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Quick Success Links – Jay Berkowitz 10 Golden Rules, WSRadio, and Marketing with Marcus

·        THE Jay Berkowitz of Ten Golden Rules just posted the amazing podcast we did with him - check it out at http://podcast.tengoldenrules.com

·        My interview with Griff about how our Rock Stars are creating Success during our economy - http://wsradio.com/internet-talk-radio.cfm/shows/eBay-Radio/archives/date/selected/07-08-2008.html

·        Bryan of Flightline Fabrications interview with Griff on working with a partner in business – http://www.wsradio.com/internet-talk-radio.cfm/shows/eBay-Radio-PowerSeller-Show/archives/date/selected/07-15-2008.html

·        My webmaster, Marcus, just put up a page of marketing tips – brilliant idea – check out how he is providing you with content, while promoting his own business as well: http://webmaster4hire.biz/category/tips-tricks/

·        16-29^th of July – only a quarter to list fixed priced items - http://www2.ebay.com/aw/core/200807.shtml#2008-07-15164737

·        I use this site to give my clients an initial baseline of how they are doing - How well does your website rank for SEO, social networking and with Google?  Free report at http://www.WebsiteGrader.com

·        See our Rob and Colette of Worldwide Brands like you’ve never sent them before – LOL…no words can describe this.  (See how many Rock Stars you can spy?)  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91UIB0UQorc - Mindy the PowerSeller at eBay Live! 2008

Weekly Wealth Tip

Just received Jamie’s eBay Store’s newsletter.  Jamie is one of our amazing Rock Stars, Stage Manager for the Motivational forum and owner of DreamBuilderCds .  Jamie’s newsletters are one of the things I look forward to each week…always so inspirational, and today’s was no exception.  If you would like to get on his great newsletter list, sign up at: http://stores.ebay.com/Money-Maker-Business-Opportunities

Thanks Jamie!

Weekly Wealth Tip

“Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings.  How tall will a tree grow?  As tall as it possibly can.  Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice.  You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less.  Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do?”

from Jim Rohn 

Update on Janieruth

Thank you so much for your incredible outpouring of generosity, get well wishes, and ‘above and beyond’ help as we continue to support our Rock Star Janieruth and her family during her lengthy successful recovery from a very serious fall she took at eBay Live.  Your financial contributions, notes on the boards, care packages, and prayers have been amazing and her family has been overwhelmed at the outpouring.  You guys truly do Rock.  Yes, our Success is important – but so is taking care of each other.  I am SO proud of how well you all do this.  I recently updated the ‘Fabulous Janieruth’ page – you can check it out (and donate if you would like – we are at 79% of our goal) at: http://janieruth.chipin.com/janieruths-fabulous-fund

New Classes for this week…

Hey…get registered ASAP for this week’s classes. All OSI Live classes are fr-ee to attend and instructions are included during the registration process for both the podcasts and the webinars. Remember, you can either ask a question for our special guest or simply put “I Choose Success” in the question box.

7/24/08, Thursday at Noon pst/3pm est – Meet the Rock Star – Linda of Lady Linda’s Loft – An amazing woman with incredible faith in all the challenges that life has thrown her.  Come learn about how she overcame those challenges using eBay and her determination.  Save your spot at by going to www.osiRockStars.com and scrolling to the bottom of the homepage for registration information.

Coming Up:

29^th – A Rock Star exclusive training – “Don’t leave money on the table – how to utilize eBay’s affiliate program in your marketing”

30^th –  Meet the Rock Star – The amazing Sharon Ware of www.DandelionConsulting.com

31^st -  Capitalize on your affiliate training - Learn about Building a Niche Store (BANS) with our very own Rock Star Jamie of www.DreamBuilderCDS.com

You can find out more about these classes, as well as register at: www.osiRockStars.com (scroll to the bottom of that webpage for upcoming classes, details and registration information).

eBay Announcements

Yep, profits increased for Q2…for details you can read the press release here - http://www.internetnews.com/ec-news/article.php/3759451/eBay+Q2+Profits+Up+22+Percent.htm .  But the thing I found most interesting was that, once again, the % of successful fixed priced listings went up.  Buyer demand is changing.  In the last year alone, fixed priced listings (that successfully ended) went up by 10% - that’s some big jumps over traditional auction styles.  Could this be where the increased numbers for Amazon are coming from?  Etsy?  Other fixed priced venues?  I am already working on adding more Amazon and Etsy How To classes to the OSI Rock Star site because of these new numbers.

