Share the Success with friends – forward this onto them or tell them to get their own copy at www.TheBusinessSuccessKit.com

Remember, you can read previous Success newsletters in the OSI Rock Star newsletter archives at http://osirockstars.com/?cat=5

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
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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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