When you’re opening a new business, there’re a good chance that you’re developing a new site also. As an internet junky, you understand how crucial creating the image of your business and your brand on the web is, as the internet is the way that the majority of businesses thrive or bomb in this tough economy.

In addition to making sure that the design and web tools on your new web page are effective and uncomplicated to utilize, you also want to consider what good website names you are going with and how individuals are going to be able to find it on the web. This name for your internet site is referred to as a domain name.

Domain names are the part of your web address that falls in the middle of the ‘www.’ and the suffix that you prefer, whether its ‘.com’, ‘.biz’, ‘.gov’, and so on. It is how individuals are going to recall your website, and go back to it time and again.

When you pick out the wrong domain name, you may end up shooting yourself or your business in the foot, as you will not be capable of effectively attract new customers and clients to your website.

But what makes discovering the perfect web address challenging today is thereality that all of the really easy names are seized. If you have a pre-owned car dealership in Akron, Ohio, you are not likely to be able to get a name like ‘autos.com’, or ‘usedautos.com’, because web addresses like this will either all be seized, or will be highly expensive to buy. Instead, you got to consider something more innovative.

If the title of your automobile dealership is small and easy to spell out, then that might be agood domain to register. But if your dealership is named Iacocca’s Lot or Boumtje Cars, you may not ever rely on the people to find your internet site if it uses those hard-to-spell titles.

So what’s the answer in a position like this? Often, the greatest action to carry out is discover a simple combination of words that will stick in the people’s state of mind, and be simple to spell out. Try something like troycars.com yournewcar.com buyusedcars.com.

Calculating on how standard the sequence is, the domain name might have by now been purchased by a person who’s sitting on it, trying to sell it to prospective buyers. Try to avert this position if you can. For instance, purchaseused.com may go for a steep toll, but you can seize buyusednow.com at a more sensible price.

The one temptation that you want to stay away from is selecting a suffix other than ‘.com’. Most of the web-using public will take for granted that any site name ends in this most basic suffix, even if they are told and perpetually reminded otherwise. You don’t need to lose visitors because every person presumes that your website is usedcars.com, when it’s really usedcars.org.

The ultimate trap you need to avoid is changing a spelling in a sense that may confuse individuals who desire to hit your internet site. If you choose usedcarz.com, with a ‘z’ rather of an ‘s’, this might be adequate , if you mention it in your ads repeatedly, making certain that it’s driven into people’s minds that there’s a z at the end of the site name. But it is better to quash such a position all together and choose something that is commonly spelled.

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I just found a great article at a pretty cool website call Seeing Good, the article is on all of these cool websites where you can sell or recycle all of your old books, cd’s or computers.

Some of them will even pay you to send the stuff to them.  This is a great list and you should tell all of your friends to help them to sell their junk in these tough economic times.

The link to the article is here –>  Seeing Good

So check it out and let me know what you think.

Watching Bloomberg and CNBC everyday can be a little depressing.  Not necessarily because of the stock market, we seem to be trading in a range now, but because of the economic data on the jobs front.  To think that we lost 2.6 million jobs over the past 4 months blows my mind.  Maybe doing a Work From Home Job isn’t a bad idea right now.

Looking back a year who would have ever dreamed that we would be in the worst recession since the 1930′s?  I know there are a few sages out there but main street and main stream media sure didn’t see any of this coming.  That’s what cracks me up now watching these talking heads on the different financial shows talking about buying this and buying that and that they think that bottom has been formed in the market.

Unluckily for them most of there broadcasts can be found on YouTube and they sure the hell weren’t warning anybody about the crash of 2008 and the elimination of almost 4 million jobs since last January.  So this got me searching the web and I found a site that has done reviews on the Top 10 online jobs you can do from home and the worst 4 to stay away from.

I know from first hand experience about one of the worst ones, envelope stuffing.  Complete scam.  Its even in Business Opportunities magazine every month! Don’t wast your time and money with this one.  But if you are looking to make some extra cash or if you are modivated to start a new career I suggest checking out Avoid Work at Home Scams website.  I’m not making any money on this I just thought that maybe this could help someone out there that might need a little extra cash.

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Buy & Hold Investing Is Dead!

There, I said it.  It hurts to say it but look at the evidence over the past 2 months.  If you invested in the Stock Market in 1997 your stock is worth the same as it was then.  Is that what you call investing.  You could have left it under the mattress and ended up with the same thing, except you wouldn’t have fooled yourself into thinking that it was worth more 2 years ago and you wouldn’t be hurting today realizing that it is worth the same, or less if you count inflation over the 10 year period.  Hopefully we won’t see deflation.