 

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Final 24 hours…

HUGE congrats and welcome to all of our new Rock Stars.  We are SO excited to have you Backstage with us on your Tour of Success.  Here are just a couple of the comments from the ‘new kids’ we have already received:

Marc of www.Alteregocomics.com (great website – cool stuff!!) in reference to our Facebook 101 class:

“Just joined OSI Rockstars and this was the first class on my list to check out.  I do have a Facebook page, and a page for my business, setup, but I’m not doing much with them.  This class has given me a lot of information that should help me improve my Facebook presence and I can’t wait to get started!”

Judy of http://www.jjm-marketing.com:

“I am a brand new Rock Star and really excited about it! I have sooooo much to learn from y’all - yes, I’m from the South :)). I just finished listening to Facebook 101 and it was great! But, I’ve got so much to learn - I have no idea of what a twitter is, I don’t know about Squidoo, etc. So, I’ve got a lot to do - I’m so glad that I found my way here!
Have a great day!”

And probably one of my favorites is from Edith who deals in Stampin Up products:

“I am new to the site today. Janelle’s class was my first class at eBay live in Chicago. I didn’t know what it meant but I knew I wanted to be a Rock Star!”

We LOVE that kind of Success attitude and know that these amazing new Rock Stars are going to fit in fabulously with our incredible group of Success-minded entrepreneurs.  Welcome to the site!!

Once you join OSI Rock Stars you get…

To become part of our family -  a diverse group of members from ‘new kids’ to top PowerSellers – and training that will help everyone become more Successful and Profitable.

Here are some of the features of the site:

·        Over 200 hours of Success content - topics range from setting up your eBay Store for more profit to search engine optimization to taxes & legal issues to advanced marketing online.  Janelle’s vast network of guests include Seth Godin, Cliff Ennico, Reiva Lesonsky, Catherine Seda, Griff, and many more notables in the eBay and ecommerce world.  Special representatives from top companies with topics include Researching for Profit with Terapeak, Sourcing profitable products with WorldWideBrands, Advanced utilization of eBay Stores as well as many other tools that will increase your success (including a special quarterly class taught by the eBay Stores team)

·        Exclusive Success Training – monthly you will have a rare all access VIP pass to Live training including: Q&A with Janelle, Success profit coaching with the Auction Listing Coach, and in-depth training on Success subjects (Janelle just finished a 4-hour training on Profitable Keywords that increased participants profits on eBay by as much as 120%)

·        Community – a unique, supportive community of like-minded Success entrepreneurs who are incredibly active on the site, forums and co-promoting each others business.

There are many other features including 24/7 access to education, over 10 hours of additional content being added monthly (usually it’s around 16-20), marketing for your business due to the high seo rankings that OSI Rock Stars has achieved, and more.  But I think your decision shouldn’t be made from just the features of the site, but rather what others have achieved from being members.  You can find this information at:

·        Rock Stars Tell All - http://osirockstars.com/?cat=241

·        Here is a specific quote from a PowerSeller couple having to do with exact Success numbers: http://osirockstars.com/?p=202

·        From another PowerSeller - http://www.squidoo.com/osirockstars/

·        And another one - http://www.squidoo.com/osirockstar/

·        And a bit from another PowerSeller about my desire to see you succeed - http://www.squidoo.com/janelle-elms-rocks

Finding Classes on Rock Stars

The #1 question we get here at Rock Stars is ‘there is SO much information on Rock Stars, where do I start?’  Great question and I love hearing it – but I also don’t want you to be frustrated with ‘analysis paralysis’.  So we have created a video series that includes 5 short videos to help you jumpstart your Tour of Success even faster!  This answers your questions about which classes to start with, how to find class on a certain topic, downloading the classes, utilizing the powerful seo features of the site, participating with the other member, getting your special Rock Star benefits and much more.  My goal was to help you utilize all of the powerful areas of this site to build your business and profits faster! 

