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There are several ways to make money with eBay even though most people only know of one way. That is of course selling their old junk on eBay. That was actually how it was when eBay and the internet were not as developed. Now you can earn money using eBay a variety of ways. You do not even need to have your own product or sell anything that you own for that matter. In fact you do not even need to sell something.

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For this reason, eBay has become very popular for start-up companies and new online entrepreneurs. While others make money on eBay as a part-time endeavor, many have already managed to leave their employers due to better opportunities online brought about by their eBay selling activities. Should you wish to be among those who earn great earnings from eBay, the practical tips below will help.

If you want to make a living out of eBay, you will need to approach it correctly. This will not just entail selling random items you can make good profit out of. The best way to start is by looking for a market that you could focus on. Ideally, your target market should be one that you are already familiar with. If not, make sure you do the necessary research to know exactly what people in that target market want.

Next, look for items that your target market has a demand for. Once you find products in demand, find a supplier you can work with. If you don’t have enough capital to buy the items in bulk, try negotiating with you supplier so you can become a middleman. This way, you need not purchase the products yourself before selling them on eBay.

When you already have products to sell, it would be time to post them. Keep in mind that your listings greatly influence eBay users’ buying decisions. For this reason, your listings need to give you an edge in selling. Apart from making use of keyword-rich titles and posting good pictures, make sure you present exactly how your products can be useful to all those who buy them. In you description, you can list down benefits as well as examples of situations wherein the products will be most useful. Be sure to stick to the facts but still be able to make potential buyers understand why they need your product. Also try to mention exactly what your products can and cannot do. This way, you can gain the trust of potential customers. If your products are good, purchases and re-orders will come pouring in. If it is bad, you can expect either requests for refunds or lots of negative feedback.

Lastly, make sure you have a return policy or you offer a money-back guarantee. This will assure your potential buyers that you have confidence in your goods and that they are in pristine condition. This will also enable them to trust you more for future purchases. Simple as they may be, your policies or guarantees is what can actually bring you success with your online business at eBay.

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Even though there are two separate posts about the changes on the eBay Partner network Blog, just about all of it can be summed up in one sentence…

“If You Want to Earn Commission on Your Traffic, Make Sure they Come from Your OWN Websites, absolutely nowhere else!”

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What Does This Mean to Partners Like Us?

Overall, this is not going to have a big affect on many of us, as long as we aren’t going post happy, outside our own registered domains. In other words:

1. You Cannot Post Links to Craigslist
2. You Cannot Create Squidoo Pages
3. You Cannot post Links from within Facebook
4. No More Toolbars.. (Without express written approval of ePN)

If I were a guessing man… I would assume that eBay is saying one simple thing, Build your own network, your own traffic, and your own websites and quit using other traffic to plant your cookie with visitors that would usually end up on eBay anyway!

Excerpt from the Post:

Important updates to the Network Code of Conduct include the following:

•    eBay Partner Network does not compensate for sales that come from invalid click activity, which includes, but is not limited to the following:
-  clicks generated by a publisher clicking on their own ads
-  automated clicking tools/traffic sources/robots
-  activity generated by other deceptive software

•    Publishers may only place links and/or promotional content on sites they own.  Affiliate links on third party sites such as Craigslist, MySpace, etc. are not allowed.

•    You will not redirect any traffic to middle servers for the sole purpose of masking your referring source of traffic.  This includes the use of URL shortening services (including but not limited to tinyurl. com, short.to and cloakedlink. com).

No More Direct Paid Links

Many people use PPC on different search engines and social networks to drive paid traffic to ePN. From July 20th, you can no longer direct that traffic directly to eBay! What this means to you and I, is that IF we want to use PPC or paid advertisements to get traffic, we must first direct those paid clicks to OUR OWN websites, engage the visitors, and only then, direct them to the eBay system!

The Email Subscriber Gotcha!

This is somewhat of a gray area I picked up on over the past week… Did you know:

1. If you Maintain a Mailing List, OR If you have Blog Subscribers that Choose to Recieve Updates Via EMAIL
2. If you use ANY Method of email marketing with links that go directly to eBay with your CAMPID in place.

You are in Violation of the Partner Agreement!

So here is the scenario… Assume you have a blog about XYZ widgets, and you have a loyal subscriber base in a mix of both RSS and eMail subscribers. One day, you find this FANTASTIC deal on these XYZ widgets and you post on your site about it… many of your readers come in, recognize the bargain and go and buy it! That’s good right?!

