Teach Ebay Classes
In case you haven’t heard, ebay has upped their commissions to their affiliates. You earn commissions for signing people up as ebay members and generating bids on items up for auction. The low figure used to be $15 per sign up. Now it’s $20. The per bid commission has gone up as well.Some ebay affiliates make over $1 million a month. That’s not a typo. Yikes!
So I got to thinking. The sign up commission starts at $20 per sign up. Why not rent out your local library’s meeting room, rent some old laptops for the day, set them up and put an ad in the paper advertising a free “Ebay Class” to all people who have never used Ebay before. Specify in your ad that if they’ve never signed up for ebay, the class is free. If they’ve already signed up and they just want to know more about how to use ebay, the class will be $25. (You can still get bid commissions off these attendees.)
If you get enough people to sign up consistently, you can buy your own used laptops (pretty cheap) and take your gig on the road. If you live in a big enough area, you could feasibly have a class every week. If you can get 50 people per class, 4 times a month, that’s 250 x $20. If you eventually own your own laptops, and you use the library which is really cheap, you can clear $5000 a month in sign up commissions. Of course, you’ll have them bid on something they want to buy, which will give you some more commissions. If you put together an ebay guide book of some sort or sell someone elses’ (through your Amazon.com affiliate account of course) that ups your take even more.
John Wolf on October 23rd, 2005 8:35 pm
GREAT blog… good intentions. One minor detail —- 50 classes x 4 times per month is 200 … not 250. The $5000 is correct gross. Idea generally sounds good, but how would you get 200 people to come to a class without advertising. Once you start advertising this, that expense comes off the top (or the bottom). Perhaps this is one of those reasons why everyone isn’t doing it? Or perhaps its a great idea and you should jump on before everyone starts doing it. Eitherway, best wishes on all your endeavors.
JW3
John Wolf on October 23rd, 2005 8:38 pm
OOoops!… I reviewed the math again. It turns out without even starting a class you have to go find another $1000 because 50 per class times four classes times $20 (not the $25 mentioned above) is only $4000. This is still sounding good I think I’ll try it tomorrow.
JW3
stela portugal on November 19th, 2005 1:52 pm
Yes, I would like to now,classe free to learn,how to sell on ebay, with sucess.I put some clothes on ebay and I sold only 3. And pay to muth for that.Please, help-me.
Mersada Cobovic on May 11th, 2006 4:53 pm
Very interesting, I have a background in teaching…I didn’t even think about the library. The eBay classes in NYC cost alot more than 25 dollars.
How do you show that you got them to sign up, though?
Wesley Moore on July 8th, 2006 11:28 am
This is an excellent idea. It’s like confirmation for me. Last night I decided to move out on teaching. I thought about the affiliate program but I only thought it would be $4-$5 each, I had no idea it was $20. Second I listed two libraries, a community college and a community center, all with projectors and banks of computers. Would still have to seek clearance. But what makes your idea so great is the free part, I didn’t even think of that. That’s brilliant, I found this site because I was searching to see how much I should charge. Thank you for sharing your ideas. I’ll report back on success. Maybe you can use it as a success story. God Bless
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