Ebay announced changes to its affiliate program as of Aug 1st. Ebay has decided to change the way it pays its affiliates for new user signups. Previously all new users that placed a bid through an affiliates link payed the affiliate $25.00. As of Aug 1st that will be changing depending on the quality of the user you send to Ebay. Ebay will base the payout for new users on how they expect the quality of that user to be in the future. The payout will give the affiliate anywhere from $1-50.00 for new users. The more active and valuable the new user is that the affiliate send to ebay the movr you will receive. This new payout structure will be for all new affiliates starting after Aug 1st. Those that have been affiliates prior to Aug 1 will continue on current payout for a few month to evaluate their traffic. Ebay's goal is to reward affiliates that send quality lifetime users to ebay instead of one shot wonders. This could impact your Ebay income drastically so please take the time to see how these changes will be impacting you. If you would like more information on the ebay affiliate program and how it can help you earn extra income you can find more details here.
Ebay Wants Quality Not Just Quantity From Affiliates
Extra Income With PepperJam Affiliate
In several of my previous posts I have discussed making extra income using the Ebay affiliate program. The ebay affilite program is one I support fully and do generate a fair amount of income using several methods. Ebay is not the only affiliate program out there that is of a great benefit to bloggers wanting to make extra income. The PepperJam Affiliate Network is one I have been recently using and to be quite honest and exteremly impressed with. Pepperjam is an affilite company that truely acknowledges the importance of bloggers in its overall business plan. This was never made more obvious than through their July bounus program that is giving all new PepperJam Affiliates a $10 bonus just for signing up and being accepted. Not only to you get a signup bonus but you gain access to additional opportunities to make money designed specifically for bloggers. Ebay is one of the top companies withing the PepperJam program. Utilizing Pepperjam and promoting ebay through their affiliate program allows you a better payout than you would get directly from the Ebay affiliate program itself. If your currently making extra income using the Ebay affiliate you should definately take a look at what PepperJam has to offer. Don't miss out on your signup bonus as this special is only being offered during the month of July.
You Need Thick Skin To Make Extra Income Online
Making extra income online can be a great source of some mad money. I started creating blogs solely with the intention on making money much like I had selling garage sale finds on eBay and other online auctions over the years. One thing I have learned for certain is that you better have thick skin. The online world of making extra income is a pretty cutthroat business. Unlike brick and mortar businesses where you meet face to face or speak regularly over the phone with people, when blogging you are somewhat limited in your normal contact with others. During the last few months of experimenting with making extra income online I have met some really great people, at least I think they are great people since I don’t really know them. I guess that is speculation.
Through the course of my making extra income online adventures, I have happened across several contests that I have tried to participate in for the learning experience. Probably the most important thing I have learned is that if you want to make friends online blogging for extra income isn't for you. Now this isn’t to say that you wont make friends at the same time your making extra income, but the chances are your going to piss off more people and make enemies more often than not. I say this out of experience as a newcomer to the arena of blogging for extra income. As a newcomer you are going to post a comment, write a post, leave a link or ask a stupid question that is going to rub someone the wrong way. Heck you might even misinterpret someone else’s comments and get upset yourself.
What you need to understand is that when you enter the world of making extra income online you are becoming a competitor to someone who's entire lively hood may very well come from online resources. Those of us that enter this realm of making extra income online part-time and not necessarily a full time income need to be very mindful of this, especially when you first start out. Think twice about the comments you leave, the posts you make and the manner in which you get links. Unlike the real world most of the people reading your comments or post don't know or understand your humor, come from a different background, or speak a different language. While I'm not one to be overly politically correct, I have discovered, while making extra income online, people that don't know you take your words very literal and often times personal. The real business world can be just as cutthroat as the make extra income online world but the people you deal with have the advantage of seeing your facial expressions and watching your body language to fully understand the point of your conversation.
