eBay has a tool for affiliates that is not well known, but it can actually create a very nice stream of automated income. Example: I have a "hobby" site for a very specific sports car. The entire site gets around 100-150 visitors per day, solely from natural traffic, and the eBay page created with this tactic gets around 27 visitors per day. This one page generates $100 - $200+/month from an autopilot site that has little traffic.

How can you take advantage of this tool?

First, you must become an affiliate of eBay. eBay's affiliate program is called the eBay Partner Network. (https://www.ebaypartnernetwork.com/)

eBay affiliate payment depends on the country and which eBay site the transactions occur on.

In the USA, eBay pays you for two different results. You can check fees for your own country here: https://www.ebaypartnernetwork.com/PublisherProgramsHome

In the USA, they pay a minimum of 50% of the fees they generate when you send a successful bidder to an auction within 7 days of their visit. Depending on the type of item being auctioned, these commissions can really add up. For example, I use this Quickie tactic on a site of mine at:

http://www.3000GTSpyder.com/spyderstuff.htm

And the auction page I generate often has car listings. As seen above, I have earned commissions over $50 when someone has seen and bought a car from this simple page.

eBay USA also pays a minimum of $25 per new eBayer that registers through your referral and then makes a successful bid within 30 days of registration. I earn a steady stream of $25 commissions from new eBayers who decide to make their first eBay purchase after visiting one of these pages.

How does it work?

The page is automatically and dynamically generated by eBay for each new visitor that sees the page. It is all done using one small piece of code that you get from eBay through a tool called the Editor Kit.

You get that code using the eBay Editor Kit located here:

https://www.ebaypartnernetwork.com/PublisherToolsWidgetPage

The video on the QuickieProfits site, which you can optin for here: http://www.QuickieProfits.com/video.cfm has details on how to use the Editor Kit. I recommend you watch the video for more details.

You just follow their instructions and plug in your campaign ID (generated by eBay) and you plug in the keywords you want eBay to use when generating the page. They generate the code and you copy and paste that onto your site. You can also enter tracking code in the Editor Kit which helps you understand which pages are generating revenue.

Technically, what happens is whenever a visitor clicks on this page, the code goes out to eBay, executes a search using the keywords you supplied, and delivers those results on your page. Best of all, it attaches your affiliate ID to the auction so your visitor is cookied if they click on any of these items or links. Whether they buy one of these items, or another one they find, or even something completely different 6 days from now, you will earn 50% or more of eBay's auction fee.

If the person happens to be a first timer, you also get $25 for recruiting them. That fee ramps up when you recruit lots of new users.

Ways to implement this tactic in your business

There are some nice, simple and easy to implement ways to use this tactic to create an autopilot income stream on your site.

If you have a web site where it is appropriate, by all means create a page and link to it. While this might not work well on a sales-page type site, it can work great on a portal or info site. I make money from the page like this on my hobby site every month, and that site gets just a few thousand visitors a month.

On pages where you are currently running AdSense, you might want to try running targeted eBay auctions instead to see if eBay pulls in more revenue. I had one user of this Quickie tactic tell me she doubled the revenue of her page when she replaced AdSense with eBay. You can also run the auction alongside AdSense ads.

Another Quickie tactic that can work in almost any niche is to create an auction page that matches your niche and drive traffic to it via your autoresponder.

Example: an infoproduct site that sells a book on fighting speeding tickets. The sales page and autoresponders focus on selling the product. But after a few weeks, the autoresponders also promote a few other related products.

One obviously related product for someone who got a speeding ticket would be radar detectors. Using this technique, it's easy to create a page full of radar detector auctions currently running on eBay.

Then write an autoresponder that mentions how useful radar detectors can be, and how there are always good deals on eBay.

Again, this tactic creates a completely automatic income stream. It may not be huge, but it adds up and takes well under an hour of work for the entire thing. The nice thing is that the link in that email never changes, so you don't need to change the email. I have implemented this tactic in my pre-programmed series and the message goes out to everyone in my autoresponder. But because the Editor kit code generates these eBay pages dynamically, the auctions are always fresh.

This tactic can be implemented on almost any web site in almost any niche since there are so many auctions running on eBay at all times.

This tactic is most effective with careful selection. You've got to have relevant auctions that match the purpose of your list. Otherwise, not only will your marketing for this page be ineffective, it could be considered spam.

The bottom line is that this eBay tool can create autopilot income streams that match virtually any niche with very little work. Plus, it can help your page visitors or autoresponder readers find good deals on products they need.