Hi again, guys.
This is Andy from wholesale-help.com, and in today's video, I wanted to talk to you
about an alternative way to make money from eBay.
Now, the obvious way is to create an eBay store and sell things, either that you have
lying around your house or that you have bought to sell on.
I do it myself, and it makes me money; it's a great method.
However, this is not the only way you can make money from eBay.
They have something called their "partner network", which offers commission for sending
traffic to eBay and for new users registering for an eBay account.
Here it is, this is the website - ebaypartnernetwork.com.
You can just pop over here, apply for an account, and after they have accepted your application,
you can get started straight away.
Now, essentially what happens is, you direct people to eBay in a variety of different ways.
You can do it, you can do it in one way, if you like, but there are a variety of ways
in which you can do it.
What happens is, once you send someone to eBay, you have your ID embedded into their
browser, a viral cookie, and so, if they buy something from eBay, you'll get paid a commission.
The great part is that they don't actually have to buy something there and then.
If they come back later that day or that week, even, and buy something from eBay, your cookie
will still be embedded in their browser, so even if they buy something alternative to
what you've sent them to in the first place, you will still get that affiliate commission.
All you really need to do is to drive as many people to eBay as you can, and a percentage
of those visitors will buy something sooner or later, even if it's not straight away.
I personally buy something on eBay most weeks, so the chances are good that your cookie will
still be there, and even if you're looking at something else, you'll still get a commission.
So, how do we go about sending people to eBay?
Well, that's basic traffic generation, really, so there are a variety of different ways we
can do that.
If you have a blog that you post to regularly, you can link to it from there.
There's a great Wordpress plug-in that I have used to great effect, called phpBay Pro.
There it is.
The link to this is below in the descriptions.
It's a very useful plug-in.
It's a paid-for plug-in, but it is very advanced, and you can use it for a number of different
ways.
Basically, what it does is it feeds items from eBay directly onto your website, so if
you have a Wordpress blog, you can actually show eBay items directly onto your website,
so it adds content for your site, and obviously, there's more chance someone will click on
an individual item, and then you'll get paid a commission.
Here's an example down here.
It can be done in a variety of different formats.
This is just an example.
You've got some medals or something here, and it's completely customizable.
If you're in the US, you can just filter it so it shows US items in US dollars here, as
you can see.
Wow, that's nearly $70,000.
That's a ridiculous amount of money.
If you had a website selling these things, the commission from the eBay fees would be
very nice indeed, so that would be quite a valuable commission to get a hold of.
If someone drops $70,000 on that particular Olympic medal, very impressive.
That's one way of doing it.
You don't have to do it in this format.
I think I've got some examples here.
This is an iPhone blog.
It's not a particularly developed one, but it gives you an idea here, as you see down
here.
These are all live eBay items being sold on eBay right now.
You can use keywords to show different items.
You've got iPads here, and on this page, you have iPhone cases.
You can use keywords to differentiate what you want to show up on your website.
You can even use eBay ID so you can get specific items to show up, and as many items as you
want, more or less.
It's very customizable.
You can have it in list format like that.
You can even have one single one in the side bar, so it's very customizable, depending
on how you want it to look on your website.
Here's another example.
This is a website about HDTV tuners, and on the right-hand side, we have different items
relating to HD tuners, and if you click through to have a look at one of these things, your
cookie will be embedded, and if that particular person buys something in the next week or
so, you will get your affiliate commission.
As you can see, you don't have to have the eBay branding on your feed, so you don't have
to make it obvious that what you're showing is eBay items here.
It can just look like part of your website; it can look very natural so it fits in very
nicely.
Here's another example of a different website, cheapremotes.com.
It's about cheap remotes, fair enough.
This is laid out a bit differently.
You've got it in the box format, and it comes down like that, so it just looks different.
It gives you an example of how you can have different layouts using this plug-in.
Now, the phpBay pro plug-in will cost you $79.
It's well worth the price.
You get lifetime updates and it does many, many different things, and obviously, it enables
you to make money, so you can think of it as an investment as opposed to just a cost.
As I said, the link for this plug-in is in the description box below.
There you have just one way of creating traffic for your referrals.
Obviously, if you have a YouTube channel, you can create videos about products on eBay
and link to it from your description box and send YouTube viewers directly to eBay, and
that's another way you could create traffic to send to eBay auctions, off which then you
can then generate commissions from.
Obviously, if you sell on eBay anyway, then you should be doing that as a good way to
generate traffic.
If you've got a store, for example, selling - we looked at iPhone cases there - if you
were selling iPhone cases, it would be a great idea to have a product review of your latest
case.
You can describe it, have a look at it, and even maybe give one away as a prize.
Then, obviously, you can link your shop in the descriptions, and it's a great way of
generating extra traffic and extra visibility to your shop.
There we go - traffic generation, a couple of ideas and a couple of techniques.
You don' necessarily have to sell things on eBay to make money from eBay.
I hope this has been a helpful video for you, to give you an example of an additional way
to make money online.
There will be plenty more coming.
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