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OSI Rock Stars

 

Thursday’s here at My Auction Empires is Product Review Day. Each week on a Thursday I will do a Review on a product that will help people grow and maintain their online business.

My choice this week is OSI Rock Stars. Osi Rock Stars is the baby of Janelle Elms.

OSI Rock Stars is a paid monthly / yearly membership, and for your money you get access to the webinars and podcasts already on the site (well over 350 hours) – these teachings cover aspects such as Blogging, Keywords, Twitter, Newsletters, life outside eBay, interviews with movers and shakers, research and the list goes on and on.
Also there is and will be regular monthly content added to the OSI Rock Star Education Forum. 

Apart from the education area, you have the forum. This again is a very active area, that is broken down into different areas, and each area is run by people who are active in that area.

If you have a pressing question or are stuck, pop along to the forum, post your question and very soon you will have people give you hints and tips. 

For example the other day I did something silly with my blog and could not get it back as it should, so at 10pm UK time I posted an urgent help question, woke up the next morning and there was the answer to my problem sorted.

One thing that makes OSI Rock Stars stand out from the crowd is that all the classes are taught by people who are working the buisness, and they use their everyday knowledge to teach us.

As with any review you finish with any downsides of the plan, course etc, and …………………. I could not find any, and I think I would know as I have been in OSI Rock Stars as a beta tester and moved on from there. I guess the only downside of OSI Rock Stars is the fact that people who join do not take the action they are taught, sadly they are the losers.

Marks out of 10 = Well 10/10. it is well put togther, the content grows on a daily basis with the forum and is good for new people and those who have been selling online a long time. 
 

 

 Keep your eyes peeled each Thursday for the latest on the Products to help you grow your online buisness.

 

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OSI Gets Better

November 2, 2008 No comments

OSI Rock Stars

Can you believe that we are now in November ? The members of OSI RockStars  have and all those who have listened and put into action what Janelle Elms the owner of OSI RockStars and her trusted team of teachers will now being seeing the fruits of their hard work.

The team at OSI Rock Stars have worked long hours doing research and planning the classes and then delivering the classes to the members.

Here below is a brief idea of what you will get when you join OSI RockStars, and each week the amount of teaching grows as Janelle add more and more.

over 250 hours of Success education

 

      more than 7 dozen special guests

 

     exclusive Rock Star classes including Profitable keywords, the Blogging series, Ask Janelle, DYWMMON (Do You Want My Money or Not?), and more

     36 forums with over 700 topics AND over 6200 posts in those topics!  What an incredible community!

  extensive marketing and exposure for your businesses including additional traffic, higher search engine rankings, tv/radio/magazine exposure

 

      business profits have increased by an average of 124% – but with many of you blowing that figure out of the water

 

 introduced you to many new tools and marketing opportunities including Yodio, Deal4It, Twitter, Knol,

 

  Kept you on top of all of the numerous eBay changes that occurred in the last year

 

    kept our promise to open up new sales channels in your business by having classes on Etsy, Amazon, websites, etc

 

   Got you exclusives for trials, beta testing, special pricing and information before anyone else got to see/know/play with it!

So come on, what are you waiting for ? Click here and join OSI RockStars   and learn and take action and make the next 12 months the best 12 months of your life.

Another Resource bought to you by Andrew Milburn and My Auction Empires

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OSI RockStars

July 19, 2008 No comments

I have not mentioned OSI RockStars for some time now. But if you have just started to read this blog, or have as yet not looked at the OSI RockStars site then please pop on over and take advantage of the 10 minute backstage pass.

Janelle Elms the brains behind OSI Rockstars is adding content to it the whole time, and with the forums you have a great resource on learning all about selling on eBay and other online selling platforms.

Go on and take a look, you have nothing to lose but a load to gain.

Andrew Milburn

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In Love

In Love

I know In Love is a strange title for a business blog, but I have a reason. Today I was talking with a girl about product sourcing  and she asked me, do I have to love my product or can I sell anything.

To be honest this got me thinking for a bit, and to give me time I asked her to explain what she meant. (As an eBay Education Specialist knows that is a good idea to give you time to think)

Well she came back at me with “Well I love the clubbing scene can I sell products to it” So I went through the usual teaching. Is there a Market, have they got money, have they got a means to pay for the product, etc etc. And she answered yes to all. And when we looked online it backed up all she had said.

