So yesterday I finally found the website builder. Today, I’ll walk you through what these “10 FREE Web Businesses” actually are. If you are a member of this prestigious Jeff Paul Players Club you can follow along at jeffpaulclub.com.

First, you select from really a wide variety of items. Car stereo equipment, GPS, eBooks, here is a screen shot of the three catalog providers:

Now, for my first couple sites I chose to use Sunrise Wholesale, because they sell real, tangible items, whereas the other two are just selling $9.99 ebooks. I figured I would get a bigger commission with expensive items. So I picked a GPS system.

Notice the bright Red dollar sign with cost next to it.  After I called a specialist for some help, I learned that you do not make commission on items, but you have to upsell them.  The Cost is what you will have to pay to sell the item. So unless you sell for well above the MSRP, you will not make any money for a sale.  That is the understanding I came to from my conversation with the kindly young adviser, Lauren I think it was.  I was surprised, the people you call for help with the site are actually quite knowledgeable, but the people who will call you, who try to sell you the lectures, really have no understanding of their own product.

Next, you pick a domain name.  Unfortunately you are limited to prefixes before totalwarehouse.com.  So mine would be gpsnavigation.totalwarehouse.com or something.  This was a big disappointment, as I wanted a quick way to utilize the domain names and hosting I already have.  But in the end, after literally a few clicks you will get a website that looks like this:

Cute right? Not exactly an “Internet Business” but more like an internet item, that you will have to actively force people to actually look at.  And you have to sell it for over the MSRP to make any money.  And you have to talk to Paypal and Sunrise Wholesale to get your site registered to even get any of the money if you were to ever make a sale.  Now those directions would have been useful somewhere in the Jeff Paul System, but they are nowhere to be found.  You probably have ot pay $5000 for that advice.  However, I’m not saying they make it impossible to make this work.  They give you the option to put your item on eBay.  Now that is a great way to sell your product on a highly trafficked site.  In my next post, I will go through that ordeal.