Archive for December, 2007
29.12.07
Various states across US have different lemon laws. Lemon law California differs from those in other states. It is important to know the fine intricacies of Lemon law California. Lemon law California is also known as Motor Vehicle Warranty Rights Act. The California lemon law states that any vehicle purchase is a major consumer purchase. If such a vehicle turns out to be defective or if is found to cause serious injuries or even hardships to the consumer due to its defects, then a consumer is entitled to be made aware of his rights. Under the consumer rights if the defects or hardships are proved in the Federal court of law and if the vehicle is under warranty period, then a consumer can call for a lemon law suit.
Lemon law California and Federal warranty law protect consumers from being stuck with ‘Lemon’ automobiles, computer lemons and other defective consumer products. According to Lemon Law in California, if any car or computer is turns out to be a Lemon, then a consumer may be entitled to your money back, a replacement or a cash settlement.
According the Lemon law California, the owner of a motor vehicle or the owner’s designated agent may make a complaint concerning a defect in a motor vehicle that is covered by a manufacturer’s, converter’s, or distributor’s warranty agreement applicable to the vehicle. Any complaint regarding a lemon vehicle must be made in writing to the applicable dealer, manufacturer, converter, or distributor. The written complaint about a Lemon must specify each defect in the vehicle that is covered by the warranty. The owner may also invoke the board’s jurisdiction by sending a copy of the complaint to the board. Any case regarding the lemon vehicle, if not resolved by owner and dealer or manufacture privately is entitled for a hearing.
Before filing a suit for any damaged vehicle for lemon law California certain points must be ensured for proper proceedings in a federal court of law. All copies of documentation concerning the car and all the repair records should be kept in proper order. A track of details such as when was the vehicle serviced, where the vehicle was purchased from, from whom the vehicle was purchased etc. Technical service bulletins concerning the car should be called for. The VIN or Vehicle Identification Number for a lemon vehicle should be noted specifically. This VIN number is a series of 17 numbers and letters that are unique to each vehicle. It is located on a metal plate at the lower corner of the front windshield on the driver’s side. There are various attorneys who specialize in lemon law California such attorneys should be specifically consulted for filing any lemon law suit.
A vehicle report history should also be kept in order for any reference before filing the suit for lemon law California. A vehicle report history can be easily obtained from the internet. Various agencies provide free vehicle history report in California. A vehicle history report can be generated by providing the VIN to any of the websites pertaining to vehicles in California. The vehicle history report easily reveals any problems that might not be visible to untrained eye. This could be major damage from collision, fire, hail or water damage, odometer rollback or tampering, lemon or junk status, and much more.
Lemon law California states all the provisions to prevent a consumer from being stuck with a lemon. The best way to get rid of lemon car is to act and file a suit as soon as possible.
Earl Powers, US Lawyer and Car Lemon Laws expert - focusing on What Is The Lemon Law and Used Car Lemon Laws
28.12.07
The Internet is full of thriving industries, generating billions of cyber dollars for real life people. Whether through employment, entrepreneurial prowess or sheer blind luck the Internet is a financial playground of opportunity ready to be explored. Many people are dissuaded by many of the disparaging statements and supposed risks that are involved in Internet commerce, but there are a number of completely safe and 100% legitimate industries that people of all abilities and financial backing can try out. In fact one of the most widespread and common Internet programs is also one of the most successful in terms of potential revenue and in the customer base, this is known as affiliate marketing.
Affiliate marketing programs have sprung up everywhere in an effort to offer online advertising for the largest industries, such as the online gaming industry. Fields such as online casinos have generated unparalleled success through the simple method of advertising through a network of websites. For inexperienced newcomers to the marketing program it may sound a rather daunting prospect, but it is in fact very simple but hugely successful. All that is required from a new affiliate is that they have a website and are prepared to host advertising banners and links within that site. If this is not an issue then there are a number of casino programs waiting to be signed up to. There are no restrictions on who can join or even the content of your site, the sign up is free and simple to complete.
But despite all the assurances about ease of use and the free exchange of advertising materials, new recruits may still have questions regarding just how people earn money just by hosting a few adverts. The answer to this is actually very straightforward. Firstly each of the links that the affiliate program supplies is coded with an individual URL, unique to your site. This identifies when a player joins the casino just which site has forwarded them on. The player can then be assigned an individual code, which will then mark out each time they play, how much money has been generated for you.
