Often it is hard to think about having any weakness but we are all human and so of course we have them as well as strengths. There is no right or wrong answer to this question but helping to know your weaknesses as well as your strengths can help you become a better business person. I think taking the time to look at both your strengths and weaknesses is important to any business owner and it will help you improve.

I know myself that being a morning person is a strength but doing important jobs at night is a weakness of mine. I have decided that after dinner is the end of my working day that includes listing and packing for that reason. We all make mistakes at times but I have a greater chance of making a mistake such as sending the wrong item to the wrong person if it is late at night. The fact that I know that helps me to avoid those problems and wait until the next day to pack and ship.

This is just one small example of a weakness and no one can really answer that question except for yourself. I think it is always good to take a few minutes at times and look at our self it will help both your business and your life.

I have used Cheapcycle quite a bit and sold many items from small shippable things to pieces of furniture. I had many people pick up their items but there are also quite a few willing to pay shipping for something they really want and I am happy to offer that option.

We often need to think outside the box when sales are slow and this is one way to add to your sales. These items that I have listed on Cheapcycle are not something I would list on my online venues but they made me money on Cheapcycle. You can find more informantion about Cheapcyle in my earlier post and see how easy it is to set up and use. I have listed thing there that have not sold and end up donating them but overall I have been happy with sales using Cheapcyle.

I made a quick slide show of 10 items that I have sold on Cheapcyle and some have been shipped and some were picked up.

This is the time of year when some sales slow down yet we all need to keep listing and learning about ways to improve our business and our sales. One way I learned was to join OSI Rock Stars with Janelle Elms who is fantastic.

We all need to think positive about our business and work hard to improve our sales. You will find all kinds of support here and knowledge about everything and anything.

Have you ever considered a paid membership site? I know I have been selling online since 2003 and had often asked these questions and was never really sure if a paid site was really worth the money. I learned by joining free groups, reading boards on eBay and other places and truly thought I was doing good. I had sales, moved to more venues, have great feedback and overall happy with how things were going.

Then a good friend of mine kept telling me that OSI Rock Stars was the site she would join if she had the money. Now my friend Beth who is a Power seller and sold for more years then I did got me thinking. You can check out her store Depressionglasswarehouse and see she knows what she is doing.

So I saw that OSI Rock Stars has a free newsletter and I signed up for that and was intrigued. There are also sneak previews on the site you can check out for free. I also talked to Beth and a few other people and decided to sign up and see if there was anything new I could learn.

I know now that I was wrong in thinking that I didn’t need a paid site to help my business. I was absolutely amazed with the hours of information, message boards and even personal answers from Janelle that Rock Stars are given. I am still learning and there is not a day that goes by that I do not learn or put to use something I have learned from being a Rock Star. You can join monthly or yearly and as a member you have full access to all the information included before joining.

You can follow me and Sign up to be a Rock Star today. I know it is the best thing I ever did.

Have you ever sat and thought how different your life is today with the computer as part of it? I think we all get frustrated at times with our computers and most have some  kind of love hate relationship with them. They are the most wonderful thing in the world when they are working and when they aren’t well let’s just say tossing it out the window has occurred to me.

I decided to stop and think for a minute exactly what I would be missing if I didn’t have a computer. I decided that I would be missing a big part of my life and not only my selling income but all the online friendships I have made over the years. I realized that I am actually closer to some of my online friends then my non online friends. We share so much together both the highs and lows of our lives and encourage each other all we can. I know I would be missing a big part of my life if it was not for the computer.

I am of the generation of Oh No!!  BC (before computers) and spent years having pen pals all over the world. We actually wrote letters and had to wait for them to arrive and then wait for an answer. I do miss that special moment waiting for the mailman to arrive with a letter from a far away country. The computer of course changed all that and we can chat in real time all over the world and (gasp) even see each other. The computer has put the world at our fingertips.

I want to take a minute and say thank you to a very special group of friends and share the blog we all post on. We are all authors and the posts run from online selling to personal issues. We truly are an online family and share and encourage each other. I have learned to much from being part of this group and a few others. The others are for another post.

This is the blog of our online family and if you have a minute check this out and meet some very special people.

http://dsrsofourlives.blogspot.com/

Thanks for stopping by.

I have listed the complete set of Help Me Be Good Books by Joy Berry. This is a wonderful set of books to help your child learn life lessons and they can be read over and over again. These books are written about such topics as Being Bossy, Being Careless, Being Lazy, Cheating, Showing Off and much more. Each single book takes a topic and deals with the issue and and helps the child understand the right way to do things. The complete set of books is 29 books and the set I have listed is in very good condition.

Today the job of a parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle etc is not easy and this set of books will help to make your job a little bit easier. Children all need to be taught these life lessons and what better way to share and discuss them with the help of these books. These can be read with your child or they can read them and it can open a dialogue about these issues that might not be easy to talk about.

This set of books is in very good condition and can be shipped a variety of ways to save you money or to get them their quickly.

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