Mar 1st, 2008 by SalMaggio | 3 Comments
Well after 2 months playing with my New Home Server, I finally jumped on my private invite into the RubiconProject.com beta program. If any one has noticed, the Forex-Killer Banner is down. Only because i wanted to start here with The Rubicon Project. This appears to be what should become a great tool for publishers.
Basically combining a handful of Networks into a tool that rotates Banners from all these Networks, spitting out the most profitable ads, text or banner based on the content of the site and demographics each time the page is loaded. Only thing i need to do is select what banner sizes i plan on using for whatever site i intend to use and out comes the code to put in place.
Some of the Networks in this rotation of ads will be Adsense, ActiveResponseGroup, AdBrite, ClickBooth, CPAEmpire, CPXInteractive, EType, InterClick and ShopZilla. There are more available, but they may be who are in my network thru Rubicon at this time.
I believe Rubicon does all the application for you to your selected Networks. Other than your interaction with each of your approved networks on a one to one level from your account managers, the paycheck comes directly from Rubicon. I’ve noticed in the rubicon forum some have received checks already and seem to be pleased so far.
I really look forward to this to work out well because i have way to many sites and will increase my inventory or running sites 10 fold over the next year. So i expect the RubiconProject to be a very helpful tool for me.
Any other publishers out there using Rubicon are welcome to leave comments on your experience. I believe i’ve read in ShoeMoney.com that they are using this. I wonder if JohnChow.com is using it as well.
I will continue to post my experience with this in the coming weeks/months.
Regards,
Sal
Feb 4th, 2008 by admin1 | 4 Comments
By Jonathan WeismanWashington Post Staff Writer
Monday, February 4, 2008; 11:57 AM
President Bush today unveiled a tough-minded, $3 trillion budget proposal for fiscal 2009 that would slice $14.2 billion from the growth of federal health-care programs, eliminate scores of programs and virtually freeze domestic spending — but would still record a $407 billion budget deficit.
This Story
The president’s final budget is a sharp contrast to the priorities of the Democratic-controlled Congress, which is likely to wait out Bush’s presidency rather than accede to many of his demands. The Bush budget plan would continue his first-term tax cuts beyond their 2011 expiration date, at a cost to the Treasury of $635 billion through 2013, extend abstinence education programs, create elementary and secondary education vouchers and guard other White House initiatives.
The president also takes aim at programs that Congress has guarded zealously — and is likely to continue protecting. Among the programs Bush would eliminate are commodity price supports for farmers, research assistance to manufacturers, career and technical education grants, weatherization assistance, community development grants, graduate medical education at children’s hospitals and a public housing revitalization program that the House just overwhelmingly reauthorized.
“In my 2009 Budget, I have set clear priorities that will help us meet our nation’s most pressing needs while addressing the long-term challenges ahead. With pro-growth policies and spending discipline, we will balance the budget in 2012, keep the tax burden low and provide for our national security,” Bush said in his final budget message.
Overall, the budget proposal underscores the precariousness of the federal government’s fiscal position as the demands of the aging baby boom generation begin to climb and an uncertain economy no longer can be expected to churn out tax revenue at a record pace.
The White House foresees the federal budget deficit rising to $410 billion this year, a sharp increase from 2007’s $162 billion deficit. Measured against the size of the economy, the deficit, at 2.9 percent of gross domestic product this year, would be well shy of the deficits of 2003 and 2004.
But, bloated in part by the $150 billion stimulus plan Bush is expecting Congress to pass in the coming weeks, the red ink of 2008 would rival the nominal dollar record of $412.7 billion in 2004. Bush’s budget office projects that the deficit will stay at $407 billion in 2009 before falling sharply, then reaching a surplus in 2012.
Budget analysts and Democrats say the good news in later years is probably illusory. The Bush budget plan makes room for $61 billion in 2009 to stop the growth of the alternative minimum tax, a parallel tax system enacted in 1969 to make sure the rich pay income tax that is increasingly squeezing the middle class. The cost of an AMT fix will continue to grow each year, but the budget makes no more allowances for the cost of that fix.