The Casino affiliate program largely works on a market share of how a player performs on a site for the duration of their stay there. The affiliate can earn a percentage sometimes in excess of 35% for each of their players, which when added up over time can often lead to a fairly significant sum. Through offering this hugely lucrative award scheme the casinos gain loyal and hard working affiliates who consistently provide new customers, in order to follow their own capital gains. The greatest thing about this system for the inexperienced user, is that it is all done automatically, with some sites even tracking the activity of your members so that you can see just how your business is going. Unlike the casinos the affiliates never stand to lose a penny, if a player wins and therefore creates negative profit, the affiliate remains untouched, with only the casino bearing the brunt of the failure. Making it a risk and cost free venture ready and waiting to be explored by any Internet user.

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28.12.07
There are not too many opportunities while running a business where there is a defined period of work stoppage, thus giving you the time needed to go over the details of your product or service.
Right now, the NHL’s little details are eagerly waiting to be re-defined, yet are being completely ignored. While the major issue of a work stoppage should be addressed, this is also a time when the NHL could be on the verge of breaking out into the public eye. Even though I am a die-hard hockey fan, I can see that the NHL is not the “4th” sport in America. It’s Nascar. How did this happen?
What Nascar did, and what they are continuing to do is exactly what the NHL needs to do when they come back to work. Market the individuals. Sure they marketed Gretzky and Lemieux, but after them, how many casual fans could name 10 other players in the league?
With all of the bad press that the NBA and Baseball are currently getting, the NHL should take advantage of this. In this rare time of reflection, the NHL should be aggressively thinking about it’s comeback strategy. It should make rule changes to open up scoring. That’s what the public wants to see. The NFL listens. They make changes to keep their game on top. History be dammed, they continue to stride for the ultimate user experience.
In today’s world of instant information and numerous choices, you need to create as much saturation as possible. You need to personify the user experience to as many different types of people out there. That’s why there will always be fans of Lemieux, easily addressing class, style and talent - attributes that most people aspire to - and there will be fans of players such as Darius Kasparaitus, of whom they can see his hard work, although misguided sometimes in his decision making. Everybody makes mistakes, but “blue collar” types appreciate hard work and effort.
Knowledgeable fans appreciate a great stay-at-home defenseman. The casual fan would think the guy is a bum since he can’t score. The solution is to convey to the casual fan the value of that type of player. You can’t have a defense consisting of 6 Paul Coffey’s - As exciting as that may seem to be, it would liken hockey more to Lacrosse, rather than the highly skilled sport it is.
The NHL needs to spotlight the young high flying aces such as St. Louis, Kovalchuck and Nash. By marketing these players in their youth, there will be time for the casual fan to absorb the impact they have on the game when they watch the sportcenter highlights.
This is where the NHL could put a huge stamp into the public eye. Instead of marketing the teams, use the marquee players. Most teams have at 3 or more players that could be used in this manner. Look at NBA - do you think there is no one in America who hasn’t heard of Lebron James? It doesn’t matter whether you watch the sport or not, but even the casual fan knows who he is.
This is the time for the NHL to break away from it’s early and conservative 20th century thinking, and embrace the new century with a new sense of purpose. They can’t say there are no examples, as all one has to do is look at the NFL. True, the NFL has the biggest TV contract, but they changed their game to fit what the audience wanted, which in turn is what will sell advertising revenue.
Americans love heroes. We love the underdog too. Every hockey game has these elements. Back in the 80’s the big bad Oliers led by Gretzky coming into town was an event - because you knew you were going to see many goals scored, they were the defending champs, and they had the best player at that time. Of course the hometown team didn’t have much of a chance to beat them, or did they?
People want more than just the action of the sport. Just about every sport played professionally can be played by any spectator. What makes a game great is the added element of drama. The guy who takes 20 stitches to his face in the 1st period, and then comes back in to score the game-winning goal in the 3rd. That’s what people love to talk about. That’s why the playoffs are so exciting - every game has certainty, and a new hero is born every playoff year. Most go back into obscurity the following year, while some maintain that momentum for the rest of their careers.
