Why BANS?

This was a big decision for me and marked a change in my philosophy(something that is very healthy, BTW, when you are first starting out.

It became clear that the sites I was creating simply did not have enough products to entice the visitor into buying on a consistent basis. While I was making money, the amount of work needed was over the top if I wanted to replicate an idea(the rinse and repeat cycle). So I wanted to use a feed from a store or site to populate my website.

I looked at Golden Can and that looked very promising(I will use this in some way down the road). But still, I wanted a store front that could be set up very quickly from a template. Now the design features had to be robust because I had numerous ideas I wanted to implement. I rejected Amazon's astore for just that reason. It really is a primitive product but can be used very successfully if you already have a website that can link to it.

That's when I found BANS(Building A Niche Store). Now this was exactly what I was looking for! Having thousands and thousands of ebay products on my site(even in a rather small niche) was perfect for me and the robustness of the feature set is superb.

So, I purchased BANS for a very reasonable(considering you can theoretically use this on an infinite amount of stores) $97. I chose my first domain name, rolled up my sleeves and got to work. Next, installing BANS.

The Teacher
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