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iPhone Adventures Part 3

DSCN1578I am home with my new favoritest toy (sorry Sidekick).  At 6pm, the first 10 people were allowed into the Store to claim their 2 phones.  Then led through the cool accessories for their new phone and then taken to the Holy Grail – a table filled with iPhones that we could play with!

To be completely honest, I was shaking…I was SO excited!  One of the 2 phones I bought now belongs to me – LOL.  Guess I’ll be carrying two phone contracts for a bit.  SO worth it.  The phone exceeded my expectations of the phone by about 4000%.

DSCN1588I do have the other up for sale here: 8GB Apple iPhone

20% goes to charity – the Disabled Online Users Association group

When I arrived home there was a huge 1/2 circle rainbow over my house - all is good in my world!!

Got to go and play with my new toy…blessings

iPhone Adventures Part 2

DSCN15762pm – door is coming down for them to get ready – we’ve found pictures online of NY’s set-up…SO excited!!

Black curtain is now going up – dang!DSCN1577

Mason just sold his spot in line for $150 – lol!

 

Now decided to tell people who ask that we are waiting in line for Andy Gibb concert tickets.

iPhone Adventures

Ramblings for my day in line to buy the iPhone..

Planned my attack last night.  Called the mall….they open at 8am for walkers.  Have to make sure I pack my phone, computer, sheet with my eBay User Id on it (required to list on eBay), water, power bars, etc.  Trying to figure out what to take to sit on – not sure what the mall will allow.

Couldn’t sleep all night - so excited.  Wish I could keep one myself – stupid tmobile contract.

DSCN15758am – I am #5 in line – woohoo…Janelle #5!!  1st in line…Andy has been here since 5am.  Then there is Mason who isn’t buying one, but keeping his cousin Kyle company.  Kyle is going to be a corporate lawyer.  Then there is Will…he is being paid $150ish by his friend to hold his place in line.  Will is hysterical and is keeping us entertained with his stories.

8:15 – #6 just showed up – Suzanne, she is the sweetest.  Getting a phone for herself.  Has two kids and a sister who works in the Peace Corps in Africa - cool.

9:00 – drama ensues as mall security is obviously jealous of how much fun we are having, lol, and wants to kick us outside.

9:30am – Comment from Manager Jacob (as we were asking him 4 million questions…) “unfortunately all i can say is that we are excited you guys are in line today.”

10:00 – Mall Security 0, Apple Store Management 1 (woohoo!)

10:35 – people in line count…

uVillage – 90

Bellevue – 50

Alderwood – 30

SouthCenter – 26

11:00am – Jamba Juice is brilliant – they sent someone to give us samples and handed us a card with their phone number on it.  Said to call and they would deliver!!  Why don’t the restaurants do this?

Noon – rumors rampant including a post on Craigslist from a supposed employee of Southcenter’s Apple Store with a phone in their hands for $1300 – lol, yeah right.  Some guy in NY’s line is selling his spot for $5000 (includes his chair too – lol).  Management at Apple keeps checking on us, making sure we are ok…giving us water.

12:30 – every 5th person asks, “what are you waiting in line for…?”   Hhhhmmm, sitting right next to the Apple store with a huge iPhone sign next to me….have to come up with a creative answer for that.

more to come…

eBay PowerSeller Mr Customer Service hits a Home Run

Logo_larger_optimizedA fabulous PowerSeller Interview today with Silver PowerSeller Tim Chapman – Mr. Customer Service himself!

Listen to the podcast to learn:

  • His sourcing secrets
  • What item he sold that made him almost 300% profit
  • How he left his ‘day job’ after 14 years and how you can too
  • His marketing secret that has customer returning in droves to buy from him (even though he doesn’t sell the same things over and over again)

Websites mentioned:

Mr. Customer Service – Tim’s eBay Store

Blackthorne Pro – what Tim uses to automate his business

Tax Loopholes for eBay Sellers

to listen to this podcast click here

HUGE eBay Store and Squidoo Contest Announced

Squidoo

 

 

Are you Squidooing?

Huge eBay Stores Announcement

 

As many of you may know, OSI is currently running an amazing promotion for owners of the eBay Stores Success Video. (www.StoresCoach.com).   Originally the promotion was for this:

If you owned or purchased the eBay Stores Success Video before June 30th, you would receive a private pass to an incredible coaching class on profitable newsletters (value $697).

Pretty amazing unto itself – but after chatting with Seth Godin & Megan of Squidoo fame (as well as a few other remarkable ventures) we just decided to up the anty for you!

