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Old 05-05-2009, 01:40 PM   #251
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sounds like a good course for ecommerce. Will look into it if it becomes available again.
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Great to hear that you are plugging away and trying different things. A big part of your problem I suspect is not getting into the head of your customer.

My advice: Start thinking like your customer. What do they look for in a horse saddle?

Start drilling down. With horse riding saddles, there are quite a few subniches. The typical cowboy is might be more apt to buy in the general store rather than on that fancy internet thing. (complete assumption on my part). Horse competitions (like jumping horse) who might tend to use different keywords like equestrian rather than horse or tend buy things in bundles. Or polo riders who need to have quite a few horses but want nothing but the best in equipment.

You’re Still Using A Heavy Saddle? and you have the nerve to call yourself a polo player. For the first time there is an extremely lightweight saddle that yada yada yada….

In my opinion, there isn’t much on your webpage that makes you stand out from everyone else. Offering a lower price to differentiate yourself from others is not a good long term profit strategy.

Ranchers: Does riding on your saddle feel like you’ve sit on a log?

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Wyatt is Able To Sit in a Chair After a Long Day of Riding in his Saddle – Are You? It wasn’t always this way, you see Wyatt used any old saddle for his horse. That is until he discovered …….

Incidentally, articles take time to create traffic and need to be plentiful (Tim Gorman has great advice about articles). Did you find the number one site on Google for whatever it is you are selling and run whatever you were trying to sell through google adwords keyword tool to find out what keywords most people search on? Are there enough numbers for it (ie demand)? Is there enough profit to go around?

Are you going to stay with horse saddles or switch to something else?

My advice. Stay with a field, learn it and cultivate it, reinvest. Build that list and develop a relationship with your list. How do you develop a list? Are there lists that already exist in your field that you can offer free things (that actually have value) to the people on various lists? Make sure what you have to offer solves some problem. Then contact the list owner and make a deal.

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Old 05-23-2009, 11:56 AM   #253
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I just wanted to share my current experience with everyone here on how this course has panned out for me.

I signed up for Niche Blueprint in early January. I had all the training by early February, but because of other things in my life was not able to put together and launch a NB ecommerce site until about March 15th.

It was indexed on 22nd of March and rang in at spot 345 out of 363,000 for my targeted keyword phrase.

I was very busy and not able to really promote it for almost a month other than submitting to a few high-PR directories. Regardless the site jumped to about spot 300 on the 29 March and then hung between 275-300 until the 18th of April when it jumped to spot 120.

This was right about the time when I started actually distributing articles and such. On April 29th the site jumped to spot 55.

I made my first sale right around then. Dunno how as I only had a few articles distributed, a few forum sig links and such...so I did not know how I got found.

At that point I really began to turn up the intensity on promoting the site. Paid someone to submit it to 1,000 directories, paid someone to hunt down a PR5 DoFollow blog comment, and wrote more articles.

For all my work the site was stuck in a serious rut. It hovered between the 40 and 50 mark for 3 weeks, regardless of all this work. Only yesterday did it start making adjustments.

I still managed to sell two more somehow. Net profit on each sale is about $23.

Did some quick research in awstats and found that over the last 30 days I had about 500 visitors to the site. Most came from google for various long-tail keyword phrases and not my target keyword.

This gives me a lot of hope, because after consulting with a few SEO experts they said they were impressed with the site and I was doing the right things off-page. If I can glean 3 sales, from 500 hits on non-buying keyword trickle-traffic, then I'm sure that I can probably make 4 or 5 sales for ever 500 hits on my targeted keyword phrase.

My niche has a 687 SEOT value for my target keyword in phrase match and 87,000 competing pages in phrase match.

With all the work I'm doing(articles, forums, Angela's Backlinks), I expect my site to "pop" over the next 21 days into the top 3 positions. I've had some of my ebay affiliate sites follow this same pattern and they had a "pop" into the top ten and I hardly EVER do any off-page work for my lite ebay affiliate sites.

This road has not been easy, but it's not "hard" either. Just frustrating, time intensive, and requires a lot of patience while rouding up links.

I've very excited about the direction this is going though. It's something my wife can do. She's good at selling/shipping things on ebay, so I can train her on how to manage the site on her own. From there I can build and promote the next one.

I really believe that this course was a major blessing for me. I would have NEVER considered an e-commerce site myself had I not been introduced to it through this course. The keyword hunting traininig was crazy good, and with a few tweaks I was able to better hunt keywords for my ebay affiliate sites.

