JANUARY 13 (FRIDAY !!!) - GIVEAWAY TIME

Hello my friends,

it is FRIDAY 13 (haven`t spotted a black cat yet). But this can happen sooner than you think !!!

We in Germany don`t have CHARITY SHOPS. But here in the UK you will find at least 2 on nearly every corner. I love them. Simply because you can get some high quality (used) products for next to nothing. Or sometimes even for free. ...

Today I am offering 4 FREEBIES of the following categories:

1. PHOTO DISC - TRAVEL RELATED

2. PHOTO DISC - ART RELATED

3. AUDIO CD-R - OLD TIME RADIO

4. AUDIO CD-R - LIVE CONCERT (Please choose style, e.g.: Rock, Country, Jazz, ...)

PLEASE O-MAIL ME IF YOU LIKE TO GET ONE OF THE DISCS. PLEASE CHOOSE YOUR PREFERED TOPIC (you can list all, but you can win only one item). DO NOT FORGET TO PROVIDE YOUR MAILING ADDRESS.

I will accept entries until MONDAY, January 16, 2012 (4 am GMT). -

The winners will be named on MONDAY, January 16, 2012.

GOOD LUCK TO ALL OF YOU.

SNOW!!!

 Yes, it snowed!! Okay, not much!! But better than nothing! I tell you it has been a very warm winter here, thusfar!! I live in Iowa and this is just becoming insane! Our temperature day before yesterday was in the 60's and this is becoming the norm this year.

So, I was delighted to see some winter here!

Now, speaking of snow . . . . . . . here at OLA.com, we have some wonderful things for "snow"!

If you get more than we did, and I KNOW that some did . . . check out this cool

MTD 4.5 HP 2 CYCLE Snow Blower Thrower snowblower from Vermonter53!!

Need snowmobile parts? How about this SNOWMOBILE - HOLESHOT™ SKIDPLATES

 from ZKProducts? They have LOTS of things for snowmobiles!!

Okay, maybe you just like to play the piano about snow!! Here is a great

LET IT SNOW LET IT SNOW - SHEET MUSIC (1945) from JRFleamarket! And I am quite sure there are others!!

How about building a cute little snowman and keep warm doing it?? Here is a super

McCALLS # P321 SNOW FAMILY PATTERN from Uneekbouteek! Many more to be had here!!

And if you are looking for a cute snowman just to look at or serve with, here is a 

Sonoma Snowman Lifestyles Jester Cap Dessert Plate from our store, KornKountryTreasures! We have others and would love to combine shipping!!

Now who said snow wasn't fun?? Just look at all the things I found and there are MANY MORE at OnlineAuction.com! So check them out!! Great sellers, great prices!!

Thank you!!

FEATURED ITEMS

Have you featured an item at OLA.COM yet? It is as simple as one click while you are listing. At the bottom left of your listing page there is a place to check the box to feature a listing.

It is $10.00 to feature an item, however I have featured many and have not put out any more money than the $8.00 per month it cost the be a member here at OLA.COM. Now how did I do that you may be wondering. I will tell you and you can do it too.

When I joined OLA.COM I joined as a founding member and with that membership I received 300 auction credits. That is like $300.00 so when I featured my first item it cost me 10 credits or $10.00. That money came out of the 300 credits I received. 

Then to my surprise three months later I was selected for the honor as seller of the month. With that honor came more credits. Yet more money to spend on featuring my auctions, which I did and still do and have not yet put out one penny more than my membership fee.

Next came a store decorating contest. I had no idea about decorating my store. Not one clue. I ask for help and WOW it came from the ones who are really great at doing this and they helped me. Gave me great advice and sent instructions on just how to do it. So I did it and would you believe I came in third. More auction credits. I love this kind of action.

And finally came the time to decorate for the Christmas contest decorating our stores again. Now there was no way I thought I could win as some of these stores were truly awesome and also decorated by the best of the best. When it came time to find out who had won the contest I was floored to see my name as one of the three winners. If you guessed that I got more auction credits, you guessed right.

I had set a goal for myself hoping to make 500 feedback before my first year was up. I got close but did not make it to 500. I had 453 but you know I was really happy for that. That meant that I sold and sold well with happy customers and also that I bought and loved what I bought. I still have not used all of my auction credits. 

I am blogging about this to let you know what you can do at OLA.COM . If I can do it you can do it also. It all started for me when I joined and went to the chats for the first time and saw that this is a family of people helping people and that the owners and staff at OLA.COM are willing to go out of their way to help make you feel like part of the family and also to help you succeed. When one is a sucess OLA.COM is a sucess and that helps all of us.

The great thing about featuring one of your items is that people see that one item and then they want to see what else you have to offer. Great exposure and all it cost me is my membership fee. I did not keep track of all the items I featured but I try to keep one there a month and sometimes more. Hopefully I will get lucky again and win some free auction credits and if not I will feature anyway and pay the $10.00 fee because I believe that has brought me business.

That is my story about featuring auctions and how I was able to do it. Maybe you will consider doing it also and I think you will be very surprised at how it works and how you can compete in the many contest that OLA.COM offers and win some credits like I did plus it is just plain fun to be a part of it all.

Thanks for reading this blog and I hope it helped you understand how featuring an item can help you and how you can do it easily.

May 2012 be a great year for all of us and lets all unite and help everyone be happy that they joined our family of friends and co workers.

FINLAND

Hello my friends,

it is time for another "travel" blog. ... Today we are visiting FINLAND. - (Click on FINLAND to buy my offered photo disc.)

Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.

Around 5.4 million people reside in Finland, with the majority concentrated in the southern region. It is the eighth largest country in Europe in terms of area and the most sparsely populated country in the European Union. Finland is a parliamentary republic with a central government based in Helsinki and local governments in 336 municipalities. A total of about one million residents live in the Greater Helsinki area (which includes Helsinki, Espoo, Kauniainen and Vantaa), and a third of the country's GDP is produced there. Other larger cities include Tampere, Turku, Oulu, Jyväskylä, Lahti and Kuopio.

Finland was historically a part of Sweden, and from 1809–1917 was an autonomous Grand Duchy within the Russian Empire. The Finnish Declaration of Independence from Russia in 1917 was followed by a civil war in which the leftist side was defeated with German support. Finland fought World War II as essentially three separate conflicts: the Winter War (1939–1940), the Continuation War (1941–1944), and the Lapland War (1944–1945). Finland joined the United Nations in 1955, the OECD in 1969, the European Union in 1995, and the eurozone at its inception in 1999.

Finland was a relative latecomer to industrialisation, remaining a largely agrarian country until the 1950s. Thereafter, economic development was rapid. Finland built an extensive welfare state and balanced between the East and the West in global economics and politics. With the best educational system in Europe, Finland has recently ranked as one of the world's most peaceful, competitive and livable countries.

Finland is one of the world's northernmost countries. It lies between latitudes 59° and 71° N, and longitudes 20° and 32° E. Of world capitals, only Reykjavik lies more to the north than Helsinki. The distance from the southernmost – Hanko – to the northernmost point in the country – Nuorgam – is 1,160 kilometres (720 mi).

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