Next week, FleaPirates and I will be attending the eCommerce Conference in Las Vegas ( http://www.ecommercesummit2010.com ) on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. OnlineAuction.com is sponsoring us so that we can further our eCommerce education and bring back the latest information in eCommerce to you.
A small get together is also planned as several of our members will be in Las Vegas during the week of the conference. Members BlafStore ( http://www.OLA.com/store/blafstore ) who lives in Las Vegas, DustyCorners ( http://www.OLA.com/store/dustycorners ) who will drive up for the lunch, CurioCache ( http://www.OLA.com/store/curiocache ) who will be in Las Vegas celebrating her birthday, FleaPirates ( http://www.OLA.com/store/fleapirates ), and I ( http://www.OLA.com/store/metzymom ) will be having lunch at the Rio Hotel and Casino on Tuesday, April 13th at the Rio Hotel and Casino.
If there is anyone who is going to be in or near the Las Vegas, NV area on Tuesday, April 13th, we hope you will make plans to join us. Contact me via Omail for more information, some of which is still in the planning.
I hope to meet more OLA Members there!
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Online Merchants : The Power of Picasa
If you are an Online Merchant, one of your priorities is certainly focused upon placing your product advantageously in the various search engines. We've talked a lot about Search Engine Optimization, and ways to improve the titles, subtitles and descriptions of your products to appeal to the search engines. Another way to promote your product is through Image Optimization. Today's post is about harnessing The Power of Picasa.We believe that Picasa will meet the demands of those sellers who do not wish to utilize outside photo hosting resources. Instead, these sellers may opt to download this Google program, and benefit from perks such as photo enhancement, resizing, titling, and tagging, right from the comfort of their own hard drive. Yes, Picasa offers a photo hosting service, entitled Web Albums, but we have found that it is not necessary to use the uploaded images in order to receive the full benefit of Picasa.
Join us tonight, as MetzyMom and I discuss the advantages of Picasa on Seller Buzz Radio. The live show airs at 7:05pm CST, but if you are unable to attend, you may listen to an archived show, which will be Episode 11.
Additionally, you are invited to join us this Monday evening, April 5, 2010, for a Webinar about The Power of Picasa! You'll find us in the LIVE CHAT area of the Ola Team Blog, on Monday, at 8:00pm CST. We encourage anyone who is interested in using Picasa to download the program and try it out on your own. Then, visit with us Monday evening for a quick walk-through of the features and a group question and answer session. Mind you, no one is claiming to be Picasa experts... but we've been using Picasa for several weeks now, and are familiar enough with the features to assist those wishing to take their photos to the next level.
Upton Arithmetic Grade 4 With Answers Teachers Edition 1945
Vintage Book titled, “Upton ARITHMETHIC Grade 4”. This is a Teacher’s Edition School Book with the answers. This book is in Very Good to Fine Condition with light wear and minor discoloration to the cover.
The book has a copyright date of 1945 by American Book Company. The book is 296 pages long and 14 pages that contain the answers. This book is by Clifford B. Upton. The pages have slight yellowing to the edges of the pages.
The pages are crisp and clean with no tears or writing. This book has bright color graphics and appears to be unused. This Book would make a wonderful addition to your Vintage School Book Collection.
Don’t miss this opportunity to own this Upton Arithmetic Grade 4 Book. Click here to view this Teacher's Edition Upton Arithmetic Book.
I have this 1945 Upton Grade 4 Book for sale through OLAs Classic Auctions with a starting price of $8.00 This is a great price!!! Please check out my Stubsinc OLA Store for more interesting items. Click here to visit my OLA Store
Saturday, March 27, 2010
OnlineAuction.com is Picking Up The Pace!
From SellerBuzz.com and SellerBuzz Radio, March 25, 2010
OnlineAuction.com picking up the pace! OLA is currently #3 on Top 10 Reports.com for eCommerce sites, has had recent articles in Family Circle, WebWholesaler Magazine, a recent write up in the TimesFreePress.com business section, and Readers Digest Letters. Visit OnlineAuction.com today & see who is in the lead for the OLA House Spring Decorating Contest!
OnlineAuction.com… It’s where Buyers and Sellers Meet!
OnlineAuction.com Minute
OnlineAuction.com picking up the pace! OLA is currently #3 on Top 10 Reports.com for eCommerce sites, has had recent articles in Family Circle, WebWholesaler Magazine, a recent write up in the TimesFreePress.com business section, and Readers Digest Letters. Visit OnlineAuction.com today & see who is in the lead for the OLA House Spring Decorating Contest!
OnlineAuction.com… It’s where Buyers and Sellers Meet!
