WordPress is an incredibly powerful platform that can be used to power all sorts of different kinds of websites. You have blogs like Blogging Tips that use WordPress as their CMS, but you also see WordPress as the platform for everything from forums to wikis too. And yes, WordPress can power an online store too.
You might remember when Zac wrote about WP All Import a few months ago and he described how the solution effectively let you build an affiliate store in just 15 minutes. Since then, WP All Import has added a new feature that makes their solution even more powerful: WooCommerce integration.
The 15-Minute Affiliate Store
Is it really possible to have an affiliate store up and running in as little as 15 minutes? While you will likely want to spend some more time customizing the design and tweaking a few elements, it is entirely possible to have a fully functional affiliate online store in that little amount of time. Here is a three minute video that walks you through some of the main steps.
With WP All Import and the optional WooCommerce add-on, you can power your affiliate store and have it fully populated with external/affiliate products. It’s relatively easy to use and because you are leveraging an existing XML datafeed that you can get from the affiliate network of your choice, your affiliate store will be dynamically updated as the merchants adjust their product information.
Use Any Datafeed and Any Theme
There is a lot of flexibility here. For example, you are not restricted to what source you’d like to use for youraffiliate store. As long as you have access to the CSV/XML datafeed, you can use that to populate your store with those products.
WP All Import and WooCommerce will work with any affiliate network that provides datafeeds. The most common networks that you may consider for this purpose include Commission Junction, LinkShare, ShareASale, Google Affiliate Network, Clickbank, PepperJam Network, AvantLink and Shopping Warehouse.
The interface is designed to be largely drag-and-drop with the WooCommerce add-on. So, as you go through the different settings and attribute fields in the WordPress back-end, you simply click and drag the corresponding value from the datafeed into the field that it needs to populate. The most common would be items like the product name, description, SKU, size, color and price.
WooCommerce-Powered Affiliate Site
After going through the basic configuration, you will have an affiliate site that is ready to generate sales and make money for you. The final product can be seen in this live demo site.
They haven’t done much in terms of customizing the design or putting in any unique copywriting, but that gives you a sense of how robust this tool can be. It can pull in all these different products from the datafeed, populating the individual pages with their images, pricing and other pertinent information. Customers can sift through the catalog based on category or brand, and you have the option of using a variety of sidebar widgets and other personalized features.
Special Code for 15% Off
There is certainly a lot of income potential here, especially when you consider the passive income possibilities after you spend that time for the initial setup and configuration. In fact, there are WP All Import customers who say they’ve been earning up to $6,000 a month with completely automated “thin” affiliate sites with no real content aside from what is imported with WP All Import. Considering that your single purchase grants you the license to use this on multiple sites, you can see how much more money you can make by attacking several different niches and industries with the right datafeeds.
The regular price for WP All Import with the WooCommerce add-on is $129, but you can enter the code “zajo” at the checkout to save 15%.
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