Advertise Your Business

Member of OnLineAuction.com are very creative when it comes to advertising their stores and their on line selling sites. I got the idea to do this blog from one of them and then others chimed in with their ideas, so I am sharing their thoughts and ideas with you.

From Dustycorners I got the idea and she will be the first one you will read.

I listen to a crafty radio show twice a month (similar to ola radio) and they talk about advertising your business, marketing, do's and don'ts and other things.

This morning one member typed in the chat that she needed help on something and I waited but no one else took the lead. So, in short conversation, I advertised where I sell and she will visit this site & check it out.

Take every opportunity you can to get your business name out there!

One member mentioned while they were shopping in a craft store they found a business card advertising jewelry supplies stuck in a jewelry project magazine. You would need to be discreet, of course, while doing this. But you get the idea

Standing in line at the grocery store, post office, DMV office, anywhere!, just strike up a conversation with someone close to you. That person may not be that interested, but maybe someone close over hears your conversation and would be interested.
Pass out business cards while you are waiting!
Be sure to smile and not appear to be pushy.
You could advertise something you give away free on the back of the business card to get them interested in coming to your store.

I am going to practice passing out business cards more than in the past. I may put 25% off first item purchase. With limits, of course, because you don't want to be cutting into your profit of a single item. Or maybe give away something with their first purchase (customers like the word FREE!) with discounts on repeat business.

Do you have an OLA pin? Wear it! Someone just may ask what that is I think I am going to make some wooden pins with my business card image and clip it on my jacket. People notice those things:)

The market changes constantly, even on a local level & today's buyers are looking for a bargain. Give them something that makes them feel like they found a treasure before someone else did.
Remember when you were a kid, and found something you thought was fantastic, then couldn't wait to tell your friends because you found it and they didn't. Kinda like that.
Get them talking!

I would like to see what other members are doing in their own area to promote their business. You can visit her store at http://ola.com/store/dustycorners

The next one came from Aesthetiics48

Good Ideas Dusty

I was thinking that I would start making and including some magnetic business cards in my packages. Sort of makes a little gift and people use them on their refrigerators.

I used to do that with my hair dressing business.
You can see all her items she promotes by going to http://ola.com/store/aesthetics48

The next entry came from me chateycathey

Dusty I agree with everything you said and I do it all. However I never thought to write on the back of the card about a free gift or discount. I leave cards everywhere I go even put them on top of tips at restaurants while we travel. I am now gonna write on the back of the card (only as I hand it to them as would make them feel special) offering a percentage off first purchase with a code they need to mention on it. Not going to do that with cards I leave at rest areas. Will put on those to be sure to check for special sales all through the year. We drive OLA everywhere we go as I had Large OLA magnets made for both sides of the van or truck, which ever one we decide to take. So Ola goes where we go and we have had lots of people ask us what it means and there is my chance to talk with them and give them a card "special" just for them. Thanks for posting this and reminding some and giving me new ideas. Super and you should do a Blog about this on the ola team blog. Now that would be great. Thanks
You can check out my items at http://ola,com/store/chateycathey

The next one came from curiocache

Most definitely blog-worthy! There is/was a big huge slot machine in Circus Circus a couple of years ago that was an Ebay game! I had some of Davendebs stickers with me, and it took all my will power not to cover it with them! (then I remembered the whole camera thing, and thought I better not....)  Visit her at http://ola.com/store/curiocache
Of course she had offers to bail her out.

The next one comes from American-Hippie

One of my favorite tricks is to put OLA Postcards into magazines at the doctors and dentist office. I tuck them in tight so they don't fall out and get thrown away by the staff.

My absolute favorite trick is to take OLA Postcards and tape them to the back of bathroom stall doors. When a woman is sitting there, that card will get her full attention because, well, there's nothing else around! If I don't have OLA Postcards, I use my business cards that carry the OLA Logo. The cool thing about putting those cards on the backs of the doors (besides getting attention from the seated woman) is that housekeepers don't look at the back of the door when they check for cleanliness or toilet paper refilling... so it's taped there until someone pulls it off to use. I do this at rest stops, casinos, restaurants, anywhere there are stall doors.
You can check her out at http://ola.com/store/AmericanHippie