Friday, March 26, 2010
Public Restrooms In Pairs
When you have to visit a public bathroom, you usually find a line of women, so you smile politely and take your place.
Once it's your turn, you check for feet under the stall doors. Every stall is occupied.
Finally, a door opens and you dash in, nearly knocking down the woman leaving the stall.
You get in to find the door won't latch. It doesn't matter, the wait has been so long you are about to wet your pants!
The dispenser for the modern "seat covers"(invented by someone's Mom, no doubt) is handy, but empty.
You would hang your purse on the door hook, if there was one, but there isn't - so you carefully, but quickly drape it around your neck, ( Mom would turn over in her grave if you put it on the FLOOR!), yank down your pants, and assume " The Stance."
In this position your aging, toneless (God I should have gone to the gym!!!) thigh muscles begin to shake.
You'd love to sit down, but you certainly hadn't taken time to wipe the seat or lay toilet paper on it, so you hold "The Stance".
To take your mind off your trembling thighs, you reach for what you discover to be the empty toilet paper dispenser. In your mind, you can hear your mother's voice saying, "Honey, if you had tried to clean the seat, you would have KNOWN there was no toilet paper!" Your thighs shake more.
You remember the tiny tissue that you blew your nose on yesterday - the one that's still in your purse. (Oh yeah, the purse around your neck, that now, you have to hold up trying not to strangle yourself at the same time). That will have to do. You crumple it in the puffiest way possible. It's still smaller than your thumbnail.
Someone pushes your door open because the latch doesn't work.
The door hits your purse, which is hanging around your neck in front of your chest, and you and your purse topple backward against the tank of the toilet.
"Occupied!" you scream, as you reach for the door, dropping your precious, tiny, crumpled tissue in a puddle on the floor, lose your footing altogether, and slide down directly onto the TOILET SEAT ..
It is wet of course.
You bolt up, knowing all too well that it's too late. Your bare bottom has made contact with every imaginable germ and life form on the uncovered seat because YOU never laiddown toilet paper - not that there was any, even if you had taken time to try.
You know that your mother would be utterly appalled if she knew, because, you're certain her bare bottom never touched a public toilet seat because, frankly, dear , "You just don't KNOW what kind of diseases you could get".
By this time, the automatic sensor on the back of the toilet is so confused that it flushes, propelling a stream of water like a fire hose against the inside of the bowl that sprays a fine mist of water that covers your butt and runs down your legs and into your shoes.
The flush somehow sucks everything down with such force that you grab onto the empty toilet paper dispenser for fear of being dragged in too
At this point, you give up. You're soaked by the spewing water and the wet toilet seat.
You're e-x-h-a-u-s-t-e-d.
You try to wipe with a gum wrapper you found in your pocket and then slink out inconspicuously to the sinks.
You can't figure out how to operate the faucets with the automatic sensors, .....so you wipe your hands with spit and a dry paper towel and walk past the line of women still waiting.
You are no longer able to smile politely to them.
A kind soul at the very end of the line points out a piece of toilet paper trailing from your shoe. (Where was that when you NEEDED it??) You yank the paper from your shoe, plunk it in the woman's hand and tell her warmly, "Here, you just might need this".
As you exit, you spot your hubby, who has long since entered, used, and left the men's restroom.
Annoyed, he asks, "What took you so long, and why is your purse hanging around your neck?" .................
This is dedicated to women everywhere who deal with a public restrooms (rest??? you've GOT to be kidding!!). It finally explains to the men what really does take us so long. It also answers their other commonly asked questions about why women go to the restroom in pairs. It's so the other gal can hold the door, hang onto your purse, and hand you Kleenex under the door!
Send this to all women that understand what bonding in the bathroom is all about!
A Friend Is Like A Good Bra...
Hard to Find...
Supportive...
Comfortable ...
Always Lifts You Up...
Never Lets You Down, or Leaves You Hanging,
And Is Always Close To Your Heart!!!
Once it's your turn, you check for feet under the stall doors. Every stall is occupied.
Finally, a door opens and you dash in, nearly knocking down the woman leaving the stall.
You get in to find the door won't latch. It doesn't matter, the wait has been so long you are about to wet your pants!
The dispenser for the modern "seat covers"(invented by someone's Mom, no doubt) is handy, but empty.
You would hang your purse on the door hook, if there was one, but there isn't - so you carefully, but quickly drape it around your neck, ( Mom would turn over in her grave if you put it on the FLOOR!), yank down your pants, and assume " The Stance."
In this position your aging, toneless (God I should have gone to the gym!!!) thigh muscles begin to shake.
