My name is Brandi, Im a stay at home mom of 3 and I started making money online one year ago.  My husband worked for a company called Mohawk in the IT department and I thought that if I could make a website I may find a way to make money.  I searched on the internet for “make money with ebay” and I came across an article on Ezine about BANS (build a niche store).  They made it sound like an easy way to make money and explained that if I wrote articles helping people they would go to my site and possibly buy from my store.  I thought about it for about 5 months before I bought bans.  When I bought it I had no idea how to install it or what a cpanel was or ftp.  Looking back if my husband had not helped me I probably never would have gotten started.  This is probably why most people do not get started making money online.  There is a learning curve.  BUT I have given you proof that you can make money even without your own website.  Taking the plunge and learning how to install a blog or use an ftp client may actually the hardest part about this entire business.  And it is not that hard!  I was so proud of myself when I could install a blog or Bans with no help.  I still do not know how to make a hyper link without cheating!  My point is that if you really want to make money you can do this.  My husband got so mad at me because I was on the computer reading all the time and I was not making much money. I kept saying But I made $5.00 and I know how I did it I can turn this into $500!  He wanted me to stop working on the internet but I never gave up.  Now he has quit his job and is now working to make money online.

(If you are new I suggest working with Amazon and starting your own blog, or use blogger.com) Bans does not get much traffic from google (atleast in my opinion) But it can be used as “landing pages” for the products you are promoting with ebay partner network.