Judging by past experience, I hope to be netting about $7,000 p/month between this Niche Blueprint e-commerce site and my fleet of ebay affiliate sites.

It all has come at the right time, because I'm going back to school full time in the fall, and it looks like I'll be able to have enough breathing room from my online business to be able to do it withough ripping an ulcer through my gut from financial stress.

I'll give a further update after I score a top-10 position for my targeted keyword.
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I got it the first time around, built a site and have it on page 1 for my keyword. Its actually been there awhile. The training is excellent and the seo stuff works for sure. My problem is I picked the wrong item. I guess what I am selling, people dont buy online. The beauty of the program is you can start again with a new niche and keep building sites. I am still deciding whether or not to revamp my pricing on my current site, or just start a new one. Not wild about the site template though, some experts here have looked at my site it and said basically that it sucks.

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Quick update guys.

My site is now ranking #3 for it's targeted keyword and #7 for a related (higher traffic) keyword. Traffic is averaging more than 350 uniques p/day and two days ago I almost cracked 500 uniques.

Bad news is that the site is not converting well at all. Nowhere NEAR the 5 sales p/day that I need to make in order to make $100 p/day as was my goal. I'm getting sales trickling in at less than one p/week since June kicked off.

Also, I had one lost customer call in a panic saying that the tried to buy an item three times and that Paypal rejected the sale all three times but that he had 3 charges showing on his end for $150 each yet there was nothing on my end...no abandoned shopping cart or anything.

They were just authorizations and cleared off next business day but it showed that at least ONE person who was trying to buy was not able to do so and I had NO record of it. How many more were going down like that?

Then another story came in. Guy emailed me and said he tried to buy but his card was rejected and he went to a different site to buy. Again...no record of his existence on my end.

The Niche Blueprint people were very helpful and tried to help me out...but dunno what's wrong at this point. I'm thinking there is a major malfunction in the software itself which is ghosting my customers without a trace.

I don't have time to try and integrate a different store platform so I think I'm going convert the site over to an Ebay affiliate site completely. Unless the traffic itself just does NOT convert, then I should be able to get close to $900 p/month profit out of the site which is way better than what I"m doing now as I am losing $45 p/month in hosting and merchant fees.

While I'm not happy with the way this turned out on the Ecommerce side of things...the SEO knowledge has carried over very well and I'm using skills gained from this course to build affiliate sites that are starting to rank well for their keywords.
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Coolio,

There is a way to set the software to "Sandbox" so that you can test the PayPal payment gateway...but that involves setting up two Sandbox Paypal accounts. I didn't want to do that so I just made a "dummy" product that was $1 and bought it from myself.

The checkout process worked find, so that puts me more in the dark as I have no idea how many orders are getting killed and how many are going through just fine. Every now and then an order trickles through...just not at what I'd expect with this level of traffic.

I'm crossing 500 uniques p/day now. I'm pretty sure I'm going to convert it over to an eBay affiliate site now. With that level of traffic it has the potential to go to $1000 p/month in commission.
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Quick update guys.

My site is now ranking #3 for it's targeted keyword and #7 for a related (higher traffic) keyword. Traffic is averaging more than 350 uniques p/day and two days ago I almost cracked 500 uniques.

Bad news is that the site is not converting well at all. Nowhere NEAR the 5 sales p/day that I need to make in order to make $100 p/day as was my goal. I'm getting sales trickling in at less than one p/week since June kicked off.

Also, I had one lost customer call in a panic saying that the tried to buy an item three times and that Paypal rejected the sale all three times but that he had 3 charges showing on his end for $150 each yet there was nothing on my end...no abandoned shopping cart or anything.

They were just authorizations and cleared off next business day but it showed that at least ONE person who was trying to buy was not able to do so and I had NO record of it. How many more were going down like that?

Then another story came in. Guy emailed me and said he tried to buy but his card was rejected and he went to a different site to buy. Again...no record of his existence on my end.

The Niche Blueprint people were very helpful and tried to help me out...but dunno what's wrong at this point. I'm thinking there is a major malfunction in the software itself which is ghosting my customers without a trace.

I don't have time to try and integrate a different store platform so I think I'm going convert the site over to an Ebay affiliate site completely. Unless the traffic itself just does NOT convert, then I should be able to get close to $900 p/month profit out of the site which is way better than what I"m doing now as I am losing $45 p/month in hosting and merchant fees.