I am sure there are more and as they list them on different pages I will list them in another blog. You have to admit these people are serious about what they do and where they do it. They are all very good at it and have great ideas on how to promote themselves and http://ola.com/

Let us know in the chats if you have some ideas we may all use that are not mentioned here and be sure to visit their stores and see what great items they have to offer you

Inventions by Women

I did not realize that women played such a huge part in the world of inventions! According to Fact Monster, this is a just a partial list of inventions by women:

Alphabet blocks Adeline D. T. Whitney 1882

Apgar tests, which evaluate a baby’s health upon birth Virginia Apgar 1952

Chocolate-chip cookies Ruth Wakefield 1930

Circular saw Tabitha Babbitt 1812

Dishwasher Josephine Cochran 1872

Disposable diaper Marion Donovan 1950

Electric hot water heater Ida Forbes 1917

Elevated railway Mary Walton 1881

Engine muffler El Dorado Jones 1917

Fire escape Anna Connelly 1887

Globes Ellen Fitz 1875

Ironing board Sarah Boone 1892

Kevlar, a steel-like fiber used in radial tires, crash helmets, and bulletproof vests Stephanie Kwolek 1966

Life raft Maria Beaseley 1882

Liquid Paper®, a quick-drying liquid used to correct mistakes printed on paper Bessie Nesmith 1951

Locomotive chimney Mary Walton 1879

Medical syringe Letitia Geer 1899

Paper-bag-making machine Margaret Knight 1871

Rolling pin Catherine Deiner 1891

Rotary engine Margaret Knight 1904

Scotchgard™ fabric protector Patsy O. Sherman 1956

Snugli® baby carrier Ann Moore 1965

Street-cleaning machine Florence Parpart 1900

Submarine lamp and telescope Sarah Mather 1845

Windshield wiper Mary Anderson 1903

I can certainly understand some of the inventions. After all, who did the dishes, carried the baby, rolled out the pie crust, ironed the clothes and baked the cookes? According to Fact Monster a lot of inventions were never credited to women because they could not hold a patent in their name. Therefore, a lot of husbands got the credit!

I tried finding some of these items and came up with some interesting, if not exact, items for you to check out today!! We have the following listed on OnlineAuction.com right now!!

GLASS ROLLING PIN ~VINTAGE~e9901~free shipping from PWittsStuff! Nice, huh? And shipping is free!!

I love this one from RoundPrairie2-

Barber Pole Candy Stripe Glass Red / White Rolling Pin!

And of course, the great old fashioned wooden rolling pin,

ROLL PIN,CANN. ITEMS,BRUSH,CROCK,SALAD SET,KITCHEN ITEM from ClarksAntiques, and they have tons more collectables!!

Now this is a huge dishwasher,

Hobart Dishwasher from cre1252abc and they have some other big ticket items!

Not exactly the alphabet blocks first invented but this great pattern

Alphabet Blocks - The Sailing Ships - Cross Stitch from Amber_2431 will bring lots of enjoyment to the cross stitcher!!

I was tickled pink to see these!! How about

Earrings Globe Dangle Earrings from ZannesBazaar!!! Now here are some globes!!! And she has LOTS of great earrings and other jewelry just waiting for you to look at!!

Ok, not exactly the ironing BOARD but this is a great collectable, a

Vintage Hot Iron Aluminum Trivet ironing board iron rester iron hot pad from RobinsGoneShopn!!

And this is a great gadget for the ironing board, too!! A POLDER WALL MOUNT IRON BOARD & IRON STORAGE BNIB from Plusizeglamor!

And of course, the windshield wiper! Ok, just the arm and it's a rear wiper assembly!! This is a

Ford Rear Arm Wiper Asy 8F9Z17526A New OEM from our store, KornKountryTreasures!

I am always amazed at what I find on OLA.com! Check it out for yourself!

If this isn't what you are looking for, I invite you over to visit our store~KornKountryTreasures!!

Thank you!

MUSIC MADE IN GERMANY: KLAUS SCHULZE

Hello my friends,

here is another fantastic German artist: KLAUS SCHULZE. (Do I need to mention that I have all of his releases?)

Klaus Schulze (born 4 August 1947) is a German electronic music composer and musician. He also used the alias Richard Wahnfried. He was briefly a member of the electronic bands Tangerine Dream and Ash Ra Tempel before launching a solo career consisting of more than 60 albums released across five decades.

