Archive for October, 2008
October 25, 2008
· Filed under OLA House · Tagged eCommerce, feresten cable, internet marketing, internet radio, learning, live broadcast, online auction, sales, technology, www.ola-radio.com, www.onlineauction.com
The Online Auction Radio show (http://www.ola-radio.com/) that aired Thursday, October 23, 2008, was, without a doubt, one of the funniest internet radio broadcasts to date. I like calling it a show for the technically challenged. 
You see, Dave (McButtons) White of http://ecommerce-marketing-radio-network.com/ and host of our OLA radio broadcast, decided to use new software for the show. Well, all of us Ola’ers had to log into a new format so we could listen, talk and chat in the board. I being a novice at some new things was leary and it took me some time to figure it out! I’m a slow learner you know. When I, finally, got to the show I started laughing because Dave was having his own issues too. Sound coming, going, doubling. Nice to know I was not the only one having problems learning a new trick. he he he.
Well, Dave, finally, figured everything out and we were all able to be in the chat board, listen on the computer or call in on the phone. The newest thing was that when you call in on the telephone everyone is on a conference call so you can chat with each other at the same time. Very cool! Two of our members, Lyndaleesloft and Mnaz, called in and, then, Video joined Dave as well. I tried but pushed a wrong button and couldn’t figure out how to get the call to work. 
Told you I was challenged but I will eventually.
The new format is really wonderful and it was great to hear member’s voices. What fun. Dave ran the show overtime because of the initial gremlins and we were able to discuss many new happenings at OLA. The IT folks bringing in the new House/Store Fronts and catagories being built. Of course, it was also interesting to hear from an eBayer who is, seriously, considering making a change to a new venue because of the new rules and regulations imposed on sellers.
When I read my email this morning I received this video from a friend. I just started to laugh out loud and thought this was ME trying to learn the new set up for the OLA show! Dave (McButtons) White might like it too.
I tried to put the video here but I guess WordPress doesn’t allow this format so just click on this link to view. You will love it. It is called Seniors Convert.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/36608/talkshow-with-spike-feresten-cable-psa
October 18, 2008
· Filed under Garden · Tagged apple, Garden, gardening, morning glory, night, solar light
The Back Yard Garden By Night
This summer I was meandering in the back yard and thought it would be fun to take a few pictures of the garden by night.
This is a picture of the dwarf apple tree bearing fruit. By the way, the apples were delicious!
These next two pictures are of the vegetable garden. In our climate we can usually plant string beans several times because of the long growing season. I believe this was planting number three. Some of the plantings had a harder time than others because we had a pretty bad water shortage.
In an earlier chapter I told you what we did with the lattice and this bench seat. This photo shows the morning glories climbing right up to the top and over. I think I might put a little table in front of the bench. That might make for a cozier sitting arrangement! Just trying to hid the brick path to nowhere.
I like to keep a little light in the back yard so we found these nifty solar yard lights. Normally people put them in the ground but we wanted them on the fence so my hubby modified them so we could do just that. The put out much more light this way too. I lightened this first picture a bit so you can clearly see some of the drought damage to the grass.
The fence reminds me of a runway, when night falls.
Stay tuned for the next chapter. Thanks.
October 16, 2008
· Filed under OLA House · Tagged auction, auction sites, blog, ECMRN, guests, http://ecommerce-marketing-radio-network.com, http://www.ola-radio.com, internet radio, internetauctionnewsradio.com, marketing, online auction, www.onlineauction.com
Online Auction Radio (http://www.ola-radio.com) aired Thursday, October 16, 2008. The weekly Internet Radio show, hosted by Dave White of ECMRN http://ecommerce-marketing-radio-network.com .
The scheduled guest of this week’s show was Dave White’s wife, who was a little under the weather and couldn’t participate and will be re-scheduled. Ola members are a great bunch and the live chat room was overflowing with members! Only Dave (we call him McButtons) knows how many members were listening live. If you would care to listen to the archived show you can go here: http://blog.ola-radio.com/ .