The document also assumes $70 billion in costs for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars next year, a fraction of the true costs, which could reach $200 billion in 2008. Beyond 2009, the budget includes no war costs at all.
Bush also foresees raising $2.1 billion in health-care fees on non-disabled veterans through 2013. A promised crackdown on tax cheats is supposed to raise $10.5 billion over that time.
“We’ve seen this script before,” Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) said in a statement. “The President proposes more of the same failed fiscal policies he has embraced throughout his time in office — more deficit-financed war spending, more deficit-financed tax cuts tilted to benefit the wealthiest, and more borrowing from foreign nations like China and Japan. The result can only be the same — a further explosion of debt and the undermining of our nation’s economic security.”
Response to the budget’s toughest proposals was equally fierce from groups that would be affected. Under the budget, funding for after-school education programs, known as 21st Century Learning Centers, would fall from $1.1 billion to $800 million, and Bush proposes to transform the effort from a competitive grant program administered by the states to a system of vouchers given to the parents of participants.
“What he is proposing to do would dismantle after-school programs,” said Jodi Grant, executive director of the Afterschool Alliance.
Under the plan, a $301 million program that trains 4,700 pediatricians and pediatric sub-specialists at children’s teaching hospitals also would be eliminated, at a time when pediatric sub-specialties, such as rheumatology and pulmonology, face critical shortages.
“The request to eliminate funding to train the doctors that care for kids comes on the heels of the president’s veto of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program,” said Lawrence McAndrews, president and chief executive of the National Association of Children’s Hospitals. “I don’t think the president could be any clearer about his intentions towards children’s health care. ‘Wrong’ doesn’t begin to describe his actions.”
Dec 8th, 2007 by admin1 | 1 Comment
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Nov 20th, 2007 by SalMaggio | 1 Comment
Last night i stumbled across a new Advertising solution. It is in private beta, you need to be reviewed and invited. Anyway, its called the Rubicon Project. It really seems to be a pretty cool advertising solution.
Basically from what i read and seem in a short movie clip was that it searches for the best paying advertising opportunities for your website, based on demographics and geographical info. It looks to have 300+ advertisers, most of what we already use.
I signed up for an opportunity and also in there forum. This is definitely a tool of the future, in beta now. I would encourage anyone with ads on there blogs or sites to sign up for this or check out the site. Rubicon also looks like it gives you options to set up accounts by yourself or they (the network) does it for you and can conveniently pay you in one check from all the advertisers. But the real value is it optimizes your site with the ads the will make YOU the most money.
There headline reads: Automatically Optimize you Ad Space. Make Mad Cash from Ads on your Website.
All i have to say is, wow, what a tool for publishers. So go and apply for the opportunity to use this and offer any feedback.
Regards,
SAL MAGGIO
Nov 18th, 2007 by SalMaggio | 1 Comment
I am really kinda new to the Blog World. Really until the last six months have just bought tons of domains and worked with a couple people getting some sites developed.
But about six months ago i joined a forum, dnScoop.com and spent time getting to know some people and yes, buying domains. But i really learned alot from some pretty young people in the forum. Its a pretty tight nit forum, very resourceful, and not loaded with a bunch of spammers, which i am realizing myself what a headache that can be.
Anyway, i see the guy running the forum, Badi Jones, has a pretty impressive background, to me anyway. And found several other sites he has, one of them being SEOlogs.com . I gotta tell you, it is a massively resourceful sight. It really is a great place for the learning webmaster also. Badi seems to be one guy who doesnt try to sell a bunch of bull, he indicated may times over how a lot of this SEO stuff is also alot of OPINIONS. So suggests keeping an open mind about things. And indicates for noobees that there are not magic spells and what not for SEO. Just do your homework and things should fall into place.
Anywho, i am now on mybloglog.com and have become involved with a number of other Bloggers and tons of even more resources.
Well i really have to than Badi for that, i think it was a suggestion of his in one of his posts on dnScoop.com a while back.