Here are a few of our other popular classes on the site to help get you started:

·        Want to learn how the Rock Stars are getting 5-15-20% back from eBay by raising their DSR’s?

eBay Fee and Site Changes for 2008 - http://osirockstars.com/?p=371

How to calculate your new eBay Fees - http://osirockstars.com/?p=377

Detailed Seller Rating Training (DSR’s) - http://osirockstars.com/?p=381

Best sourcing practices for the new eBay fee and site changes - http://osirockstars.com/?p=380

Using research to lower your eBay Fees - http://osirockstars.com/?p=393

Taking advantage of a PowerSeller status on eBay - http://osirockstars.com/?p=405

·        Want to know how to find the ‘money words’ that your buyers are using to find YOUR products?

Profitable Keyword Training – Part 1 - http://osirockstars.com/?p=260

Profitable Keyword Training - Part 2 - http://osirockstars.com/?p=301

Profitable Keyword Training – Q&A - http://osirockstars.com/?p=431

·        Want to know how to use one of the most powerful SEO tools on the web? (This one tool alone has bumped our Rock Stars up to the first page of Google for their products!)

Then head over to www.osiRockStars.com today and join us to learn this and over 200 hours of Success ideas, processes, experts and more.

You can definitely be wildly successful on eBay and other online sales channels – but it will require you to quit making other people rich and start working at making YOU rich!  At OSI Rock Stars we make every effort to make the education part as easy and understandable as possible…so you can get to the making money part much faster.  Our online education is available 24/7 and contains over 200 hours of training on ALL of these subjects.  In fact, tomorrow we have a 2-hour exclusive Live coaching session where our Rock Stars get to ask me anything about their business to make them even MORE successful.  Plus an exclusive ‘Using Affiliate Programs so you don’t leave money on the table’ class at the end of the month – another exclusive for Rock Stars.

• Are you ready to start making YOU rich instead of others?
• Are you ready to quit playing at this and really be Successful?
• Is TODAY the day you start making some real money at running your online business?

Then make the decision to change your path to one of Success today and come join us Backstage at OSI Rock Stars on your Tour of Success!

If you join before July 15^th, you will receive:

• Free Tour of Success Quick Start Video Coaching Series
• eBay 101/102 Success CD set (this is a $49.99 bonus!!)

We look forward to having you join our amazing Successful family of online sellers today – www.osiRockStars.com  (Plus, I just sat down with two of my top trusted advisors and we came up with an incredible, very limited opportunity (we are only accepting 10 people into the program) for you to skyrocket your Success come this Fall…you’ll have to watch the newsletter for details!)

With blessings for your Success,

Janelle

Update on Janieruth

Thank you so much for your incredible outpouring of generosity, get well wishes, and ‘above and beyond’ help as we continue to support our Rock Star Janieruth and her family during her lengthy successful recovery from a very serious fall she took at eBay Live.  Your financial contributions, notes on the boards, care packages, and prayers have been amazing and her family has been overwhelmed at the outpouring.  You guys truly do Rock.  Yes, our Success is important – but so is taking care of each other.  I am SO proud of how well you all do this.  I recently updated the ‘Fabulous Janieruth’ page – you can check it out at: http://janieruth.chipin.com/janieruths-fabulous-fund

Response to Saturday’s Newsletter about “If not now, when will you Choose Success”

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- George Bernard Shaw

What a wonderful and overwhelming response to the ‘If not now, when’ newsletter over the weekend.  (In case you missed it, you can read the archive here: http://osirockstars.com/?p=588).   I love how you are choosing Success and creating your path of wealth.  Most importantly, I am very impressed how you are creating your own reality and not accepting anyone else’s. 

