How You Can Easily Make More Money From Promoting An eBay Auction Than The Actual eBay Seller Herself

Thursday, February 12th, 2009 at 3:37 am

You’ve probably seen lots of hype lately about making money online with eBay. And when I refer to “making money online with eBay”, I’m not talking about hawking old stuff from your basement. I’m referring to something a lot different, something offering a more hands off approach.

You can actually make money with eBay without handling any products. Although similar, I’m not talking about the Build A Niche Store (or BANS) method. Simply using a Wordpress blog and the phpbay pro wp plugin, you can make money promoting someone else’s eBay auctions. In fact, in some cases you could be making more money promoting someone else’s auctions then they would be making from the auction themselves!

Here’s an example of how this scenario is highly possible (and probable)…

First, someone lists an item on eBay. For example, let’s say…they want to sell the Compact Disc “Organized Rhyme”.

A bit of trivia, Organized Rhyme was a rap group from back in the day with the lead rapper being Tom Green. Yeah, the same Tom Green that had the honour of dating Drew Barrymore.

Anyway, they hope to get $10 for the CD. They create the auction and punch in $10 for the BIN.

Now, you run a Wordpress blog about Tom Green and how you can’t believe he managed to get Drew Barrymore to date him. You make the decision to create a page of eBay auctions that contain the word “Tom Green”. Since you are new at it, it takes a whopping 5 minutes to create the page and you are presented with a listing of Tom Green related products. Low and behold, in the auction list is the Organized Rhyme CD.

A Tom Green rap fan fires up Google and
punches in “Tom Green Organized Rhyme” and finds your blog. How’s that? Because of the awesome Search Engine Optimization benefits of these eBay auction listings when using the phpbay wp plugin.

They click over to your blog and see the listing.

To see more details of the auction, they click the link that is secretly tagged with your affiliate ID and they are brought to a new window on eBay’s site. They are happy to see that they could Buy It Now for just $10.00! But this person doesn’t yet have an eBay account. Believe it or not, there are millions of people who still do not have an eBay account… Anyway, not to worry, because during the checkout process they are able to quickly and easily create a free eBay account. They make the purchase with PayPal and they await the CD to be shipped.

The person selling the CD got $10.00 minus eBay and PayPal fees. What do you earn?

You did quite well with this transaction. A new customer eBay referral usually nets you $50.00! Also, you got a percentage of the eBay transaction fees, which you would have if the customer was new or not. And there’s more… You chose to get paid your referral commissions by PayPal and no PayPal fees were taken from your payment! That’s very cool if you ask me.

New And Old Items In All Niches On eBay

It’s not just old stuff from peoples attics that are being sold on eBay. Manufacturers, distributors and retailers are also listing items for sale on eBay. You can promote all the items found on eBay. Regardless of the niche of your blog and regardless of how broad or tight the niche is, you can likely find products on eBay that you can promote on your blogs.

It can be used as an added item on your niche Wordpress blog. Or, you can even make a whole store, or mall with this approach.

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