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National Review: No One Fix For Social Security

Andrew G. Biggs of National Review argues, when it comes to Social Security, it's too politically risky to revive the Bush-era idea of personal accounts. A solution will come from a mix of government intervention and personal initiative.

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Posted on 30 August '10 by admin, under Consolidating student loan, Debt managment, Freedom debt relief, Investing advice, Mutual Funds, debts consolidation, wealth building. No Comments.

Trading the Pin Bar reversal – Make money trading forex

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Posted on 30 August '10 by admin, under Investing advice. No Comments.

OpenCamp Blackhat SEO with Social Media

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The first content session I’m attending at OpenCamp is by Gio, aka Giovanni Gallucci, a longtime search and social media marketer based in Dallas. The topic is “Blackhat SEO” and the room is packed!
The session was cut a bit short due to technical difficulties with getting the conference started and Gio took it in stride and was both entertaining and informative – the right mix for a morning tech crowd.

Gio says “Black hat is simply another way to automate a time-consuming process. In other areas of marketing and life in general we encourage automation in order to maximize efficiency and get a leg up on our competitors”.

According to the conference session description, the nature of this session doesn’t allow liveblogging or tweeting, which i think is a load of crap, so I’ll liveblog it anyway.

Speaking of liveblogging, I am writing this on an iPad and the brilliant WordPress app deleted the first version, so I am writing now from memory on a notepad app.

The session is basically about what Gio does on a daily basis for his SEO clients. Based on insights from Woopra analyticz Gio says these are 5-6 social media sites you need to focus on to drive traffic and affect your search visibility:

- Media sharing: YouTube and Flickr
- Social Bookmarking: StumbleUpon
- Social Networks: Facebook & Twitter

When you undertake your social media marketing efforts, don’t let “little people” and naysayers hold you back. Gio gives Cali Lewis as an example with her growth of online shows and current success with GeekBeat.TV

As far as as Geolocation services like Gowalla, Foursquare, Whrrrl, etc Gio says these are cute and fun, but that there’s not much measurable social media marketing value to them. (If you don’t buy that, check out Mashable.com for FourSquare case studies)

We’re 15 min into the presentation and thee’s no black hat SEO yet :)

YouTube lists are unreal for driving search traffic. Organize your individual videos into lists and optimize them. Find other videos that are highly trafficked and add them to lists that include your own videos. If you’re not creating video, you’ve got to get started.

Tools: tubetoolbox.com (Now we’re getting into the automation and almost black hat stuff). With YouTube ToolBox, Gio says you create a message in 2-3 sentences, mail merge their username and then create multiple versions of the message with different content and the same call to action. Then you can schedule the sending of messages to YouTube users that have been harvested at the rate of about 20 messages per hour. Something like: Hey “username” I saw that you commented on a video about XYZ and wanted to let you know about another similar video and would love your opinion.”.

I have to note, using automation tools like this must be done by someone that REALLY knows what they’re doing or you will suffer consequences. Managing risk vs. reward is important and for the record, my agency doesn’t use automation in this way.

The key to getting YouTube videos ranked high is activity on YouTube. with Flickr, you can add comments with a link back to your content.

Take advantage of current events. Gio shows a video of ComicCon geeks talking about how comic are not geeky anymore. Thee’s some irony to a code geek making fun of comic book geeks.

When going somewhere offline to get photos or video for content, blend in. Gio tells a story of buying a cowboy getup to blend in at a rodeo or maybe it was somewhere else like that where there was a concentration of cowboy types.

Keep it fresh. For example, make a presentation the day you give it.

Tool: tweetaddr 3.0. Using this tool makes it appear as if you’re communicating with Twitter via a web browser (when you’re not and actually using an automated follow tool).

“Can’t is not an option”. Gio gave an example of a how a school with only 200 kids earned 68,000 votes on a list of top schools.

“Show up and just get it done”. If you look like you’re supposed to be there, no one will bother you. (Regarding collecting content or promoting online content in the offline world).

Tool: Bookmarking Daemon – Put in your social boomarking accounts and it will randomly pick your content and promote it.