 

Here is the NEW, UPDATED and pretty dang phenomenal promotion (note, the updated parts are in YELLOW):

 

For everyone who has purchased or will purchase the complete eBay Stores Success Video – www.StoresCoach.com -  prior to Midnight pst on July 15th, 2007…YOU will receive:

Exclusive access to a 3-session e-commerce Success Newsletter & Marketing training this July.  

This rare training opportunity is a value of $697 and will include:

  • Over 6 hours of instruction with Janelle Elms, eBay University instructor, best-selling author, and Success Coach (I know, I rarely do coaching, but have decided to come out of retirement to help all of you who choose Success!!)

You will learn:

  • Why an online newsletter is your most powerful marketing tool
  • How to set up your eBay Store Newsletter correctly for profit

Did you know that you can get 75% off of your final value fees IF your eBay Store’s Newsletter is set-up correctly for profit?

  • Why you should have a newsletter outside of eBay
  • About the most powerful newsletter tool I have found that will increase your business without you having to do anything (all the big marketing gurus use this tool - isn’t it about time YOU knew about it?)
  • How to drive insane traffic to your newsletter (on eBay or off) using traditional and some very non-traditional marketing methods

A start-up company was approached by a ‘large’ company (we won’t name names) that wanted to buy it for huge $$$$  Their selling point?  Great tool?  Excellent products?  Phenomenal mgmt team?   Nope…it was the large & extensive newsletter list they had!!  The large company KNEW how profitable that newsletter list was…now YOU need to know how profitable YOUR newsletter list could be.

 

This must-know training (value of $697) will be provided to all who are legal owners of the complete eBay Stores Success Video – www.StoresCoach.com by midnight pst on July 15th, 2007!!  You will receive automatic notification of this coaching training later on in July - this notification will include your exclusive guest passcode information. 

 

Here is the NEW phenomenal part:

ALL of you, whether you own an eBay Store or not, have a chance to win either:

- The eBay Stores Success Video – this includes membership to the private 1% club website – value $495

- OR, if you already own the video, you can win a 1 hour eBay Store consulting session with me – value $1000

 

Here is what you have to do to enter (the rules):

1.  Create a Squidoo lens having to do with eBay Stores – this can be anything you want.  For those of you who may not yet know about Squidooing – check them out at www.JanelleElms.com/squidoo.  We are finding eBayers, especially Store owners, are starting to get insane traffic coming in from Squidoo if their lenses are set up right.  (and it’s free!)

2.  Here are some tips on things you may want to include in your lens:

Title – the words ‘eBay Store Success Video’

One of your Text Boxes – include a link to www.StoresCoach.com and include the following text: 99% of eBay Stores are set up wrong, learn how to be that 1%.

eBay Module – add item # 170121599190 and/or # 170107942131

Tags – include the tags, ‘eBay Stores Success Video’, Online Success Institute and ‘Janelle Elms’

3.  Publish the lens, or lenses, before Noon, July 12th, 2007 and send the link to info@onlinesuccessinstitute.com.  In your email, please include if you own the complete Stores Success Video yet or not.  Please note – if we receive your entry you will receive a notification.  If you do not receive a notification, please re-email the link.

The OSI team will be picking our top favorites that are the most fabulous, and then sending them out to the OSI audience to vote on – make ‘em good for your chance at winning!!  Winner will be announced the evening of July 14th, 2007

 

To help you create your Squidoo lens, I have arranged the following:

I talked to Seth & Megan (of Squidoo) this week and they LOVED talking to all of you at Live.  They thought your questions were great and couldn’t believe all of the amazing lenses you guys have done.   Megan has agreed to come on the show and do a Webinar for you – teaching you more information about setting up a good, traffic generating, profitable Squidoo lens (& one that could win you a free video or consulting!)  She will be on the show Tuesday, July 10th at Noon pst/3pm est.  Get registered asap at :

www.AskAboutSquidoo.com

Here are additional resources to help you win the contest as well:

 

- Squidoo ‘how to’ book: www.janelleelms.com/squidoobook

- Tips from top lensmasters: http://squidu.com/profiles/hot-traffic-tips

- Free Squidoo Traffic Book: http://www.squidoo.com/pages/freetrafficebook.pdf

 

Good luck to everyone!  I can’t wait to see my lensmasters in actions!!

 

Don’t have your eBay Stores Success Video yet?  What are you waiting for?

 

Learn how to set up your eBay Store the Right Way and take control of your niche!

 

Powerful step by step video by Ebay University Lead Instructor and Best-Selling eBay Author, Janelle Elms will show you:

 

- How to set up your eBay Store from start to finish

- Tricks to reduce your workload

- Generate traffic from major search engines

- Develop new marketing outlets to drive even more buyers to your store

- Create a professional brand that instills trust and closes sales.

