How to make money from eBay without selling anything? How is this possible? Well, let me explain.
You don’t need a product that you have to list on eBay to sell to make money. You just have to promote eBay products on your website.
Actually, this is not only applicable to eBay. You can make money from hundreds of companies who has an affiliate program.
There you go, this method is called affiliate marketing. Who will benefit from this type of Marketing?
The company who is running the affiliate promotion.
- It is actually saving the company a lot of money from running advertisements which the company has to pay sale or no sale, whereas it will only pay commissions to affiliates when a sale is made.
You as the affiliate because you earn the commissions on a sale.
- You can make a full-time income out of this.
The buyer will benefit most from this program.
- He or she will pay the same cost if the product is bought through your website. No extra cost.
The bonus? You gave them more detailed information on that particular product that they want to buy.
You helped them make a sound decision on the right product to buy. People always search for product reviews on the internet before they buy something.
That is your selling point as an affiliate marketer. You have to write product reviews promoting a specific eBay product.
The individuals searching the internet for that particular product review need to see your product review first. That is the reason it is crucial that your website should be on the first page of Google in the keyword search result.
Then you should have a relevant and honest review, so the buyer will be convinced to buy it through your website. Sounds a lot? No?
All of this can be learned if you have proper training. That’s why you need a good platform to learn all of this.
Assuming that you have a running website with a good traffic, you can proceed to the next step to start making money from eBay Partner Network or EPN.
This kind of business is very cool because no physical selling is required. You just have to post different kinds of banners, and you are in business.
Simple and so easy to do, and the approval is easier than Amazon. The enrollment process is straight forward.
Your banners will be up and running in no time at all. The good thing also is eBay Partner Network pay by Paypal. I like this better than Amazon checks.
Enroll at eBay Partner Network.
Post eBay Partner Network Banners on your Website.
This is the easiest part. You just have to select a banner and post it on your website. There are a lot of choices on how you want your eBay banner to look like; you just have to select.
You can also place the banner anywhere on your website. On the eBay Partner Network website, you can select which ones you like.
The eBay banner will give you commissions on any item on eBay that your visitor buys as long he entered eBay through this banner on your website before buying on eBay.
A Sample of an eBay Partner Network Banner
Please click to proceed to my eBay resource page for more information.
Write a Product Review on Your Website.
On product reviews, you will help the visitor to decide what specific product to buy by giving them all the information they might need.
It would include the best brand of the product they are searching for, the best model, for what specific use the model is for and of course, you have to give them information where to buy it.
The Specific Product Banner (the TV) will be posted on your product review page. This is your link to eBay.
This is how you monetize your review. Once you gained the trust of your customers, they will click on the banner (the TV), and they will get redirected to eBay.
If the customer buys the product or any product on eBay you will get the commission.
Post a Specific Product Banner on Your Website.
A specific product banner is a banner featuring a particular item on eBay. A specific product banner is intended for specific product reviews.
However, if the customer decided to buy another product while he entered eBay through this banner, you will still get the commission.
Product reviews convert more sales than other methods. You can put any specific product banner on your website. There are millions of products on eBay.
Imagine the earnings potential you will have to all these products as you have the eBay Partner Network banner on your website which applies to all eBay products.
Then add the specific product banner for your product reviews. That’s a whole lot of ways to earn money from eBay. Remember you are not physically selling anything at all. Bear in mind that once set up it will run on automation.
I have to do a step by step presentation here because a lot of people are having a hard time posting a specific product review banner from eBay.
Remember product reviews are more converting than just the eBay Partner Network Banner. You also have to remember that this banner that you will create will also serve as an eBay Partner Network Banner.
It means it has two purposes,
- one to convince your customer to buy the product you are reviewing through your product review,
- the second purpose is when the customer, once inside eBay through this link/banner and decided to buy another product, you will still get the commission. What if you are just promoting a low priced item and your customer buys a high priced item instead? Aha!
Now let’s go over the process.
