if any of you got an email from the ebay partner network about the changes coming in payouts related to acru's (active confirmed registered user) and said "huh" after reading it then go read this article by j. frank carr at the blog optempo.

epn acru changes and you

he explains the whole thing pretty well.

sixflags48 is the user name of my nephew dillon moskowitz. it turns out he is quite a youTube video contributor with 84 videos currently hosted on the site.

this is his video he created in tribute for nascar driver dale earnhardt sr. after he died in a crash in a race.

i would have embedded the video, but dillon has embedding turned off, so here is the video at youTube.

way to go dillon.

ok, i just finished writing a post about this software for facebook called radical buy.

i put a comic book up that i had tried TWICE to sell on eBay for less money than i offered it for on radical buy.

within 10 minutes of putting it up for sale with radical buy on facebook, i had a payPal payment for the item! it was a buyer less than 10 miles from me that found my item not on facebook, but through a search on google shopping!

wow. this thing has legs and i m going to put a few more things up and see what happens.

i am investigating a facebook application called radical buy. i found it through an old high school friend named ivan schonwald that i recently re-connected with on facebook.

radical buy is an application within facebook that allows you to list items for sale as an individual seller like you would on eBay.

the twist is that you can also show other seller's products in the application and if a buyer then buys that product from your facebook page where they saw it, you get a commission that the seller offers for selling it.

they have a web site www.radicalbuy.com that you can go to outside of facebook to browse products for sale, add the application to facebook, read the forums or find out more about the program.

here is a video review from a site named www.facereviews.com, that has been watching the software for a few months.

i have not verified the fact, but i do also believe the company is based in dallas, texas, which is also where i live and grew up.

i will be testing this software because i think it might be a good alternative or addition to eBay as a sales outlet, plus i like the sort of affiliate marketing angle with the commissions. so far i have listed a comic book and am going to try and earn commissions on products a few other sellers have for sale as well.

i came across a great new (and i mean very new) course on how to harness the power of stumbleUpon to increase traffic to your blog or web site.

Click here to view more details

it is a free course if you want it a chapter at a time, paid if you just want to zip through all 20 chapters at once without waiting.

the course is called stumble rush and is offered by caroline middlebrook. you can sign up directly for stumbleRush here and/or go to caroline's excellent blog.

i'm already up to lesson #2!