well, on june 20th, 2008 i was laid off from my e-commerce position with hitchfinder.com.

my family has been wonderful and supportive. i have not been depressed at all due to the upbeat attitude of my lovely wife.

i have no regrets. it was a very good learning experience and i took a lot of knowledge away from the job, plus a really cool 24" iMac computer and the adobe creative suite cs3!

what have i been doing since june 20th you might ask.

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well, i have finished my freelance web site gushindesigns.com and am almost finished with my new business card. i have designed and opened a brand new web site called appleproductsdepot.com, which combines web design, affilliate marketing and eBay.

there is also a second one of these eBay affiliate marketing web sites that i am currently building that is centered around old and new cameras, both film and digital. i am still into photography and i want this one to be a bit more interactive and it will probably concentrate more on vintage camera gear than newer stuff.

and i have been going to a number of meetup.com meetings on subjects like joomla (a content management system for web sites), wordpress, eBay and various internet entrepreneur groups.

i have also been more active selling products on eBay than i have in the past, with 30 current auctions running. i am trying to liquidate a comic book collection i bought many year ago for a good price and have already made my original investment back so the rest is gravy as far as the comic books go.

there are a few opportunities i am checking into for web design work full time as well, but more about those if anything happens with them.

just testing to see how easy it is to use the plug-in for wordpress called phpBay, which allows you to insert live eBay auctions into your wordpress blog. i have chosen to display 5 items under apple iPhone.

i wanted to try it to see if i like the program before plunking down my $49 to buy it.

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if you have not seen it or used it yet, the eBay to go widget is pretty cool.

you can enter in info like a certain seller (like the widget above), a search term, an eBay store name or other choices and they give you the code to embed in your site. it's flash that is used for the widget.

if you are a member of the eBay partner network, you can now embed your campaign code in the widget too. the eBay partner network is a program where eBay will split the fees collected on a sale with the site (person) that sent them the customer.

start here to get your own eBay to go widget.

lately i have been trying out a few new affiliate marketing ideas to see if i can increase my income online.

in the past i did get an affiliate payback for getting a new customer to sign up for web site hosting with my hosting company, 1and1.com.

click image for larger view of the 1and1.com web site.

it was a customer that i was (and still am) working on their web site. they are a married couple that have the site joiededeux.com and they were looking for a hosting company with a better deal than the one they were using.

i have been using them for years since i was in college, in fact, i got my first 3 years totally free on a special deal a fellow student turned me on to.

my banner on the right will take you to them and i will get an affiliate payout for being the one that sent you to them. no cost to you. they also have some of the least expensive domain name prices of the big name services at $6.99/yr.

i am also starting up the eBay affiliate program too.

i have been having fun listing more stuff on eBay and have even made a little money. it's not web design, but hey, it lets me buy a few gadgets here and there.

btw...i just joined this cool eBay affilliate network called the eBay partner network and if you click any of my eBay links on the blog then eBay will pay me part of their fee they collect on the sale. it costs the buyer or the seller nothing at all.