While I'm not happy with the way this turned out on the Ecommerce side of things...the SEO knowledge has carried over very well and I'm using skills gained from this course to build affiliate sites that are starting to rank well for their keywords.
Hey Expert,

I bought the Niche Blueprint Course as well the second time around but I haven't had the time to start with my first project yet. I see you're not happy with your conversions on the site and you said ebay sites rank faster in Google Search Engine and converts better; my question is this: Do you think is better to stay with ebay sites or would you still keep building Niche Blueprint Style sites.....

Your respond will be greatly appreciated, since I have to make a decision now on what to do...

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I have similar traffic numbers however no sales. I have had some veterans on the board look at my site and they said the template is terrible and could be part of the reason for the no sales. Only advice I was givin was to hire somebody to "spruce" it up. Not what I wanted to hear.

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I'm now #1 for my keyword and sales are just trickling in still. If I was getting 2 sales p/day I would keep it as an E-Commerce Style site as that would add up to about $40 p/day in profit for 8 mintues work on my wife's part processing the orders. That would be a $1200 p/month income stream and I wouldn't mess with it. But it's not doing that.

If you search for my posts in the WSO section you'll see I'm selling a Ebay Jewelry Affiliate Site. It pulled down $380+ last month and it only ranks #1 in Yahoo...not Google. That site could EASILY have it's revenue doubled...maybe even tripled if I invested the time to get it ranking in Google.

So in my mind, that site is a $1,000 p/month site and it doesn't get 1/3 the traffic that this Niche Store site does!

My Ebay sites rank well in google because they are built on Wordpress and here's the goodies I put in to the base platform:

1) phpBay plugin to pull the items in for display from Ebay
2) All-In-One SEO pack for SEO.
3) Search-2-Post Plugin for auto-content generation
4) Automatic Social Poster for Bookmarking and Fast-Indexing
5) LinkBuildingSolutions.com for 3-Way Link Building
6) Half-Descent 3-Column theme that can be made to look like a basic e-commerce site

These sites rank FAST (the one I put up 2 weeks ago droped in at spot 267 out of 300,000 and is now at spot #67) and are easy to create maintain. Takes just as much time to promote them though.

I'm thinking that 10 sites that bring in $1,000 p/month in affiliate revenue might be a more realistic goal then these Niche Blueprint e-commerce sites which don't seem to be working as planned. At least I'm seeing consistent results across the 6 phpBay sites I've got going right now.
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I have similar traffic numbers however no sales. I have had some veterans on the board look at my site and they said the template is terrible and could be part of the reason for the no sales. Only advice I was givin was to hire somebody to "spruce" it up. Not what I wanted to hear.
I found that the templates they provide suck too. I took the time to design my site and now it looks pretty professional. Still trying to rank for my keywords and I still have a PR of 0. Hopefully things will turn around soon. I have a few more stores I want to create too but I want to see a little more progress on this first one before I start another.

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Update:

My site has been #1 for it's targeted Keyword for a full week now. Strangely enough, there was NOT a big jump in traffic at all when I went from the #2-3 spots to #1. Maybe 10% more uniques p/day at best.

The site is pulling in anywhere from 350 unique visits p/day to 575 p/day. In the past week I've earned 5 sales which generated just under $100 in profit for the week.

At that rate the site is a $450 p/month site and that's no good for that level of traffic.

Again, I'm going to convert mine over, but as I'm working on 4 other Review Sites right now, and this one is currently producing money, I'll convert it when the others are done. It's going to be a bit of a pain with all the 301 redirects and all.
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You've got the right idea, Angela's links and dofollow backlinks in general will help you rank faster. I saw that you rose to #1 with one of your sites and the traffic didn't increase much. Are you optimizing that site for a high traffic keyword?

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Niche Blueprint is incredible. I can't believe the rankings I have been able to achieve using their system. Thanks guys.

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Sup guys,

So I bought Niche Blueprint when it first came out (for $500), and i wouldn't trade it for anything. I'm actually promoting the v2.0 that launches soon, but I will say this... It's not for everyone. And it's not your normal affiliate course, it's a lot more, but it really isn't for everyone.

I'm doing a free tele-seminar on it really soon with marketer Nick Breen, so if anyone has any questions anything on it, just get on the call since we're taking questions live at the end of it. Or, you can submit them beforehand and we'll answer them then.

As for the call itself, we'll be going over what's in the course and how you actually make money with it, along with what exactly makes it different from the 10,000,000 other products out there.. And how it will make you money.