It’s from these moments of transformations when you see that 2nd-line winger becoming a clutch goal-scoring power forward.
It’s in these moments when a spectator begins to believe that this former unkown player is not just good, but that they are a gamer.
It’s in these moments that a spectator believes that player can win a game for them at any moment. It’s one of the rare times one can witness a hero being born. This is why a team will always have the passion of a spectator, but a hero will always have their hearts.
That is what the NHL needs to display. Office talk. Spectacular highlights. Things that people remember seeing. Things that the average human can’t do, but a professional athlete can. This why Americans identify so well to heroes. It’s the belief that at any given moment in time, that they too, could be great, if only for a brief shining moment.
About the Author
Paul has been a rabid Hockey fan since he first fell on face on the ice when he was 5. Since then, he’s come to appreciate the skill and talent needed to become a great NHLer. Paul can be reached at: paul.bliss@gmail.com
27.12.07
The answer to this, in various cases, is yes. Areas such as Costa del Sol currently seem costly for average budgets though there remain heaps of good buys to be had in various regions of Spain. Flats in the Costa Blanca remain available starting at 100,000 euros (£69,750) and villas starting at near 190,000 euros (£132,500). Around Murcia and the Costa Almeria property prices are proportionally lower priced with restoration projects starting around 75,000E (£52,300) and villas starting at near 160,000 euros 112,000 pounds If you buy off plan guarantees that the worth of the property boosts as the the project unfolds and nears completion. Folks buying early in the whole building work win the best deal and return on investment.
Property around Spain is still rising around value and with by far the simplicity of access from each and every European airports it continues to be by far the most visited place for each and every year sun. Still a shrewd investment, with by far the addional benefit of amazing breaks or possiblly an excellent place for full time inhabitation.
There remain superb regions in Spain that the visitors & investors have not visited. For instance the Alpujarras area in the south in Spain is a stunning, mountained area that is a cornucopia in unknown peace & stunning prices. The sun kissed strands in Costa Tropical are not too distant & airport access is no problem via Granada or Almeria.
Stretching southwards from your foothills of your Sierra Nevada, your Alpujarras holds your regional capital city, your port city of Almera, as its south eastern border, with your sea side town of Motril in Granada making up your south western border. The region has a rich diversity in weather inside a tiny range - you could be loafing on a sub tropical beach barely twenty minutes from your flat or you might be skiing on your snows of your Sierra Nevada barely two hours away, subject to your mood and your time of year! People love buying property in spain if they can. Check out Property Line.
Property values in the area are currently at impossibly great levels for near roughly Spain. A village house in the vicinity of Valor in need of renovation for near roughly 26,000 Euros less than 20,000 pounds. A 2 bed re-vamped property nearby for near roughly 155,000E 108,165. A 3000 meter square building site for near roughly 26,000E less than 20,000 pounds. New 2 bed apartments for roughly 85,000E fifty nine thousand pounds. Cortijos in need of renovation for near roughly near 50,000 Euros 35 thousand pounds. Renovated cortijos for near roughly near 100,000E 70,000 pounds. Why don’t you have your own finca built for roughly 120,000E (£83,750) or even obtain a fully functioning commercial olive producing farm - twenty-four hectares for near roughly 495,000E (£345,450). There are opportunities to obtain hotels, restaurants or even B & B businesses to provide you with a functioning income in this up and coming area much favored by the Spanish population for near roughly their holidays - and all this at values the rest of Spain has forgotten about.
Investors would be well advised to act fast though. News of this previously secluded location is coming out. Prices are starting to rise & in the next few years the bona fide bargains here should be a thing of the past.
27.12.07
“Here’s A Quick and Simple Way To Find Hot Niche Markets”
In This Article You’ll Learn..
* How To Increase Your Chance For Success 100 Fold
* Why Using One Keyword Is Better Than Using A Phrase
* How To Let The Market Place Come To You
* Finding PPC Ads For As Little As 5 Cents Per Click
Dear Online Business Owner,
Have you been finding it extremely difficult building your online business, and trying to grow your list?
Well, if you have, then I’ve got a solution that’s going to make building up your web business as fast, and simple as can be.
Before you do anything else, you need to first find a hot niche market that you know something about and can get involved with, without spending months of your time doing research.
