If you want to make money online, affiliate marketing is one of the most efficient way to do it. Ebay have a great affiliate problem which allow you to ean up to $9 for each registered user.
That’s very cool, but as Ebay is a very well known site, you can easily guess that there is a lot of competition between affiliates. Though, I (among lots of others) earn a very good comission from Ebay each month, and the best of it, is that I do it with very little work.
Making money with ebay
As I said in the post excerpt, many people wants to make money online and earn an extra income with the money provided, for exemple, by Google Adsense. Even if Adsense can be a nice money maker, don’t expect to make a living only with adsense money (Or your websites might be very, very popular!). Reaching the bar of the $100 payout per month is already not bad at all.Therefore, all isn’t lost for the blogger or webmaster who wants to make cash online. I tried various techniques last months, and the one that provided me the most money was Ebay affiliation. Ebay affiliation is very simple: You register as an ebay affiliate, ebay gives you a code, you display the code on your website, and when someone click on your link and register on ebay, you earn XX dollars.
Creating an ebay affiliate niche store
I know what you’re thinking: Yes, the comisison is generous, but people must register AND buy something for me to make money. For sure, if you’re just going to display a 125*125px banner, chances are that you’ll never make any money.
The solution is to create an affiliate niche store, focused on a category of products: Graphic novels, vintage guitars, ipods…There’s a lot of choice on ebay. The affiliated niche store is a classic online store, but you’re not selling your own products, you’re selling ebay seller’s products, and earn generous comissions.
How can we create a store like this one? If you’re a good web developer and if you have a lot of spare time, you can use Ebay API. The other solution – that I chose – is to use BANS, (for Build a niche Store) a php script made especially for creating Ebay affiliate stores in less than 30 minutes.
Building a niche store and make money with ebay
Sadly, BANS isn’t free. It will cost you $97. Sure, open-source softwares are the best, but happilly BANS licence allows you to create as many stores as you want. You can purchase BANS, and build 150 stores if you want. For exemple, a friend bought BANS 2 weeks ago and created 3 different stores. In less than one week, he already had his $97 back in ebay comissions.
Create your ebay affiliate store in 4 easy steps
- Signup on ebay and become an affiliate
- Buy BANS to create your ebay affiliate store
- Publish your store online
- Advertise a bit, and wait for comissions to come
Anyone here already tried BANS, or plan to do it soon? Let me know what you think.
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Nice post, thanks for sharing, blogger need money, adsense only is not enought
@mupet : Sure, the best way to make money is to get it from multiple sources. Have you tried BANS yet? You’d probably be surprised with the results!
thanks for the tip, iam going to try, as my blog is still pending for approval from BSA, need money to run the site.
Looks appealing…Is it better than a WP plugin as such as Wp-ecommerce?
@Mr Rufus : It is not the same thing. WP ecommerce is great but you have to sell product. With BANS, you don’t need any products because you’re selling others products, and get comission for sales and new members. It is not a real shop but an affiliate shop.
I see. The idea of an affiliate store without any real product is very interesting: No need to ship anything, no deal with customers…But money in your pocket.
Thank you Jean for the great advice! I’ll definitely consider buying BANS.
I’m currently running Amazon affiliates store. Even my blog is not really popular, but it already give me some income, more than AdSense, but still not good enough. I never expect people actually buying from my blog before
So Jean, which one do you think is better: ebay or Amazon?
@Edwin : The better is probably Ebay but Amazon can be really good, especially on a blog about books, music, DVDs…
By why choosing? You should definitely use both
I used to make a fair bit of money from eBay. Sadly, the switch to Quality Click Pricing has hurt my earnings by a huuuuge percentage. Most of my users were new to eBay so I was making almost all of my money from leads. That’s gone, now I barely make anything from them every month.
I never liked BANS though. I use PhpBay which I’m a big fan of, because you can use any Wordpress theme or even custom code a site yourself.
@Matt : I have tried PhpBay on a test server and I enjoyed it. Thought, it still didn’t found the time to launch a full PhpBay powered website.
WordPress SEO + Ebay comission must be a good deal
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Just stumbled here from your other site. I have used PHPbay Pro and like it, however I’ve never been accepted into the EPN network. Which kinda kills the effectiveness of that. Guess I should re-tool a new site and see if I can apply again…with Xmas upon us it’s a good time to target those niche products (hint: Google trends).
@Mike Meisner : never accepted by EPN? That’s weird, I was accepted quite instantantly.
Very interesting concept. Does this apply only to the US eBay site, or will it work with eBay Australia also?
@Deano : Yes this apply to all ebay sites, not only US
Jean, please look into PayPal and their policy of not allowing African countries into receiving payments. I’m a regular users of payment, since I pay service providers through it, however I cannot join countless affiliate programs since they only offer PayPal option for payments.
I’m not alone here, all African based publishers are not able to join most of the available affiliate programs. Google was smart enough to offer cheque payments as another option which allows myself and others to benefit from their facility, which in the long run also widens their publisher base.
@Muzi Mohale : I didn’t knew that Paypal don’t allow people from African countries to receive payments! The artist who drawn my cat mascot is from Ukraine and again, Paypal don’t allow Ukrainian people to get payments.
This is really a shame and I hope that Paypal will change this soon. Btw, I wonder how the guys from WooThemes handles payments as they are from South Africa too…Maybe they have an associate in the US or somewhere else.
Thanks Jean for this information on Bans. I’ve visited there and hopefully can immediately start to build my own niche store.
Hi JBJ,
I’m just wondering, I didnt see any ebay link to your affiliate store on any of your websites, so what’s the deal ?
As I understand it, Ebay pays you to advertise other people’s items, which in turn helps Ebay get more sales % fees, right ?
Nice post. You might also want to point out that as well as Ebay, Amazon offer a great deal for affiliates as well. Infact a great way to make money blogging is to combine both Amazon and Ebay programs into a single blog. You can still include Adsense just to cover all bases