Well, a certain percentage of your readers who get the email, well, they click the link within the email feed and go directly to eBay to buy the same item… except.. unknown to them (and you) You just violated the eBay Partner Network Agreement …

Make Sure your Blog Posts that get sent via email, do NOT contain ePN Links!

A Recent forum post talks about this, and the network agreement covers it in Section F.

Domain Validation

While this is something that has readily been discussed at ebay, now they are requiring NEW affiliates to validate at least one domain, and strongly recommend all affiliates validate their domains in the campaign tools area!

Change in Payment Terms

Guess what? Got at least $5 in earnings? Now you get a check! On another note… if you are reading at this website, I truly hope you generate more than $5/month in ePN earnings! If not, you really need to go to the Build a Niche Store Guide website, grab the new guide, and give yourself a Do-Over!

What do You think of the New Terms?

PRO -

In my opinion, these new terms are only going to HELP honest affiliates! I am not drinking the ePN Kool-Air in any way, but if you are an honest affiliate who uses no practices that could be considered sketchy… it will have no affect on your earnings.

CON -

If you use outside linking systems like tinyurl, if you cloak your own links through a tracking mechanism off your domain, if you do anything to hide the referrer id of your site, its time to rebuild!

Your Opinion?

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ePN Changes Partner Terms – Play in Your Own Damn Sandbox!

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AuctionBytes reported this morning on all metrics that are relevant to both eBay and Amazon, and even though eBay is quickly working to bring itself even with Amazon, its the wrong direction!

Its Not Just the Economy!

I know someone will come out and say… But… but… the economy is in the crapper, of course they are going to be down! Unfortunately, if it were only the economy, you would see the same trends along all major ecommerce type websites. Looking at the graph above, you can clearly see that Amazon is holding its own quite well.

What is Going Wrong with eBay?

I will preface this by saying that maybe, just maybe, eBay expected the traffic to go down when they abandoned the auction format last year for the ecommerce platform they are trying to transition into. Highly doubtful though…

So what else might be wrong with eBays marketplace?

1 – They have abandoned the people who built ebay!

eBay was once the place “to go” when you wanted to find anything rare or for a bargain basement price on the web! Honestly, why do people even care to go to eBay anymore when they can find the same items at Amazon or any other large ecommerce site?! If you go through the ebay marketplace today… you find the same items listed repeatedly, all for just pennies of a difference.

When they decided to abandon the “Cash in the Trash” people, like even myself and Kim, they lost not only their user base, but also a certain number of buyers who now go elsewhere.

2 – They are Alienating their Affiliates!

On one hand, they are focused on bringing and keeping top level affiliates to the ePN program. Along with that comes a fair percentage of webmasters like any of us, who are scuttled to the side. eBay used to have one of the most popular affiliate programs on the web… just visit the forums today and you can read how alot of them have abandoned the platform for other methods to monetize their traffic.

On one of my own higher traffic sites (+5000 daily pageviews), I watched the peaks and valleys in the reporting from ePN… 2000 clicks one day, 200 the next day, 2300 again the following day… and heard the “pinks” say that everything was fine on their end. Transparency is everything in affiliate marketing and when you see the reported stats constantly fluctuate, yet your traffic stays constant, doubts are raised. In my case – I pulled the ebay listings all together and went 100% with Adsense for my traffic on that particular site.

3 – Long Time Sellers have Thier Own Buyer Lists Now

I can tell you from someone who ran a successful eBay business for several years (+$150k/mo in sales) – we kept every single buyer name and address who bought from us, and marketed to those buyers every time we had a special! In our business, there was alot of phone contact with the buyers… eventually, they called us direct instead of going through the eBay system.

My guess is that we werent alone in doing this and since eBay has moved to an ecommerce shopping place, versus mom & pop selling you a lamp from their garage, the trend of direct selling will only grow more prevalent.

4 – Competition in the Marketplace!

As eBay has gone to ecommerce… more and more auction sites are springing up every month! Lets not even mention Craigslist, (who eBay partially owns) and the fact that there are more options today, than there has ever been in the person to person market.

5 – Paypal or Nothing!

One of the last changes eBay made to its seller policies… requiring EVERY transaction to go through Paypal, was VERY unpopular! As we all know, eBay owns Paypal and they used the ruse of stopping fraud as the main reason for the change…

Many people, myself included, prefer to use different methods of payment than paypal! When we had our eBay store for instance, we got a full percentage point better rate than Paypal card transactions, from our local bank. 1% on 150k adds up quick when you run on tight net profit like we did!

Why Else do You think eBay is Declining?

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