What in the world does this post have to do with making extra income online? Everything, If you don’t have thick skin, cant take criticism, and can't look at making money online as a business instead of a social event you will fail miserably. You need to be able to take a little abuse when you first start out until you find out exactly who might be an asset to your make extra income online venture in the future. The last thing you want to do is make enemies or lose a valuable resources for advice by leaving a post or comment without fully understanding the impact it might have on someone. Now quit reading this and go make some extra income.
Make More Money Buying At Garage Sales
Are you a person that frequents garage sales? Do you stop at every thrift shop and flea market you see? If so why? I happen to be one of those people and not because I enjoy looking through endless piles of junk or pre-owned clothes, I do it to make money. It amazes me how much money is just lying around on some poor souls garage sale table waiting for me to take it. The old saying “ one man’s junk is a another man’s treasure” is absolutely true. I can’t tell you how many thousands of dollars I’ve made over the years off of other people’s junk.
I got started as a young boy watching my father hitting garage sales looking for antiques for his booth at the local antique mall. I watched as he haggled at each garage sale over a few dollars, this process totally amazed me. I soon took up following his lead, read books on many different types of antiques and collectibles, and soon learned the value of what I wanted to find. This later led me to become an auctioneer and open my own auction house but I’ll save that for another day.
My whole point with this article is to make you open your eyes and realize that this is something everyone can do to make extra money. If you want to be come good at the art of making money from garage sale and flea market finds you need to do some studying.
Spend time going to auctions, browsing eBay, reading antique price guides and magazines to get a solid foundation at knowing an items true value. Key things you need to learn to make money through garage sales are:
How old is it? - Look for maker’s marks. Learn the different ways manufactures marked their items. Usually you can determine an antiques age just by looking at the makers mark.
What is it made of? You need to learn the difference between pewter, lead, copper, bronze and many other metals. Know the different types of clay and pottery glazes. Learn to know the difference between acrylic and oil paints. If you ever going to make money through garage sales you need to learn.
Is it a fake? Just as important as knowing an antiques age and value is knowing when you have a fake. Many of the most popular antiques on the market today are reproductions and people just don’t know it. If it is a fake is it worth any money? Yes some are if you know which ones to look for. There are just as many books on reproduction antiques as there are on real antiques READ THEM. Knowing what your buying is one of the most important things when it comes to making money from garage sales.
If you get a basic understanding of each of these things you’ll be well ahead of most when it comes to making money from garage sales.
Extra Income | You Can Make Money On EBay With Out Selling Items
If you are not familiar with BANS (build a niche store), its basically a script that creates website specifically designed for EBay’s affiliate program
EBay’s affiliate program is much like any other affiliate program. You get paid in a couple ways.
1.When a user clicks on a link from your site and goes to ebay and buys an Item through auction or immediate purchase EBay pays you 50% of their a commission. Example: is eBay makes $5 you get $2.50
2.When users that have never registered to eBay sign up for eBay and bid on and Item. You get $25
BANS is software that helps you to create all the links you need to specific products on EBay.
What you need to use BANS with eBay
1. An eBay user account and affiliate account.
2. A web hosting account: I use Hostgator, as do many others with BANS sites. buy a Reseller account if you can afford it. I’m using a standard hosting package with my 10 sites right now but can see that I will have to upgrade if I keep making BANS sites.
3. A domain name. Currently GoDaddy is selling “.info” domains for $1.99
The strategy behind using Ebay’s affiliate program is to focus in on a specific product or group of products. For example Scissors there are many types, sized and brands of scissors. You could build an entire BANS site on just scissors.
Example : Left handed scissors, kid safe scissors, vintage sewing scissors.
This doesn’t mean your BANS site has to be limited to just 3 pages but you should have 3 primary keyword to get users to your site from Google. Once you have keyword authority for those primary keywords you can then start targeting others.
That’s the basic rundown on what BANS is all about. If you want specifics see this post on BANS
Once you have your BANS site up and running you work on getting backlinks and keyword authority.
