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Ok, folks after working my piratey butt off for the past few days I was able to finish updating my RSS feed generators for eBay. Here’s a few things I learned the hard way.
1. eBay’s reporting is still slow.
2. when eBay (or my generator or whatever) asks for your ‘Campaign ID’ , that is the 10-digit number of the campaign, not the name of the campaign that you gave it.
3. Currently, you HAVE to add some kind of tracking or the RSS feed won’t work. That’s not my doing, that’s straight from eBay.
4. The minimum payout for the eBay program is only $5, which is probably a smart move by eBay since it will probably draw a lot of smaller sellers to them.
5. EPN payouts to paypal do not have any fees associated with them.
I’m still working on some new tricks and such, but let me know how the new feed generator is working for you!
No, this isn’t an April Fool’s Joke. Ebay has officially made the split from Commission Junction to become it’s own stand alone affiliate program.
For the month of April, all the links for both Commission Junction and eBay will be live. All the links you have switched over to the new ebay program will earn an extra 5%! At the end of the month, your CJ links all walk the plank.
I’m working on modifying my current Ebay RSS Feed Generator. I will have it fully updated to the new eBay RSS feeds hopefully tonight or tomorrow. Ebay has now included the ability to add SID codes to RSS feeds which is a huge step forward. Due to this development, I’m considering releasing my feed generator as just an easier and faster way to generate eBay Links.
Go apply for the new program at ebaypartnernetwork.com
If I release the feed generator for free would people use it?
-The Captain
Socialthing! just went into Private Beta this morning.
Socialthing is a site which will take your Digg, Twitter, Facebook, Pownce, Del.icio.us, YouTube, Flickr, Last.fm, LiveJournal and Vimeo profiles and combine the activity on your profile and your friends profiles into a ‘lifestream’.
The Lifestreaming concept is still very new and a lot of companies are trying to get it right. Another example of a Lifestreaming site would be Spokeo.
Why bring this up?
I have 10 more invites to the Private Beta and wanted to see if anyone wanted one. If you do, drop a comment and let me know.
Why you should keep an eye on these sites:
a Lifestream is a tricky thing. On one hand, there are some legitimate concerns with seemingly recording every action you take on the web. On the other hand it seems like there are 30 new services every week that people want you to try and keeping track of it all is very difficult.
Socialthing! shows some promise from what I saw, being very clean to use and fast. However, they are going to have to increase the number of services you can pull information from in order to really scale. Still, they have most of the big ones and it is worth checking out if just to see what these kind of websites do.
-The Captain