But I did warn her that at times being in Love can cloud your business judgement, and if you have fallen in Love with a niche or a product you could be selling well passed the time it can make you money.

Now this girl is one sharp cookie. She maybe only young, (she was doing a business course at the local college ) and you could see her thinking. She said Yeah see what you mean……So again being a bit naughty said see what………she said it is like love in real life. She explained that she could really fancy a lad at uni, and go out with him and fall in love, but soon the lad starts cheating on her , but she is madly in love and cannot see it, even though all her mates are telling her. And it takes her some weeks before the penny drops that he is bad for her. And during that time her energy has beed drained etc.

I said well yes, at times we can all sell a product that we love, and at times have problems dropping it, but if we enter a market with a product like that we must be prepared to drop it or else the product we are in love with will drain our business.

Now a question I would like to ask you all and please leave loads of comments for and againist.

Can we sell a product we don’t love , don’t have feelings for and really market it to it full potential?

Andrew Milburn / AndyUk

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Product Sourcing Tips

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Product Sourcing Tips

Here in my multi-Part blog on Product Sourcing Tips, is an idea I learned from Ed. If you have not heard about Ed, I shall be telling you more about him later……He is another janelle he gives and gives and then gives some more. Well enough of the Ed fan club.

As I have mentioned and other people on the RockStars forum Product Sourcing is a must for any business. Product Sourcing after keywords will either make or break your business. If Product Sourcing is done right then you will have money in the bank.

So for todays tip. If you live in the UK or Europe pop along to your local large newsagents and if you live where they do not have a newsagent, pop along to where they sell magazines, but it must be a major seller.

Now take a look at all the magazines, all of them: Men’s, Woman’s, Children’s, Teenagers, Hobby Ones, etc, etc.

Next take a look at magazines where there is more than one on a topic. Now I know nothing about Tattoos but here in the UK I looked this morning and there were 8 magazines on Tattoo. Now that tells us people must buy these magazines (these magazines were not cheap they were priced at over £5.00 each)

Next you either need to spend some cash or go to a library but I do recomend you spend some cash and buy all the magazines on the subject, so if I was looking at Tattoo I would buy all the magazines.

Once you get home start going through them and marking the pages (this is why you need to buy) on the items you could sell. See where the trade shows are, if possible go to them.

Now as well as reading about Tattoo and the amazing culture you will begin to see trends coming out. Words they use in the magazines, Phrases they use, How they use photo’s.

Make notes of all these things, for if you decide to enter this niche you will be able to use the words , phrases and types of photos they are used to seeing.

For instance we might say ” Tattoo art for girls on their lower backs” Good keywords yes, but for a Tattoo fan means nothing.

They would need ” Tramp Stamp For The Girl With Attitude”  ******* A Tramp Stamp is a Tattoo on The Lower Back of a Girl.

This morning I knew nothing about the Tattoo Industry, Culture, but 10 hours later I can tell you from what I have read, prices I have seen and researched it is a market that has money to spend.

Tomorrow I will show you, how to check out what you have read in magazines with cold facts, that will tell us is this a market to go for.

Andrew Milburn

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Places To Source

April 30, 2008 No comments

OSI ROCKSTARS

Here in the UK we are not as lucky as our friends over in the USA. We do not have garage sales as such….. we have car boot sales, this can be a good place to source products to sell.

Another place to source is Charity Shops, Bring and Buy sales, looking at adverts in the local papers, Craig List,  eBay, Amazon and the list goes on and on.

Today I am going to talk about Charity Shops. Most towns have a few and the largers ones have over a dozen. Pick a day when you are going to visit the town or area. As well as picking the area decide before you leave home the budget you are going to spend in the day. Take this in cash with you because a lot of the shops do not have Credit Card facilities.

Also say to yourself right my budget is £100.00 and do not go over this……. a good way to keep to this is to leave your cards and cheque book at home.

You need to take with you a laptop if you have one (you can use these in Coffee shops most free of charge), if not a laptop then a mobile phone that can access the internet.
Failing those two, a phone so you can phone home or a freind so you can research the items you find.
If you know what you are doing you can buy blind, but I do not recomend this.

When you get to the shops, go round each one first and if you see a goods buy and it works out ok on the computer buy it But do make a round first and get a feel see whats in them, make notes.

Then it is time for a rest…….have a coffee and open your computer up and see if what you have seen can make you a profit. Make a note of all the winners, finish the coffee and go and buy.