You'd love to sit down, but you certainly hadn't taken time to wipe the seat or lay toilet paper on it, so you hold "The Stance".
To take your mind off your trembling thighs, you reach for what you discover to be the empty toilet paper dispenser. In your mind, you can hear your mother's voice saying, "Honey, if you had tried to clean the seat, you would have KNOWN there was no toilet paper!" Your thighs shake more.
You remember the tiny tissue that you blew your nose on yesterday - the one that's still in your purse. (Oh yeah, the purse around your neck, that now, you have to hold up trying not to strangle yourself at the same time). That will have to do. You crumple it in the puffiest way possible. It's still smaller than your thumbnail.
Someone pushes your door open because the latch doesn't work.
The door hits your purse, which is hanging around your neck in front of your chest, and you and your purse topple backward against the tank of the toilet.
"Occupied!" you scream, as you reach for the door, dropping your precious, tiny, crumpled tissue in a puddle on the floor, lose your footing altogether, and slide down directly onto the TOILET SEAT ..
It is wet of course.
You bolt up, knowing all too well that it's too late. Your bare bottom has made contact with every imaginable germ and life form on the uncovered seat because YOU never laiddown toilet paper - not that there was any, even if you had taken time to try.
You know that your mother would be utterly appalled if she knew, because, you're certain her bare bottom never touched a public toilet seat because, frankly, dear , "You just don't KNOW what kind of diseases you could get".
By this time, the automatic sensor on the back of the toilet is so confused that it flushes, propelling a stream of water like a fire hose against the inside of the bowl that sprays a fine mist of water that covers your butt and runs down your legs and into your shoes.
The flush somehow sucks everything down with such force that you grab onto the empty toilet paper dispenser for fear of being dragged in too
At this point, you give up. You're soaked by the spewing water and the wet toilet seat.
You're e-x-h-a-u-s-t-e-d.
You try to wipe with a gum wrapper you found in your pocket and then slink out inconspicuously to the sinks.
You can't figure out how to operate the faucets with the automatic sensors, .....so you wipe your hands with spit and a dry paper towel and walk past the line of women still waiting.
You are no longer able to smile politely to them.
A kind soul at the very end of the line points out a piece of toilet paper trailing from your shoe. (Where was that when you NEEDED it??) You yank the paper from your shoe, plunk it in the woman's hand and tell her warmly, "Here, you just might need this".
As you exit, you spot your hubby, who has long since entered, used, and left the men's restroom.
Annoyed, he asks, "What took you so long, and why is your purse hanging around your neck?" .................
This is dedicated to women everywhere who deal with a public restrooms (rest??? you've GOT to be kidding!!). It finally explains to the men what really does take us so long. It also answers their other commonly asked questions about why women go to the restroom in pairs. It's so the other gal can hold the door, hang onto your purse, and hand you Kleenex under the door!
Send this to all women that understand what bonding in the bathroom is all about!
A Friend Is Like A Good Bra...
Hard to Find...
Supportive...
Comfortable ...
Always Lifts You Up...
Never Lets You Down, or Leaves You Hanging,
And Is Always Close To Your Heart!!!
Vintage Dog Brooch Pin Signed Gerrys Goldtone with Enamel
The eyes and nose are black,
and the tongue is red.
Signed Gerrys.
Gerrys was a popular costume jewelry designer from about
the 1950s to 1994.
Known for whimsical designs!
This brooch pin is goldtone,
in a heavy metal setting.
Excellent vintage condition,
with no faults.
Click here to see all the details!
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Monday, March 22, 2010
Anchor Hocking Fire King Glass Ghost Busters Ghostbusters Mug
Recently listed on www.onlineauction.com is a very collectible, very desirable Ghost Busters mug, made by Anchor Hocking in the 1980s for the very popular Ghost Busters movie. This mug is not marked Fire King, but it has the later Anchor Hocking anchor in a square mark, and it is also marked OVEN PROOF MADE IN USA, along with some numbers on the bottom.
This mug is in excellent condition-no chips, cracks, stains, black marks, or wear; just the teeniest rough spot when running fingers around the rim, in the back, otherwise excellent. The Ghostbusters logo is only on one side of the mug, and the colors are bright and not worn. Below the logo, it is marked: (c)1984 COLUMBIA PICTURES INDUSTRIES, INC.
These mugs were often well-used by young ones, worn out from being washed in dishwashers, etc. Examples with nice, bright graphics aren't found too easily today.
Click here for more information about this listing. Priority shipping and insurance is included in the price, and offers also considered-just send a message through www.onlineauction.com.
Click here to see what other neat things I currently have listed.
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