Make Extra Income From Garage Sales
In several of my previous posts I've discuss how making money from eBay relies on finding items to sell from garage sales, auctions and flea markets. Some things to keep in mind when your hitting your local garage sales. Spring time brings lots of sports items to look for. Little league is starting, fishing season is just beginning in most areas, golfers will be going nuts from now until the end of the summer, family camping trips start happening. If you keep the season in mind when your looking for items to sell on eBay you'll be way ahead of the game. Sell things people need not just junk you think looks pretty. While antiques and collectibles always sell well they will never surpass the demand of an item that is regularly used by everyone. Used golf balls and used fishing reels are some of my favorite items to sell this time of year.
Make Extra Income | Using Hubpages And Squidoo
In several of my previous articles I have mentioned many different ideas to make extra income from home, online or through other means. Today I would like to discuss a little about revenue sharing. Revenue sharing sites are free web pages that allow you to create your own space in the web without having much website creation skill. If you can write articles, stories or other topic of interest you can use revenue sharing sites to create extra income.
Some of the most common revenue sharing websites are Squidoo and HubPages both of these sites allow you to create individual pages on a topic of your choice. Usually its best to pick a topic you enjoy or have experience with to make writing your hubpage easier. Let's say you are a coin collector, you could right about a specific coin, coin grading, or recent activities in the coin collecting market. Once you have your article created and added to your Hubpage or Squiddo page ads that are relevant to your specific topic will appear. Usually ads by Google, Amazon or other affiliate programs like eBay.
The income is generated by users reading your hubpage about coin collecting and wanting more information, so they click on one of the ads hosted on the site. The revenue that Squidoo or HubPages makes from the user clicking on the ad is then shared with you. The exact amount of revenue that is shared varies from one site to another, make sure to read the terms and conditions on your Hubpage or Squido page when you register.
The extra income you generate from revenue sharing programs or sites like this wont be a lot, but you might be surprised how it adds up over time. Like I've stated in previous articles eBay or the eBay affiliate program are probably going to be your quickest ways to make money, but if you like to write and have a topic you feel comfortable with Hubpages or Squidoo pages might just be right for you to make extra income.
Extra Income - Family Photos Make Money
Can you really make extra money while you’re on vacation? You can use your travel pictures to help bring in a little extra income. How is this possible?
It’s really quite easy. You can use a free hosting provider to create a web site or blog about your travels and show off your vacation photo collection. This site is a blog along the lines of what you could create Family Vacation Ideas
How do you create a site to make extra income from your family travels?
1. Create a free blog or website available from Freehostia, Blogger, Geocities or any number of different web hosting companies. Just search Yahoo or Google for “create free website”
2. Once you have signed up for your free page all you have to do is follow their simple tutorial and you will have a site up and running in no time. Choose a good title that has something to do with the area you visited while traveling. Then begin creating content and listing some of your family vacation photos.
3. Once you have your site set up the way you want it with a couple of pages created you are ready to look into advertising programs like Yahoo ads or Google’s AdSense. These types of advertising programs are where you’ll be generating your extra income.
There, doesn't that look easy? Creating the website and getting sponsors on it is the easy part. If you don’t get any visitors to your page it won’t do you any good at all. You’ll need to do a bit of studying on this part as there are many different ways to get visitors. I am not an expert at this by any means. I’ll leave the details on how to get visitors up to you to discover on your own. Extra Income More Money is just here to give you suggestions on how to make some extra money. Start by searching SEO on Google. You’ll come up with thousands of sites with instructions on how to start getting more visitors to your website. Don’t give up thinking of creative ways to make extra income. You can do it if you put your mind to it.