The link to it is in my sig if anyone's interested.

Also to note, Niche Blueprint is pretty much 'all inclusive', so apart from a domain and hosting, after you buy the course there's really no further mandatory investment.

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BTW- as for the site template comments: there are a whole new pack of templates to use. The only thing semi-lacking about the course is the SEO plan, since it's not too beginner-friendly, but part of my bonus for the course is both a powerful SEO game-plan as well as a consultation with a top e-commerce expert (from one of the fastest growing web development companies in the US), to pick apart your site after you set it up and tell you exactly what you need to do to rock it.

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Hi Tom- Do you know how much NB v2 will cost for members of 1? I made one site and made no money and kind of let it go but am considering giving it a go since I did spend the bucks. thanks

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I emailed Tim Godfrey about it earlier today actually. We talked a week or so ago and I forgot to mention it. As soon as I hear back from him I'll PM you and let you know what's up.

Oh, and did you see the ridiculous things they're adding to v2.0?

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And they aren't finished adding yet. Just you wait.

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And they aren't finished adding yet. Just you wait.
Haha I saw the stuff from their JV blog.. They've really come a ways from v1.0, I'm not gunna lie. I felt their SEO section was semi-weak, but they kinda made up for it with the new tools they added to it (from what it looks like).

I added to that with the bonus I'm running for it. With my bonus, I also scored a personal e-commerce consultation and extensive coaching with one of the fastest-growing web development companies in the US, in case anyone wants it, but that's all for the tele-seminar. You all need to get on it if you're looking into it..

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Just heard the guys from Commission Blueprint are now coming out with Niche Blueprint.
I did not purchase CB and am curious about the reputation of these guys and if the product will really help IM'ers of all stages.
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The Nicheblueprint 2.0 will be better than the previous, and the last version was top notch. The product was way over delivered for the price, it contained everything you needed. This new version builds on that add more tools and improves the product based on customer feedback. I have the last version and I'm planning on upgrading to the new version myself. I feel so strongly about the product I will be promoting it starting Jan 4th. The cost is a very special price for a limited time. This fact by no means, means that the above statements are hype since I'm promoting it, it is an excellent product, super high quality. The cost is very reasonable.

If you want to know more before the Jan 4th pre-launch you can go to http://www.nicheblueprint2-site.com and watch 2 free videos, also get on an advance list for a Jan 4th free video by clicking on the third free video link. To get the info you will have to confirm you requested the information.
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I too have the ver 1 of NB. Is there an upgrade price for current owners instead of paying $497, $397, $297 or even $197 for 3 EZ payments and your 1st born?
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I too have the ver 1 of NB. Is there an upgrade price for current owners instead of paying $497, $397, $297 or even $197 for 3 EZ payments and your 1st born?
Not sure yet if they're doing something like that, but we'll see within a few days. For now, the content is almost up for v2.0, and they haven't released any info on if v1.0 members will get it or for now much.

I'll definitely agree with bobjack: it was way over-delivered. Not only is it a self-sustaining course (apart from your domain+hosting), but they completely spell out pretty much every aspect most beginners struggle with (like market research, product selection, traffic, etc). As far as market/keyword research goes, they pretty much have it to where you don't have to think about it, which is awesome.

One of the awesome things about Niche Blueprint tho is that they literally show you how to 'scale up' your business. You hear that term thrown around a lot, and before I got NB last year (v1.0), I didn't really know how do that. They go through all of your stores' daily operations and how to outsource them.

Good times for sure. If you guys want a video walk-through of it, here's a 5-part video series from my blog: Complete Video Walk-Through Niche Blueprint 2.0 Review

And if you have any questions, see my sig. It's definitely an awesome course tho, and there's a ton of better additions to v2.0. Like the templates. The old one was pretty plain, but these new ones are lookin sweet.

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Oh, and in video 5 in that series, I go through the support desk to show you how amazing their team is.. Both Steve AND Tim are personally in there helping you out

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I have NB and find it to be a great course. I highly recommend it and will be promoting as a JV.

The one "glich" in the system is the dropshipping. I have never found a dropshipper that could provide prices that would allow me to compete with Amazon.

So, here's what I'm going to do.

Their system works. But, instead of dropshipping I'm going to apply it to affiliate marketing.

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So, here's what I'm going to do.

