Well it’s been almost a month since I’ve posted anything to my blog… but for good reasons. For one, we finally finished moving into our new place. It is a lot quieter, but we still ended up having to deal with a few major annoyances. On one hand, the people below us constantly slam their door and at night they snore so damn loud you can actually hear it through 3 inches of concrete flooring! On the other hand, I can open the window and hear the ocean from where we live… and that muffles out the snoring a bit. I guess the only way we are ever going to be completely neighbor noise free is when we get our own house.
In between getting moved into our new place, doing our taxes and juggling 50 other things… as most of us tend to do these days, I did find some time to check out a few internet marketing type products and services. I had gotten an email from the creator of StoreStacker, Scott Trimble, seeing if I was interested in promoting Store Stacker. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to particate in that JV since I was in the middle of relocating and had my hands full with other things, but I did end up having a few real good email conversations back and forth with Scott. He is a real cool guy and it was nice to throw ideas back and forth with each other. I ended up buying a copy of StoreStacker for myself and plan on integrating it into my social networking site that is just about ready to launch.
Now for my last good reason for not posting anything to this blog in over a month… well besides moving to a new place, integrating StoreStacker into my social networking site and constantly working on my social networking site, upgrading to Wordpress 2.5, and maybe eating and sleeping every now and then… well, I decided to participate a little bit more on Twitter. I managed to create a halfway decent looking profile page for Twitter, and decided to start using it in a more socialable way. Well, probably not as much as most people that like Twitter use it… but it’s a start.
So what’s next? I plan on actually writing some useful posts from now on (haha), now that most of the chaos in my life is slowing down somewhat. I just thought I would tell anyone that cares to read this, what all I’ve been up to and what’s in the works as far as this blog is concerned, etc. In the next few weeks or so, or when I can pull myself away from working on my other projects, I’ll write up an outline of the most common topics I’ll be covering in this blog. Till then…
abdelJuly 21, 2008
Hi, say, did you actually made some money with it? I have heard many people who bought it did not make one single penny with it. I will be interested to see if you did. Cause, if you are promoting it, it must be good and working. Otherwise, why would you promote it? Do you have some proof you can show me? or US rather… 
jason countsJuly 22, 2008
Hi Abdel,
I’ll give you a general rundown of a few reasons why I like StoreStacker and how I’m planning on using it. I’m currently in the process of integrating Store Stacker with my Social Network, and so I haven’t made any money with it yet, since my social network is still in the very final development stages.
I think that for the people who may have bought it and haven’t made any money with it yet, they probably just took the default theme that comes with the script, added a generic type header image to the top, slapped it up on a new domain and hoped for the best.
In reality, I think that people who bought the StoreStacker script could increase their chances of success by taking the time to customize it or hire someone out to do that if they are not comfortable doing it themselves. Hopefully they also did a bit of research when it came to targeting a specific niche and creating a store around that niche.
The benefits I see in using store stacker are as follows:
1. The ability to pull Clickbank, Ebay, Amazon, Regnow, Overstock and Hotel Club products and services into your website.
a) This creates relevant search engine content, which might bring you additional traffic in the form of “longtail search phrases”.
b) Whether or not I personally make any money from the actual sale of any of these pulled products is not my key focus. If I happen to make a sale, thats just a bonus… what I’m really after is creating an additional traffic funnel, whereby once they find my site via a longtail search term from a storestacker product page… I now have the opportunity to get them to join my site, get to know them, market products and services, etc.
2. With the availability of the RSS plugin, all products pulled into the store area have an RSS feed generated.
3. Within the admin area of the script, there are areas where you can add code like google adsense code, adbright, yahoo search marketing, etc. So there is the possibilty of generating ad publisher revenue in addition to or in place of a site visitor purchasing a product via an affiliate link.
4. The added bonus that some people will probably click on the affiliate links and purchase a product… but again, to me… this is kinda just a bonus and not the main focus.
I hope this little bit of info helps. I had planned on writing up a post about my social network in the next few days… to give people a sneak-peak, but until I get a chance to write that up… I’ll go ahead and give out the url to the area on my site where I am integrating Store Stacker.
http://www.firestormmarketer.com/store/
Feel free to have a look around my site, its not currently open for registration, and its got a few more things I need to polish out… especially in the “store” area, like adding categories and various products, altering CSS, colors, etc…. but it might give you a general idea of what you can do with “SS” with a bit of patience and some time invested.
Regards,
Jason
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