In 1969, Klaus Schulze was the drummer of one of the early incarnations of Tangerine Dream for their debut album Electronic Meditation. Before 1969 he was a drummer in a band called Psy Free. He met Edgar Froese from Tangerine Dream in the ZODIAC CLUB in Berlin in that time West-Germany. In 1970 he left this group to form Ash Ra Tempel with Manuel Göttsching and Hartmut Enke. In 1971, he chose again to leave a newly-formed group after only one album, this time to mount a solo career. In 1972, Schulze released his debut album Irrlicht with organ and a recording of an orchestra filtered almost beyond recognition. Despite the lack of synthesizers, this proto-ambient work is regarded as a milestone in electronic music. The follow-up, Cyborg, was similar but added the EMS Synthi A synthesizer.Since this point, Schulze's career has been most prolific, and he can now claim more than 40 original albums to his name since Irrlicht. Highlights of these include 1975's Timewind, 1976's Moondawn (his first album to feature the Moog modular synthesizer), 1979's Dune, and 1995's double-album In Blue (which featured one long track called Return To The Tempel with electric guitar contributions from his friend Manuel Göttsching of Ash Ra Tempel). In 1976, he was drafted by Japanese percussionist and composer Stomu Yamashta to join his short-lived "supergroup" Go, also featuring Steve Winwood, Michael Shrieve, and Al Di Meola. They released two studio albums (Go in 1976 and Go Too in 1977) and one live album ("Live from Paris" recorded in 1976 and released in '77) which went on to become a cult favourite.Throughout the 1970s he followed closely in the footsteps of Tangerine Dream, albeit with far lighter sequencer lines and a more reflective, dreamy edge, not unlike the ambient music of his contemporary Brian Eno. It is to be noted that some of his lighter albums are appreciated by New Age music fans, despite the fact that Schulze has always denied connections to this genre.Klaus Schulze had a more organic sound than other electronic artists of the time. Often he would throw in decidedly non-electronic sounds such as acoustic guitar and a male operatic voice in Blackdance, or a cello in Dune and Trancefer. Schulze developed a Minimoog technique that sounds uncannily like an electric guitar, which is quite impressive in concert. Schulze often takes German events as a starting point for his compositions, a notable example being on his 1978 album "X" (the title signifying it was his tenth album), subtitled "Six Musical Biographies", a reference to such notables as Ludwig II of Bavaria, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georg Trakl, and Wilhelm Friedemann Bach. His use of the pseudonym Richard Wahnfried is indicative of his interest in Richard Wagner, a clear influence on some albums like the aforementioned Timewind.

In the 1980s Schulze moved from analog to digital instruments, and his work accordingly became less experimental and more accessible. Although the switch to purely digital recording and instruments is evident in the style of Dig It (1980) It was not until the release of Trancefer (1981) that the shift in style became evident. Trancefer was far more obviously reliant on sequencers than previous recordings, and the resultant effect transformed Schulze's style from gentle melodic journeys to an ever-growing crescendo of music consisting of multi-layered rhythmical passages. This is particularly evident in the Trancefer's first track "A Few Minutes After Trancefer", although the second track "Silent Running" is more reminiscent of Schulze's earlier works.This newer style can also be found in Schulze's next release Audentity. Both "Cellistica" and "Spielglocken" are composed in a similar, sequencer based, style as Trancefer, but this is certainly not the case of all of Audentity's tracks, indeed "Sebastian in Traum" hints towards the Operatic style to be found in some of Schulze's much later work. The predominance of sequencing can also be found in the follow-up live album Dziękuję Poland Live '83, although it should be noted that many of its tracks are re-workings of those to be found on Audentity. Schulze's next studio-based album Angst (soundtrack to the namesake 1983 film) moved away from the harshness of sharp, heavily sequenced style of the 3 previous albums and, once again, had the more "organic feel" of earlier recordings.Another highlight of this era was En=Trance with the dreamy cut "FM Delight". The album Miditerranean Pads marked the beginning of very complex percussion arrangements that continued into the next two decades.In 1989, German band Alphaville released their album The Breathtaking Blue, on which Klaus Schulze was both a contributing musician (partially) and the album's producer.