- Go to eBay homepage and search for your item
- Download the picture
- Click description in the middle of the page, and you will find this on the right side of the description
- Highlight and right click to copy
Log in to your eBay Partner Network and fill up the spaces.
- Advertiser- eBay
- Select Program to apply- eBay US
- Link type-Item ID
- Enter Item ID- The Number you got from eBay homepage
- Enter your Campaign ID- The one you have when you enroll in EPN
- Then click generate link.
Now you can preview the link ( the letters in blue) if it is correct, then copy and paste in on your post. As I have said, the codes are not working so do not use those.
A Sample of a Specific Product Banner
Please click to go to my eBay resource page for more information
Time to make money.
When your website visitor clicks on the eBay Partner Network banner or the specific product banner, that link will redirect the visitor to eBay. Once that person buys something on eBay, you get a commission. Isn’t that cool?
eBay charges the sellers selling fees. You as an eBay affiliate will get a percentage of the seller’s fee. The amount is about 50 % of the seller’s fees. On parts and accessories, it is about 70%.
Imagine how much commission you will get on big ticket items. They also pay you commissions on good traffic to eBay.
They call it Earnings Per Click as eBay will pay you if you drive good traffic to them. This additional process is extra income for you.
The percentage of commission on the Earnings Per Click varies a lot. Imagine having a potential commission on all the items listed on eBay?
That’s a lot of potentials. That’s an easy way to earn money while you are sleeping once you have your website with good traffic.
They will do everything in automation. You just have to make updates once in a while. This following is how eBay Partner Network will pay you. If your combined earnings during a month are over $25, you will be paid every month.
Additionally, you will be paid out at the end of the year, regardless of whether the combined earnings threshold of $25 has been met or not.
Before you can do all of this money making method, you must have your website. You can build your website for free. There is an excellent platform with a superb community where you can learn all these skills.
The training is very straight forward even beginners can easily follow. Remember online business is not Rocket Science.
There is only one platform that can teach you everything from building a website, keywords research, search engine optimization and the whole community will guide you in making money from eBay.
Wealthy Affiliate has all the tools you need to be successful in online business. Building websites these days are much easier than it was used to be. It is very much easier to work on WordPress.
There are stumbling blocks though for beginners, but with a well-structured training and an excellent community to support the beginners, it is not hard at all.
Anybody can build a website. It does not require any previous experience on website developing. Anybody who can use a computer can create a website.
It is a copy and paste operation plus using the keyboard for contents. I started without any knowledge of building websites, let alone about online business.
I just went through the training, and I was amazed at what I accomplished. It is an awesome feeling once you finish building your website from the ground up.
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That’s fantastic. I never knew that eBay offered this service because it would be a great way for me to make some additional cash.
Can I ask if it is complicated to build a website and is there training provided because I would be interested in this to drive some traffic to eBay?
Hi Taf,
It is a lot easier to build websites these days due to WordPress. Anybody can learn how to build a website, and the community will teach you how to monetize your website by using the eBay affiliate program.
Thanks for the comments,
Den
Hello there, I actually never knew that eBay had an affiliate program. I know that Amazon has an affiliate program but I never knew eBay had one. I have an Amazon affiliate account that does make some money, but I think I’m going to now get an eBay affiliate account too!
Hi Peter,
EBay has a good affiliate program comparable to Amazon and without too much restrictions. You should enroll there too.
Thanks for the comments,
Den
How to make money on eBay. This is another useful line of information, as online shoppers knew that eBay is a huge business to accommodate affiliate marketers. Here they have an interesting Title. “eBay Partners Network”
It should not be difficult to post banners from this Network to ones website. However, the real work is in the review writing. This can be difficult at times. The step by step review sounds better in every way, as there must be some knowledge about the product to promote.
Thanks for this special paragraph that tells about the origin of the image or Banner. So as in other affiliate there is a redirect click visitor link. Your recommendation of Wealthy Affiliate as the place to learn all of these is very interesting. Can anybody learn all of these by just joining Wealthy Affiliate?