 

Order the Stores Success Video – www.StoresCoach.com before July 15th, 2007 and enjoy 3 in-depth online training classes hosted by Janelle Elms! A $697 value absolutely FREE!

 

eBay Education Specialist Awards Announced

Espaward2Members of OSI – SO proud of you guys!

 

From Sharon Guldner of eBay University Education…

 

“As you know, this is the first annual awards celebration – which we announced via email and in the April newsletter.  There are 3 categories:

  • Most Positive Feedback for 12 months ending April 30, 2007
  • Most Complete Classes for 12 months ending April 30, 2007
  • And the only Award that required votes from your peers, Most Helpful

The Education Specialist Excellence award for Most Positive feedback goes to Kevin Boyd.  Kevin received a whopping 260 positive feedback points in the 12 months ended April 30, 2007.  He has 450 total!

 

Although Kevin has been to 3 eBay Lives in the past, he couldn’t make it this year because of a great teaching opportunity.  Kevin was offered the opportunity to teach eBay to over 100 high school teachers at a teacher’s convention this week.   

 

Kevin is from Snoqualmie, Washington and currently teaches eBay classes at an incredible array of community colleges.  Just to name a few in the directory:  Green River, Bellevue and Everett and he also teaches in community centers and parks & recreation facilities.

 

Congratulations Kevin on an amazing year!

 

Ok, the winner for most completed classes for the 12 months ended April 30, 2007 also could not be here but I know a lot of you remember her from last year.   

 

As you may recall, you qualify for a completed class if you enter the class in the PowerU system, order at least one package of books for the class, do a post-event class report and have at least one student evaluation from that class.

 

The winner is Donna Bond with 21 complete classes.  She couldn’t make it this year because she is moving this month, but she certainly deserves our congratulations on a stellar year. 

 

During the period of 5/1/06 – 4/30/07 Donna had 21 Classes with Post-Event Reports, at least 1 student evaluation and a corresponding book order.  She ordered 135 Books during this time.

 

Donna is from Murfreesboro TN and currently teaches Selling Basics and Beyond the Basics at the Quality Inn.

 

Joyce Banbury won the other award “Most Helpful”.  Joyce, or Danse as she is well-known on the boards, has always been a huge supporter of my business and SO deserves this award!

 

Congrats to all of you!!

eBay Stores, PowerSellers and Sourcing questions answered

Hi ,

Hope you had a fabulous weekend.  Mariner’s game on Friday, roller derby on Saturday for me.  Today I get to do the write up about our amazing line-up this coming week – eBay Stores, PowerSellers, and Sourcing, 3 super hot topics.  I LOVE our great guests for OSI…check them out below. 

 

Look for a big announcement soon about an incredible eBay Store Promotion!

 

It was incredible to me, and not in a good way, how many PowerSellers (some of the top PowerSellers) I met at Live who didn’t yet own their business name’s URL/domain – wow!

GoDaddy is having an amazing promotion right now – use this link:

www.JanelleElms.com/godaddy to get .com domain names for $6.95!!

Use this for:

- Buying your redirect to get 75% off your final value fees from eBay

- Buying your business name so your competition doesn’t

- Buying the misspellings of your business name so your competition doesn’t

- Buying variations of your business name for expanding in the future

 

Even if you aren’t ready to use these domains, it can’t hurt (especially at $6.95 a year) to buy these up now. 

 

If your business name (& probably eBay User ID) was Pink Poodle Pinstripes, then I would start by buying:

www.PinkPoodlePinstripes.com

www.PinkPoodlePinstripe.com

www.PinkPodlePinstripes.com

www.PinkPodlePinstripe.com

www.PinkPoodlePinstripesStore.com

www.BluePoodlePinstripes.com

etc…

I probably own now over 200 domains name, yet am only ‘using’ about 20 of them.  The rest are redirects to get people to a main page in case they mistype something.  i.e. www.OnlineSuccesInstitute.com redirects into www.OnlineSuccessInstitute.com

Get your domains now before the prices go back up!    Its great insurance for your business at only $6.95 - www.JanelleElms.com/godaddy

 

 

Here is our fabulous line-up for the coming week:

 

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007 at Noon pst/3pm est

 

Anthony of ProImpulse – Profitable eBay Store Design

 

A lot of internet sellers have realized the potential of Custom eBay Stores and eBay Auctions. Many people that contact ProImpulse want to set up an eBay store because it’s easy to use but did you know that having your own Branded Website, eBay Store and eBay Auction templates is just as easy to use and over time will earn more money for you? 

Join Anthony of ProImpulse as he shows you some of the profitable areas of eBay Store design.