Never build, create, or try to sell anything until you find an existing niche market first.
I can’t stress this enough. To many people start with an idea, then they go and try to find or create a market for their idea.
This is totally the wrong way to do it. Find a hot niche market first, then create a product that niche market is looking for.
Your chance of success will then increase by 100 fold!
Find That Hot Niche
Now, let’s find that hot niche your looking for…
Go to the “Overture Keyword Selector Tool” here:
http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/
Type in “one” word that summarizes your area of interest you want to get involved with.
It could be cars, homes, boats, fishing, whatever, just focus on one word for the moment.
This will bring up a giant list of search phrases that people are using that word in. The key here is to find a hot niche market that you know something about, and is of interest to you.
Rather than trying to focus your efforts on long search phrases, and hoping people are searching for those phrases, use your main keyword (one word), and let the market come to you.
The search tool will show you what people are searching for, and this will save you hours of messing around.
Enter your single keyword, and click the search button, and let’s find a hot niche market.
So, to do that, click on the phrase that matches as close to your area of interest as possible. This will in turn bring up even tighter “niche” phrases.
Depending on how large the search terms turn out to be, this could be done several times.
Let’s Look At An Example
Let’s look at an example:
A search for “boat” brings up the phrase “boat online trader”, and at the time of this writing, there are 6944 searches for that phrase every 60 days.
That means that there are approximately 115 searches every day for this phrase.
The tighter the phrase, the better, but you also want to try and stay in the range of 3000+ searches performed every 60 days as a rule of thumb.
Also at the time of this writing, there was only one Google ad running for this search phrase, so that means you could start running ads right now for as little as 5 cents per click!
Can you say Cha-Ching!..?
Okay, so maybe you know nothing about boats or boat trading and selling, but I’ll guarantee you someone does. And, that someone could take this market and really do something with it.
Start a boat trader newsletter, and start building a list of super targeted boat buyers, sellers, and traders, and you have a buying niche market in the palm of your hands.
That’s gold!
Now all you have to do is some simple market testing to make sure that this market is going to produce the results you want.
If it does, then start putting together a powerful website, and newsletter list, and start giving these people want they are looking for. Information!
Now that you know how to find super hot niche markets, go search with single keywords that are of interest to you, and see what you can find to start building your hot online business with today.
To Your Success,
Patrick
This article was written by Patrick Mahoney of http://www.PMMG-Marketing.Com.
Patrick is an online entrepreneur with extensive background in
website development and PHP programming. His latest program is
the Niche Business
Builder, a PHP program that helps you create
niche business websites with point and click ease. You’ll find
it at: http://www.pmmg-marketing.com/
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27.12.07
A few years ago I was asked to teach a class on marketing
strategies for a group of unemployed job seekers. As I thought
of how I could best help this group of highly qualified, but
very depressed executive level people, I came up with the
following strategy that will also help you market your business.
The first question I posed to the group was this: “What problems
are you VERY good at solving?”
This is a tough question and it took the individuals in my class
a lot of hard thinking to come up with a thorough answer. What I
was trying to get them to do was to look at their job skills in
terms of problem solving, rather than experience. Anyone who is
skilled at a job has mastered a set of problems he or she is
very good at solving.
The same thing applies to your company. Really, really put your
mind to coming up with a focused list of specific problems your
business is VERY good at solving for your customers. I want you
to think of some poor manager’s list of performance goals his
boss has handed him to accomplish, or else. Don’t stop thinking
until you can define these problems in almost the same kind of
wording that will appear on this poor manager’s performance
evaluation next quarter.
This process will force you to look at what your business does
from the inside out. Not from the view of an insider looking out
at all the possible customers out there, but as an outsider who
has a problem and is looking for some outfit that can hand them
a solution on a silver platter.
Once you have reduced everything you and your team do to a very
short list of problems you are very good at solving, then your
marketing merely becomes a matter of helping that
problem-plagued manager (and others like hime) find you.
Yes, I really did say, “merely” and I was totally serious.
Here’s why. When anyone has a significant problem that causes
pain, loss of sleep, stress and all kinds of other
unpleasantness, THAT PERSON IS LOOKING FOR A SOLUTION.