Stock Market Investing really looks like it may be heading back to the 1930′s.  Not old enough to remember the 1930′s, me neither.  But I can read and watch history videos on the internet and on the history channel.  Also PBS’ Nova ran a great program last week called “The Great Depression”.  I thought that I had read enough about the subject but I learned a couple of things.  One, that the stock market was completely rigged by a handful of big shots.  Two, that once J.P. Morgan the man stopped a sell-off all buy himself by walking across the street into the board of trade and yelling that he was buying.  That was all that it took for the mass hysteria to subside.  Three, 5 months later no one man could stop the collapse, because several tried, including J.P. himself again.

Another thing that I never realized was that it took 25 years, yes I said TWENTY FIVE YEARS for the market to return to the highs of 1930′s.  That means it was way after World War 2 and Elvis Presley.  Our economic system was brought to its knees and it took a victory over Germany and the subsequent raiding of Germany’s scientists and (innovations) patents to turn the United States of America into the financial leader of the world.  Who knows how long it would have taken to get the market back without that war and infusion of talent and expertise.

I have felt an uneasiness about our economic situation for years.  I couldn’t understand how people were buying all of these big houses and complete neighborhoods were popping up everywhere I turned.  It didn’t make sense to me and I guess we all now know the reason why.  It didn’t make sense to loan people money on a house they couldn’t afford by banks and investment houses that didn’t have the capital to cover the mortgage if the homeowner defaulted. And then to make it even worse the Insurance Companies were brought in to insure the risk without a clue to what they were insuring or where or who.  Crazy.  It took 10 years or so but the roosters came home at last, and our financial empire is going down with it.

If you study the market or watch the programs on TV, my favorite is Closing Bell on Bloomberg and Fast Money on CNBC.  Fast Money is excellent and lively and full of ideas daily.  It is on at 5:00 pm Eastern time.  Anyway, you now can see that the market is not following any fundamentals anymore.  Strong balance sheets or cash on hand or a great CEO or Warren Buffett buying your stock and telling everyone that can listen to buy and hold, nothing has stopped the collapse.  What I didn’t mention about that Nova “The Great Depression” is that quite a few of those big shots lost everything they owned.  J.P. Morgan didn’t, but almost.  I’m afraid that Warren Buffett might be falling into this category himself now.  I know he is the most successful trader in our generation, but all of his success came in a different climate than what we have now.

Mr. Buffett bought shares of Goldman Sachs 2 months ago and has lost 50% of his value.  This has never happened to Mr. Buffett and I bet he is starting to feel like the rest of us on a trade we’ve made that is moving in the wrong direction.  Except he spent $5 Billion dollars!!! This isn’t the only thing that he is losing money on and if you have been paying attention you may have noticed that today 13 of the 30 Dow Jones Industrials hit their 52 week low.  If you are into technical trading you know that that is a really bad sign.  The bottoms were blown through today also which means now we must be searching for a new bottom for the markets, all three of them, the DOW, the NASDAQ, and the S & P 500.  We are in a free fall with no idea where we will land.

So when I say Buy and Hold Investing is dead, I’m just looking at the situation through clear glasses, not the rosey ones that I usually use.  When fundamentals doesn’t matter and confidence induced allegories doesn’t matter and the Federal Reserve backing your assets doesn’t matter, BUY AND HOLD IS DEAD.  But there is a way to take advantage of this market still.  Its in the DOLLAR.

But before I get ahead of myself I think that I should introduce you to probably one of the few people who had this figured out years ago, in fact, he has written 2 books on the subject and if you google his name and go to youtube you will find massive video evidence even as early as two years ago and as late as April and May of this year of him predicting the housing collapse and then the investment bank collapse and next in line is our entire financial system.  Unfortunately, he has been right so far about many things.  His name is Peter Schiff.  He was on Fast Money today and he blew the doors off of the myths going around about this being a recession that lasts 6 to 9 months.  He called the recession a year ago and he also said gold would hit $1000 an ounce, which it did this summer.  He is now predicting Gold to hit $2000 an ounce by next year some time and possibly going much higher when the Dollar collapses.

Hopefully he is wrong, because if he is right our way of living is going to change on a drastic level.  Depending on your age, we may be about to have to go through what our Grandparents or Great-Grandparents went through in the 1930′s.  We have let our country go from being the largest producer of goods to being the largest consumer of goods.  The only thing we make are cars, tractors, weapons and corn and wheat.  We buy 1000 times more than we sell and we now as a country are in debt to the tune of $10 TRILLION DOLLARS.  Between Reagonomics and the past 8 years of Bushonomics with a little of Clintonomics thrown in we have destroyed our manufacturing base and now depend on the rest of the world to make things.

