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		<title>Free Problem Solving Information</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you click on this article out of curiosity or do you really need some help? How can we help ourselves and our families financially as gas prices rise and jobs fail? How can we get the best advice when we are stressed out and need answers? How can we better our family life? Is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Did you click on this article out of curiosity or do you really need some help? How can we help ourselves and our families financially as gas prices rise and jobs fail? How can we get the best advice when we are stressed out and need answers? How can we better our family life? Is everything getting out of control or is it just me? This article is designed for people that are really wanting to get to the heart of their problems and get real solutions. </p>
<p>Write down your problems by summing them up in a few words. Why? Because by writing them down you will be able to eventually sort them out, analyze them, then prioritize them.<br />
Example:<br />
1. Finances.<br />
2. Problems getting along with spouse or kids.<br />
3. Problems paying mortgage or rent.<br />
4. Health problems.<br />
5. Living in fear, anxieties.<br />
6. Stressed out.<br />
7. No one will listen to me.<br />
8. I am lonely.</p>
<p>Ok, now if you look at the list above and see one of the problems that fit exactly what you are dealing with, put it at the top of your list on paper. If it isn&#8217;t the biggest problem you are dealing with, list the biggest one first, the second biggest problem second and so on and so forth. If you can do this you have started on the road to resolution. Maybe you won&#8217;t take the time to even do this. Then forget about the rest of this article.</p>
<p>If you have listed your priority problems, the next thing you need to do is put the word &#8220;why?&#8221; next to each problem listed. when you are able to list why you can move on to solutions. If solutions involve something you need someone else to do, forget it. Focus on solutions you can do. Then you will get somewhere.</p>
<p>The biggest problems will take more time, but as you analyze them, you will be able to list possible solutions that you can try. For instance, if finances are the biggest issue, you may need to take one thing at a time. Write down possible things that will help. Can I lower my utility bills? Can I lower my car payment or eliminate it? Can I lower my food bill etc. etc.</p>
<p>Now, you will need to write up a plan for each item. Using our example of finances, your plan might read:<br />
1. Finances. Why? &#8230;Payments are higher than income. Lost job. Unexpected bills. </p>
<p>1a.  Possible solutions:<br />
Can I lower my utility bills? Can I lower the amount I pay for gas in the car each month? Can I take on another job? Can I lower my mortgage? Can I calculate my income versus my payments and see how I can make some changes? Can I arrange a special payment plan?</p>
<p>1b. Plan of action:<br />
Call alternate utility companies that lower my bills.<br />
Spend X amount of time taking a job that may be different or less pay until I find what I am looking for. Call credit card companies. Check on value of car. Calculate cost of gas each month. Calculate savings by more fuel efficient car. Get coupons printed from on-line resource or newspaper for groceries. Sit down and discuss with family.</p>
<p>1c. Write down your results for each plan of action you listed. When you see some positive results in your plan, you can continue to use the same formula for finding more solutions.</p>
<p>This information that you received free is brought to you buy the <a href="http://freesamplespot.com">freebie sample</a> site, where you can sign up to win free stuff.</p>
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		<title>5 Tips for Article Marketing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:49:09 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Internet marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking to increase traffic to your website or blog? If so then pay attention because Article marketing works. That&#8217;s how I drive traffic to my sites and why am I so sure that it works. To put it simply I&#8217;ve proven it by getting 50,000 unique visitors to my new website in less than 8 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Looking to increase traffic to your website or blog? If so then pay attention because Article marketing works. That&#8217;s how I drive traffic to my sites and why am I so sure that it works. To put it simply I&#8217;ve proven it by getting 50,000 unique visitors to my new website in less than 8 weeks just by following the five steps outlined below.</p>
<p>I want to keep this article short and to the point so I’m just going to give you a few quick tips to improve your article success.</p>
<p>1.  Every day, create one original article. Simply by being consistent in creating content, you&#8217;ll eventually dominate 90% of your competition in a very short time period. If you create too much you won&#8217;t be able to promote it properly, however I want to make sure that you create at least one new article for the next 100 days. </p>
