Hello robficiur,
Don't know whether or not you are still in the market for a website. If not, perhaps this information can be helpful to others.
When researching for a website remember you have many choices.
1. Free websites/blogs (which you already know)
2. Pre-designed website
3. Turnkey website
4. Minisites
5. Website store
6. Or building your site from scratch (must have designing skills)
Newbies must first decide what is it they want to sale. What do they have a passion for? There are many turnkey affiliate sites that comes with their own products and set up to make money quickly, but you have to be skilled enough to bring traffic to your site. Whether these sites are paid for or free--many are, you must get your own traffic which is key and vital to your success.
But the above is true for any website you get--no traffic means no sales. And once you get the traffic, it needs to convert into sales. This is where many newbies fail. They simply need to develop Internet marketing skills.
These turnkey sites often come with there own niche products. While it may seem attractive, you still have know what you are doing. Niche marketing, affiliate, Internet marketing etc., takes skills. You need to learn them all.
There are websites available that don't come with there own products. They are pre-designed, no technical work involved, search engine-friendly, etc., and some offer more features than offers. You must a product/service to sell
Ask yourself these questions...
1. Do I want to build many 1-5 page minisites to launch quickly and make income faster when selling affiliate products? Or,
2. Would I rather just concentrate on building one large pre-designed site, search engine-friendly--selling one particular product/service?
Minisites are great for selling products quickly. You can have a simple landing page or product review page, pre-selling the product. Customers click your affiliate link which takes them directly to the vendors sales page.
But here again, you need to learn Internet marketing which covers pre-selling.
I've researched many different types of site use them all for different occasions. This also includes eBay.
On the other hand, to build an empire or fat affiliate site there are some get web designing software and tools on the market. After months of researching, I tend to go with a successful marketing guru that has the affiliate marketer's mindset, rather go to a web designing company that don't.
As for #1 and #2 above, I tend to do both.
Also, you don't necessarily need a website to sell products. If you continue with your research sooner or later you should find other marketers with products--eBooks to you help. You should also find successful marketers, or gurus who made millions and join their free newsletters.
Remember, everything requires learning a proven successful system, a formula if you will, that will sky-rocket your income.
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