Extra Income | Enter Contests To Make Extra Income
In previous posts I have made several suggestions on how to make extra income, here are a few different ideas. Sometimes when you need to make a little extra income you need to think outside of the box. Yeah I know that's what everyone says but it's true. Have you ever thought about entering contests or competitions to make some extra income? I'm not telling you to go out and try to make American Idol like Asia'h Epperson, but if you can sing why not. If you have a unique talent like singing, try competing in local talent competitions. I know in my area the local bars have weekly karaoke nights that feature local singers competing for cash prizes. Don't be bashful if you have a good voice give it a try , you might actually enjoy making extra income this way.
If you like fishing , golfing, bowling, shooting pool or any number of different activities there are always local tournaments and competitions that payout cash prizes. Use your talents to your advantage and join a few of these. Not only do you have the chance to make extra income but you will meet new friends and have a good time.
How about cooking? Are you a good cook? Do you have a secret recipe? With the mass appeal of the food network and all its cooking competitions , local cooking events are springing up everywhere. Why not take this opportunity to pull out grandma's old recipe and whip up a cash winning dish.
I could go on an on about ways to make extra income through local competitions and contests but I think you get the idea. Hopefully this article has opened your mind and allowed you to see there are lots of various opportunities to make extra income not only online , through eBay , or other business related ways. Good luck now go enter some contests to make extra income.
Extra Income | Ebay Affiliate Program Change
In my last article I mentioned the possibility of making extra income from eBay by allowing others to do the selling for you. This is done by many using their affiliate program and a couple different methods of creating websites specifically designed for EBay affiliates. BANS was the software I brought up in the last post but there are several others that are similar. Anyone that is already set up and running a website designed for the EBay affiliate program needs to be aware that there are major changes taking place.
EBay makes a major change in their affiliate program beginning on April 1st. Currently, EBay uses Commission Junction and Valueclick to handle most of their affiliate program tracking and payments. The eBay affiliate program has been relied upon by many as a primary source of extra income. I must say I have used it in the past, but it hasn't been a significant part of the extra money I make on the Internet.
According to eBay bringing their affiliate program in house will have several benefits to their users including:
- Better reporting of statistics
- Targeted Banners and rich media
- Geo-targeting and landing page improvements
- Global registration to many countries at once.
Ebay will launch its new affilate program and maintain its existing partnership with Commision Junction through May 1st. Anyone wanting to participate or that is already a part of the ebay affiliate program should make sure they are set up with the new program before the May 1st deadline.
Addition information can be found on Ebay in their affiliate section.Extra Income | Have More Money Now
As discussed in some of my previous articles the quickest way to make more money now is by using ebay. This method of making extra money and income is definately not new any more. Large companies are even getting into the picture. Companies like Dell, HP, GE and many others are selling refurbished or reconditioned producted through ebay and are making a killing. You can capitalize of all these large companies being and the added clout they bring to ebay buy making extra income off of the products they sell. How can you make money off of an item someone else is selling on ebay? It's easy ebay has learned like many larger companies to start an affiliate program. This program allows you to get a percentage of the sales ebay makes just by refering users to them.
How do you make extra income off of ebay's affiliate program The easiest way is using a website building software desiginged specifically for this purpose. Some of you may have already heard of it, it's Called Build A Niche Store (BANS) for short. Using this type of softare allows you to quickly and easily set up an Ebay affiliate store to start generating extra income off of the products other people are selling on ebay. Combine this with your own items you sell on ebay and you have a great source for making extra income. There our other compaines out there with similar software but BANS by far is the learder.
Making Extra Income | Free Website Giveaway
I have given several tips on how to start making extra income through many different means. Today I'll cover one just a bit more, as well as, show you how you can get have more money now. One of the more popular Internet marketing websites I read on a regular basis is running a contest and giving away a Million Dollar Wiki web page. In my previous article i mention how you can start making extra income by running a web page or blog. This is an opportunity for you to get started with a completely free , high ranking page. The potential to make more money through the use of an already established page is one that you shouldn't pass up. If you check out his site on Work From Home Jobs you will find all the details on how you can win your own money making website for free. My hat's off to dayjobnuker for coming up with this unique contest. I'm not one to get much involeved in these sorts of things, but as I mentioned passing up an opportunity to have more money now is one even I can't afford to miss.