<p>2.  Use spinning technology to create several variations of your articles and posts and submit them to as many article directories and blogs as you can find willing to post them. I take an extra 30 minutes per article and re-write all of the sentences 3 times.  The next step I take is that I use the same software that creates the variations to submit my content to the top 200 article directories online.  Because I&#8217;m creating unique articles by spinning the content, my articles are unique variations wherever they&#8217;re submitted, and I don&#8217;t have any problems with duplicate content. </p>
<p>3.  You should link back to your original piece of content in your resource box. That way if Google thinks that it’s just a bunch of duplicate content, (which it won’t, if you re-write the sentences), at least it will all point back to your original article, and your website will come up first in the search engines.  I’ve demonstrated that this works with more than 50 competitive, unique keyword phrases.  </p>
<p>4.  Promote your original piece of content using a short, 30 second video. All you have to do next is use one of the free video promotion services online to broadcast your video to the top sharing sites.  Then you want to direct your video to link back to your original article.  I use Traffic Geyser for my video promotion.  You can use a free online service called TubeMogul as well, it just doesn&#8217;t work quite as fast or as effectively as Traffic Geyser.</p>
<p>5.  Bookmark your original piece of content, and your YouTube video using OnlyWire.com, which is a free social bookmarking service that will submit your original article to 25 or so social bookmarking sites, which gives everything you do additional links and exposure.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s all for now!  If you do those five steps once per day, every day, you’ll beat out your competition in a couple of months.  </p>
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		<title>Cashcrate.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Internet marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cashcrate.com]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IFW's]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across Cashcrate.com a few months ago and signed up but as usual I never got back to using it. At the time I was involved in learning all the ins and outs of IFW&#8217;s &#8211; Incentivized Freebie Websites. I&#8217;m not an expert by any means but I followed along with the Project Payday [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I came across <a title="Cashcrate.com Free Sign Up" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.cashcrate.com/1605286/1" target="_blank">Cashcrate.com</a> a few months ago and signed up but as usual I never got back to using it. At the time I was involved in learning all the ins and outs of IFW&#8217;s &#8211; Incentivized Freebie Websites. I&#8217;m not an expert by any means but I followed along with the Project Payday system and have been able to reliably make money on a daily basis both filling in trial offers for others (average $25 an offer) as well as paying others to fill in offers for me. (I pay out an average of $25 per offer but usually double my money ie. my payouts are $150 but the Advertising Incentive pays me $300 for 6 referrals)</p>
<p>That&#8217;s the basics of making money with IFW&#8217;s and it does work but you won&#8217;t get rich. If I put in a good 6 hour day I have made over $200 for my efforts. On lazy days I don&#8217;t make much more the $50. It really comes down to your ability to stay focused and organized. If you don&#8217;t mind tedious work and can keep what you are doing organized then give Project Payday a try, The best source of info about the system is here, <strong><a title="Project Payday" href="http://makemoneyforbeginners.blogspot.com/2007/01/project-payday-review-whats-ifw-how-to.html" target="_blank">What is Project Payday? </a></strong></p>
<p>Which brings me back to Cashcrate &#8211; it&#8217;s even easier to use than the Project Payday system and involves the same kind of work. In other words I should have looked closer at it when I first signed up. It goes hand in hand with IFW&#8217;s if you are already making money from trial offers but it&#8217;s perfect for those just new to this. Sign up is free of course and then you make money by completing offers, surveys etc. You won&#8217;t make as much money as Project Payday but you don&#8217;t have to do half the work either. It is pretty straight forward and you get paid monthly. I have only been using it for just over a month now and have made just under $500 &#8211; not bad for maybe 4-5 hours of work.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.cashcrate.com/1605286/2"target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><br />
    <img src="http://www.cashcrate.com/sigs/C4A1513F72" border="0"/><br />
</a></p>
<p>It&#8217;s as simple a way to earn money online that I have found. It&#8217;s free to join and if this doesn&#8217;t interest you &#8211; no loss &#8211; but you will make a few bucks just by joining. After that you make money depending on how much work you want to put in.</p>
<p>If interested you can sign up here <strong><a title="Cashcrate.com Free Sign Up" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.cashcrate.com/1605286/1" target="_blank">Cashcrate.com</a></strong></p>
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		<title>Web Marketing and Promotion</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What should a person or company look for when attempting to decide which web promotion agency to appoint? Where can you find an affordable web promotion service? These are the questions that I will be answering within this article.
