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What is BANS (Build a Niche Store)?
BANS (Build a Niche Store) is a script than allows the
non-programmer to easily develop an
Store on their website. An
store is just a website which features the
categories
which you specify. You can add content pages and other content but
essentially BANS allows a non-programmer to create a website which
encourages your visitors to buy from Ebay .
BANS is a script which you buy for a once only cost, and then you can go
ahead and build as many stores as you want.
Why BANS?
BANSis a way to diversify your on-line income. If
most of your on-line income is from Adsense then if Google changes
their policies you may be badly affected.
With BANS you are paid by
one of the US's largest
corporations. Will you get paid? Is EBay reliable? Well EBay is a
very large corporation, doing very nicely as the world's leading
on-line auction house. They provide a full range of reporting and
tools and pay affiliates monthly, with a US$5 minimum.
Is BANS Legit?
Is BANS ethical and honest. I think so. You put up a website,
your BANS store, that drives buyers to EBay: if they buy you get a
percentage of Ebay's commission, because you "introduced" the
customer to EBay: the customer is happy they bought what they
wanted, EBay is happy they got their commission: I like a win-win
situation.
Is BANS for you?
BANS is good for the Beginner. Vic over at bloggerunleashed strongly
suggests that beginners at making money online start with BANS. Why?
Because its low cost If you get it wrong the worst that can
happen is that you won't make any money! You can even get your money
back on BANS software within 60 days of purchase so your total loss
will be the domain name purchase and hosting - low risk really.
If you get it wrong you won't get banned from eBay and the
chance of future earnings. OK you will if you commit fraud but
because Ebay doesn't pay you unless your prospect buys something you
won't be banned from them if you are unsuccessful.
The potential for finding a niche is unlimited: you can buy
anything from cars to collectables to property to books on Ebay in
most major countries in the world.
Keyword selection is difficult but at
you can pick a niche
based on the number of successful auctions for that type of items.
BANS is Passive Income
Once you put in the initial work on a site you can pretty much set
and forget, unlike a blog which always needs a new post. BANS stores
are great for passive income. Site that have new content regularly
get better ratings in Google because they are "fresh" or
"newsworthy". BANS sites are automatically updated as the auctions
you feature change (Hint sort the displayed auctions to "closing
soonest" appears at the top of your page).
What skills do you need?
Technical Skills:
What technical skills do you need to set up a BANS site. Do you know
how to upload a WordPress theme? If so you almost certainly have the
technical skills to be confident with BANS. You will need to upload
files using a FTP program. BANS documentation suggest cuteFTP which
costs after a free trial:I use Filezilla which is free and easy to use.
Check out the Video
The documentation you get with BANS is excellent and takes you
through step by step: assuming you have webhosting with Hostgator. You
don't HAVE to use Hostgator - I use dreamhost at it works fine - but the
step by step will be slightly different. So if you are not confident use
Hostgator. There is also an active forum where you can get support.
Writing Skills:
You need very few writing skills: certainly less than it took to
write this article! Watch Vic's "how to" video to see that the only
content that is important on the site are the EBay ads.
Getting Started with Ebay and BANS
Apply to Ebay as an affiliate.
DO THIS FIRST! Do not buy
BANS until you have been
accepted as an EBay affiliate. Not everyone is accepted but its unclear
what the rules are. It appears though to do with your country and your
existing websites. You can't do much about your location but apply via HubPages if you don't have an existing developed website.
Hosting:
If currently don't have any hosting: buy it before you buy a domain.
Why? You can often get your first domain free with the hosting package!
Just make sure its a host that is not going to charge you extra for each
domain, as my first one did! Hosting should cost $6-$10/month but to get
the cheaper prices you need to pay in advance.
Domain name for your BANS store.
A .info domain can cost as little as 0.99c, a .com you should be able
to get for less that $10; that's for a year. Most people recommend
godaddy for buying domain names but not for hosting. Note that getting
.info domain indexed will probably take longer than with other
extensions.
Now Buy BANS
BANS costs US$97. That's a one time cost, there are no on-going
charges, no charges for upgrades or support. You can make as many stores
as you want, there is no limit.
Disclaimer
I am an affiliate of
BANSand if you use the BANS links in this article to buy the product I
will receive a commission. It won't cost you any more so if you found
this article useful I'd love to get paid! If you try it and find its not
for you - you can always get your money back from
ClickBank within 60
days of purchase - no questions asked.
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