Unique BANS Templates Help Generate Sales

A new group of templates for Niche stores offers an effortless way to stand out from the crowd, and help encourage customers to stay at your store and buy.

Niche stores can be a great way to make money on the Internet. Thousands of small businesses have discovered that BANS (Build a Niche Store Script) is an inexpensive way to introduce their products to new customers and begin to generate a cash flow.

The problem, as even inexperienced users know, is that the Build a Niche Store script gives you only nine pre-made templates within the administrator.  There are thousands of BANS, and nearly all of them use one of those nine pre-made templates. Each store looks very similar, and merchants have a difficult time differentiating themselves from the masses.

Perception is everything when it comes to sales, and if my store has the same layout, color scheme and set up as every other store, it looks to my potential customers as if I have the same, dull products as they find at every other store. I need to have a site that makes my store look atypical and unconventional so customers pause, look further, and take time to discover what I have to offer.

That’s where the product, “Build a Niche Store Premium Templates” can step in and help out.  By altering the code on the Ebay template, Ian Fernando’s product provides up to nine different templates for a BANS stores and up to 18 different themes for a BANS website.

Most storeowners aren’t computer experts, and have no interest in or knowledge of code and programming. Still, we want to give customers a reason to stop at our site and see the unique products we are selling. For those of use who fit this description, these Premium Templates provide an answer.

Using the templates is a breeze, and I found it an easy process to install them. Anyone who runs an Internet retail site has enough point and click, download and upload knowledge to quickly get them up and running.  It only takes three simple steps:

• choosing and downloading the theme,
• uploading it to your websites theme directory,
• then choosing it to be your Template.

From there, it’s the same straightforward process to create your store and display your products as you’re already used to – your store just looks a whole lot better.

The point to this process is, of course, increasing the number of potential customers who actually become buyers on your site. These colorful and different layouts do drive more traffic to the store, and that’s going to mean more cash in pocket.

The best selling point to me is the 100 per cent satisfaction guarantee. If you’re not happy with the templates within thirty days, you can get a refund of your money, no questions asked, no debates or justifications, no problems. That’s the kind of business I like to be, and that’s the kind of business I want to do business with.

It’s getting harder and harder to stand out in the BANS business. These Premium Templates are simple and effective way to get that unique look that will show customers that your store is something different, and something that they’ll like.

Have you tried these tmplates? Speak your mind and leave a comment.

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September 2008 Affiliate Income

I know it’s almost half way through October but it’s never too late to post the affiliate income report for September 2008. It was a tough month, with commissions dropping due to the economy. My niche sites and PPC campaigns are more luxuries than necessities. Which, due to the economy, creates a drop in commissions. Well, I can’t really complain because it’s still extra money in my pocket. Here are the results.

Ebay Partner Network

My Ebay earnings dropped from $300 a month to a low of $195.18 last month. I think a lot of this is due to the lack of spending on luxury items.

Pepperjam Network

My PPC campaign went fairly decent. I spent a total of $50 and made $110for a profit of $60. I was playing it safe. This was with only 1 campaign on 1 search network (MSN). I pretty happy that I ended up in the positive for both programs.

Here is the break down;

Ebay Partner Network: $195.18

Pepperjam Network (PPC): $110.00

Adsense: $12.14

Gross Income: $

Costs: -$50

Net Profit: $267.32

Not bad! That’s with all sites on auto pilot, with little to no SEO. I’m still working to improve each of the 4 BANS and PHPBAY sites I’m currently running.

Let’s hope that next month is much better!

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Niche Marketing Idea- Wide Baby Gate

It’s about that time where I reveal another potential niche market for your BANS, Phpbay pro, and affiliate sites. Today’s niche marketing idea is around wide baby gates. There are plenty of parents out there in need of a wide baby gate. This would be a perfect blog/site to build around baby care with some health tips, etc. Well here are the numbers I’ve crunched up. All data is from Google and was gathered on 10/7/08.

KEYWORDS:

“wide baby gate”

• 5,400 Searches per month
• 8670 competing sites

“extra wide baby gate”

• 3,600 searches per month
• 5,000 competing websites

“retractable baby gate”

• 1,300 searches per month
• 2,030 competing sites

“evenflo baby gate”

• 1,000 searches per month
• 3,050 competing website

Create a separate page for each keyword. One for “wide baby gate”, another for “extra wide baby gate”, etc. Within each page I would recommend you write some information based on your products.

[phpbay]wide baby gate, 4, “”, “”[/phpbay]

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New Niche Market Idea-Car Bike Racks

I was surfing the net when I found this potential niche market. I got this idea from a bike blog I was visiting. I then did some research and found a niche market for Phpbay, bloggers, and BANS users. This niche market is car bike racks. Though you would think this niche market is saturated, the stats are surprising. These stats were generated last Saturday, though I’m sure they are accurate, you may want to verify them using the Google keyword tool. Here we go!

KEYWORDS:

“car bike rack”

• 4,400 Searches per month
• 48,100 Competing websites

“car bike racks”

• 3,600 Searches per month
• 22,300 Competing websites

“bike racks for cars”

• 1,900 Searches per month
• 2,860 Competing websites

Here are some of the items on Ebay that can be promoted via Phpbay Pro or BANS;

[phpbay]car bike rack, 8, “7294″, “”[/phpbay]

The car bike rack niche market can also be added on to an existing bike blog or site, which would help drive organic targeted traffic to it. Hope this has helped. Let me know what you think.

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Phpbay Pro vs. BANS (Build a Niche Store)

Do you want to make money on the internet, and as soon as possible? Setting up an internet store is a proven way to monetize web traffic. However, becoming a web merchant can be a long process and requires a large investment in money and space for resale goods. So how do web merchants bring in the big bucks without breaking the bank? They set up an eBay niche store.

There are two major eBay niche store programs out there: Phpbay Pro and BANS, which stands for ‘Build a Niche Store‘. They have several key elements in common. Both allow you to build a store on your website using eBay products that are sold by other vendors. This offers quick and easy money, sometimes taking just minutes. Both use the keywords and phrases on your website to determine what products will sell best to your audience. Both stores can enhance your search engine rankings by adding relevant and valuable key words to your website. However, there are a few key differences.

Phpbay Pro is unique because it is also a wordpress plug-in. Wordpress is a very Google friendly format, so this can mean being higher up on a search engine results page. Also,  Phpbay Pro masks the links, so they come up on Google as fresh content, which again can increase a search engine ranking. Users report that the customer support at Phpbay Pro is nothing short of amazing, which can be a huge bonus if you are new to the niche store concept.

BANS has an excellent range of templates, which allow users to customize the look of their niche store. Another benefit is that they are easy to install.  However, BANS does not have the same wordpress options as Phpbay Pro, and therefore will not reap the same harvest of web traffic for your website. BANS also is generally considered buggy, with quite a few annoying and malproductive quirks. Although BANS offers an attractive addition to your website, they will bring a few headaches along for the ride.

If you’re afraid putting this kind of money-maker on your site will compromise your site’s integrity, think again. Phpbay Pro and BANS both allow users to choose their vendors and categories, which can prevent inappropriate items from getting onto a website. They also both use keyword driven listings that are guaranteed to be a good fit with your website. Whichever you choose, there is no reason to let your website go another day without adding this easy and lucrative money making feature.

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