Online Sellers Association

The Online Sellers Association (OSA) is a membership organization and website providing a place to learn about online business (e-commerce), explore related ideas, and share with other like-minded online business owners.

Membership provides participation in an organization of significant business professionals and entrepreneurs, access to the OSA website where you will find an extensive, and continually growing, database of important information which can help you build a more successful business, find sources of products, services, materials, tools, and other elements in support of your business, access to blog posts by guest experts, and other services and information including that provided by successful business professionals, and to discussion forums where you can interact directly with other members. Services and features vary by membership level. You can see a break down by level on THIS PAGE.

There are a number of standard levels and packages available allowing you to take advantage of as much information, support, and other access, as you choose. Membership levels start at free and go up in cost in accordance with features services provided. See THIS PAGE for individual membership level and price information.

No. Memberships are offered on a personal basis, one per person.

No. Memberships are for people, not businesses or corporations. Please create your OSA member account using your own personal name.

No. We offer a significant entry level package free of charge so you can check us out. If you find this satisfactory you can then choose to pay for higher level accessif you wish or you can continue your free account and enjoy many of the OSA’s features and services. Since you will have extensive access to much of the website and all the documents currently in the business information database for your free membership level (and other features at higher levels) immediately upon initial membership, we cannot offer a refund after you have gained access to paid levels. There is no contract period beyond a single month so you can, of course, cancel your membership at any time.

No. The membership fee is for access to, and participation in, the site at the given level for the period of time specified or less.

The simple answer is yes, but there are guidelines and limits. This site is first, and foremost, about learning and sharing with your peers. However there is nothing wrong with letting others know about your business. We encourage you to put your business name (and link it to your selling site) in your forum signature, make open reference to your own business, product(s) or service(s) in relevant discussion in our forums, and we offer a searchable business directory where you may list your business information. You are free to post about your business, products, and/or services, within the scope of those areas of the site. It is always best, of course, to tell us about what you are doing rather than to try and promote sales. Additionally, if you provide useful content for the site which we can share with others (articles, posts, ebooks, etc.) we will provide an attribution footer with link(s) as appropriate.

Each member (free or paid) gets their own profile entry in the Find-A-Seller database. Higher level members get additional exposure, including greater detail in the database, profile pages, individual blogs, and even full e-commerce websites, depending on their membership level.

Yes, you can. In the forums sections you can freely post links to other sites and services provided they are relevant to the topic of discussion in the thread and not just blatant advertising. This applies to your own sites as well. We know that is “self promotion” but we don’t think there is anything wrong with that. After all, you are in business for yourself so it’s only natural that you should be promoting yourself. We only ask that you keep your posts topical, friendly, and within common sense limits. As always we do reserve the right to edit, or remove, posts or other content we feel is unsuitable.

Yes, please! You are encouraged to provide articles, opinions, book reviews or suggestions, and other written pieces, or website links or, if you don’t write yourself, you can suggest materials and ideas that our regulars can explore and write about. This site is about online sellers, for online sellers, and by online sellers. We would love to have you participate and/or contribute. Members may submit content using the UCanPost link in the Members Services menu. Additionally, if you do provide useful content for the site suitable for sharing with others we will provide an attribution footer with link(s) as appropriate.

All members of the Online Sellers Association, both free and paid membership levels may submit their business to be included in our “Featured Business” promotion. You need to produce a short video (1 to 3 minutes long) and post it on YouTube. Send us the link to the YouTube page URL along with details about your business, and any pictures or other video material you feel is supporting to a presentation.

We will create a post like this one in our Featured Business category, put the video in turn on our home page and other OSA site pages, as well as promote it elsewhere on the ‘net.