Hi,
Thank you. You will learn everything about affiliate marketing when you join Wealthy Affiliate. Then not just affiliate marketing by the way. There are a lot of other online business models you can learn from the community of over 800,000 entrepreneurs.
Thanks for the comments,
Den
I never knew eBay had an affiliate program. I always thought eBay was just eBay and bids was the only thing they had to offer. This is a great money making opportunity and I’m glad you opened my eyes to something new. Thanks a lot. Do you prefer this over Amazon’s affiliate program?
Hi James,
EBay have a good affiliate program. I cannot say which one is better because both of.them have advantages and disadvantages. I will strongly recommend that you have both.
Thanks for the comments,
Den
I was actually considering joining eBay to promote their products, but since I have very little knowledge in this field, it kinda held me back. Than I came across this article and detailed explanation with pictures! So helpful! I’m glad there are people, who teach about the small steps that need to be taken, like which program to click, how to make links and such. Thank you very much!
Hi Angie,
Welcome and Thank you for appreciating my work. Ebay has a good affiliate program plus the fact that they use PayPal as payment system is an added plus to the features.
Thanks for the comments,
Den
Hi Den,
It is great to learn a lot of eBay affiliate program information from your post. Especially the step by step walk through process from how to enroll eBay partner Network to get started. After affiliate marketers get the banner with affiliate code, they will need to have web site to embed the banner. To have customer click on that banner, marketers need to have traffic.
You have explained the process in detail how to build a web site, how to chose a niche keyword, and how to get traffic. You introduce a good community called Wealthy Affiliate for training that even a newbie can learn easily how to set up his own money making machine.
Compared to eBay Affiliate Network, how do you think is Amazon Associates? Which one is better for an affiliate marketer?
Looking for more valuable contents from you soon!
Hi George,
I am glad you find my post useful. I would rate Ebay Partner Network and Amazon Associates on the same level. They are both good affiliate programs.
Thanks for the comments,
Den
Thanks for a great work. This is my first time of reading about eBay as an affiliate network, though you are referring to it as eBay Partner Network. Are they the same?
I will like to know the cash out process in eBay Partner Network. The most common payment mode of most networks are PayPal. Do they have alternative payment method apart from PayPal?
Regards
John
Hi John,
EBay Partner Network is the name of the affiliate program of eBay, so they are the same. I have discussed the cash out process in my post so please refer again. Paypal is the only payment method accepted in eBay. I wish all affiliate programs use PayPal as it is the most convenient.
Thanks for the comments,
Den
I really enjoyed that post. I like the fact that you have everything sectioned off for people to easily digest the information much better than just looking at a sea of words.
Hi,
I am glad that you like how I formatted the post.
Thank you for the comments,
Den
Hi Den,
What a great attention grabbing headline. Soon as I saw it, I was there.
I used ebay a lot in the early 2000’s buying and then reselling gold and silver coins. They seemed to be hot at the time and we ended up with enough profit to pay off our house.
I have never heard of EPN, how old is the program?
I didn’t have my own website back then because I was working so many hours and wouldn’t have had the time to build a business. I was too busy being a work slave.
This is an awesome idea to make some money promoting ebay on your website. Thank you so much for bringing it to my attention. Really well done.
Hi Peter,
EPN has been operating for a while now. It is nice to make money online just by promoting millions of products on eBay. eBay has a very good affiliate program and they pay by Paypal.
Thanks for the comments,
Den
Thanks for the detailed info about promoting ebay. I had no idea you could do this with ebay, it seemed a little counterintuitive because auctions expire so quickly, but after your explanation it makes more sense now. I also had no idea they paid per click. I will look into this option for my own web-based businesses!
Hi Penelope,
EBay Partner Network is a good affiliate program. They pay by Paypal and it is very easy to get approved. You have multiple websites enrolled. They also have Earnings Per Click.
Thanks for the comments,
Den