Down On Our Luck

Ok, so I’m not rich from Big Crumbs yet, but I steadily get paid $12 - $25 every month. Not bad for writing a couple of blog posts and buying an ad or two on some key websites. Here is the referral breakdown for my April 2008 earnings:

If you have been following these posts, I hope you can see the potential here for some easy, passive, supplemental income for your eBay business or any other online business you may run.

I find it funny that the number one search that brings people to my Cash Back Squidoo Page is “Big Crumbs Scam”. I hope the visitor finds the page helpful enough to convince them that Big Crumbs is not a scam. It does sound too good to be true, but they really do pay and they pay when they say they do.

Watch my blog for details on a contest that I’ll be running for Big Crumbs real soon. It won’t take a ton of work to enter and I hope it will be fun for entrants as well as myself.

On April 2nd, I wrote about updating your eBay affiliate links to the new eBay Partner Network format. I will admit that even though I was aware of the deadline of April 30th to get my links updated, I was not very diligent in getting this project done. I was extremely happy this morning when I logged in to the Partner Network to update 5 more campaign ID’s and saw a post on the blog stating that the deadline has been extended to May 31st to get the affiliate links updated. This is when their contract with CJ ends, so be sure to update your links early to make sure you get paid what you have earned. Any sales from CJ links will not be credited after May 31st, even if the click through occurred before the deadline.

For the most part, I use eBay links on my Squidoo lenses such as the one I built for Nintendo DS Skins. This type of lens is very successful for me when it comes to making money. Before now, I didn’t know which lenses were making the most money for me because I was using one campaign ID for Squidoo, but now that I am having to go through the work of updating my RSS feeds anyways I am setting up a new campaign ID for every lens that I use eBay links on. I know I could receive the same results by adding a custom ID to my searches, but that would create an extra step needed by having to download my results to Microsoft Excel to see where I’ve made the most money.