My BANS Background

I heard about BANS from Kent via the Wealthy Affiliate which we both recommend unreservedly. If your serious about making money online you really should check it out. Kent had experienced some great success with BANs and I would recommend you check out his Blog at (add when known) . Anyway, I joined via his affiliate link and he gave me a few freebies to let me know how he had succeeded. What a great guy.

So I got my hands on the BANS software 18 March 2008. I didn’t realize at the time but this was only a couple of days after the launch of BANS 3.0. Unfortunately for me that meant I installed the script on a domain and promptly had to do some updates.

Now before I go on I should give you some background. The business I worked for failed in 2006 and I had to decide what path to take. I decided to have a crack at working for myself and got by until Dec 2007 when I decided it wasn’t what I wanted to do. I started to explore different options and decided to go full time into internet marketing towards the end of January.

I have always been interested in computers but would not describe myself as a techhie. I can knock up a website in Frontpage using bought templates and that’s about it. Since January I have been learning the ropes and unsurprisingly made very little money- about $200 which would be a loss after expenses. That said I didn’t set out with short term intentions but I do have a goal to be making $5000 per month by the end of the year.

I settled on two monetization models for this year BANS & Internet Marketing using the Affiliate Cash Secrets system.

For my internet marketing education I became a member of Wealthy Affiliate Member and also purchased the excellent Profit Lance course. I have no plans to outlay any more money on training in the short term but I am very tempted by Wordtracker. I currently use Keyword Elite but I am not sure it is right for me based on where I’m currently at.

Back to the BANS story. Rather than dive right in I had a look through the forums and cam across Mark who had launched his Build a Niche Store Empire Series back in February. I read through what he was proposing and as he knows what he’s doing I decided to play catch up using his excellent instructions and videos.

I started work on my first site 20 March and played around for a week trying to get to grips with everything that was going on. It might seem simple but I think there is a lot to understand if you want to make money but more on that in a later post. I outsourced the link building work to Submit Edge 1 April.

I noticed that many BANS users work to generate immediate profits using adverts in USFreeAds, Craigs List and others. I will use this strategy in a few weeks but for now I have chosen to take a slightly longer term view. With the inbound links being taken care of courtesy of Submit Edge, I have got on with building other sites.

Due to it’s length I’m going to end this post now and write another shortly that will bring you up to date with my exact position. I will then post every couple of days to let you know what I’ve done, the ups and the downs and I will also report any earnings as they happen. At the moment my BANS income stands at $0.00 but I wouldn’t expect anything else given what I’ve done so far.

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