As many of you know the Pastor of my Church is also an entrepreneurial coach, so each Sunday I always feel like I get two messages for the price of one!  And interestingly enough, Pastor/Coach Mike was talking about exactly this same topic the day after the newsletter came out.  He spoke of ‘Sheeple People’ who allow somebody else’s definition of them to become a reality and sidetrack them from being who they are supposed to be.  He talked about how you will never be fulfilled or know who you are (much less what you can do) if you accept what others say you are.  He went on to provide 3 steps that would help you focus on who YOU really are:

1.  Purpose defeats wickedness and plans laid against you.  If you have chosen to be a ‘sheeple people’ and are blindly follow the voice of someone else, then you/your business can just as easily be swayed by others since you are not thinking/deciding from your own heart.  For those of you who know me I call this the ‘post-it’ note idea.  That your friends, family, church, school, advertising, etc have all attached to you post-it notes of how they view you or want you to be.  Until you remove those post-it notes and think purely from your head and heart, your answers/decisions will never be 100% yours.

2.  Focus on the author (who are you) – big picture thinking will always give you endurance.  I am currently re-reading ‘Think and Grow Rich’ by Napoleon Hill who speaks of this same idea.  If you are not passionate about what you want, if you can’t see the full picture of your vision, if you are SO caught up in the daily inertia/to do lists – then your dream will never become a reality.  I love this ‘6-steps to accomplishing your goal’ page.

3.  Hold to God’s definition of who you are – this is kind of a big one since God thinks we rock, but we can never quite grasp just how fabulous he thinks we are.  I struggle with this one a lot…but I do try to keep focused on what my purpose on earth is and how that is unique to everyone else’s purpose.  Doesn’t make mine better or worse – just unique.  And…just because my competition’s grass looks greener sometimes, does NOT mean that I veer off of my well laid plans to ‘try’ what they are doing – lol.  Staying true to myself is crucial to my success.

I also got this great email from our Rock Star Dany who offers another version of the same idea…(thanks Dany for sharing this!!)

Assuming you weren’t just hypothetically asking why 2 people in the same situation respond differently to a situation - have you ever considered what psychologists call “Learned Helplessness”? If you haven’t read much about it, here’s a decent, short introduction:

http://www.unfetteredmind.com/articles/helplessness.php

Take or leave the Buddhist stuff as you will…
–
Dany Byrne
–
Elegant Ebooks
The Multi-Media Course for Creating Best Sellers
http://elegantebooks.ghostleg.com

If you would like to read more about Choosing Success, I have written a newsletter called “Are you a Wantrepreneur?”  You can read the archive version at http://osirockstars.com/?p=477 .

Your insurance broker can save your eBay business - by Cliff Ennico

Our favorite lawyer and legal eBay guy has just posted another column at: http://osirockstars.com/?p=591

This week’s classes

New Classes for this week…

Hey…get registered ASAP for this week’s classes. All OSI Live classes are fr-ee to attend and instructions are included during the registration process for both the podcasts and the webinars. Remember, you can either ask a question for our special guest or simply put “I Choose Success” in the question box.

7/15/08, Tuesday at Noon pst/3pm est – A Rock Star Exclusive – Success Answers with Janelle

LIVE - for 2 hours - answering all of YOUR questions.  
Want me to take a look at your eBay Store?
Have a new business idea that you need advice on?
Questions about sourcing, research, marketing?
I’ll be answering these Live during the show.  First come, first served!!  Get your questions in by July 13^th in the registration box.

Get registered to be on this call at: http://osirockstars.com/topic.php?id=517&replies=1

7/16/08, Wednesday at Noon pst/3pm est – Meet the Rock Star – Grannie Annie of Little Grass Shack

I always knew that Ann of Grannie Annie’s was a success-minded entrepreneur – but I had no idea just how brilliant her thoughts on Success were until I met her in person at eBay Live.  I love her straight forward no holds barred approach on how to achieve that Success.  BONUS:  Learn how she was busted for solicitation at Live!!  LOL

Save your spot on this call by following registration instructions below.

