I guess many people have heard the saying “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear”. I for one can tell you that is true. All through my business and personal life, when I am ready for that next step or to have a push the right person always turns up. In my eBay and ecommerce business the same is very true. The right sites always turn up, a newsletter pops in my inbox or through the door.

Over the last few years a few “Teachers” have come into my life that have changed the way I think and look at my business and how I work my business. Today I want to tell you about one of these people. Her name is Janelle Elms.

Janelle is one of those people who can teach and really move you and your business to the next level, but also at the same time have loads of fun. Janelle can tell you off, and you never feel told off, you learn from the mistakes you make and in her own way Janelle shows you how and where you have gone wrong. Janelle Elms has toured with eBay University, appeared on many radio shows to talk about her passion of eBay and ecommerce.

Janelle’s latest project is OSI Rock Stars this is a membership site where people have a forum and they can ask questions and answer questions. This forum is broken down into different sections so it is easy to find and place questions and answers. The main other section is the education section. Here janelle and her team have well over 450 hours (yes 450 hours) of teachings that go from basic how to to complex teaching. But Janelle can make the most difficult subjects easy to understand.

One thing that makes OSI Rock Stars stand out is Janelle and her teach she uses to help her teach the subjects walk the talk. They are daily using the systems and sites they talk about, they are active in the business. This makes a massive difference and you can see and hear it when they teach.

For a long time I resisted buying an iphone, even when I had the chance last year when I was due to upgrade my phone. They looked good, did fun things, and to me they were just a very good gimmick, so I had a normal phone and my ipod. When my ipod died I bought an ipod touch, my life was about to change.  

The Ipod touch did cool things and so did the apps you could down load. Three weeks ago I treated myself to an iphone, my life has changed. I can check my emails on the go, check my calanders, do twitters and facebook, take pictures and video and loads more. But it is these Apps that have changed my life. I can now check my eBay accounts on the go, check PayPal on the go.

When I am product sourcing I can just scan a bar code and it brings back the pricing information so I can see if there is a profit to be made. WOW. I can say hand on heart that the IPhone has given me an extra 2 hours a week, yes honest 2 extra hours.
So if you are looking for a new phone and are in Internet marketing then the iphone is a real must for you and your business.

There is that saying “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear”. Now for many they think this just applies to school, college and university work. But I can tell you it applies to all areas of ones life and it applies to ones business life as well.

As your business grows you will often find that people and the right people will come into your life that have that knowledge that you to feed off to take your business to the next level.

For me one of these people is Janelle Elms. Janelle came into my life a few years ago now and has helped me take my eBay and other online business ideas and concepts to the next level.

Janelle has a heart to see everyone she comes into contact with excel in all areas of their lives. Janelle Elms is the founder of OSI Rock Stars, and this membership site has well over 450 hours of online video and podcasts teaching you how to make a living from ecommerce. All the people who teach the classes are walking the talk, they are eating and sleeping eBay and ecommerce.

Most weeks there are new live classes that you can listen and join in on and if you miss them they are soon added to the growing library.

Yes this site does cost money, but there are several packages that you can join from monthly to yearly.

Yes there will be homework, which you have to do.

Yes at times Janelle may tell you off, or tell you not to do something in a certain way, but she will only do this for your own good, as she wants to see you prosper.

To find out more pop on over to OSI Rock Stars and begin your journey of success.

You can have the best products online, You can write the best headlines, but if you have not got your eBay Marketing sorted out, your sales will not be as good as expected.

Over the years there have been many books, videos telling you how to market on eBay, now I am going to be honest some were good, some very good and other pretty bad. But most of them were Ok, but they came with a high price tag.

Also there was another big problem with………………………… they were written by people who knew Marketing, that is Ok, but a lot did not know eBay, and they just wrote about the marketing angle. That is Ok is you know eBay, but if you are a brand new person and you had to work out how to apply what you had just read to help your eBay Marketing you were stuck big time.

But there is a new book out, it is around 300 pages long and talks all about how to market your store and products on eBay. And the very good news is the fact that this book all about eBay marketing has been written by two people who know eBay back to front, they have bought and sold on eBay and they have a super vast knowledge of how to Market on eBay.

Terapeak

If you have been selling online for just a day or a few years, and use eBay as your main selling platform, I guess you have asked yourself how can I find out if that product sells well or not. Well the answer is Terapeak.

Terapeak is a third party service that is allowed access to the eBay database, and you can do searches on products for the last 90 days.

But that is only a tiny fraction of what Terapeak can do for you and your business, to learn more about this great company you can watch a Terapeak eBay Research Demo, this video will show you a step by step way of using Terapeak.
Some of the cool things that Terapeak does :

You can search on products back 90 days
You can search on sellers to see what has sold and what has not sold
You can see the best time to list, and the best time to finish an auction
You can see the sell through rate, this helps you see if a product is worth selling.
You can see data on Hot items, keywords, Hot Titles
And the list goes on and on.