Starting with Beyond Recall, the first half of the 1990s was the notorious "sample" period, when Schulze used a wide variety of pre-recorded sounds such as screeching birds and sensuous female moans in his studio albums and live performances. Sampling was such an unpopular diversion that when In Blue was released in 1995 without samples it was hailed as a return to form. The decade also saw the release of copious amounts of previously unreleased material, of varying quality, in several limited-edition boxed sets. Some live recordings were discovered on pristine but forgotten reels of tape which had been used to provide echo in concerts.

Recently Schulze began incorporating elements of jazz and classical music, working with more contemporary electronic dance music such as trance, and creating two operas, the second still awaiting release.[citation needed] Also, in 2005 he began re-releasing his classic solo and Wahnfried albums with bonus tracks of unreleased material recorded at roughly the same time as the original works. In the last several years, Schulze has produced albums and staged numerous live appearances with Lisa Gerrard.

With the release of his fortieth album (Big in Japan: Live in Tokyo 2010) in September 2010, Klaus Schulze entered his fifth decade as a solo musician. He's currently working on his next album, Shadowlands, to be released in 2011.

KLAUS SCHULZE on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u65bjtwU9xc&feature=related (KS & Lisa Gerrard)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MHKJ9bBJDY (Stardancer II)

SAKHALIN

Hello my friends,

have you ever been to SAKHALIN? No? Then we have something in common. But I am offering a photo disc with vintage images between 1894 and 1905. CLICK HERE TO BUY.

Sakhalin or Saharin or Saghalien, is a large island in the North Pacific, lying between 45°50' and 54°24' N.It is part of Russia, and is Russia's largest island, and is administered as part of Sakhalin Oblast. Sakhalin, which is about one fifth the size of Japan, is just off the east coast of Russia, and just north of Japan.The indigenous peoples of the island are the Sakhalin Ainu, Oroks and Nivkhs. Most Ainu relocated to Hokkaidō when the Japanese were displaced from the island in 1949. Sakhalin was claimed by both Russia and Japan in the course of the 19th and 20th centuries, which led to bitter disputes between the two countries over control of the island.The European names derive from misinterpretation of a Manchu name sahaliyan ula angga hada ("peak/craggy rock at the mouth of the Amur River"). Sahaliyan, the word that has been borrowed in the form of "Sakhalin", means "black" in Manchu and is the proper Manchu name of the Amur River (sahaliyan ula, literally "Black River" ; see Sikhote-Alin). Its Japanese name, Karafuto (樺太), supposedly comes from Ainu kamuy kar put ya mosir (カムイ・カラ・プト・ヤ・モシリ, shortened to Karput カラ・プト), which means "Land/Island/Country at the Shore of the God-Made (River) Mouth/Confluence."[citation needed] The name was used by the Japanese during their possession of its southern part (1905–1945).

Coca-Cola: A short history

John Pemberton originally formulated the prototype Coca-Cola recipe at the Eagle Drug and Chemical Company in Columbus Georgia and originally called it Pemberton’s French Wine Coca.

When prohibition legislation was passed in 1886 for Fulton County and Atlanta, Pemberton developed Coca-Cola, a non-alcoholic version of Pemberton’s French Wine Coca. Sold at first as a patented medicine, it was claimed Coca-Cola could cure all sorts of diseases. It cost 5 cents.

Initially, Coca-Cola contained cocaine and caffeine; cocaine from the cola leaf and caffeine from the kola nut, hence the name, although the k was change to c for marketing purposes. After 1904, the company started using “spent” cola leaves rather than fresh leaves. The only company in the United States authorized to import and process the cola leaf is the Stepan Company, producing the coca flavoring agent for Coca-Cola and extracts cocaine from the coca leaves, which it sells to Mallinckrodt, a company in St. Louis MO which is a pharmaceutical manufacturer; the only company licensed in the United States to purify cocaine for medicinal use.

It has been rumored that Coca-Cola was originally green but this is a rumor only. The original formula called for caramel to be added, creating the brown color of the drink.

Coca-Cola was originally sold at the counters of pharmacies but began bottling the soda in 1894. In 1955, Coca-Cola began appearing in cans.

