Most long time readers already know about my successes with Amazon (example 1 – need to update this article, example 2). In total I’ve made a few hundred thousand dollars in profit thanks to Amazon, but I’ve always looked for more ways to diversify my earnings.
These days Amazon isn’t the biggest driver of my income but if you’re running a website focused on physical products there is one income source you have likely overlooked – eBay Partner Network.
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Why eBay?
There are many physical product niches where it’s difficult or impossible to monetize with Amazon (or for that matter other affiliate programs).
Example Niches:
If you had a website about older collectible comic books, or classic video games or collectable coins or thousands of other niches where products are bought and sold online – but not always in new condition – eBay is a solid option because you’re unlikely to find any of these items on Amazon.
Sure there is Google Adsense but with quality traffic interested in the products you’re talking about that traffic will convert better if you’re involved in completing a sale (e.g. eBay clicks)
My First Payment From eBay Way Back In 2009
I’ve been using eBay Partner Network for over half a decade but it’s always been a more time consuming system to create links for – it’s worse than Amazon.With eBay there is no method for navigating to an item and creating a link directly from eBay.com (like there is with Amazon – but even that is too slow).
In the past I was using a very old and outdated plugin that only worked half the time. It finally gave up on me and so I stopped using eBay Partner Network temporarily (my last check was in 2013).
How You Can Save Time And Profit From The eBay Partner Network
Flash forward to today and fortunately I’m now in a position to rectify the annoyances I’ve found with the eBay Partner Network.
Late last year I officially co-founded a separate business focused specifically on creating WordPress plugins in some of the areas that matter most to WordPress users (making money, getting traffic and generating leads).
The very first way we helped WordPress users make more money was with [bl id=”13858″]EasyAzon[/bl] – which helps Amazon affiliates save time and make more money from their affiliate links and now we’re doing it again with eBay.
Introducing EasyBay Pro
This Wednesday June 25th at 10:00 AM PT we’re releasing EasyBay Pro and just as we like to do whenever we release a new software product we’re offering some special incentives only available to week one early adopters.
If you’d like to make money from eBay you can be notified as soon as this becomes available:
Watch How EasyBay Pro Can Help You Earn Money With eBay
Quite simply if you own or are building websites focused on physical products than EasyBay Pro is a natural fit for you. Likewise if you already own [bl id=”13858″]EasyAzon[/bl] then again this plugin is designed to complement your Amazon earnings and I highly recommend you pick it up.
Sign up to the early adopters list here:
Looking forward to seeing you in the customer area on Wednesday.
P.S. I’ll be sure to write some more posts about the challenges of growing a software business with team members spread around the world.
Hi Chris,
I’ve heard that it can be difficult to be accepted by eBay as an affiliate and their quality controls can be difficult to adhere to.
Do you have any suggestions as to how to gain acceptance and keep it?
Thanks
Yep see above
Are you going to be teaching how to get approved for the eBay Partner Network? I have found from past experience it is very very hard to get approved.
Yah I made a video. It shouldn’t be that hard just as long as you have a quality completed website before applying.
What about dev rights, can I flip sites with this on
Yes but this is only for first week early adopters – if you join the list you’ll be notified when it becomes available.
How would this improve listing content over eBay’s RSS feed?
Thanks.
You shall see.
Also creating links from within WordPress > faster than going to eBay Partner Network everytime you want to create a link.
Chris,
Your video is not playing for me in either iExplorer or Chrome. Just getting a big black box. Any Ideas?
Jim
Very odd I just tested in all browsers but it’s working. Firefox?
Chris, looks awesome.
I was participating in the Ebay P network for about 6 months, when sometime around Nov 13′ they made an “update” and basically crushed most of their smaller publishers. While I was only sending a few hundred clicks/day their way, my earning tanked to 0 and never recovered.
Any advice here?
Thanks bud – Easybay looks good.
Hmmm I’d need to know specifics as to what niche you are in. They definitely have optimized to reward traffic that generates them sales. So if your traffic is from people interested in the products then = eBay win.
If not then likely result in earnings fail
Thanks Chris, I’m going to test out your new plugin and share the results. One of the biggest drawbacks was maintaining the listings, and with an earnings hit the ROI did not justify it.