Extra Income From Home
Making extra income or more money through ebay isnt the only way, there are other ways to have more money now. I have just found that ebay is one of the quickest, and easiest if your unemployed or retired. Gathering fresh items to sell can and will eventually become a bit of a chore.
Here are some other ways to generate some extra income and have more money now:
1. Write articles - web site owners are always looking for valuable content for their websites to keep them looking fresh and informative. You can choose a topic and write several articles in that related field, bundle them together and sell them on ebay.com.Not everyone likes writing so this may not be usefull for you.
2. Moonlight- If your currently working, especially if you have a specific skill or talent that is in demand you can find some extra income from moonlighting. For example: I work as a Network Analyst and often I will pick up side jobs at night networking small businesses, homes or private organizations. If you have a unique talent you will often find these small jobs pay more money per hour than your current job, since they are usually just short term.
3. Create a website- If you enjoy the Internet start your own website on a topic your an expert in or have a desire to learn more about. This however can be difficult to generate extra income from as it takes time to build up web traffic and get readers to your website. Pepperjam Affiliate offers $10 free to sign up.
4. Surf The Internet- There are tons of sites on the Internet that pay you for surfing, taking survey's, reviewing products, and sometimes just reading their sites looking for errors. I will warn you there are many scam companies out there so please take the time to fully investigate any online money making option you pursue.
5. Turn your hobby into a business- Do you make candles, Tie fishing flies, knit, crochet, woodworking? Any one of a million differnt hobbies that produces a product is an opportunity to create a small home based business. You can start by selling some of your items on ebay, flea markets, or trade shows.
These are just a few of the many other ways that are out there today that you can use to create yourself some extra income. Think outside the box, do something different , take a chance, and you might be suprised what you come up with.
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Extra Income|More Money
Welcome to Extra Income More Money your site for tips on how to generate some extra income in your spare time. The internet has become a huge plus for helping parents, college students and others create a little extra income to supplement their regular paychecks. If you couldnt tell already I am one of those. While Im not one of the super Internet marketing guru's, I have done my fair share of creating money on the Internet. You've all heard this before, but eBay
is by far one of the quickest ways to get started. Find a few items you dont want or need any longer and just search eBay to see if anyone has sold them in the past. Chances are very high someone has sold the exact item you have. These items will be what you use to get started creating your extra income. Sign up on eBay and go through the sellers tutorial on their website and follow the step by step instructions and you will have an item sold in no time. In the past Ive been an auctioneer to earn income on the side but the sheer number of people bidding on items through eBay doesnt compare to what a live onsite auction can produce. If you havent tried selling an eBay
you wont believe how simple it is to sell your items. I started by selling items I found through local garage sales, auctions, flea markets and thrift stores. For creating extra money I found selling paper items like old postcards, magazines, and other types of paper products is very profitable.
There are some very basic rules you should follow to make sure your selling experience is a good one.
1. Protect your feedback.
2. Value your customers
3. Be honest in your description of items you sell
4. Always post a picture of the item.
Feedback is how your buyers rate you and is the most important thing to protect. Without a good feedback you might as well quit selling on EBay because you just waste your time and money. You can protect it by treating your customers like you would want to be treated. Answer their question in a timely manner. Always describe your item to the best of your ability. If your item is a collectible do a little research on it and know the lingo of the collectors. Whenever in doubt as to how describe your item or answer questions let the buyer know your not an expert and aren’t sure. Posting a picture of you item is the easiest way to ensure the buyer knows what they are getting. Buy a cheap digital camera or scanner and always make sure to post an actual picture of your item. This is just the beginning of what I hope to be a long series on how to create extra income by using eBay In future posts I’ll explain some very good tactics on how to maximize your earning potential through buying items at garages sales that most people don’t utilize.Click Here!