When you have bought up the town, head for home and take your pictures and do the listings.

A question I am always asked is, what mark-up (profit) should I allow. And my answer is what do you want or better still what does the market want.
Your best action is put it on eBay as a starting price for what you bought it for then if you only get that price you do not lose money.

Hope This Helps

Andrew Milburn

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Why You Should Join OSI.

April 29, 2008 No comments

OSIROCKSTARS

Today if you go into any bookshop, a place that sells magazines or do a search on Google, you will come accross a host of tens of items that offer you information on selling eBay and online.

Now although these are often very good, they are often written or run by people who are good at research and writing but have never sold on eBay or the other online places.

Now out there in cyberspace there are a few very good training sites of which I believe OSI is the best. There is a few others I have come accross and they too offer great content, but at present lack the content that Janelle offers. Over the coming months I will tell you about these others as I feel it is only fair to tell you so that you can make up your own mind.

OSI will take you by the hand and not only show and tell you what to do to take your business to the next level, but you have other people in the forums who will also help you along the way. OSI is like a family and all the members want you to succeed.

But one thing I kep saying and will always say is. Yes OSI will teach you, but until you put into action what you have been taught nothing will happen in your business or or life.

So go on and do your self a favour. Join OSI today and put into action what you learn and your online business will never be the same again

Have fun

Andrew Milburn

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KeyWords

April 28, 2008 1 comment

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Keywords are one of the important areas you need to learn if you are going to make a go of your eBay business. Also to be honest if you are going to have any business at all either online or offline you need to know what Keywords your customers are using to search for you or people who sell products like you.

Once you have got the hang of keywords and how they can help you increase your business then you will see a marked increase in the visits to your sites, your eBay shop.

Most people turn a pale shade when you mention Keyword research but again it is simple. The tools you need either free or very low cost. Yes it will take time to do, but the time is well spent and you will be paid back many times as you will be targeting the market you want and not going out there and just putting up words your customers would never use.
With Keyword research you need to think like a customer and not as a seller.

Now I could go on and on about keyword Research and what tools to buy and why you should. How to make your lists easy to manage.

But someone else has done this for us, they have aimed it at eBayers and other online retailers. They have put it in easy to understand terms and through the power of online video they show us how.

This person is Janelle Elms . Janelle takes you by the hand and shows you in simple steps how to do Keyword Research.

These two classes come as part of the OSI Rock Stars package. This montly membership site contains over 120 hours of audio and video content and this grows by the week with new classes and courses be added all the time.

As well as the classes you have a very active forum, and the forum grows on a regular basis with new topics  be added as and when. The great thing about the forum is that it has members from all other the world and this means if you have a question that needs answering, you can post it and often within a few hours and in some case a few minutes you can start to see people replying to your question.

The great thing about OSI RockStars is the fact that Janelle and her team of people are all doing eBay or the other online sites. They teach you from what they have learned. OSI is not some site put together by people who do not know what online selling is. It was dreamed up by Janelle who is an active eBayer seller and also takes part in eBay live and other eBay events to train people. And all her other trainers are working their eBay businesses day in and day out.

So go on pop over to OSI RockStars by Clicking here and see how they can help you take your eBay business to the next level.

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What is OSI RockStars?

April 27, 2008 1 comment

osi RockStars

How often have you wanted to learn something about eBay or selling online in general and most of the time have come up against a brick wall. Well I know I have then one day I came accross a site called OSI RockStars. OSI RockStars is a site run by people who are active in the area of selling and buying on eBay on a daily basis.

Janelle Elms has been around eBay for a long time know and regularly takes part in eBay live as a trainer and other eBay events. Janelle then came up with the idea and concept of running a membership site aimed at training site aimed at taking people to that next level in their eBay business either as a seller, Trading Assistant, Education Specialist or consultant.

At present Janelle has over 120 hours of webinars and podcasts teaching you on things such as how to source products, how to work a trade show, how to get key words and the list goes on and on.

Plus Janelle Elms and her team are adding new coment every single week.

As well as these classes there is also a forum where once you are a member you can go and ask and answer questions and as there are people from all areas of the world you can post a question and within minutes you could get an answer back how cool is that.

Membership is a low monthly fee and is worth it’s weight in Gold, pop along today and take a look and see how OSI RockStars can help you in your eBay business.

AndyUk

 

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