Peter makes the point that the person who makes things can sell them, the person who just manages money and fools people into thinking it is worth more than it is when it is not backed by anything (like Gold) is in a whole lot of trouble when the bubbles burst.  As I write this today the toy company Mattel, who makes Hot Wheels, is worth more money than General Motors, who make actual cars.  How can this be possible?  Only in an imaginary universe of inflated dollars and witchcraft like confidence in a system that has been preached repeatedly for 30 years.  The only thing holding us up is that the world still has some confidence in the Dollar.  But Peter thinks that that is about to end, and that will devastate our system.

So start investing in other countries currencies.  He has been right so many times and on so many subjects that I say what the hell do you have to lose?  I have found an automatic Forex Trading Program that is returning excellent results and you should take a look at it also.  Peter says the dollar is going to collapse so if you start investing in currencies now you can than be rich in Euro’s or Swiss Francs, which will make you extremely rich (compared to your neighbors) in Dollars.

Go check this out and get started in sustaining your lifestyle before its too late:

Today joining a home business income opportunity is very easy to do. As a matter of fact there are many different ways to make money at home and get started for free. This leads to what I feel is the most expensive mistake a person makes when starting a new home business opportunity.

Here is what I mean by that!

People search the Internet looking for free opportunities to make money at home. In many cases they do this because they just do not have any money to invest. In other instances they are worried that they are going to be taken advantage of. This is understandable because there certainly are a large number of scams on the Internet today.

For people who do not have any money to invest trying to start a home business online is probably a mistake, or at least it used to be. Now you can be trained for free and set up web pages for free and draw traffic for free. I didn’t even realize this until a couple of weeks ago when I happened to stumble upon it looking for something else.

To make money on the Internet today you need traffic coming to a moneymaking website, and the Thirty Day Challenge can teach you exactly that, and its FREE. The tools you will use are also FREE. They even teach you how to find a niche and how to test a niche product to prove that it is profitable before you ever invest one single penny. Can you believe that it is FREE?

Even the best products and websites online will not make money without visitors coming to those every day. That’s why it is so important to test first, especially for FREE, which is what the Thirty Day Challenge does for you. They offer free tools to help you test and offer unbelievable amount of video on exactly what to do to attract traffic. Did I mention that it is FREE?

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The best kind of traffic is the free traffic you will get from the search engines. The 30 Day Challenge teaches you how to attract the search engines and how to exploit search engines, for FREE. This is also referred to as organic traffic and it requires skills to create, but luckily you will be taught these skills for FREE!

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People believe that building a list in article marketing is a little difficult. But if you possess the right tools and tactics, obtaining that list is effortless. If you are a new guy in the domain of article marketing, then you have to uncover the basics first. Understand the appropriate ways of writing articles and learn how you can be read by people by submitting your articles to websites and e-zines.

Separately from this, teach yourself how to attract customers to look in on your website using your articles as the bait. Always incorporate links to your site and offer additional knowledge. Once you learn the techniques of these skills, then you should begin building your list. To help you out, here are certain things that you should learn so you will not have to put much effort and save time and energy.

Offer compact and absorbing information

Article marketing is genuinely worth trying. Though, most business outfits are trying it too and if you are not smart enough to counter them, your articles might not even be read. You can do this by offering compact, educational and compelling articles. Write ‘how to’ articles or real strategies. Like for instance, if your into an aquarium business, then write something about how to start an aquarium, discuss the necessary essentials and what are the frequent problems that a newbie will come upon. You can even begin a sequence of these articles so your readers will keep coming back.

Wow them with your articles

One of the best things that you can do in order to build your list is to wow people with your ideas and discussions. How do you do that? Read! Read the current news about your business, read the news and integrate it to your business. Get the latest information offered not just on the internet but also in your area.  You may believe that these things are a misuse of time, but it will give you an edge to your fellow article marketers considering you can deliver new and brilliant ideas.

Separately from this, always try and produce discussion amidst enthusiasts. In this way you can discover the things that are important to your customers and put them in your articles. An acceptable way to do this is to begin a forum on your website that discusses specific materials and issues around your business.

Offer subscription

Ask people to subscribe to your free articles. You can do this by making a weekly column or article that deals with the exact subject related to your product. If people are interested, they will most likely subscribe to your articles. The best thing that you can get from this is that you can go straight to the person’s inbox and offer them deals. Just be sure that your article is good reading and integrate your product within the article itself.