In April 1985, Coca-Cola changed the formula to the “New Coke”, which created a lot of publicity and fanfare. The consumers, however, wanted the old Coke to return. Within months, the “old Coke” was returned, labeled as Coca-Cola Classic. By 2011, the Coca-Cola Classic label has disappeared as the “New Coke” is no longer in production.

Coca-Cola’s advertising has definitely affected American culture. The company was credited with inventing the modern image of Santa Claus as an old man in a red and white suit but did not start using this image until 1930. White Rock Beverages actually began using this image in 1923 for ginger ale. Coca-Cola used smartly dressed young ladies before Santa Claus. The first advertisement in 1895 featured the young Bostonian acrtress Hilda Clark as its spokeswoman.

In 1941, Coca-Cola saw the first use of the nickname “Coke” as an official trademark for the product.

Over the years, there have been and still is a wide variety of advertisements by the Coca-Cola Company, one of the most well known labels on the market. From tin cans to trucks, belt buckles to dishes, postcards to tokens, Coca-Cola has been one of the leaders in marketing strategies.

Here at OLA.com, we have some of those wonderful Coca-Cola items. Some are new and some are old! Take a peek at the few that I have added to todays post!

 

How cute! 

7 Assorted Coca-Cola, Coca Cola, Collectible Items from EBuyNow.

Gibson USA Coca-Cola Luncheon Plates (2) from Spock100! Wonderful!!!

This brings back memories!

COCA COLA ORIG, UNUSED PAPER SODA FOUNTAIN CAP +2-E/OA from ClarksAntiques!

I'd never seen one of these!

Coca Cola in Bottles 5 cents from DandyDon!

This fabulous Case Coca-Cola 2003 Ertl Truck Collectable - Made in the USA from AKelly110!

I love these old trays!

COCA COLA VINTAGE TRAYS 6 PCS from PickerGalore!

And if you are a belt buckle buff, here is one of several from BlueRacer!!

coca-cola belt buckle.1991

This Olive Oyl Coca Cola Kollect a Set Glass from Kornkountrytreasures. We have another Kollect a Set glass, also!

We have SOOOOOOO many more!! So come on over to OnlineAuction.com and look around!

And if this isn't what you are looking for, please feel free to browse through our store, KornKountryTreasures!!

Thank you!

Gotta Love Them

Don’t get me wrong…I love my pets, but…….


We have a kitty that my son just brought home one day last year. She’s very pretty and most of the time very sweet. However, she hasn’t been spayed yet, and no matter how much I threaten my son that she’s going to go, he has done nothing….he knows me well. Anyway, she’s pretty much “in heat” every other week. At least I think that’s what her problem is. She seems to think my slippers are going to help her out somehow. Her mewling drives me insane!! I mean, I get it…she wants “some”, but really, give me a break. I can’t recall ever being like that when I was younger….well, maybe once, but at least I have a son to show for it….’nough said.


My other cat will be 13 on Valentine’s Day. She seems to have forgotten where the litter box is. But only for pooping. She has no problem finding it for peeing. As a matter of fact, she will pee in the box, jump out and poop right next to it. Really? I’m pretty sure I’ve never pooped on the floor, even though I am older than she is. So age is no excuse. How much more effort would it take to stay in the box to do her business?


I have a dog. He also will be 13 this year (in June), but he’s pretty much a perennial puppy, except when he wants to play old. The strangest part about him is he’s a Sheltie. Therefore, he is supposed to be part of the “herding” family of dogs. Well, I’ve never seen this animal chase down even a chipmunk. Not only that, but I think his brain is in backwards. He WILL herd humans, but only by walking backwards in front of them. He will also do this to the cats if I tell him to “go get the kitties”. He will get in their faces, bark and walk backward in front of them. Do they understand? No more than I do I guess because they just ignore him. The “old” part of him is his suddenly selective hearing. I can call to him and he will just pretend I’m not there, but if I whisper his name to “daddy”, he will come running to see what I’m talking about. Maybe that’s not such a dog thing, maybe it’s just a “guy” thing (sorry guys).

All in all, my pets take a sense of humor to live with, but they probably think the same thing about me. But I love them all to death and I sure hope they are grateful for that. LOL


If you have pets or love pets or know someone with pets, check out what some of the OLA sellers have available for YOUR “gotta love them anyway” babies:

Organic Dog Biscuit Cookbook from plussizeglamor

Home grown catnip from robinsgoneshopn

And a stuffingless squeak toy from me

There are tons and tons more pet items available on OLA for you and your babies to enjoy! I hope you will come by and check them out.