This was such a fun and informative show. The live chat board was just a hoot! Questions and more explanations of the exciting upgrades going on at OLA. Categories are being updated, RSS feeds, Spiders and how search engines are used when it comes to Ola’s visibility on the Internet.
We, also, were informed that the Site Announcements would be upgraded and posted to by our IT Team with regularity so, new or old, members could find out all the latest information on what is happening. Dave, also, mentioned the very nice personal post by Valerie Fain in Ola’s News, http://www.onlineauction.com/index.php?page=news:latest_news .
Before the show closed DraggonTagger called in about the Charity Auction that she and Larstans are promoting. http://fryscountrybargains.org and http://www.childrensdmc.org/?id=20&sid=1
The site is growing and changing for the better everyday and will, I believe, become the best Auction Venue on the net!
If you are interested in making a move from your current auction site or store venues and are expanding your horizons from only one on-line selling venue, this auction site (www.onlineauction.com) might just be your perfect match.
Again, everyone is welcome to listen to the live shows which airs every Thursday evening from 9-10 pm est. Thank you Dave
October 12, 2008
· Filed under Garden · Tagged city garden, Garden, grass, lattice, recycle, storm, tree, urban garden, vegetable, vegetables
Spring 2008 Continued
After we got the soil leveled and I made the rows and beds we managed to get everything transplanted and out of the cold frame. Plus added squash, cucumber, carrots and green beans. Tomatoes and peppers were purchased at the local garden center. I try to rotate the vegetables into different locations yearly. I try to use as little chemicals as possible and usually just try to stick with seven dust.
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We did have a bit of a spring scare when a storm rolled through and a neighbor’s tree fell on our fence and almost on top of the garden. As you can see, the tree just missed the first bed. It was still a mess but we did get lucky because the neighbor got a man on the job and had it cleaned up lickety split!
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We did have a wood cradle for our firewood at the end of this brick path. The 4×4s held the slide-able lid that covered the wood. The cradle was old and we decided to put any firewood on concrete instead. As you can see, we left the 4×4’s and added lattice to it so morning glories could grow up and over. Then, we found an old concrete bench seat from the recycle, cleaned it and gave it a good coat of paint and, wallah, the path has a little place to go. OK, a little dorky but it isn’t a path to nowhere now!
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For kicks and giggles I took a picture of a patch of my grass with the morning dew because it looked like artwork.
October 10, 2008
· Filed under OLA House · Tagged eCommerce, http://ecommerce-marketing-radio-network.com, http://www.ola-radio.com, www.onlineauction.com, www.reliabid.com
I am currently selling at www.OnlineAuction.com. I was overwhelmed, Wednesday, this week, when I received a phone call from Chris Fain, CEO of OLA. I have spoken with Chris, asking questions, during the OLA Radio Show - http://www.ola-radio.com - hosted by Dave White of http://ecommerce-marketing-radio-network.com . But Chris caught me, so off guard when he called, that the first thing I ask was "how did you know my work phone number"? Lol
Its not everyday that you get phone calls from company CEOs thanking you for being supportive and using their auction venue. He is so excited about our growing auction site that it becomes infectious. Many of our members feel the same way!
So on this note I must, also, mention the OLA-Radio Show that aired on Thursday evening 10/9/08. This past evening Dave White (our host) had a three way conversation with Chris Fain and Mo Ismail from Reliabid- http://www.reliabid.com/public/about_us.html . Chris and Mo discussed their new offering to the site and took questions from the phone in audience, as well as from the live chat board.
It is always exciting to hear about the new upgrades that are coming to the site. ReliaBid’s objective is to ensure that online auction sellers eliminate non-paying bidders and receive payment for their transactions quickly and consistently.