Free is the key

Offering free knowledge is good, but offering it without even obtaining the e-mail address of your customer is bad. Here’s what you have to do when you begin offering free articles. First, offer a basic article that gives a general aspect of the various articles on your site. And then offer them access to all the articles if they register to your site. In this way, you get the reader to provide bits of information and you can start communicating with them through their e-mails. Most people who register are genuinely interested in your free articles, so that means they are actually possible customers.

Apply the steps noted above, and you can be certain that your list will begin growing. Always bear in mind that article marketing is an inexpensive way to get new visitors to your website and possibly become your customer.  These strategies are time savers and stress busters, and they can make certain that you maintain your share of customers.

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Yesterday I gave you 5 of the 10 mistakes that every investor makes. This includes everyone from stock brokers to day traders to real estate investors, we all fail at one of these every once in a while. But it is better to be forewarned than to be left holding the bag after making a simple mistake.

When people think of investing they do not necessarily think in terms of all of there appreciable assets. That would be a mistake. You should be trying to increase your net worth on all of your investments throughout your lifetime. You will probably need it by the time you reach retirement so keep your eye on the prize. Optimize each asset and investment and you will do well.

Mistakes 6 through 10 are as follows:

Mistake #6 – Failing to Readjust Portfolio

There is a good reason why financial advisers stress having abalanced, diversified portfolio – because you will always have losers. By being adequately diversified in the proper asset classes, you
balance your risk and reward by distributing your funds in a way that are in line with your financial goals. Depending on your age, risk tolerance and investment horizon, there are recommendations on how you should divvy up your capital. Here is a chart that I found at Bankrate.com, a very good site.

Asset Allocation Table

As some asset classes will earn more than others, over time your portfolio will become unbalanced and require you to make adjustments to get back on track. Likewise, if your investing rules are to have $1,000 in shares spread across 5 stocks, your portfolio will also require some maintenance. As a result of some stocks increasing in value and others decreasing, you may need to sell where you experience gains in order to buy more shares that are experiencing loses and are still great stocks to own.

Mistake #7 – Denying Defeat

When an investment doesn’t go the way it was intended to, investors often make a big mistake of holding on to their losers in hopes that they will rebound. This should not be the case, as the investor’s rules should have a clear exit strategy for both winning and losing positions.

Nobody wins all of the time, and admitting that you were wrong can be a tough thing to do. If an investment goes south, it’s important to ask why and re-evaluate the position by asking:

• Was something overlooked and you inaccurately valued the stock?

• Did something change fundamentally, such as a change in management, decrease in sales because of a new competitor, or a change in laws?

• Is this just a short-term reaction that provides an even greater opportunity?

How you decide when enough is enough is up to you. There is no perfect answer as to when to sell a losing stock. Some financial planners recommend a loss of 10% in value, others use a dollar amount or a percentage of total capital.

Mistake #8 – Improperly Valuing Investments

Just because a market takes a sudden dip doesn’t mean the investment is all of a sudden a bargain buy.  This goes for both real estate and equities markets.  Stocks, for example, have been on a bull run since 2002, but at the end of 2007 and the start of 2008 a great deal of volatility occurred.  Technology stocks, among others, took a beating.  While technology stocks have significantly decreased at the time this article is being published, they are cheap relative to where they were a year ago.

This does not necessarily make them a no-risk investment. Cheap stocks can always get cheaper. There is still plenty of room for these stocks to fall in order to be rationally valued.  Just remember that because there is some instability in the market, that doesn’t mean it serves as an immediate buying opportunity for cheap stocks.

It would, however, be worth determining a suitable entry point and keeping a close eye on, but don’t jump in just because prices are down from yesterday’s highs.  Secondly, past performance should not be an indicator of future performance when picking stocks or mutual funds. While a history of providing shareholders with great returns is an important factor when selecting equities, it by no means guarantees future results.

Mistake #9 – Acting on Stock Tips

Think about this: A friend has a tip from another friend who works for a company that is about to report a very strong earnings report. He urges you to jump on the stock in order to make a pile of money on a “sure thing.” The recommendation sounds tempting. You toss and turn all night as you think about how much money you can make if your friend is right. In the morning you decide instead of just buying the stock, you’ll buy 100 call options and make 10 times the amount of money you would with a stock.

Obviously this decision has a few problems. For one, it constitutes insider trading, which is illegal. Secondly, it violates any rules of protecting your downside by not doing your own research first and determining if this is a company worth owning. Maybe most importantly, what does your friend know about investing? Is he qualified to be giving you expert financial investing advice? Why are you trusting your money on a tip?

