I would have to concur with Bill on this… I reinvest approximately 25% of all net profits back into marketing etc.

Like Bill, I have several custom themes of my own and several commercial themes as well.

The big thing to remember about affiliate sites like these are that you may need to go through 50 sites, just to find 5-10 that are worthy of further invesment of both time and money.

ONCE you have that group of sites though… you will spend all your time promoting and building on those 5-10 sites. Your earnings grow considerably each month you continue the efforts.

Mark

I have a number of sites that make well over 100 dollars per month so even if I were buying the theme…it’d be break even after a month.

It might not be for everyone but I like the static front page that the original Revolution theme offers.

The good news is that it produced the first sale today…the Revenue was small….BUT it was an ACRU so hopefully that is a sign of good things to come.

:-)

You were spot on when you said “the one thing I like the most about the site is that it is much more than just a BANS site.”

Not only that, from a design standpoint, I predict when all is said and done, it will also be much more than wordpress site. Its quite obvious to me that Bill is going in the direction of using the wp platform as a CMS…..content management system. In otherwords, you’ll eventually be hardpressed to recognize this site as either.

Keep up the good work Bill!

I dont think you need to defend the site in any way, I would venture to say that in the 6 hours you have into it, it looks better and has a better flow to it than 80+ % of my own stores!

For myself, I like the “Community” feel I get when I visit the site – it gives me the feeling I am at a website, versus an affiliate type site.

Top shelf in my book!!

@ Mike -

I truly don’t doubt phpbay is just as powerful as BANS, they are really the same end product with just a different means of getting there so to speak.

I think the power of phpBay comes in the ability to add listings to your posts, whereas BANS in my opinion has the most power in the creation of a store type site.

Give me 15 minutes and BANS, I will give you a fully operation, ready to go store with 25 structured categories and subcategories. With phpBay, it takes longer to build each page individually…

On the other hand, the only way to integrate a few BANS auction listings within a wordpress post… oh, you cant! :-)

Mark

@ The lack of color – really it’s by design……Stormtroopers are black and white after all. Outerspace is black…the millenium falcon was white, the death star was white….etc.

As for the internal pages being “not that great”…what can I say…I started from scratch 7 days ago and I have about 6 hours into the site. I have 14 unique articles, I have a well designed and SEO’d front page that targets my keywords, graphics done, store cats hand built and search strings customized to target the products, Unique content on all of the main store pages and will get there on all of the subpages.

6-8 hours in….I’d put my site up against anyone…..don’t mean to be defensive here but I guess I am.

@ phpBay…it’ a nice plugin and I use it often but it isn’t as easy to set up a complete store as it is with BANS. Every single page of the store needs to be done 100% by hand with phpBay and if you don’t know how to use AllinOneSEO plugin then your SEO won’t be that strong with phpbay.

BANS is great if you use it right and so is phpbay. They are both cheap so use both in my opinion and try it yourself….that way you don’t have to speculate as to which is better or which you like. phpBay definitely has it’s limits though.