BANS (eBay Affiliate Program) Earnings Update Feb, Mar, and April 2009

Posted on 04 May 2009 by Suzanne

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It’s that time … time for me to give you an update on my BANS (Build a Niche Stores) business and my other EPN (eBay Partner Network) profits here on the blog. If you haven’t been following along you can take a look at my BANS profits for June 2008 ($203.36), my BANS profits for July 2008 ($269.41), my BANS profits for August 2008 ($531.51) and my BANS profits for September 2008 ($821.74). Or you can get an overview by seeing my last post update of my BANS profits for October, November, December and January.
I could see my numbers were down a bit this month and I was “tracking” to do just over $500 and then on May 1st I logged in to get my final numbers and they were down! Huh? What? Well, they changed my ACRUs (new eBay customer sign ups) from $40/per to $28/per. Since my ACRUs started out at $25 and were as low as $10 at one time I shouldn’t be too upset but it was shocking and somewhat upsetting.

So my income for February 2009 was $533.45, March 2009 was $661.14 and April 2009 was down to $407.05. Considering I haven’t put any work or effort into these sites in the past several months I really can’t complain right?

I will reiterate that you should never put all of your eggs in one basket and online you should definitely diversify your income streams.

Last month I launched a new site, “The Destination Wedding Site,” and I am just starting to integrate some eBay products there (and now Amazon products too) so we’ll see how that goes. For this new site I’m using two new products that I LOVE!!!

The first one I tried is phpBay and it’s a WordPress Plugin that makes it really easy to add eBay auctions to any WP post or page. You can see an example here: Destination Wedding Books.

I can’t tell you how easy this is to do! You add this product like any other plugin and activate it. There’s a very easy to follow manual that walks you through your options and tells you how to do each. The most technical it got (you know me … non-techie! LOL) was I chose an option that required me to copy/paste some code to my .htaccess file and that was very easy too. If you get hung up on any of it there’s a support forum and everyone is very helpful.

The second new product is ReviewAzon and it’s an awesome new plugin that helps you add Amazon products to your WordPress pages and posts and it even pulls in the product description and customer reviews (great for much needed content instead of page full of affiliate links!).

You can see where I used it on my new site here: The Destination Wedding Planner: The Ultimate Guide.

Again, this was a plugin that you add like any other WordPress plugin and then you control it and use it right in your WP admin panel. It also have a great user manual and a support forum that’s been very helpful.

I’ll keep you posted on how these new products do for my sites but I expect great things from them.

Be sure you check them out:

Check out phpBay

Check out ReviewAzon

So here are my eBay numbers for the past several months:

September 2008 – $821.74 (ACRUs $25)

October 2008 – $733.33 (ACRUs $25)

November 2008 – $315.81 (ACRUs $10)

December 2008 – $186.11 (ACRUs $10)

January 2009 – $613.83 (ACRUs $40)

February 2009 – $533.45 (ACRUs $40)

March 2009 – $661.14 (ACRUs $40)

April 2009 – $407.05 (ACRUs $28)

Are you using BANS? Are you using EPN to make money? How have your sales/profits been these last few months? Have you tried phpBay and/or ReviewAzon? Please comment below so we can all learn from each other. *SmiLes* Suzanne

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