It can be like a minefield when attempting to pick “the right” web promotion agency. They seemingly [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What should a person or company look for when attempting to decide which web promotion agency to appoint? Where can you find an affordable web promotion service? These are the questions that I will be answering within this article.</p>
<p>It can be like a minefield when attempting to pick “the right” web promotion agency. They seemingly all call themselves “SEO experts” or “web promotion experts” however this is one industry that lacks any relevant qualifications to justify such a title; this is something that needs to somehow change.</p>
<p>I have interests in a number of websites including ones about stuttering and about how to business cost cutting; I know from my own personal experiences about how hard it is to find a web promotion service that works.</p>
<p>In my opinion there is only one way that we can judge the merits of a web promotion company and that is by their past results. You may well find that many of them will shy away from letting you have access to these results – I wonder why? The web promotion specialists, and I am talking about the one’s that justify being called a specialist, will be more than happy to let you know which websites that they have been working on as well as the key phrases they have been promoting.</p>
<p>At this stage I would not just take their word for it and would therefore make a couple of phone calls asking something like:</p>
<p>“Hi, I am sorry to bother you. I believe that website1 have been promoting your company website and I am thinking of hiring them as well. I was just wondering how you found them thus far. Are you pleased with the overall service that they have provided?”</p>
<p>This may be slightly below the belt in the eyes of some of the readers of this article. It is certainly accepted in other areas of business therefore why not in SEO and web promotion tips? I sometimes think that some of the people in this industry think they are somehow different to any other business, and that they are actually better. Well this just so is not the case; in fact the SEO world is the laughing stock of other businesses; what with no recognized examination and so many scam artists, it really is time that this industry cleaned up its act!</p>
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		<title>The Art of Trading Options Online</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 01:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Investing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There was a time, some might even call it the old days, when he had to rely on broker to buy and sell stocks for you, and you paid for the privilege. The advent of the Internet has brought forth change and now investors make their own trades. Trading options online, which used to be [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There was a time, some might even call it the old days, when he had to rely on broker to buy and sell stocks for you, and you paid for the privilege. The advent of the Internet has brought forth change and now investors make their own trades. <a href="http://tradingoptionsonline.org/">Trading options online</a>, which used to be rather expensive in the way of commissions, has become available to almost anyone with a brokerage account, although many people still feel more comfortable with using a brokerage firm representative to place an order.</p>
<p>Trading in the stock market often requires same origins and carefully considering commissions is an integral part of your trading strategy. If you are comfortable with your own strategies for trading options your priority should be finding a brokerage firm that have sophisticated software and tools that can accommodate you, the investor, making your trades quickly and getting the best bid and ask prices. No matter how many advertisers you hear or see on the Internet, it would be best to stick with well-known brokerage firms. Trading options is not for beginners and you want to choose a firm that has in-house professionals dedicated to options trading can help you manage your options account. You can generally apply online through all the major brokerage firms and set up your account via your own personal computer.</p>
<p>If you choose to trade options on margin you will need to open a margin account. Since a margin account is essentially loaning them money and credit, you can expect a credit check and you will have to fill out a detailed questionnaire about your finances. Your newly chosen brokerage firm will want to know if you have the financial resources and the knowledge to handle a margin account. Your agreement will detail risk and before your account is approved, the brokerage firm will make sure you understand all the potential downside. If your credit is pristine, you generally will not have any problem getting the application approved. Having a margin account is similar to having a credit card. You can choose to use it but most people would be wise not to buy stocks on margin. But you can.</p>
<p>If you are a beginner to options trading, it is not necessary, perhaps not even recommended that you open a margin account. It is very easy to get into financial trouble using a margin account. It would be best for you to get comfortable with your trading strategy and experience before doing so. Margin agreements are not usually allowed on IRA or tax-deferred retirement accounts.</p>
<p>A lot of money can be made trading options. And lots of money can be lost trading options. Any brokerage firm that you choose will want to make sure that you understand the ins and outs of how to trade options, before giving you the approval on your brokerage account. If you have done your due diligence, studied options trading, educated yourself on the procedures, and paper traded options as a way to gain experience, you are ready for the show. Good luck.</p>
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		<title>Investing in Mutual Funds Is Not Popular</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One thing that is not very popular as it use to be is mutual fund investments. With this past year taking a beating in most all sectors, a great majority of fund holders took a beating too. Fund managers are in a quandary with what to tell those who have entrusted millions of dollars in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One thing that is not very popular as it use to be is mutual fund investments. With this past year taking a beating in most all sectors, a great majority of fund holders took a beating too. Fund managers are in a quandary with what to tell those who have entrusted millions of dollars in their hands.</p>
<p>Thankfully, not all funds went down though. Those who were careful about their investments, and put money in biotech funds actually did pretty well. Of course this was a matter of not simply investing, but being selective.</p>
<p>If you have been planning on investing in mutual funds, you may want to do your homework this year before investing too much money. Most of the money market funds that use to do well, and known by many as safe havens for cash are no longer cutting it. So before you throw money at something you may want to get an account at <a href="http://www.morningstar.com/">Morning Star</a> and begin looking at some of the top picks that are expected to rise based on needs of the economy rather than just good appearances.</p>
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