I have previously mentioned the BANS (Build a Niche Store) platform upon which the store part of this web site is built. It’s a great system for building web sites linked into the eBay Partner Network, which allows site owners to make money through commission made on eBay sales.

The creators of BANS, Kelvin and Adam have gone one step further and produced a fantastic step by step guide to creating your own niche web site – covering all aspects of the process from researching your niche through to setting up the web site and marketing.

Called “the number 1 way to make money online” (or N1WAY for short) the guide is written in such a way that it is perfect for the beginner, and also a huge helper for the more experienced web site builder of internet marketer. The whole guide is browser based and has been updated a couple of time since its release back in July 2009. The guide is extremely reasonably priced at (USD) $24.95 (Which when I bought it in July was just over $32 Australian). If you’re interested in purchasing your own access to N1WAY, just click on the banner below for instant access.

If you are interested in purchasing the BANS platform, you can do so by clicking the below banner.

Mark Hansen

One of the guys I follow pretty closely when it comes to building niche web sites using BANS and also WordPress is Mark Hansen. Mark lives in Charlotte, North Carolina in the States and he has developed well over 100 of his own niche sites, plus provided a huge amount of advice to other web developers and marketers over the years. I don’t mind admitting that I have been trying to follow his process pretty closely.

To help promote the release of N1WAY, Mark is developing a web site, following the exact process as set down in the N1WAY guide. Mark’s new site focuses exclusively on golf putters, and you can check out how he’s going by visiting the site at http://www.golfputterguide.com. But in an extraordinary step, Mark plans to give the site away to a lucky subscriber to his site on 15 October 2009. I say this is extraordinary, as Mark is investing a considerable amount of time, effort and money into developing the site. Why not jump over to Mark’s web site dedicated to the N1WAY system and the competition at http://www.buildanichestoreguide.com and check out more information about the N1WAY system and also Mark’s progress building the putter guide site. For a huge amount of general information in relation to building a niche web site business, you can also visit Mark’s main information site at http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com – it really is worth a visit.

.: Interested in building your own niche website? is a post from: iPhone Frenzy

In essence, there are two separate pieces of software which are integrated to work together to make this all work. The first of these is a free, open source program called WordPress and the other is a commercial product referred to as BANS, which stands for Build a Niche Store.

WordPress was originally developed as a simple to use blogging system, which allowed users to easily set up a blogging web site, and for them to post information to their site. WordPress is an ‘open source’ application, which means that the computer coding which is used to make it work is freely available to the general public. What this means is that all the adventurous computer literate people (aka Nerds) are able to develop enhancements to the system to make it work better. It also means that there is a large community of developers who can implement these improvements, and also develop separate, single function applications (referred to as plugins and widgets) which add different functionality to WordPress. At the time of writing there are more than 6,000 free plugins listed on the WordPress website, along with many, many more which are commercially available. WordPress is constantly evolving and updates are regularly available.

Another advantage of using WordPress is the use of themes. WordPress is a bare bones system which comes with a pretty simple and stand look for the produced blogging web site. However, developers have also produced a huge number of themes which can be added to WordPress very simply which can completely change the look of your web site, without changing the content. Again, at the time of writing there were almost 1,000 different free themes available from the WordPress web site, with a far greater number available form developer sites, both free and commercial.

If you’re interested in learning more about WordPress or downloading the latest version (and why not, it’s free!) you can visit the WordPress web site at http://www.wordpress.org.

BANS, as I mentioned is a commercial product which was developed by two Poms, Kelvin and Adam which is similar in some ways to WordPress in that it compiles a web site based on information provided into an administration interface. However, BANS is linked to the eBay Partner Network (EPN) and is able to pull auction listings out of eBay and display them within a BANS web site. This allows the web site owner so create a web site dedicated to a particular niche, for example the Apple iPhone as in the case of iPhoneFrenzy and pull listings from eBay in relation to iPhone handsets, accessories, cases etc.

People who view the web site are encourage to make an eBay purchase using the auction listings displayed within the BANS site, which brings a small commission to the owner of the site.

The iPhoneFrenzy site actually utilises both WordPress and the BANS systems, which have been linked together in such a way so as to take advantage of the best features of both systems – the ease of use for adding new posts to the WordPress blog with the convenience of the connection with the eBay listings.

If you want to learn more about the BANS system or purchase your own copy, please click on the about BANS logo. Similarly, if you are interested in joining the eBay partner network (Australia) please click on the eBay logo.

Well I hope you have enjoyed this brief glimpse under the hood of the iPhoneFrenzy web site. This has just been a pretty quick basic tour, there is actually plenty more under there. I hope that I will be able to talk a little more about other aspects of the site some time in the future.

.: What’s under the hood of this site? is a post from: iPhone Frenzy