Their system works. But, instead of dropshipping I'm going to apply it to affiliate marketing.
How do you that? I too would be interested if it can be done.
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Niche Blueprint 2.0 will cost $497
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When it launches on Jan 11th it will only be $297 for Early Birds
You Can Watch the Video which will be released today (Jan 4th) through the link in my signature.

This is an awesome package, you will not need any other products to buy in order to be successful. In addition you can be sure that Tim & Steve will over deliver as this is part of their philosophy;

Note that just the tools that come as part of the course are worth a lot more than the course actual price.

it includes the bellow as part of the package:
Keyword Blueprint- The best keyword tool to find niche markets
Article Blueprint- (worth $67/month) similar to Unique Article Wizard
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These are just to name a few as the package includes much much more including e-commerce software to build and manage your online stores and drop ship blueprint, the most complete supplier directory on the web.

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The one "glich" in the system is the dropshipping. I have never found a dropshipper that could provide prices that would allow me to compete with Amazon..
It would be great of Steve or those who have experience with the program could address this issue. I'm sure a lot of shoppers price check with amazon.

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Their system works. But, instead of dropshipping I'm going to apply it to affiliate marketing.
Wouldn't it be better to use commssion blueprint for affiliate marketing?

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Hey lcombs,

I thought about that, and some possibilities for doing it. Haven't tried any yet, but I think it may work..

As for the concerns on dropshipping, one way to do it is to find the products in Dropship Blueprint, then contact those companies and find out where they buy from. If you can get that info, you can cut out the middle man (the supplier) and deal directly with the manufacturer.

That way you can get wholesale pricing and sell for ridiculously cheap, while still clearing a decent profit margin. And also compete with Amazon, if the products are initially higher-ticket.

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I bought Niche Blueprint the 1st time around and it is a great course for anyone wanting to start their own e-commerce dropshipping business.

I found the course fairly straight forward, the biggest difficulty for me being out of the States was finding a dropshipper but after a bit of perseverance I soon found one.

I'm not 100% sure, but I think I read in an email that all 1.0 customers get the option to upgrade to 2.0 for a reduced price.

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I bought Niche Blueprint the 1st time around and it is a great course for anyone wanting to start their own e-commerce dropshipping business.

I found the course fairly straight forward, the biggest difficulty for me being out of the States was finding a dropshipper but after a bit of perseverance I soon found one.

I'm not 100% sure, but I think I read in an email that all 1.0 customers get the option to upgrade to 2.0 for a reduced price.

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read on their blog - Yes there will be an upgrade price
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They really put out the best videos
But I don't think I would be able to find a dropshipper in my country and if they send from outsite my country the customers have to pay customs and this stuff..
They say that they could help via email, but if they don't live where I live they can't really help me right?

But I'm sure if you have a supplier then this method will rock

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I've had 2 experiences with this product and it's developers over the last year.

The first was when I posed a couple questions to their announcement blog during the launch of NB, V1. All the comments were so full of love and giddiness before the product was even released that I decided to ask a couple challenging questions. They werent critiques but they did challenge some numbers and some of the hype in the sales videos. As I expected, by questions were never posted. I use this little ltrick often to test how 'hypey' the sellers are. If they address my questions publically, they've earned the first credibility test. This product team blew that test.

My second experience was when I decided to buy NB anyway. I am quite familiar to eCommerce, and I can tell you that what we got was basicaly a script for your store, and a dropshipers directory. The script created the most god-awful store platform I've ever seen and used. Cumbersome and awkward, and I would never publish it without significant customization.

Finally there was the dripshipper directory - nothing more than a list of companies that might do dropshipping with you (if you could convince them ). Remember, you generally dont just sign up with a dropshipper like you do with an affiliate program. I spent hours going through these web sites, looking for simple products that you might find in Sears, a toy store, or some other mainline retail store. Quite a waste of time. But if you want to set up a store for light fixtures or ball bearings, you could find a good source or two .

Seriously though, my view is NB was massively hyped with minimal content. You can produce a much more fattractive and easy to manage ecommerce store from any number of other products. Of course, those who are financially connected to hyping NB V2, will say that much has been improved. If so, then that improvement should be passed on to those unfortunately souls who never asked for a refund of NB V1. If you have no experience with ecommerce, I strongly suggest you pass on this one.

And for those who questioned the support, Id say the support was ok. But for the first 30 days, 90% of the support questions were people who had trouble getting the script to work. So beyond that it's hard to say.

