Friday, August 29, 2008

Promotion for eBay.fr affiliates in September!

eBay Partner Network Important Information

Dear William Leach,

It's the start of term and the time to get back to business. We want to help you to maximize your earnings during this busy time. The eBay France affiliation program is therefore offering you an exceptional opportunity to increase your payout by up to €12500!

The Concept

Try to, from September 1st to September 30th include, ramp up sufficiently the total number of qualifying transactions (based on those generated from July 1st to 31st 2008) , OR reach the highest threshold and get the corresponding bonus !

Qualifying transactions for the eBay Fr program are new active users and first bid or buy-it-now, (see eBay FR program details). This promotion is applicable to both types of qualifying transactions. See the according grids below:

Bonus structure

  1. New active users Bonus:

Earn a bonus depending on the difference between new active users generated in July and September 2008, according to the following grid:

Additional New active users
(September vs. July)
Bonus €
from 20 to 49 €100
from 50 to 99 €500
From 100 to 199 €1000
From 200 to 499 €2000
From 500 to 1199 €5000

If you generate more than 1200 ACRUS in September, regardless of the difference with July, you will earn the maximum Bonus of €10 000. This is not additional to the new active users table above.

  1. First bid/BIN Bonus table:
Additional New active users
(September vs. July)
Bonus €
from 20 to 49 €100
from 50 to 99 €500
From 100 to 199 €1000
From 200 to 499 €2000
From 500 to 1199 €5000

If you generate more than 10000 first bid/BIN in September, regardless of the difference with July,If you increase both your July new ACRUs and your July first BID/BIN performance in September, you will cumulate both bonuses!

If you increase both your July new ACRUs and your July first BID/BIN performance in September, you will cumulate both bonuses!

The eligible period for this promotion: from September 1st 2008 to September 30th 2008.
Reference period fro this promotion: from July 1st 2008 to July 31st 2008.

These conditions apply to both existing publishers of the eBay Fr program on eBay Partner Network, and new publishers joining the program before October 1st. For new publishers, every qualifying transaction generated in September will be considered as additional.

Examples:

Example 1: Publisher already registered to the FR program on ePN before July 31st.

  • July 2008 : You have generated 50 new ACRUs and 500 first Bid/BIN.
  • September 2008 : You generate 100 new ACRUs and 1500 first Bid/BIN
  • For new ACRUs, you've increased your performance by (100-50=) 50, you will earn the corresponding Bonus of €500.
  • For first Bid/BIN, you've increased your performance by (1500-500=) 1000, you will earn the corresponding Bonus of €200.
  • Your Total Bonus for September will be: €200 + €500 = €700!

Example 2: already registered to the FR program on ePN before July 31st, reaching the threshold of 1200 new ACRUs :

  • July 2008 : You have generated 500 new ACRUs and 2000 first Bid/BIN.
  • September 2008, You generate 1200 new ACRUs and 5000 first Bid/BIN!
  • For new ACRUs, you've reach the threshold of 1200 ACRUs, you will earn the corresponding Bonus of €10 000. this is decorrelated from the increase in ACRUs between July and September.
  • For first Bid/BIN, you've increased your performance by (5000-2000=) 3000, you will earn the corresponding Bonus of €500.
  • Your Total Bonus for September will be: €10000 + €500 = €10500!

Example 3 : New publisher of the eBay Fr program on eBay partner Network, joining the program after August 1st , 2008.

  • July 2008, you were not yet registered to the eBay Fr program on eBay partner Network
  • September 2008, you generate 500 new ACRUs and 2000 first Bid/BIN
  • For new ACRUs, you've increased your performance by (500-0=) 500, you will earn the corresponding Bonus of €2000.
  • First Bid/BIN, you've increased your performance by (2000-0=) 2000, you will earn the corresponding Bonus of €500.
  • Your Total Bonus for September will be: €10000 + €500 = €10500!

No need to get in touch with us to be eligible for the bonus - you're already automatically included. The bonuses you earn will not show up in your account but will be paid out in October 2008.

Please do get in touch with any questions you have

Thank you very much,

The eBay Fr affiliate team


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Thursday, August 21, 2008

eBay Partner Network August Newsletter

eBay Partner Network Newsletter
August 2008

Advanced Creatives – New!

We heard you wanted more advanced creatives, so as part of the launch of eBay Partner Network, we've increased the number of rich media or flash ads and all the hot categories are represented. The Creatives Generator tool in the "Tools" tab in the eBay Partner Network helps you dynamically filter the creatives by size, program and whether it is geo–targeted. Rich–media banners like this have averaged up to a 40% higher click–through rate over static banners.

Find out more


Geo-targeting – New!

We know many of you have visitors to your sites from all over the world, so we now offer creatives that can identify the location of a user and redirect that user to the landing page most relevant to their location. Sending users to the right site has been shown to increase conversion rates on eBay by up to 5 times!

To begin earning commission from your global traffic, select the geo–target button in the Creatives Generator or Link Generator Tools.

Find out more


APIs

The Merchandising API now gives you access to popular and great value products on eBay. New calls include getDeals, which you can use to find items below the average selling prices, and also getTopSellingProducts and getMostWatchedItems.

Find out more

The Research API, which is powered by Data Unison, gives you access to historical data about eBay listings and you can get up to 1,000 calls a month for free. The API provides 30 days of historical pricing by keyword

Find out more


Useful Links

eBay Partner Network

eBay Partner Network Blog

Video Tutorials

Developers Program

Frequently Asked Questions

eBay DevCon Update

This year’s DevCon took place in Chicago, where we announced the launch of the new Merchandising API and the Research API and the UK affiliate team talked about monetizing applications.



Monetizing your Application

At a very well attended session (especially for 9am the day after the famous Beer Bash!) the UK’s Jonathan Gabbai and Cian Weeresinghe talked about how to monetize applications.

Here’s a summary of their key points:

  • To make money, eBay users have to need your application – it needs to solve an issue or offer something eBay itself doesn’t offer.
  • Choose the right monetization method for your application.
  • Market your application.
  • Once people are using your application, monitor its performance.
Find out more or visit our Developer’s Program website.

Promotion for eBay.fr affiliates in September!


On June 16th eBay.fr opened access to eBay Partner Network to all of its affiliates, including those that are currently on Tradedoubler! If you have been thinking about trying the ebay.fr affiliate program, now is the perfect time: ebay.fr will give up to a €10,000 bonus to all affiliates who generate more than 1,200 ACRUs in September.

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New Value Based Pricing for eBay US Program


As you may have heard, we've implemented a new pricing structure for Active Confirmed Registered User (ACRU) compensation for the US program only. The new value–based pricing scheme is based on quality, instead of just volume, and will reward affiliates for the amount of quality traffic they drive to eBay advertiser websites. The new value–based pricing system is part of our ongoing efforts to reward our best marketing partners and promote trusted commerce on eBay. Initially, only publishers that joined the eBay Partner Network on or after August 1st will be placed in the new system. All existing publishers will remain in the old pricing system until November 1st.

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Our New Link Validator Tool is Here!


You spoke, we listened! With our new Tool Validator, we've created an easy way to make sure that the code generated by eBay Partner Network’s tools are working correctly on your website by looking for potential link errors.

So how does it work? Well, the Tool Validator searches a given web page, and finds URLs created by our tools. The validation checks to make sure that the tool’s variables are in the correct format and that they are working as expected.

Find out more


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