 

To register for this incredible webinar and ask Your Success question for Anthony:  Go to: www.AskProImpulse.com

Date/Time: Tuesday, June 26th, 2007 at Noon pst/3pm est

Don’t Forget: You can learn more about creating a profitable eBay Store at www.ProImpulse.com

 

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007 at 3pm pst/6pm est

 

PowerSeller Success Interview with Tim Chapman –

Gold PowerSeller

Of Mr. Customer Service

 

Join the very popular PowerSeller Success Series and hear the secrets of the Top Sellers on eBay. 

 

What a fabulous treat we have this week…Join PowerSeller Tim as he shares how he left his job of 14 years to sell full-time on eBay and how he achieved PowerSeller status.

 

To register for this incredible call and ask your question for Tim:

Go to: www.AskThePowersellers.com - remember if you don’t have a question, you can put ‘I Choose Success’ in the box as well!

Date/Time: Wednesday, June 27th, 2007 at 3pm pst/6pm est

Don’t Forget: You can check out Sylvain’s eBay Store at: www.janelleelms.com/service

 

Thursday, June 28th, 2007 at Noon pst/3pm est

 

What to Sell on eBay & Where to Find it

Join Rob Cowie of WorldWideBrands

 

Most often asked question – “What do I sell on eBay?” will be answered this Thursday with our guest, Rob Cowie of WorldWideBrands.  For those of you who may not yet know about this incredible company, One Source is the most powerful sourcing tool you could ever own. 

Please join us during this exciting Webinar as Rob shows you right on your computer (in the comfort of your own home!) how to use their powerful tool, One Source.  One Source allows you to find what the buyers are looking for, then provides you the liquidators, wholesalers, importers, and drop-shippers to fulfill that profitable need.

 

To register for this incredible webinar and ask your question for Rob:  Go to: www.Ask1Source.com

Date/Time: Thursday, June 28th, 2007 at Noon pst/3pm est

Don’t Forget: To learn more about WorldWideBrand’s powerful Sourcing tool OneSource (AND get $50 off for OSI students), go to: www.JanelleElms.com/50off

 

Blessings for a fabulous week,

Janelle

Interesting Observation concerning eBay and Second Life…

Second life logoNot sure what this means quite yet…but wanted to give you a heads up.

An island on Second Life has been spotted with the name ‘eBay’.  It is not developed and you can’t teleport to it yet.  But…

Some additional observations:

  • eBay founder Pierre Omidyar’s investing group has invested in Second Life
  • There are over 7.4 million users currently on Second Life with an additional 28,000 new residents showing up daily
  • Over $1.6 million is spent daily in Second Life
  • and I’m thinking that you now need to be thinking about the possibility of opening a virtual store on Second Life’s eBay Island!

In the ‘Leave a Comment’ section…

  • Are you on Second Life?
  • Do you make money in Second Life?
  • Would you participate on eBay Island if it was about e-commerce?
  • or ‘d’…What the heck is Second Life?

 

eBay PowerSeller Success Interview with FastBackStack

FBS Website Image 2We are still getting rave reviews from today’s PowerSeller Success Interview with FastBackStack owners Lee & Rhonda Walmsley.

Selling on eBay since 2005, these fast-rising PowerSellers are true rockstars with their powerful website, profitable eBay Store, and the desire to share their secrets with all of you.

Listen below to the podcast as they share:

  • Their top profitable marketing channels
  • What tools they use to automate their business (& balance their businesses and family!)
  • The one tip they would give someone who wanted to achieve online success
  • and more…

Websites that FastBackStack mentioned:

Terapeak – used for research (30 day FREE trial)

MeepWorks – eBay Store Designer

eBay Store Success Video – for setting up their eBay Store

ISDNTEK – ClicPic for image galleries and many more eBay Tools

Turbo Lister – eBay Listing Tool

Selling Manager Pro – communication and inventory management

Rhonda’s poem:

Believe in Yourself

Set your standards high

You deserve the best.

Try for what you want

And never settle for less.

Believe in yourself

No matter what you choose.

Keep a winning attitude

And you can never lose.

Think about your destination

But don’t worry if you stray

Because the most important thing

Is what you’ve learned along the way.

Take all that you’ve become

To be all that you can be.

Soar above the clouds

And let your dreams set you free.

–Jillian K. Hunt

From Chicken Soup for the Kid’s Soul

 

to listen to this podcast click here

eBay Live recap by PowerSelling Mom

Danna and megA great recap of the very eventful eBay Live 2007 Boston from the eyes and mouth of a first-timer.

Danna of PowerSelling Mom, shared the details of her trip to Boston, eBay Education Specialist training, the classes, networking, nighttime activities, and the Gala with Kool and the Gang.

Listen to the podcast below to catch up on all the fun and festivities!

to listen to this podcast click here

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