For example, I am very good at ghost writing articles for the
business person who cannot, or is too busy, to write them for
herself. Oh, she knows she could really enhance her reputation
and marketability if she could write and publish a number of
articles related to her fields.
But since these this individual cannot write these articles for
herself, she is looking for a solution to this problem. I am the
solution and she is looking for me.
In your business, it is important to understand that there are
people out there in your marketplace looking for you right now.
They don’t know your name or phone number, but they are looking
for the solutions you can deliver to them.
So all your marketing efforts from now on, must be directed
toward helping these people find you. Lay your trail of bread
crumbs with every marketing step you take and make sure the
trail leads right to your front door. They will find you.
COPYRIGHT (C) 2005, Charles Brown
27.12.07
In any legal proceedings before the court of law, the application of the rules of evidence apply so as to accept the admissibility of a data message in evidence, the ground which data message and electronic communication be accepted before courts and how the course of legal proceeding best evidence can be produced and admitted. The civil proceeding it is the legal obligation shouldered on plaintiff to produce electronic evidence and plaintiff adducing it could reasonably be expected to obtain and produce before the court on the grounds that it is in its original form. The admission of electronic often not accepted as computer based file or records, the plaintiff have to produce it, some how, he has to produce into paper based form for acceptance as evidence before the court of law.
The information produced in the form of a data message shall be given due evidential weight as comparison with paper based evidence irrespective fact of non-admission before court and their inability to interpret the same because technicality of evidence. In evidence what ever form it is produced must fulfill certain assessment standards and the electronic message must be given same the evidential weight as paper based evidence, there are various factors they have to rely on the manner in which the data message was generated, stored, communicated and produced before the court of law. The integrity of the information the manner it is recorded by authenticated authorities and the manner in which its originator was identified, and any other relevant factor .
The admissibility of electronic record has recognized in electronic transaction ordinance 2002,
“…No document, record, information, communication or transaction shall be denied legal recognition, admissibility, effect, validity, proof or enforceability on the ground that it is in electronic form and has not been attested by any witness.”
First if we cannot meet the evidential standard of evidence acceptable to court of law then we cannot produce it as evidence to proof something. The secondly issue relates to whether a courts have been prepared and trained to consider the digital document as evidence in the case at all and if the courts are unable to adjudicate the matter because of their inability to comprehend the technicality of subject. We have to legislate on legal issue how the digital evidence can be exhibited meeting the legal standards required for it to be admitted into evidence, then it simply be used as proof of anything. The third issue is credibility of evidence; rather we have to do with persuading the court about the extent to which it can rely upon the digital document and integrity of procedure adopted to preserve the digital evidence. In other words, even if a digital document is admitted into evidence , the court still has to determine how much weight it is willing to give it.
For addressing these issues amendments have been made qunun-e-shahadat Order 1984 (law of evidence) have incorporated the provisions in our laws of evidence that can be used to allow for the admission of digital documents into evidence. Unfortunately, these are neither as modern nor as comprehensive as they should be and there is dire need of time for proper adjudication of dispute related with digital evidence we have to promulgate comprehensive laws on digital evidence.
This kind of uncertainty and question of reliance of evidence and admissibility have a severe chilling effect on the adoption of digital technologies and aggrieved parties are becoming reluctant to put file their dispute for legal adjudication before the courts. The authentication of electronic evidence and its admission as evidence is acceptable if these are printed and kept as record and the procedural requirement are fulfilled. The reliability of these types of evidence is becoming big challenge for our legal system.
The legal issue which tax system are confronting how to keep accurate books and records , although many taxpayers rely on computerized record keeping systems to a large extent for purpose of attaching evidence of transactions which has been originated as paper records in order to verify the accuracy of the electronic records. The credibility has to do with persuading the court about the extent to which it can rely upon the digital documents. In other words, even if a digital document is admitted into evidence, the court still has to determine how much weight it is willing to give to it. The electronic “documents” must be verified in order to minimize tax evasion.