Avoid listening to the wrong people who are not qualified to be giving you advice, do your own due diligence, and stick to your rules. If professional investors cannot accurately predict the direction of the market, chances are your friend is not capable of giving you advice. Similarly, just because an analyst suggests that a stock is overvalued during a television interview, this is not a good enough reason to run out and sell the stock.

Mistake #10 – Timing the Market

Because the stock market is a result of company earnings and forecasts, investor psychology, and the institutional house’s ability to move markets in a particular direction with enormous positions, the stock market cannot be predicted accurately. You may be lucky and make an accurate prediction once in a while, but you can also hit black jack at any table in Las Vegas. Trying to time the market is a loser’s game, and for the long term investor it should be an irrelevant concept.

As an investor your focus should be to regularly invest in a well diversified portfolio. By regularly investing you take advantage of the market fluctuations by buying more shares when the market goes down, and being a part of the winning crowd when it reverses. This is known as, “dollar cost averaging.” Market timing does not have a place in the wealth equation. The only thing worth timing is to be in the stock market, because over time history proves that it will only go up. That’s the only way to outsmart the market.

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Not sure where to turn to find your stock? The best idea is to find a couple of supply sources for your items so that if one dries up during a busy period, you won’t be left high and dry.

1. Garage Sales

Garage sales can be a great opportunity to pick up potentially valuable items selling for pennies. However, they do require a regular time commitment and a lot of patience! You’ll quite likely travel around 5-8 sales before you find anything suitable. Going around garage sales requires planning and rising early. The best idea is to look through the morning papers as soon as they arrive. Plan your route to make most efficient use of your time so that you are not doubling back. Make a list of items you would like to find and the maximum amount you would pay to make a profit. And finally, don’t forget to take cash! Take small bills and some change as most garage sale owners only have a small amount on hand. It’s a waste of everyone’s time if you have to race down to the ATM machine. Garage sales can be useful sources, but they rely on luck and have a high time cost per item. Thus, serious sellers don’t rely on garage sales as their sole provider.

2. Liquidation sales

Liquidation sales are a fantastic way of finding brand-name items at enormous discounts. Check your newspapers and look for sales in your area. Before buying from a liquidator check to see why the goods are being sold. Most of the time liquidation sales take place for legitimate reasons such as company bankruptcy, store relocation and so on. However, it always pays to check as you don’t want to end up with a pile of stock you can’t shift. Another thing – don’t bother with liquidation stock that is outside the scope of your business. There is no point buying liquidation bicycle equipment just because it’s cheap when you only sell jewelry.

Alternatively, you can find liquidation sites on the Internet – one such site is http://www.liquidation.com. These sites make it extremely easy to buy liquidation, particularly if you live in an outlying area. One thing – just make sure that the possibility of damaged stock and used or returned items included in the lots is small or non-existent.

Liquidation sales are a great way to supplement your stock, but they can’t be relied upon to restock the shelves.

3. Estate sales

Estate sales can be a goldmine for anyone selling jewelry, vintage clothing, books, furniture and so on. Once again, you need to have an idea of how much you can afford to spend before you go. Don’t forget to buy items your customers would like, rather simply getting caught up in your own enthusiasm for what is for sale. Note that estate sales run by an agent are unlikely to garner the same bargains as one run by the family.

4. Clearance stores

At certain times of the year, most major stores will have a stock clear-out sale. Some of these sales give you the opportunity to buy goods 50% or more below the regular retail value. This can be a fantastic opportunity to find items to sell – or replenish your stocks. Good clearance sales can be equal to or even below a good wholesale price. Don’t forget to overlook small hobby shops in your area with clearance sales either. If you know the store is going to have clearance sales regularly, then this can be one method of getting stock.

5. Wholesalers

Wholesalers are the most reliable method of sourcing goods. While the initial process can be time consuming at first, it is effort that pays off. When you have found a wholesale, you now have certainty of when you are going to receive stock and how much you will have to pay for it. The best way to find wholesalers is to use a directory. Directories remove the risk of dealing with illegitimate wholesalers and give you some peace of mind when dealing with wholesalers and manufacturers from China. Wholesalers should be the mainstay behind your product sourcing.

6. Auctions – Specialized.

There are a lot of niche items that have their own fan base or collector. One example is Lionel trains. You can go to auctions 3 or 4 times a year and find deals all around. If that is your specialty you will know what is worth it and what isn’t. Half the people at the auction don’t and 80% of the people bidding online won’t. This is a very profitable business if you can develop the knowledge of your niche items.

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