Affiliate Marketing is an Internet-based marketing practice in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought about by the affiliate’s marketing efforts.
For some months vzaar have been running a trial affiliate program with a handful of publishers and based on the feedback to date they have announced the launch [...]

Today’s post is a bit of a misnomer – originally I had planned to only review 7 WordPress plugins and make this into a one-week series. However, as I’ve not had time to more than glance at today’s main subject, I’m filling up the post with an extra plug-in worth mentioning, that eBay sellers [...]

So far in this series I’ve looked only at WordPress Plug-ins that pul your listings (or those of others) from eBay and display them on your WordPress-based website. Today, I start looking at plug-ins that will attack the problem of elevating your listings’ visibility and bids from a different angle.
Today and tomorrow I’m looking [...]

Yesterday I looked at the excellent “Free eBay Store” plug-in for WordPress, describing how that could be used by eBay sellers, affiliate marketers, and niche site builders. Today I look at an earlier-developed plug-in with a similar name.
There’s a question mark hanging over this one though, as described below. It’s included due to [...]

OK, own up – what got your attention more – the word “free” in the title, or the title as a whole?
If we’re to believe eBay executive management, “free” is what every eBay buyer wants … and they’re certainly chargeback-happy enough to demonstrate that in many cases. As professional sellers, we all know there’s [...]

Number 3 in my series of essential eBay plug-ins for the WordPress blogs and WordPress-based ecommerce websites of eBay sellers, is a useful sidebar widget to highlight your current eBay listings in one of several ways.
Although eBay themselves publish equivalents of this plug-in, the ability to style this one’s appearance to match the look of [...]

If you’ve been regularly reading BuildaSkill for some time, the results of using my Number 2 WordPress plug-in choice will not be new to you, although how we’ve been doing it may be.
The panel of eBay listings we use to sometimes support, and sometimes add sarcasm, to a post’s topic in the BuildaSkill Biz Blog [...]

Yesterday I introduced this series with a summary list of my seven essential WordPress Plugins for eBay sellers looking to go multi-channel by adding an ecommerce site of their own.
Today, I look at the first piece of the puzzle – building your own ecommerce part of the site – your own shop / store where [...]

There’s a lot of “noise” on the Internet this year about how eBay has completely lost the plot, and whether you agree or disagree with the policy changes introduced under CEO John Donahoe, there’s no denying that unique visitors, time on site per visitor, pages viewed per visitor, and just about every other metric is [...]

In a post called “It’s Heeerrre: ‘Pay With Facebook’ Is In The Wild“, TechCrunch posted that Facebook has updated its Payments Terms to support the purchase of Facebook Credits – and has enabled a few specific applications that support the use of Facebook Credits once purchased.
“WooHoo!”, thought I – time to monetise FaceBook.
Not so.
Read the [...]

Have you  seen the new look and feel of Shopit?
They’ve done a major reworking of the site to make it more appealing and provide better functionality.  As a result their blog has been issuing posts to pass on tips and tricks, as well as advice on how to get the best from the cross network [...]

ShopVisible’s corporate blog has been discussing their integration with the Craigslist online marketplace, claiming it gives its e-tailer clients a major advantage in selling products.
The ShopVisible platform can be used to place ads on the Craiglist website straight from the Site Manager, the user-interface for managing all aspects of their business, including multi-channel sales.
It is [...]

Lin Shearer of the eBay ProStores team has announced the revised packages for using the service.  In summary, sellers below Gold eBay PowerSeller status are losing out.
The revised packages include two tiers:

ProStores Professional eCommerce for $29.95/month (plus 0.5% successful transaction fee)
ProStores Professional eCommerce Plus for $59.95/month (plus 0.5% successful transaction fee).

Lin states that “merchants [...]

Checkout by Amazon now provides a way for the merchants and integrators to include custom attributes in the order request XML.  These attributes can be associated either with line-items or orders, and will have web-script developers scrambling to be first with their extended add-ons and plug-ins.
“When Amazon Payments receive your order request and it contains [...]

Online businesses are now highly regulated, and there’s substantial liability if your site’s not legally compliant. In addition, your customers are becoming more Internet savvy, and a site that’s not legally compliant is not going to be trusted.
So, let’s get started.
Use This Checklist If You Already Have The Basic Site Documents In Place