MUSIC MADE IN GERMANY: Grobschnitt

Hello my friends,

it is time to introduce some German music on OLA. Todays feature: GROBSCHNITT.

Grobschnitt was a West German rock band which existed between 1970 and 1989 (re-united in the late 2000s). Their style evolved as time passed, beginning with psychedelic rock in the early 1970s before transitioning into symphonic progressive rock, NDW and finally pop rock in the mid-1980s. Grobschnitt, unlike other bands, utilized humor in their music in the form of unexpected noises and silly lyrics and concepts.

As was common with many German bands of the time, Grobschnitt sang in English until the early 1980s, despite touring exclusively in West Germany. The band accrued a loyal fan base through its live performances which included pyrotechnics and German comedic sketches. Highlight performances include Solar Music, an extended mostly-instrumental piece which lasted up to an hour. Grobschnitt were also known for their stamina on stage, frequently performing shows in excess of two hours.

Grobschnitt formed in 1970 from the ashes of The Crew, a psychedelic rock band led by drummer Eroc (Joachim Ehrig). Their new name meant "rough cut", in reference to the style of tobacco.Originally an eight-piece band, Grobschnitt released their self-titled album on Brain Records in 1972 before paring down into their standard five-piece unit. Their first record is stylistically very different from the symphonic sound that became their hallmark.Ballermann, released in 1974, featured new classically-trained keyboardist Mist (Volker Kahrs). Released as a double-album, Ballermann featured humor and silly songs which followed from their entertaining live shows. The second record contains the first released version of "Solar Music", an extended instrumental suite with origins in a piece by The Crew in the late 1960s. "Solar Music" would see frequent performances throughout the band's career as well as being released in two more versions during the band's existence.By 1975, Wolfgang "Popo" Jäger joined Grobschnitt as a bassist and the group released Jumbo. Jumbo fully realized the symphonic style the band had developed, featuring lush keyboard usage. 1977 saw the release of Rockpommel's Land after a German lyric release of Jumbo in 1976. Rockpommel's Land would prove to be Grobschnitt's first commercial success, despite the waning appeal of progressive rock.Solar Music Live, released in 1978, consists of a longer version of the "Solar Music" suite first revealed on Ballermann. Solar Music Live was a commercial success.By 1979 Grobschnitt moved towards shorter song-oriented releases. Merry-Go-Round would be Grobschnitt's last release in the 1970s. Its songs made humorous digs at the disco music trend, commercialism and America.

Grobschnitt released another live album, Volle Molle, in 1980, documenting the recent Merry-Go-Round tour. Popo was soon replaced by Milla Kapolke, before recording the Illegal album in 1981. The subsequent Illegal tour was highly successful.Keyboardist Mist left Grobschnitt before the 1982 recording of Razzia, a NDW-influenced album. Toni Moff Mollo, a friend of Eroc and long-time performer in live shows, was promoted to full member. Grobschnitt's single from Razzia, "Wir wollen leben" ("We Want to Live"), remains a minor footnote in NDW history and proved to be the band's last success.Eroc left Grobschnitt by June 1983, leaving Lupo as band leader. In 1984 Grobschnitt released Kinder und Narren, sporting a distinctly 80s sound with the help of the DX7 synthesizer. Grobschnitt, having abandoned "Solar Music" for several years released a new live version in 1985, Sonnentanz. Fantasten followed in 1987.After Eroc's departure members of Grobschnitt became more transient, many of whom came from the NDW band Extrabreit. Eventually, with the release of Last Party Live in 1989 Grobschnitt disbanded.

Interest in Grobschnitt led to a partial band reunion from May 2007 with Wildschwein, Milla Kapolke and Toni Moff Mollo. Their repertoire consists of classic Grobschnitt songs throughout their career. Dubbed "Next Party", they performed several concerts in 2007 and 2008. Hopes of a full reunion were dashed with the death of Wolfgang Jäger on May 3, 2007. In 2008, Grobschnitt, after 17 years of "silence", released their CD: Grobschnitt Live 2008.

GROBSCHNITT ON YOUTUBE:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7gkf9vLp-Y