Archive for April, 2010

Building your own ebay store

eBay has been around for many years and has proven to be the leader in offering a portal for the world to buy and sell goods at affordable prices. The eBay style is to offer goods via auctions and in some cases allow goods to be purchased out right via Buy It Now.

With millions of goods being offered on the eBay site. They realized that even more money could be had by allowing people to help sell other peoples goods. This is done via an affiliate program. Last year eBay ran their affiliate program through a third party company called Commission Junction. Now the affiliate program is ran by eBay under the name of eBay Partner Network.

Being a part of the eBay affiliate program allows you to promote eBay products of which you will receive a commission on the sell of the product. Promoting eBay can be done in a number of ways a few of which are via Pay Per Click (PPC), Blogging and Social Networks. The beauty of being an eBay affiliate versus selling your own product is that as an affiliate. You don’t have to sell anything, no shipping of goods, no taking orders and no inventory required.

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eBay Partner Network – EPN Reporting Problems

On March 30, 2010, eBay Partner Network released some new enhancements and features to the eBay Partner Network (ePN) interface. Just one day later, publishers are noticing a major negative impact on their click and impression data. Currently this technical issues is affecting March 30 and 31st data.

From what we are able to gather, this technical issue is a reporting issue only and all data will be available as soon as possible. We seen a notice stating that all services would be up and running by 3/31 at 9pm but that time has come and gone and the problem had not been resolved.

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