Now you can just buy access to your own country, or you can buy a package that covers all the main eBay selling platforms that allow access to Terapeak.

Can I suggest that you do take some time out and Watch a Terapeak eBay Research Demo and learn how this cool tool can help you make more profit on eBay.

Nikon Coolpix L20 10MP Camera

Well today is Thursday and my regular readers know Thursday is Product Review Day, and today I am going to review a cool Camera the Nikon CoolPix L20 10MP.

This Camera is a must have tool for any eBay seller or online seller.

This is a professional camera capable of crystal clear prints worthy of publication or gallery display, up to 16×20.

And it is incredibly inexpensive for a camera of such value.

Ok, so its 3.6 optical zoom won’t pick sand off an eagle’s beak at a thousand yards. Okay, so it won’t blow up to billboard size without loss of definition. In the real world however and everyday use this is a fine and professional level camera that will do a far better job than you expected. Better than a cell-phone.  And for any online seller it will do a great shop and your online shop pictures will stand out.

The camera has a generous three inch LCD screen which means you do not have to hold it to your face. There is no optical viewfinder in any case.

Product Review –

eBay Confidential

Well today is Thursday and that means it is Product Review Day. Today I have chosen a monthly hard copy newsletter called eBay Confidential , yes this does come each month to you in the post (plus you get regular email updates as well).

eBay Confidential is written by Avril Harper as the main writer and she has several guest writers who help her each month.

Some of the other writers Avril has helping here in eBay Confidential are :
Alison Whitehead
Oliver Goehler
Mark hempshell

eBay Confidential is published by Nick Laight of Canonbury Publishing, so you well looked after, and as people know Nick never ever puts out rubbish items.

Each month you get an action packed newsletter, full of useful content that you can put to work straight away in your eBay business and begin to see the results straight away. You often get suppliers, wholesalers and other methods of selling items online.

The normal selling price of eBay Confidential is £79.00 but if you order within the next few days you can get it for only £37.00. This is an offer not to be missed so click on the eBay Confidential   and start to see your eBay buisness grow.

Product Review – GoDaddy

Well it is Thursday and regular readers know that Thursday is Product Review day. Now today I am not going to review a product as such but more a company.

GoDaddy is the worlds leading domain registrars, and they host well over 36 million domain names and know offer other products such as SSL, Web hosting, and following on from the GoDaddy concept most items are 70% cheaper than other companies, but do not worry just because they are cheap they offer a great service.

GoDaddy offers a 24/7 customer service and the few times I have had to call them they have been very helpful and will not let you leave the call until they are sure the problem is sorted and you are happy, this is fantastic.

Another thing with GoDaddy is you can buy .com names for under $8.00 and if you can find discount codes this becomes much cheaper.

Are there any draw backs to GoDaddy, well there is one, their names are so cheap you can buy them to just try out a new idea or project.

Join OSI Rock Stars Today

Well it is Review Thursday and I am going back to a program I have review before. Why ? Well OSI Rock Stars is as far as I know one of the best e-c0mmerce training programs there is out there, and I have been part of it is before time began.
And I believe in being honest with my readers and I joined OSI Rock Stars when it was in beta testing and as a thank you was given some free months.

Now I am in business and ok it was free and offered great content, the day came when I had to start paying, big make up your mind time, do I cancel…………………………  NO WAY the training that I had , had and am still getting is worth every penny, and I paid the second I had the email from Janelle Elms.

Another reason why I am telling you again about this program is that Janelle is about to put the prices up on the 3rd August 2009. So if you want to get in at the cheaper rate waste no time click on the banner below.

At present you will be paying :

$15 a week ~ Only offered for a limited time ~ Your membership price will never go up as long as you continue to be a Rock Star!

$49.00 per month ~ Normally $59 retail ~ save $10 a month ~ For those who want to check out the Success Tour Bus

$365 a year ($1 a day!) ~ Normally $708 ~ save $343

So what do you get ? :

OSI Rock Stars is broken down into three areas : Newsletter, Forum, Education.

Each week you get your newsletter with a recap of the last week along with any news from the selling platforms, and then up and coming classes. (A point here OSI Rock Stars covers all the main selling platforms)

After the newsletter comes the Forum, here you will find main forums and within each forum you will find many threads, as the rock stars are spread all over the world, you can ask a question and very soon you start to see answers coming in, and of course if you know the answer to a question, just pop in and give your thoughts and ideas.

Then you have the Education section, here you will find well over 400 hours of webinars and podcasts that Janelle and her team have done and many new ones are added each week.
What makes OSI Rock Stars very special is that all the classes done, are done by people who walk the talk, they are doing what they teach on a daily basis.

All in OSI Rock Stars is very good value for money and it still will be when the price goes up……… but why wait for then get in now and be grand fathered in today.