I was up till 3am this morning setting up my first BANS (Build A Niche Store) site in ages. After reading through the BANS forums, I found some guys selling some pretty nice looking templates for BANS sites that basically make them look quite different to the normal BANS template.

I snapped up 13 new templates for $30 and have to say I was so impressed with them. My site looks pretty nice and I really wanted to stay up and finish the site off completely but I knew I would be wiped out today if I got no sleep at all.

Part of the reason I decided to get into BANS again was because I had been using a different method of making eBay Affiiliate Stores called EZBayPro for a few weeks now, and I was keen to try BANS again and see what the difference was between the two programs.

At EZBayPro, like BANS, there’s a great community of people all building their own niche eBay affiliate sites but the EZBayPro sites are full of constantly updating content which the search engines love. This appeals to me as traffic is the most important thing no matter what you are doing online.

The owner of the EZBayPro site, Guy has created a top notch product and I’ve not seen anyone who joined who hasn’t been absolutely blown away by the content given inside the membership. There’s lots of video tutorials that show even the most green newbie how to set up a complete website in hours that is profitable as well as looking fabulous. Guy is a seasoned internet marketer and website builder and he’s come up with a fantastic product that gives everyone several ways to profit from fast and free affiliate sites.

I’ve been dabbling around with Joomla and now BANS along the way so I haven’t made as many of these EZBayPro sites as I should have, but I just picked up 30 new domain names and will be building out probably half or more using EZBayPro and the rest using BANS.

The difference between BANS and EZBayPro at this point in time, for me, is the speed that you can get a fully operational, money-making site up and running and looking great. In the time it took me to just get my first BANS site up to where I can add content etc, I could have easily set up about 3 of the EZBayPro sites - and today have moved on to the next ones. They are ’set and forget’ so you can build and move on or monetize them in other ways Guy talks about in the membership area.

Check out the EZBayPro site here - Guy gives you about a half-dozen sites you can have a look at which will give you a much better idea of what is achievable with EZBayPro.