Published by Chuck on 28 Feb 2009
Let eBay Pay You
A review and comments about the Wordpress plugin – phpBAY
No one disputes the fact that eBay is one of the top 3 or 4 most popular sites on the Internet. The sales that are generated through eBay amount to hundreds of millions of dollars every month. The commissions that eBay makes is also a huge number. Millions of dollars.
One of the ways that you can make money from eBay, without selling anything or mailing anything is by being an affiliate of eBay. eBay will pay you a commission – 50, 60, 70 percent – for every sale that happens when you help someone find what they are looking for.
It’s a brilliant system, and it is one of the affiliate marketing methods and products that works very well for online entrepreneurs.
You tell someone where they can buy (or at least look at) something they want, and if they buy, eBay will give you a big chunk of their commission on the sale. Simple, effective and easy.
Works for you 24/7, is dynamic (your own website is updated as fast as eBay is updated) and eBay sends you money. How much better can that be.
But, how do you send people to eBay, let alone find the products and services that they are looking for?
The answer is, phpBAY, which automates the process for you.
Let’s get something out of the way. I am not the creator or directly associated with phpBAY. I am a 14 year veteran of Internet use, including affiliate marketing for the last 10 years.
Affiliate marketing is probably the best way to make extra cash from online activity except maybe creating your own product and selling it, maybe.
Anyway, I found phpBAY a couple of years back when it was new and began using it on various sites of mine. It worked so well that I began incorporating it in almost all my sites. Not necessarily as the lead item, or even as an obvious part of the site.
Sure you can create sites that simply direct people to eBay, but that’s for another post.
For instance, on my blogsite, Gateway to Niagara Falls, I have a photo-gallery section. Now this site and the focus of the site is not about eBay, selling or buying through eBay or anything to do with eBay. Yet it provides me with a perfect and creative opportunity to use eBay sales to generate income.
The photo-gallery leads one into picture taking of the wonders of Niagara Falls, or anywhere for that matter. Therefore you – the reader – will probably want to know about cameras, digital photo software, camera accessories, lenses and other things related to photography.
Thus I have an eBay affiliate reason on a site that would not be obvious. Plus I believe that this makes it look less like a “gimme” approach to marketing.
Now back to phpBAY and how you use it.
That is the really brilliant part of this script. There is a Wordpress plugin version, it’s the one I use. No programming, no complicated coding. Just a simple plugin, insert your eBay affiliate code and some other info and you are instantly running.
Here’s an example. A post about Affiliate Marketing tied to eBay and what could be your own affiliate income.
Notice that the article is about making money as an eBay affiliate. You tell people about the potential of eBay affiliation, tell them how they can combine a Wordpress blog with the phpBAYplugin to earn an income 24/7.
But, you use that very same plugin to capture those that may not be interested in the phpBAY plugin by having the plugin show them various affiliate marketing stuff that is available on eBay.
That way, if they if they click on any of the eBay items and purchase it or another item, eBay will pay you a commission.
This system is truly a no brainer and should be in every blogger’s arsenal. And yes, there is also an API (non-blog) version of the plugin for those of you using html websites.
