an ecommerce store set up by a traditional offline business will place descriptions, pictures, and prices of their products into these feeds, and then affiliate marketers can incorporate these feeds into their own ecommerce store and make a commission off of each product sold.

Well I came across Datafeedr which streams ecommerce feeds into your wordpress blog in any niche you choose from merchants such as commission junction, clickbank, shareasale and linkshare.

If you’re looking for the easiest way possible to build multiple affiliate stores in any niche market then I urge you to have a look at this:

>> Wordpress affiliate ecommerce feeds

Another Google Slap Reported

Clocked over at Wired is another reason to diversify your traffic sources as the screw tightens on Google adwords advertisers:

http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/04/march-google-sl.html

Meanwhile Adsense rules have changed which will ahve an adverse effect on a lot of Adsense Publishers: Get your sites in check:

Read more here:

http://adsense.blogspot.com/2008/03/another-look-at-optimizations.html