As many of you will notice I have been quite quiet lately on the blog front, there are several reasons for that. The main one is that I've been spending quite a lot of time working on my own sites and re-developing the phpOStock sales page as well as moving the member database to my new members area to accommodate for the move of phpOStock over to the Clickbank marketplace. But now all of that is complete I will be able to post here more often, that is when I come back from my well earned week away next week :). Kate and I are heading off to Spain for a week away from everything, it'll be a nice break and I'll be able to return home refreshed before starting my new job online full time from the 5th of October. In that time my support desk will be fully monitored so questions won't go unanswered.

So, now onto the title of the post! I have received many emails over the last few weeks from people expressing their concern over the new commission structure from ePN which is due to come into force in less than a week. The main trend I have found from the emails is that people are wondering what to do IF their sites are not earning well under the new ePN structure Read the rest of this entry »

By now you should know about the new QCP structure which eBay Partner Network are about to impose from the 1st of October for current affiliates, if you don't know then where have you been?

ePN launched their new QPC preview in all member dashboards a few weeks back and since that happened there have been a lot of current affiliates talking openly about how they won't stay with ePN and how they want to walk away. The new QPC preview allows current ePN affiliates to view what their current earnings would have been under the new commission structure which is due to go live for all affiliates on the 1st of October. Many people have seen that their earnings preview is lower than their current earnings, causing them to react!

Now, I can understand to a certain extent why people are annoyed with the change, I'm not going to sit here and say that I am 100% ecstatic about it either. Even though I make sure I don't rely on one affiliate program, I still have a good chunk of my income coming from ePN. When I saw my earnings preview for the first week I was actually down by 40% which, as you can imagine, annoyed me somewhat but I didn't react in the same way that a good a majority of people did. Read the rest of this entry »