Hi steve here, Though today we could create a hub to help people make money on ebay and do this as a home based business. There are hundreds of places letting people know 'how to make money online' but to be honest most of them are scams.

What we will outline is a way to make a niche store online and how to make money online using this store. The basic principle is , optimise that store and market it; once you have an income from that store build another one in a different niche then repeat. simple really.

The thing NOT to do however is go out and build 50 stores at once and expect to bring in money from them all at once. Start with one and market it to the point in brings in an incom, even a small income then move on to one new site etc.

When you want to build your own online store 'BANS' or 'Build a niche store' is one tool we can use to make money from home. I have been using my BANS in my niche marketing for over 2 years now. Other niche store making tools are available on the market and we will cover them in other sections.

This is really the easiest way to make money on the internet without any stock or customers to deal with. The following shows the process you need to follow to be able to copy what I do.

Step 1) You only outlay her is the purchase of the 'build a niche store' scripts and the hosting package to host the ebay store.

I would recommend hostgatorfor the hosting as they are 100% compatible and the customer service is pretty awesome to be honest. It is also very cheap to purchase and the hosting is brilliant.

Once you have your hosting follow the BANS install instructions (they are very simple) and you will have your site ready to configure with your 'ebay affiliate' id.

Step 2) You need to find a 'niche market'. Check ebay pulse, amazon, google groups and magazines in your local newsagent for ideas. Within ebay pulse and amazon you can however find 'HOT' niche markets and the most popular purchases.

Step 3) Sign up for your ebay affiliate account for your niche site. Goto the ebay partner network to do this.

Step 4) Signup to google adsense

Step 5) it is recommended to signup for commission junction and clickbank as well to provideadditional revenue.

Step 6) Goto your admin panel in your niche website and setup your account id's in the settings section.

Step 7) copy your adsense code and add into your adverts section. And this is basically it.. and you are ready to make money on the internet.

I would also check the template for your site in the admin section -> templates. And choose themost relevant for you.

One other thing I would recommend is to purchase a domain name with your keywords of your niche in them and make it a .com domain if possibe.

And thats all that is needed. Now have fun and off you go and start to make yourself a business making money online.

A further tutorial on build niche store script setup can be found on one of my squidoo tutorials

phpbay is another niche marketing tool that we can use to add a niche store to our blog. phppro is a wordpress plug-in with the following features:

- This plug in allows your to add some real earning to your blog. If you want to earn more that your current adsense income then add in Ebay listings. These can be targeted

- You can list your item by keyword and category number. It's a single line of text to add in several auction items.

- You can display your items in several different columns or layouts.

- You can specify a min/max number of bids as well as a min/max price range. If needed you can also exclude items by keyword.

- You can also mask your affiliate links and images.

This is just a brief outline of what you can can display and configure with phpbay within your wordpress blog. So continue to add your blog content and either add the auction items in between or at the end of posts or create a new page and add them in as a shop..