I bought EBay’s Build A Niche Store (BANS) a few days ago.  Over the weekend, I had a chance to go through the installation manual.  My goal was to get my first BANS store up by the end of this week.  But working yesterday sort of sidetracked me. 

Nevertheless, I feel very optimistic about getting my first store up this week and about BANS in general.  Two features jumped out at me that highlight the primary benefits that BANS offers: the installation and user manuals and the community forum.

Installation And User Manuals

Just from reading the installation and user manuals, I knew that BANS was going to be fun and profitable.  The instructions are clear, crisp, and helpful.  It walks you through step by step on how to put up your first store.  They don’t take anything for granted or assume that the reader knows anything.  They start from the premise that you are dumb as a rock when it comes to the Internet and online businesses.

In other words, if you knew NOTHING about how to build a website, buying domains, hosting, niche products, etc., you can STILL use BANS to make money.  Seriously, an idiot can do this. 

When I started this blog, I knew almost nothing about websites, control panels, hosting, etc.  I knew a little bit from the time last year when I built a website for an online business (that failed) using Go Daddy’s Website Tonight software.  I didn’t learn much because Go Daddy’s software is very restrictive and doesn’t provide much in the way of information or help. 

I would have done anything for instructions and guidance like the ones from BANS.  They simplify the website-building process to the bare essentials.  This, in turn, teaches novices how to start an online business in roughly an hour.  You can’t beat that.

BANS Forum

In addition to the manuals, BANS offers a member area that contains a community forum.  This forum–I kid you not–contains over 25,000 posts that cover everything from installation to traffic generation.  It also contains an extensive selection of BANS-related tutorials. 

I thought the installation and and user manuals were all I was going to have to guide me (which was pretty good as it was), but the wealth of information in this forum is phenomenal. 

It seems to be the backbone of BANS and provides you with a community of like-minded entrepreneurs who all want to make money.  

If you haven’t yet bought BANS, I encourage you to try it out.

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