Sometimes, there are very tough questions to be answered about site upgrades, not all of these questions can be answered because the staff is working as hard as they can to get the occasional glitch ironed out. (My opinion, a growing site always has bugs.) Not everything can be built over night. You can listen to the archived show here: http://blog.ola-radio.com/
October 10, 2008
· Filed under OLA House · Tagged auction, fragrance, online auction, perfume, shoulder, white, white shoulders, www.onlineauction.com
Item has been Sold
Thanks ever so much for taking a peak and taking the time to check out my other auctions at:
October 7, 2008
· Filed under Posers Quieries Questions · Tagged bail out, debate, employee, employer, loan, McCain, Obama, poser, presidential, question
Oct.7,2008 Debate
Since when did Employers have to get loans from banks to pay their Employees?
One of today’s debate issues that, flat out, annoyed me. (Both candidates, McCain & Obama, were justifying consequences of the bail out.)
I guess I am just old school and, in the scheme of things, I know that I am a little guy. My Mother owned small businesses all her life and I owned my own, as well. We had overhead, employees and income. I don’t ever, ever remember, either she nor I, going to the bank to float a loan to pay our employees!
We didn’t hire people we could not afford to pay. Common sense.
October 4, 2008
· Filed under OLA House · Tagged http://www.internetauctionnewsradio.com, online auction, selling, www.Dawdle.com, www.the savvy-seller.com
I just listened to the internet radio show ebay & Beyond: Basics To Business http://www.internetauctionnewsradio.com/. The live show airs on Saturdays and has a call in phone number as well as a live chat area.
I try to listen regularly but today, I have to admit I got on line a little late so I missed a good portion of the interview with Sachin Agarwal, CEO of www.Dawdle.com. Dawdle is a site to Buy and Sell Video Games, Systems, and Accessories Online.
I did, however, listen to the second hour with Marlene Gaven also known as the http://the-savvy-seller.com . Marlene is an educator that helps people learn how to sell on line. Really refreshing personality and just full of information.
Again, thank you, Dave White (mcbuttons) for a very fun filled two hours! I love to listen and learn.
October 4, 2008
· Filed under Posers Quieries Questions · Tagged bailout, Bob Barr, bush, Clinton, Congress, government, house bill, libertarian, pork, representatives, senate bill, US Government, wall street, wallstreet
All I can say is Pitiful!
The Congress and President Bush wanted everyone to believe we (and Wall Street) were going to fall into a black hole if this pork laden Bail Out bill wasn’t passed. I don’t believe it for a minute and a good percentage of the US population didn’t either, otherwise, why did the House of Representatives have to limit the amount of emails?! Didn’t want to deal with the disgruntled? (clue-hint)
If your constituents were so darn happy, do you think your phones would have been ringing off the hooks?
So why did the screwball congress pass it anyway?
Why was it that President Bush couldn’t get his pen on the bill quick enough?
Is Congress lining their own pockets, again, are they?
Whose watch was it when all this mess started? Clinton, ring a bell?
Pitiful!
October 3, 2008
· Filed under OLA House · Tagged auction, auction sites, blog, chris fain, ECMRN, guests, http://www.ola-radio.com, internet radio, internetauctionnewsradio.com, marketing, online auction, radio, weblog, www.ola-radio.com
Online Auction Radio (http://www.ola-radio.com) aired Thursday, October 2, 2008. The weekly Internet show, hosted by Dave White of ECMRN http://ecommerce-marketing-radio-network.com .
The guest of this week’s show was Chris Fain, CEO, of www.onlineauction.com. As in previous internet broadcasts, Chris and Dave answered questions via the live chat board or the telephone call in. Of course, with any live show sometimes there are technical issues, as Dave (McButtons) knows! I commend Chris for, continually, trying to stay in touch with the OLA community, even though occasionally, there might be some discord amongst members. The site is growing and changing for the better everyday and will, I believe, become the best Auction Venue on the net!!
If you are interested in making a move from your current auction site or store venues and are expanding your horizons from only one on-line selling venue, this auction site (www.onlineauction.com) might just be your perfect match.
I learn something new every time I listen to a show. I, for one, did not know that I could put links into my auction listings and self promote our other products! You can listen to archived shows here: http://blog.ola-radio.com/. Again, everyone is welcome to listen to the live shows which airs every Thursday evening from 9-10 pm est. Thank you Dave and Chris!