If you still want to jump in, I wish you luck

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Well my experience was very different from yours.
I have 7 Niche Blueprint stores in various niches and 6 of them are on the first page of Google and making consistent sales (Christmas was wild).
I got great suppliers for 3 of my stores from the directory supplied with NB. For the rest I found supplier on my own, it is not very difficult if you are willing to make a few phone calls.
It is true that the templates supplied with version 1.0 was not the most beautiful in the world but I was able to customize it myself and you can always buy a template you do like. At any case NB2.0 has a better looking template.
Also, the just the tools that come along with this product are worth far more than the price of this course.

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omrid1, glad you had a good experience. Its' especially good that you found some suppliers, especially since there was such a large number of people ciomplaining about the effort it took to find good suppliers. But you did mention "a few phone calls". Yes, msot dropshippers will qualify you - you need to convince them that you can handle their product. Most newbies would have a hard time with that one.

Since NB2 is not out yet, how do you know about it ? I assume you are still active on the old forum, and have an evaluation copy ? And it looks like you are promoting NB2, so are you doing that based on your experience with NB1 or NB2 ?

Most importantly, please tell me what "tools" were in NB1 that are worth far more than $497 ????
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THey are posting in their forum that the upgrade from ver 1 to 2 will only be $97.00!! That's great news for all of us that bought the first version.

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Did anyone have problems with getting the product graphics for their niche?
Are they good graphics? Do the suppliers have the promotions you needed, like the product descriptions? Do you have to always check with the supplier for their inventory stock in case of upcoming backorders?

I suppose each supplier is different but would like the general sense of the suppliers and how good they are to work with?
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I found the course fairly straight forward, the biggest difficulty for me being out of the States was finding a dropshipper but after a bit of perseverance I soon found one.

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This is a very important topic to know for me before i get NB2 or not. The intro vid only tell us outside US dudes not to worry about it - But i am and need more info.

As a CB2 customer i don't care about the bonuses - only how i can use the training material to expand my business w. dropship/eCommerce outside the states.

Can a NB team member give more info on this?
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This would be awesome to get if they have a lower payment plan to get in. I have no doubt that Steve Clayton and his team deliver good quality content in the products they sell.

Looking forward to the launch on this one.

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JohnCPU - do you have suggesions for other eCommerce platforms you like? You mentioned that you were experienced.

I have dabbled with NB1 - I've been mainly focused on infoproduct marketing for the last few years, but I have two markets where my participation through selling infoproducts has led me to see opportuntiies for selling consumer products - which has led to one successful store and thinking of creating a few others.

I would like more flexibility with the templates - otherwise their system seems sound. Howeber, I would be very open to seeing what else is out there.

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I have dabbled with NB1 - I've been mainly focused on infoproduct marketing for the last few years, but I have two markets where my participation through selling infoproducts has led me to see opportuntiies for selling consumer products - which has led to one successful store and thinking of creating a few others.

I would like more flexibility with the templates - otherwise their system seems sound. Howeber, I would be very open to seeing what else is out there.
Hey Jeff,

What kind of products would you be selling? There are other options for eCommerce, it depends on how many products you're looking at and a number of other factors.

And as for the templates, I've seen a few from NB2 and they look sweet (in addition to the one on their JV Blog). However, you could always hire a designer or otherwise use a different template. I haven't had a chance to tinker with the tools in NB2 yet, but they do mention that setting up the stores and making changes within them is much easier in the v2.0. (it was a hassle in v1.0; there were a lot of issues and support tickets, as mentioned in an above post)

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How much do current costumers save?
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I believe the 'upgrade' price is $97, so you'd save $200 off the cover cost for v2.0

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I saw the same price somewhere else for 97 but who knows for sure?
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Most importantly, please tell me what "tools" were in NB1 that are worth far more than $497 ????
Hey Johncpu;

I already have access to some of the tools that will be part of Niche Blueprint 2.0, here are a few (there are more):

Keyword Blueprint- The best keyword tool to find niche markets
Article Blueprint- (worth $67/month) similar to Unique Article Wizard
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@nursehoney - just checking out nicheblueprint 2.0 & found ur post really helpful... thx
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Thanks for the kind words...I do try.

And because inquiring minds want to know...the upgrade for current Niche Blueprint owners is $97. Monthly members will get a somewhat smaller discount, although still a big chunk off the full price. And everyone else can enjoy a substantial discount for the first 7 days. On January 18 it goes to full price.

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Hi Honey,

I remember you telling me that present Nicheblueprint owners will get a notice about the upgrade, that's correct isn't it? The notice will go out Jan 11th?

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