Check out her fabulous eBay Store at Grannie Annie’s Little Grass Shack

7/17/08, Thursday at Noon pst/3pm est – Sourcing at Trade Shows with Colette of Worldwide Brands

Worldwide Brands sends their people out to Trade Shows constantly to evaluate new companies/manufacturers/liquidators to add to their powerful sourcing database.  Join Colette Marshall, marketing director of Worldwide Brands as she answers questions about the process they use (and you can too) to find legitimate inventory for your business.

Save your seat on this call by following registration instructions below.

Learn more about Profitable Sourcing at Worldwide Brands

You can find out more about these classes, as well as register at: www.osiRockStars.com (scroll to the bottom of that webpage for upcoming classes, details and registration information).

 

If sales on eBay determined the election results – nice job Terapeak…cracked me up!

http://www.terapeak.com/election/ - not to mention a brilliant viral marketing campaign that is getting picked up in the mass media…very impressed! 

 
 

 eBay Stores issue – not all seller’s affected

I just posted this on the Rock Star discussion boards – wanted to share with all of you:

As some of you know, the listing frame in ’some’ eBay Store owners listings is missing components (like the header and/or left hand navigation bar). I spoke to eBay who said the following:

There is a system error that is causing some eBay Store set-ups to change from ’show my listing frame’ to ‘not show’. This is causing further confusion since in some eBay Stores this error has completely removed the header and the left hand nav bar, whereas with some eBay Stores the header and/or left hand nag is still visible even though in the Store Dashboard it is set to ‘not show’. eBay said that they are trying to find the error in their massive code and are further frustrated since it is not effecting all Stores. (boy, can I understand that - even with our site things ‘pop out’ of the code without any reason and we end up being a full-time code detective - can’t imagine doing that with eBay’s gigantic code.) Upon further questioning if eBay is doing any ‘buyer experience’ testing behind the scenes that is causing this to happen, the person I spoke with said that she sees no reason for that to be true. She said that eBay has done extensive testing and found that the Listing Frame is very successful for eBay Store owners in keeping the buyers on the site longer and buying more (which is what eBay wants too). She further stated that since they had already spent quite a bit of time/money testing the listing frame (and with such positive results), she could see no reason at all for them to do further testing. The information she received is that it is a system error. And to speak to that, when I went into my eBay Store to change from ‘no show’ to ’show’ to see if that would fix anything, I received the traditional yellow ‘page not responding’ that is typical when there is a system error.
As I know more I promise to share.  

 

eBay Announcements – feedback, search and linking policy update

A Message from Dinesh Lathi: Update on Specified Shipping and Links Policy - http://www2.ebay.com/aw/core/200807.shtml#2008-07-11145019

A Message from Jeff King: Update on the New Search Experience - http://www2.ebay.com/aw/core/200807.shtml#2008-07-11105112

A Message from Lorrie Norrington: Updates on Feedback - http://www2.ebay.com/aw/core/200807.shtml#2008-07-10113642

 

Blessings,

j

 

 
 

 

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If not now, when?  Change your reality TODAY!

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.
Napoleon Hill

Hi,

Boy – have I missed you.  And sorry to have been away the past week, but I have been doing a lot of thinking about you and your Success and why some people are on that path and others aren’t even close.  (and more importantly what I can do to help you get back on the path to Success if you have been sidetracked).  I have driven all of my mentors crazy this past week with this question, ‘how can two people be given equal opportunities – yet one chooses Success and the other (sometimes by lack of choosing) chooses failure?”  For those of you who know me, you realize that your Success is something I am very passionate about…but I also realize that as much as I want you to be Successful, it is truly your choice, not mine – I can only work hard in creating the most powerful and profitable information to get you to where you want to go.  And that’s hard to accept when I see SO much potential and opportunity surrounding you.  I listened to people who attended eBay Live very carefully and was amazed at how many of them were allowing ‘other people’s reality’ to become their own.  You now have the opportunity for the next 72 hours to change your reality…let me explain…