According to the room monitor, that’s all the time we have. You can find out more about Giovanni on his blog: Blog.gallucci.net and get a copy of his social media manifesto at: gallucci.net/smm


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Posted on 29 August '10 by admin, under Affiliate-revenue, Email-marketing, List-Building, Marketing on internet, Network-marketing, Traffic-Building. No Comments.

When to Use “Subject To” vs. “Lease Options” – Creative Real Estate Investing Training

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www.localmentor.com Colorado Real Estate Investing Expert, Michael Jake, discusses the strategies for buying houses "subject to" and controlling houses with lease options. For more real estate investing training on foreclosures, creative real estate investing, subject to, lease options, owner financing and no money down investing techniques - and to claim your free real estate investing course visit http

Posted on 28 August '10 by admin, under Investing advice. No Comments.

Forex Trading System – Hammer Candlestick Trading

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Learn how to trade the Hammer Candlestick formation in forex trading. This is a powerful tool that should be added to any forex trading system.

Posted on 28 August '10 by admin, under Investing advice. No Comments.

Housing Market Woes Bring Familial Strife

A bleak housing market makes people fret about more than their wallets: Families also suffer the consequences. One couple broke off their engagement, but the current value of their home has kept them living together. Another family has been separated by 900 miles for 18 months because the father left for work and their house isn't selling.

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Posted on 28 August '10 by admin, under Consolidating student loan, Debt managment, Freedom debt relief, Investing advice, Mutual Funds, debts consolidation, wealth building. No Comments.

Foreclosure Risk Stays High; Mortgage Rates Dip

One in 10 American households with a mortgage was at risk of foreclosure this summer as the government's efforts to help have had little impact stemming the housing crisis. Meanwhile, rates for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages fell to 4.36 percent this week, the lowest level in decades.

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Posted on 26 August '10 by admin, under Consolidating student loan, Debt managment, Freedom debt relief, Investing advice, Mutual Funds, debts consolidation, wealth building. No Comments.

FOREX Training | FOREX Trading – December 5, 2006

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The forex uptrend was still in place, but showing signs of weakness. Retracement is becoming more and more possible. MACD Divergence, rejection at a Reversal Pivot Point, a 61.8% Retracement and a Triangle break eventually all pointed down. Target was the 138.2% Fibonacci Extension which over lapped with a Support Pivot Point.

Posted on 26 August '10 by admin, under Investing advice. No Comments.

LED vs. LCD vs. Plasma TV . Which one is the best for me?

The TV industry has nowadays been split up into the LCD vs. Plasma enthusiasts with arguments on both sides. Although each technology has its downsides and strong points one can see that when targeting a certain environment a particular TV technology is best suited.

LCD vs Plasma VS LED tvs

LCD vs Plasma VS LED tvs

The LED technology should first be taken into view since it is just an enhancement of LCD TVs. The Liquid Crystal Displays as they are called on their full name consist of a matrix of small crystals which when excited with the help of an electric current turn at a certain angle to produce colors. They produce better quality HD video output than Plasma and the ones LED backlit manage to achieve more natural coloring than the older but still widely sold simple LCD with fluorescent back lighting.

Moreover, the Plasma TVs is made out of cells which contain rare gases such as neon that when applied a certain amount of electricity to them light up producing a certain color. From this fact the black produced by this type of TVs is much better than the one from a LCD display although they have a big downside when creating white images and this is when the TV sucks most current. As to test a Plasma television before buying it one should always run a “all white” test with some sound on the background as to see if the extra current does not affect speaker output in any way which in normal situations should not happen.

From a quality point of view there is not much difference between products, for both tend to have the same life length which has been attested in standalone tests and by manufacturers. Color accuracy on the other hand depends on lighting as Plasma TVs have a more natural look in normal to low lighting rooms while LCD and LED displays offer better color richness in bright light situations. The big downside for LCD is on the viewing angle issue which for many is a definite choosing criteria as they have a room arrangement which implies higher viewing angles.

All in all, both these television building technologies are somewhat similar in terms of what they offer when compared to their downsides but if one has a certain arrangement which favors the use of LCD/LED or Plasma he/she should first turn to that type of TV before considering some other type.

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Posted on 25 August '10 by admin, under Affiliate-revenue, Email-marketing, List-Building, Marketing on internet, Network-marketing, Traffic-Building. No Comments.