eBay Feedback Still Sucks

I’ve sold stuff off and on over the years on eBay. I had these grand ideas of making millions, but never really got around to it. I always wanted one of those deals where you sell stuff from China and it is drop shipped and you never even see it. Like those silly commercials for SMC with Tom Bosley I could just never figure out how to make any money buying something for five dollars and selling it for ten-since no one seemed to want to pay the five for it to start with. Anyway-I sold books, golf shirts, Hawaiian…

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Amazon.com Associates New Look

Amazon.com Associates is the affiliate program for the billions and billions of things for sale on Amazon. Amazon.com has recently given it’s Associates site a facelift and rearranged it links and banners and widgets. They have done away with the little doodad that automatically made links out of your content. They recommend replacing it with an Omakase widget, which also looks at your content to pick items for sale from Amazon. Text links have always been the best performer for me. The New Look of Amazon.com Associates is smooth and clean with headers and new groupings of the usual suspects…

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Amazon Mechanical Turk

Well, I like all things Amazon.com and Amazon Mechanical Turk looks sort of interesting. The one or two HITS that I clicked on look like some kind of surveys-clearly this needs a bit of looking into. Hey, with a name like Mechanical Turk its got to be good. Though to be honest I don’t really get the Mechanical or the Turk part of the name. Amazon, well, I guess that never made much sense either, did it? So what is it and how do you make money with it? Good questions. Short answer, I’m not sure. I signed up the…

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Affliates, Adwords, and Commission Junction

I’ll admit that this one has me totally and completely beat. I’ve read books that say this is how to make millions. I have read ebooks that talk about steady large incomes. I’ve read blog posts that talk about small, but steady streams of income. I’ve learned to write a pretty mean Adwords ad that gets a few clicks. I’ve even found the occasional odd little keyword that I can get for five cents and still get a click with. Just a couple of small problems.Problem One, the percentage of people buying stuff is so damned small that I am…

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