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It can be hard finding a gift for a Mom that has just about everything, that’s one of the many reasons eBay created its gift finder, one of the most intuitive gift finders out there. With Mother’s Day less than a week away, we wanted to remind everyone about the great opportunities available with the eBay Gift Finder. This tool has been fine tuned even further to bring eBay users the best gift finding experience around. The eBay gift finder is a great resource for finding gifts for anyone, no matter what their age, gender or tastes. While specific graphics and creative are not directly available for this page, it’s very easy to build links using the link generator with the custom url function. And if you’re based in Europe, no need to panic – Mother’s Day was a couple of months ago!

Hello Partners,

We’ve been busy ramping up the eBay Daily Deals, and new creative for these top converting offers is now available. These deals are real time, Buy It Now products with free shipping. Typical offers are discounted between 20% and 90% off the original price! The four on-going product deals are backed by major eBay Power Sellers and retail operations like TigerDirect, DealMonger & Buy.com. Expect to see a wide variety of super low priced home electronics, computers, appliances, sporting goods and more. Take a look at the fantastic deals being featured today: http://deals.ebay.com

What’s the catch to the Daily Deals? The only catch is that these fixed-price items are in limited quantities. When the item is sold out, it’s gone. It’s important to let your visitors know that if they love an item, they shouldn’t wait and risk losing out on the amazing deal being offered.
For showcasing and promoting the Daily Deals, there are several simple to advanced integrations available including static logo size banners, dynamic flash banners, and an XML Data Feed.

The static banners for the Daily Deals offers are available in 88X31, 120X160, 120X90 & 125X125 sizes while the dynamically updating flash banners are offered in 120X600, 728X90, 300X250 & 468X60.
Post these Flash banners using JavaScript code on your site today and keep your visitors informed of the newest Daily Deals at eBay! When an item sells out these banners will update on the fly to display the next great Deal we have lined up. You’ll notice that 1 of the 4 Daily Deals will rotate in when the page is refreshed.

You can also sign up to receive the Daily Deal email alerts to stay on top of the Deals being featured.
Remember that buyers are more conscious than ever of their spending habits, and are trying to find the best bargains online. This is the perfect opportunity to take advantage of that by showing them the Daily Deal, and the countless other great Deals you can find on eBay everyday!

Currently only available for the US, but other country programs are coming soon.

Thanks for promoting,

The eBay Partner Network Team

Hi All,

With January almost over for another year, it’s time to get your site’s visitors thinking about what to buy their loved ones as a gift for Valentine’s Day. 

There are a number of ways that you can advertise gift ideas.  We have a new seasonal creative, which you can find in the Creative Generator.  Select “No” for geo-targeting then US Program and click Search.  Look for the “Find Something For Your Sweetheart” themed banners.  We will also be opening these to the UK program soon.

Here are some hot gift ideas with Free Shipping auctions:

For her:

Key Necklaces
iPod nano
Fragrances
Designer Handbags
Diamond Earrings
Romantic Getaways
Concert Tickets
Handmade Cards
Heart Shaped Sunglasses

For him:

Electric Shavers
Digital Picture Frames
Concert Tickets
Golf Club Sets
The North Face Jackets
Citizen Watches
Fragrances
Nintendo Wii
Digital Camera SLR

To use these landing pages simply copy the url to the Link Generator Custom url field and generate the code.

Love from the eBay Partner Network Team!

Trainz.com is an e-commerce website specifically built for the model train enthusiast. Started in the late nineties by Scott Griggs, a lifelong model train hobbyist and salesman, Trainz.com sells collectible and new model trains, as well as scenery and materials for model train tracks. 

Trainz.com sells inventory on its own website as well as on eBay, conducting about 4,000 total transactions per month. Since much of its inventory is sold on eBay, Trainz.com has incorporated links to its eBay inventory all over its website, encouraging visitors to check eBay as well as Trainz.com for the particular product they’re looking for.

In early 2007, Trainz.com became a member of the eBay Partner Network so that it could be paid for the visitors it was driving to eBay, whether a visitor bought a Trainz.com product or not. Since then, the company has seen an increase in revenues as a result. (more…)

Every now and then, we like to share an affiliate success story to help inspire and offer ideas to other affiliates. We are planning on creating a series on this topic featuring new publishers each month.  This week we spoke to Squidoo, to learn more about how they’re using the eBay Partner Network. 
 
Squidoo is a hand-built collection of about 600,000 web pages created by people with passions. Each page is called a lens and can be about anything a person is interested in. The idea behind Squidoo is to provide a place where people can research and meet other people online that have similar passions. Anyone can create a lens, and they can use the lens to earn money for themselves and for charity through ads and affiliate links. 

Squidoo has quickly become one of the top 300 most popular websites in the U.S. and has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for charities and for its users, or “lensmasters,” as they are called. Creating a page is free, and lensmasters can decide how much of their income they would like to donate to charity. Squidoo automatically sends 5% of all proceeds to charity, keeps 45% to run the company and lets the lensmaster decide what to do with the other 50% – keep it or donate a portion to a favorite cause. (more…)