You may have just taken that pain away sir,…
If only you could explain how they optimized it….
Hey Karl, yah I don’t know entirely what they did but it always comes down to make money for company = company makes money for you most of the time.
Hi Chris
Looking forward to this new plugin of yours “EasyBay Pro”.I started out with Ebay with a product that was called “Bans”. It sounds like you used the same thing to as the way you described it. I could find tighter niches with it an also put Amazon on there to. So That’s why I’ll be there waiting in line to pick your plugin up.
Kevin in Derby, England
Hah I don’t like to take a dump on anyone’s software but that is something I was using before. Those types of sites don’t really work anymore though so that’s why we built our solution on top of WordPress so you can offer quality content. Then serve up eBay ads to profit.
Yes Chris
That’s why I’ve moved most of my sites onto WordPress. It is far better to create the sites how you want them.
Kevin in Derby, England
I dont see any point/tips in getting accepted into Ebay affiliate as i knew it’s hard and mostly unable to get affiliate account from them. Still needing your suggestion or if you could create a new post talking/detailing how to get accepted into ebay is much appriciated
Hi Chris
You know we make a big mistake while following the golden rule of risk minimization which says don’t put all your eggs into one basket. We just follow it while creating our profit earning sources and for other options we simply go for the best one and completely rely on it.
You are right sometimes Amazon stand dumb when we have to pick a product related to our niche on a particular time. That is why it is better to pick the other best as well.
Thanks a lot for sharing this wonderful post. I enjoyed the video a lot.
I found this post at Kingg dot com and also kingged it there.
I bought the plug-in a year ago and thought (from seeing some comments) it might be difficult getting into the Ebay partner network, but I got right in! I did link it to my existing ebay account. I have installed it on my website and it’s just awesome! I’m going to install it on my other 10 websites!
Making that money!
Angela/Affiliate Marketer:)
Boo yah
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Can I use epn and amazon on same site? I mean using both affiliate links?
Yes
Hey Chris,
I used to earn thousands on EPN 5 years back, but then I sold my site due to busy and tight schedule. I’m planning to come up with a new site, but wondering if EPN is still profitable in 2015. Is EPN still one of your main income sources?
It’s not one of my main income sources but it can be lucrative yes. As with anything, it just depends on the niche.
just got to your website, strangely enough it was easy for me to get accepted on ebay partner network, but on amazon germany, i cant get accepted.
Is the ebay partner network worth the shot in 2016?
Hi getting approved on eBay partner network is now instant and open to anyone. Payments are not fast if you get any at all. What happened to me with eBay partner network has also happened to some of my friends and if you do a google search you will find that what happened to me and some of my friends has also happened to many others around the world. I reckon that anyone claiming to make money with eBay partner network are paid by eBay partner network to say so. You know, a bit like those scam websites that use fiver.com to state that they have made thousands in one month. This is the type of business that eBay partner network are proving to be with the more time that passes.
Anyway, here is what happened to me with eBay partner network along with some of my friends along with the rest of the world that begins to earn good money with eBay partner network.
The moment eBay partner network begins to sort out payments (first week of the month) for the previous month earnings,
they either issue an AS77on your account (termination of your account due to low quality traffic) or an LS43 on your account (termination of your account plus a 100% reversal of all earnings due to non bona fide transactions).
What is interesting to note is that after some extensive research, me, some of my friends and the rest of the world did nothing wrong. We have all had good quality traffic (BUYERS) and NOT clicked on our own content as that would be classed as non bona fide transactions.
So what is the problem
Now after some extensive research, it is evident that eBay partner network issue out AS77,s when earnings are low and issue out LS43’s when earnings are high.
Conclusion:
eBay partner network get you to join by telling you how easy it is to make money and offering double commissions for the first 3 months making the payment structure look brilliant along with eBay’s so called trusted name. This is enough to make most people think that eBay partner network is the best thing since the invention of the wheel. eBay partner network does not want you earning money. Why would they. You spend hours if not days sending traffic to eBay. Traffic turns into buyers. eBay earns money. But now they have to give it to you via the eBay partner network program. low and behold, You have just been issued an AS77 or an LS43.
Join eBay partner network at you own risk and expect eBay partner network to legally steal your money.