Even taxpayers engaged in the sale of physical, as opposed to electronic goods can receive orders and issue invoices electronically. This is also an issue for non-tax businesses reasons. A recipient of an electronic order needs to verify and authenticate both that the order was sent by the proper person, and also needs to verify that the order was not altered in transit. There are various methods are available for authentication of documents, for example the public key encryption techniques, which are used by digital certification authorities identify digital locations of buyer and seller, and these technique can also be used to verify that electronic documents and records have not been tampered with. The “digital notarization” systems have been proposed in electronic transaction ordinance which intend to make it possible to verify the electronic documents and records rather they have been altered or not. In many countries certification of the digital document equivalent of a notary stamp which can be used to certify and seal digital records in content and time so that it can later be proved that the electronic record was created when claimed and was not altered. Taxing authorities within limit the auditing power can use these techniques to verify the authenticity of electronic transactions.
The central board of revenue provides necessary conditions for maintenance of the digital records as important as the business records that they have traditionally maintained on paper. In this context, they want to examine or retention policies for digital documents. However, for many companies, it is not sufficient for them to retain their digital documents for appropriate periods. If they become involved in litigation they may need to rely on these documentary documents to support their case. In such matter two issues emerge are important and interrelated. Firstly, will their documentary documents be admissible as evidence before a court of law as certificate copy of digital records? And secondly, if so, will the court consider these paper based record a credible source of information for imposition of e-commerce taxation?

The writer is an advocate of High Court and practicing immigration and corporate laws in Pakistan since September 2001. He is a self employed and pioneer in research on electronic commerce taxation in Pakistan. His articles were published widely in the critical areas of cyber crimes, electronic commerce, e-taxation and various other topics. He wrote LL.M thesis on titled “Legislation of electronic commerce taxation in Pakistan” in which he provided comprehensive legal proposals for statutory reconstruction of tax laws for purpose of imposition of taxation on e-business in Pakistan. Currently he is conducting is research on topic ‘Electronic commerce taxation: emerging legal issues of digital evidence’.
27.12.07
Buying consumer goods can trap you in the Rat Race!
This article will show you how and what to do to escape.
Consumerism is very seductive and insidious. It relies on scientific marketing to prey on your emotional needs and weaknesses.
The proposition is the satisfaction of your emotional needs by purchasing the “right” products. Shopping Therapy, so called.
Example: “Want to have younger looking skin? Buy Vorsage, Extra Moisture Crme!”
They are playing on your fear of looking older, promising younger looking skin by the purchase of their product. Of course, that will be followed a year later by the “New and Improved, Extra Moisture Crme,” which, of course, you would run out and buy.
Another example is your emotional desire to be part of the In Crowd; peer pressure.
Products are featured in luxurious, expensive settings or in use by glamorous celebrities; inferring that you can be just like Mike if you buy his shoes.
Wouldn’t you kill to be seen in a $400 pair of famous designer slacks at your friend’s wedding next week? What about a $350 denim Sean Jean jacket at the concert? Retailers can actually charge you an extra 5 to 100 times more for their brands than for comparable generic items, and you pay it!
Next year, you would not be caught dead in last year’s hot brands. The merchandisers have programmed you to demand the latest, which will cost you the most. They are playing you like a fiddle, laughing all the way to the bank; while you scramble to find money to pay your bills.
Do you see what is happening? Each dollar you spend on this crap tightens the grip of the Rat Race Trap.
The objective of Consumerism is to separate you from your money, period.
Each product is a bait. Products are continually dangled before you without regard to need or safety. Think Pet Rock, the motorized air freshener, lawn darts or the Chevrolet Corvair, that 1960’s icon which Ralph Nader proclaimed, “Unsafe at any speed!”
The ultimate objective is to have you charge your purchases so that you will be able to buy more products, even if you do not have the money.
These purchases are far more expensive than they appear.
That $400 pair of designer pants actually costs you $600, if you are in the 33% income tax bracket!
In order to net $400, you must earn $600 in salary, since 1/3 or $200, is deducted as taxes.
Therefore, every consumer item you buy costs you 50% more than the price tag!
If you finance the purchase, and pay only the minimum each month, you will pay another 50-200% of the price in finance charges, (after tax!) requiring decades to pay it off!
Let’s look at the purchase of a car, probably the single biggest waste of money there is!
Take the Chevy Tahoe, a popular, mid-market SUV. Purchase price, $36,000. You put $6,000 down, borrow $30,000 for 5 years @ $607/Mo. Total financing cost, $36,420.
