For sometime now I have been thinking about the name of my blog………. My Auction Empires. When I started out blogging my main focus was Auctions…… I did not think about the future, this was a big mistake.

Today I have renamed this blog My Online Empires as this name covers all the areas of earning money from and on the internet.

So a word of advice to my readers out there, when you buy a name or are thinking about the name for your business, please think long term and not just short term.

Have a great day.

Andrew Milburn and My Online Empires

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How To find Out What Is Hot On The Net

Have you ever looked at listings on eBay or read some new report and thought to yourself if only I knew that was hot news, or how did they know that product was going to be hot ?

I guess most of us have over time thought this, and then we miss out again and again……………….. Well folks I have good news for you, from today onwards you will be able “How to find out what is hot on the net” and the cost nothing, yes you heard me nothing. Well no money but it will take you some time but if you master these tips and sites below you will always be able to Find Out What Is Hot On The Net, and act on it.

Also once you have mastered this How To find Out What Is Hot On The Net, you will be able to use it to get out of a market before you lose money on it.

Today I am going to give you the list then over the coming weeks I will take each one and show you how to use these no cost online tools.

1)     Google Trends   http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends

2)    Yahoo Buzz  http://buzz.yahoo.com

3)    Lycos 50  http://50.lycos.com

4) AOL Hot Searches  http://hotsearches.aol.com

5) Ask   http://about.ask.com/en/docs/iq/iq.shtm

6) Google News http://news.google.com/news?ned=us&topic=po

7)  eBay Pulse  http://pulse.ebay.com

8)  Amazon http://www.amazon.com/gp/new-releases

9) eBay what’s Hot   http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/whatshot.html

10) Google Zeitgeist    http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html

If you use each of the above links you will soon be able to Find Out What Is Hot On The Net.

Hope you find the above useful and if you know of any other sites please leave them in the comments or send me an email.

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

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Who is Janelle Elms ?

For those of you who have been around eBay and e-commerce for a few months or more will have no doubt heard whispers about someone called Janelle Elms. If you type Janelle Elms into any search engine then you will be met with hundreds of listings.

As you read dome of the listings you may start to think is this person real……………………………………… Well………………………. Yes she is. Janelle Elms is some super hero girl. She gives 110% of her time. Time to business, time to life, time to her friends and time to her Church.

Once you start to read the many articles and the many books she has written, you get the feeling that this is a real person with a passion to see other people achieve.

One of her best books  is The 7 Essential Steps to Successful eBay Marketing

I had known of Janelle for several years from eBay and a few of her books, and then one day I came across one of her sites, it was full of good content, I signed up for her ezine and I started a journey. And each day is a journey with Janelle as she stretches you to reach your goals.

Then one day in her ezine she asked for beta testers for a new site she was setting up called OSI Rock Stars

I was allowed to become a beta tester and the rest is history, I am now a fully paid up member and love it. But a word of warning about OSI Rock Stars it is not for people who just want an easy life. When you join you will find well over 300 hours of content either webinars or podcasts, then there are the forums and due to the many countries the Rock Stars are in you can get a reply back within a few hours.

In some of the classes Janelle Elms will give you home work and in some instances you will need to send it in !!!!!!!

So what makes Janelle Elms and OSI Rock Stars so different from other eBay courses, forums etc ???? Well the main difference Janelle Elms and her other trainers walk the talk, if they train in a certain area, then they will be doing it in their own businesses day in and day out. These people do really walk the talk.

So please today if you want to make a go online pay a visit to OSI Rock Stars and Janelle Elms and your lives too will be changed.

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Get Started on eBay 001

I guess that when you have been doing something for a few years you think everyone knows how to do something. For example you are into football then you think everyone knows the rules, the same for golf or cricket.

Well just this last week I was talking with people about eBay and how good it is to make some extra money, and each time they said yes thats ok but how do we “Get started on eBay“. For a few minutes I thought what …….. it is so easy to get started on eBay. Then I took a step back and looked at it from someone who had no internet knowledge and I thought yeah what do you do to get started on eBay.

So I thought lets do a few blog posts and teach the new people and also remind those who have been around eBay a few years the simple steps to get started on ebay.

• Start at the eBay site for your country. For example .com for the USA .co.uk for the Uk and so on.
• When the home page opens up look to the top left hand side and click on sign in.

• Next you will see a screen like below and just click on register.

• Next fill in your user information like name and address. Also you will be asked for an email address please use one that you check on a regular basis as this is the one that you will use to receive information from eBay.

• Also during this form filling you will be asked to choose a user name, please think long and hard about this, as this is the name people will use and see when buying items off you. For example if you choose an name like claires dresses and later you start to sell cars you might have a hard time, so think generic.
• Lastly do not forget to tick the box to show you have read all the legal forms etc.

Well done you have taken the first step on how to Get started on eBay, this simple process allows you to start to buy on the site.

Please keep an eye open for the next step in how to get started on eBay.

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

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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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With Skype you can make free calls over the Internet. Skype – the whole world can talk for free

We all like to save money and we all like to talk. But I can hear you saying yes but it costs money and even more money if they live abroad, and if you use the old method of using a telephone then yes it does. But I am going to tell you about away where you can chat and even see each other through video, and the cost Free. Yes I did say FREE.

Skype has many services and the best thing you can do is pop a long to their sites and take a look what is best for you.

For My Friends In The USA You Need The USA Skype Store

For My Friends In Europe Click Here

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Hi,

I am sorry to say that I have to stop comments at the moment on my blog as I am getting loads of spam. I am looking at ways of brings this back, but until then I have stopped this.

Sorry
Andrew

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Hi,

Over the next few weeks, having taken advice from Janelle Elms of OSI RockStars I am changing parts of this blog.

For example I have bought a new domain name and will be using this for my Education Specialist Program, and  this will be a static site with just a few articles there, but the base will be the classes I teach. this will be on LinfordDirectTraining . com (This is NOT live yet).

And I have bought another name for my Trading Assistant business.  This is on Trading-Assistant-In-Staffordshire . com again as yet this is not live.

Then I shall use this blog, to post hints and tips, product sources etc, and as the two new ones will be more static I shall not have to spend loads of time on them, just updating when I add new classes etc.

Happy eBaying

Andrew Milburn

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For a long time I have been looking for a site or a program that can help me with my online business ventures including eBay and Amazon and other leading online ventures.

I looked at many and joined a few and although they gave some information it did not offer the whole show.

Then along came OSI RockStars hosted by Janelle Elms.

OSI RockStars was started by Janelle Elms who has a vast expieience of Online selling with eBay and she is one of their leading eBay Instructors, and speaks all over the USA for eBay.

She also has a her own very profitable eBay businesses. This is something that makes OSI RockStars so different, all the people who teach the classes (podcasts, and webinars) are people with vast expierience on the things they teach.

This is so different from courses who are by written just by writers who have no experience of what they teach.

OSI RockStars has well over 200 hours of classes, that will help you take your eBay or online business to the level.

OSIRock stars is excellent for those who are new to online selling , and it also works just as well for those who have well established online businesses.

So go and give it a look and see for your self you will not be be let down.

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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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