I attend a business motivational ‘lifegroup’ through my Church.  Similar to a business book club.  Currently we are reading (re-reading) “How to Win Friends and Influence People.”  Great book.  But this week we decided to skip the typical conversation and talk about our businesses (most of us are also entrepreneurs).   And a couple things we talked (& prayed about) really have stuck with me since then:

• If you aren’t getting what you want – you have something(s) blocking your path…and the first place to check on what is blocking you is from within your own heart and mind.  Yep, we can do an incredible amount of damage to our own Success without much effort.  The next place to check is those surrounding you – are they defeating you or raising you up?  This includes not only family and friends, but even the newsletters you choose to read, the discussion boards you interact with and the websites you go to.  (It also includes newspapers, tv, radio etc.)
• Just because someone else chooses a certain ‘reality’ of how their world looks like (ie, recession, bad customers, mad at eBay) does not mean that you have to choose that same reality.  You get to choose anything you want.  It’s your world…your dream…your life to live.  You have been given free will to make it anything you want.  No one should be able to divert that belief inside of you.  You should give no one that kind of power over your life.

So we could have a lot of not-positive reality around us or we could choose to have a very Success-minded lifestyle that includes support and encouragement and positive reinforcements.  This choice of a lifestyle came up recently when I was talking to my friend and trusted advisor “C” who commented that she has clients who are in the real estate field – some are succeeding amazingly well and others are failing horrendously.  I asked her what she thought was the defining difference between these two groups.  She stated that it was how they viewed and adapted to their world and the opportunities they were able to see (or not see) because of it.  She went on to explain that the ones that weren’t succeeding had bought into the panic and fear of the economy and believed that to be their truth…whereas the success-minded group had seen amazing opportunity and had created new ideas for their business and were able to prosper.  Being ever so inquisitive, especially this week, I continued with my questions…So if someone is in that panic/fear mode, how do we help them get out of it?  “C”, being ever so wise said quite simply…’telling them not to panic Janelle won’t work, you need them to cover their panic’.  She advised if you needed to get a part-time job to ‘cover the panic’ in order for your dreams to happen, then go do it.    I asked if people had panic or fear over money, then why in the world were the ‘get rich overnight’ guys still in business and doing amazingly well.  She concluded that during a time of fear it’s even easier to buy into a well-written sales letter or email that seemingly provides that calm to the fear (albeit temporarily).  That is until the credit card bill for $97 or $197 or $2000 comes and they realize that not only hasn’t the product made them any money, but they are in the hole even further and the panic/fear cycle repeats.

If not now, when are you going to choose a success reality?  When you can afford it?  Both of us know that isn’t a true statement.  At least tell me it will be when your priorities change and buying into your reality becomes WAY more important than buying into other people’s realities.  You know someone said to me recently that he hoped to one day afford the luxury of joining OSI Rock Stars.  Since when did ‘get rich overnight’ ideas become a necessity and a tried and true method of Success that had produced amazing profits for our members be a luxury?  Sorry, but that is one screwed up reality.  How much of a guarantee do you need to realize that YOU can be successful?

Brian of Flightline Fabrications was talking to me the other day about he pays $49 a month to be a member of OSI Rock Stars and their company each month completes one or two things more about what we are teaching on Rock Stars and it had increased their sales monthly by $100’s and now $1000’s of dollars.  His only regret is that they didn’t start sooner because ‘we could be so much further along in our success and profits’.  He explains that Rock Stars does all the hard work bringing in to one location all of the experts, support, techniques and business ideas needed to create their Success.  They put in $49 and get out $1000’s each month.  Flightline Fabrications has now seen an increase of 400% in their business by creating their Success-minded reality. 

I am SO very proud of ALL of the Rock Stars, here are just a few of their Success Realities:

• Shooting Star and PowerSeller Jim and Barbara of Grandpas Trading Company received THE 20% eBay refund this month!