Add the down payment of $6,000, totaling $42,420. After taxes. You have to earn $63,630 in order to net $42,420.
That $36,000 Chevy Tahoe will cost you $63,630!
It gets worse!
If instead of purchasing the car, you invested the money in your IRA or 401(k), a pre-tax investment.
Same scenario, you have $9,000 plus $910 dollars per month deducted from your salary, pre-tax, the first year. You continue the $910 per month for the next 5 years. Remember, only $607, not $910 per month is deducted from your net pay.
If you just stick the money in a run-of-the-mill index mutual fund, you should receive a return of about 10% annually. You’ll have about $85,000 at the end of 5 years.
After 10 years, during which time you would have had to buy another car, your IRA would now have over $250,000 in it. This analysis only reflects the purchase of a car. How much more would you have spent on other consumer goods during that period?
In reality, had you spent that same money on assets, things that go up in value; like stocks or real estate, you could probably have been able to escape the Rat Race at the end of that 10 year period! You are the one who decides how to spend your money.
Copyright 2005 Bill Young. Bill is a former bank mortgage officer and licensed financial planner. He is a real estate investor, lecturer, author and a personal wealth consultant. If you would like to know how to stuff your IRA with enough tax-free real estate click here: http://ARealEstateIRA.com
If you are facing foreclosure and want to keep your home: http://SaveYourHomeLLC.com If you must get rid of it: http://WeTakeOverYourPayments.com
27.12.07
Making huge sums of money with AdSense isn’t brain surgery. You simply have to know what you’re doing. If you know which types of ads to choose, where to place them on the page and how to use Google’s options to design them so that they get the maximum number of click-throughs, you should find your site earning heaps of money very quickly.
But things can go wrong. Revenues can be disappointing, clicks non-existent and pages designed to put off users instead of encourage them to check out your advertisers. You know when one of the worst things possible has gone wrong when, instead of seeing ads on your page, you get public service ads. These turn up when Google doesn’t recognize your keywords or can’t find a suitable ad to put on your Web page. Instead of showing a blank box, it puts up ads for all sorts of charities, none of which you choose - and none of which earn you revenue.
You might like the idea of your site working for charity. But you might like it better if your site worked for you and you decided how much of that revenue to give to the charities you choose. That’s why smart AdSense subscribers - the ones who understand how AdSense works and make giant revenues from it - make sure that they have alternatives set up to stop their sites being used to advertise Google’s favorite charities.
There are lots of different ways you can do that. For example, you could create your own pseudo-AdSense ads and use those as alternate URLs to promote your other sites. Or you could use one of the several companies that will use that space to give you targeted paying ads.
There’s nothing mean about using these strategies. The fact that Google makes it possible to use them shows that they understand that your space is for you not for them - and that you should earn from it.
With a little bit of reading, you’ll find that it’s easy to create a website that always serves high-paying AdSense ads. But even the smartest AdSense users make sure that they’ve got insurance should something go wrong. It’s easy to do and your revenues deserve it.
Joel Comm is The Internet Revenue Expert. Online for over 20 years, Joel teaches people how to make money in the digital age. The recognized authority on Google AdSense, Joel teaches how to multiply your AdSense income at The AdSense Code. To ask Joel Comm a question about making money online, visit http://www.AskJoelComm.com Joel invites you to download a free copy of The Internet Money Tree at http://www.internetmoneytree.net
26.12.07
It’s an acknowledged fact that internet users, by and large, and especially those who shop online, are savvy, and becoming increasingly so with each passing day. But what is less acknowledged, mostly to the detriment of advertisers and sellers pushing their wares, is that they’re also fed-up with the petty annoyances that obstruct their direct path to the information and products they seek. Whereas previously these internet devotees merely shrugged aside that which was marketed to them against their will, they now vehemently cleave in twain all which intrudes beyond their Spam filters and Pop-Up blockers.
Their weapon of choice, however, is less gruesome than the previous sentence imagines. Rather the means unto an end (of sites pushing Pop-Ups, that is) relies more upon the speed of their motor reflex skills than the force any show of strength might level with a mighty blow. Simply put, as clickly… I mean, as quickly as Pop-Ups pop in, float down, or follow a scroll like some scraggily stray mutt, internet enthusiasts flick their click, and click, click away not only the Pop-Up but the collaborating site that allowed the Pop-Up to slip in through the backdoor.
