Remember, I’m the guy who does sell physical products wishing I would have devoted more time to selling digital products and creating adsense sites. The problem with physical products is the same as being tied down to any job. You are tied down to a physical location and no matter how good the employees you hire, you are going to always need to be at the physical location to manage and pick up the slack.

The only exception would be if you used a drop shipper. In this case, you could have someone else managing the fulfillment. But IMO you’d still need to have an office with a phone number customer’s could call just to give some credibility.

I’ve never added eBay affiliate ads to any of my blogs. I ran across a wordpress plugin, but it costs $40. I’ve never used it myself.

http://bayrss.nichemoneysites.com/

There are two tips things that I have found helpful.

1. When I display eBay affiliate ads on my web pages, I usually try to do it using an RSS affiliate feed. You’ll need a RSS to HTML converter. Carp is a good one to use.

http://www.geckotribe.com/rss/carp/

The main purpose is the RSS feed converts to HTML and is search engine friendly content that auto updates.

2. 30% of my revenue still comes from eBay. I run 1,000+ auctions every week. Every 2 – 3 weeks, I’ll pick some items and list them with a starting bid of 99 cents. My email list now has over 35,000 subscribers. I’ll email the subscribers and direct them to my auctions through my affiliate link. A big portion of the money I make from eBay comes from this technique.

Be careful though. You can’t email out eBay affiliate links. It is against the TOS. And if you do and someone opens and clicks in a web based email program, I’ve tested it and the referral data will show where it came from. If you are using email, you better direct the subscriber to one of your web pages and have them click the eBay affiliate link from there.

I joined the Ebay affiliate program and have plans to use it on my new blog.

Do you have any tips, do static banners work best, or content relevant auction widgets?

I’m so burned out managing that business, I made the choice to sell it earlier this year. I am in the process of doing that now.

2. A few years ago, I read Corey Rudl’s Secrets to Marketing your Business on the Internet. I decided to put together an ebook teaching others how to sell physical products. I put it together in one day and drove some PPC traffic to it. I was amazed that I had sold 3 eBooks at $29.95 each in about 24 hours.

I still have this site today. The income has been as high as $3,500 in one week. This usually happens when Dateline runs that “How Great it is to Sell on eBay Show”. Those big weeks are mostly few and far between. For the most part, this site averages $2,000 – $2,500 a month.

3. One of the best affiliate programs I have ever participated in is the eBay Affiliate Program. I get a lot of traffic to my main physical product site. I placed a banner on the top of the home page with the eBay affiliate link. I’ve made as high as $1,500 a month from that banner. However, it usually averages $600 – $800 a month.

One site, develop traffic and make a revenue off adsense or adbrite.
Or, develop 10 sites, build them to a level of $10/day from each sites and earn $3000/month?

Also, what do you think will be the average time frame it would take for both the plans.

What is your advise?