As much as email users distrust unsolicited email, i.e. Spam, so do the majority of internet addicts distrust not only Pop-Ups, but also the sites that make the mistake of utilizing them as a principal marketing technique. Research already demonstrates that internet users make final aesthetic decisions about a website’s worthiness, either yea or nea, a mere 1/20th of a second after it fully loads on the browser. First impressions are, for better or worse, everything online. Digging deeper, such research increasingly demonstrates that Pop-Ups, once even a staple in AOL’s, Amazon’s, and eBay’s advertising arsenals, are primary culprits torpedoing a site’s potential for providing a visitor with a pleasing aesthetic experience. The result: 1/20th of a second after a condemning judgment passes against those websites bearing Pop-ups, the clicking finger is already in motion, clicking closed every conspiring window.
If you, as a seller, have a legitimate producti.e. something you believe in and trust for your personal use as much as you desire a buyer to trust in and use itthan why sacrifice such confidences in the eyes (with synapses constantly firing with the mind) of said buyer by harboring an immediate and lasting distrust. Nothing, in fact, negates your chances of closing a sale with more finality than creating suspicion as to the legitimacy of the claims you make about your product. And, if, rather than even making claims, you immediately attempt to incite shoppers to buy, than in all likelihood, you in turn incite them to find fulfillment of their needs elsewhere.
An online marketing expert I know recently likened the sharp decline in the effectiveness of Pop-Up advertising to the negative reactions people have toward someone who goes door to door proselytizing. She said, “the first time a proselytizer knocks on your door, you greet them, perhaps with confusion, but nonetheless amicably. You smile as they preach, you accept their literature, and sometimes you even invite them beyond the threshold and offer them something to drink.
Maybe you consider their pitch, but 99 times out of 100 you’re secure enough in you’re beliefs, you’re not looking for answers, or you simply don’t trust them, and when they’ve gone you dismiss their pitch and forget their person. Not long after, they, or another of their ilk, knocks again.
Maybe this time its on the weekend, your one chance to sleep in; or maybe you’ve just stepped out of the shower; or sat down to dinner with your family; regardless, the last thing you want in any of these moments is to be interrupted, told to change who you are, and commit yourself to a new product (in the case of the proselytizer, their specific brand of religion). You dismiss them a little more abruptly this time. But, not getting the subtle, harsher tone behind your seemingly pleasant excuses, they keep coming, always with the same thing you don’t want or need, regardless of whether you share their beliefs or not.
Finally you reach the point where enough is enough. You slam the door in their face. That,” she says, “like the door to door proselytizer, is the fate Pop-Up advertising has brought upon itself. It’s been shown the door once and for all, and if internet users could, they would surely show it the dumpster instead.”
Her analogy, is no doubt long, and perhaps not the strongest imaginableconsider substituting telemarketers in place of the proselytizer, or whatever other annoyance you encounter frequently, but wish you encountered never againbut ultimately it speaks the truth of both statistical evidence demonstrating internet users’ antipathy and distrust of sites advertising with Pop-Ups and the non-quantifiable negative emotional response such advertising generates. In short, in a world where we demand informationon products, anything reallyquickly, without distraction, and only from sources we can rely upon and trust, there isn’t space remaining on our computer screens for an extra, uninvited Pop-Up window.
Alas, in this very pitch I turned myself into the proselytizer preaching against the use of Pop-Ups, perhaps in many instances to readers who previously advertised using Pop-Ups with great success. To past success I can only raise a glass in toast”I commend you good fellow or fair lady”but it is to the future that I implore you to set your sights. There upon products you believe in, to consumer confidences you wish to earn, cultivate and retainbe they won without overt intrusion, like a cyber handshake, not a Pop-Up window, provoking internet users like a cyber slap in the face.
Copyright 2006, Robert K. Blanc. All Rights Reserved.
Robert Blanc is a frequent traveler and freelance writer, covering current events, niche markets and subjects of personal interest for both online and traditional print publications. Recently enamored by the eBook phenomenon and the booming self-help industry, he regularly turns to http://www.ebookreviews.net to begin his searches for the latest information and eBooks currently on the market.
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