But more importantly MyBlogLog.com is having a competion for ” THE MYBLOGLOG Become A PRroBlogger Contest” And Badi’s site, SEOlogs.com has grown tremendously in the contest. I believe he is in 4th Place now. I would highly recommend anyone to get involved on MyBlogLog.com and more importantly to vote for SEOlogs.com f you visit his site, you will truly understand, and even become a reader thru rss as well. Most of the time i get tons of value from his site with all the great information in it.
Anyway Badi, I wish you tons of luck to winning in the contest. You are definitely among the few who are very good at what you do !
Regards,
SAL MAGGIO
Nov 16th, 2007 by admin1 | 1 Comment
Interview
with Michael Cheney from AdSense-Videos
Q. So what made
you get started with AdSense?
A. I
was looking for a way to monetize some of my websites. AdSense
is such an easy thing to get started with the eye for it would
be a great way to start earning more money without actually putting
into much more effort. I think as soon as you see the first earnings
coming into your account you get addicted to AdSense. I know is
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out how to earn more and more each day.
Q. How much do
you make with AdSense?
A. Some days I can earn
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down to how much time and effort you devote to creating a quality
site that people like visiting. AdSense is not what my business
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almost on autopilot.
Q. What is the
biggest mistake people making with AdSense?
A. Probably
the biggest mistake people make is thinking the AdSense earnings
are easy to achieve. It is very easy to get started but as I learned
it takes a lot of effort to increase your earnings. I got really
downhearted whenever I would log in to my account to see that
I had only made a few dollars. And that’s when I decided to spend
months and months of my time learning everything I could about
AdSense.
I basically buried myself
away and devoured every single piece of AdSense information I
could find. I ran thousands of AdSense tests and started to see
a dramatic effect on my click through ratio and therefore on my
earnings.
This is why I’d decided
to record the videos - because I knew that it would help people
who were in my position to also increase their earnings. I’ve
read an absolute ton of AdSense e-book’s but they take so long
to go through and always seem to keep information back.
With AdSense Videos I
knew that I had to tell the story exactly as it is and actually
show people and lead them by the hand through the exact techniques
that I use to generate large earnings from AdSense.
Q. In your videos
you show people how to increase their AdSense earnings - can you
give us a taster of this advice?
A. I
don’t want to give away my biggest secrets as you can understand!
But some of the more basic things that you can do to increase
your revenues include using ads that blend in rather than stand
out from your content. Flat out the worst thing you can do with
an AdSense ad is make it look like the standard Google ad. What
you need to realise is that you will get more clicks if your ad
actually appears part of your site rather than something that’s
just been dropped into the page.
Q. What would
you recommend that someone do right now to increase their AdSense
earnings?
A. I’ve
created a totally free AdSense minicourse that people can go through
to learn some of my techniques. It takes you through the four
cornerstone principles that I’ve used to build up my AdSense empire.
You can check it out, as well as all the AdSense Videos, here:
AdSense-Videos
Nov 15th, 2007 by SalMaggio | 2 Comments
Well, I noted a week or 2 ago after we got back online that we were adding a block for eBook downloads. Its been up for 2-3 days now. There are several eBooks available at this time.
Please take the opportunity to check some of them out. What we have listed at this time are free for download in zip file. Enjoy, these are many helpful books to read.
We will be continually adding ebooks for Free Downloads, so please return and check out what else is available often.
I hope you can take advantage of these. There are always some great ideas and most are based on the many categories we have listed here on CashBulge.com
Once you click over to the download page and register you will be able to select your eBook of choice. Each visit after that, just sign in on the download page.
Enjoy !
Nov 5th, 2007 by SalMaggio | Comment
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Oct 27th, 2007 by admin1 | 2 Comments
Whether you love him, hate him, or never even heard of the guy, Jim Cramer is one of the most influential figures on Wall Street. He is most famous for his television show Mad Money, as well as being the co-founder of TheStreet.com. He has made his living in the stock market and has also written a handful of financial books about investing and finance.
Recently, I was reading an article featuring Jim Cramer in Maxim Magazine. The article was entitled, “Are Our Financial Prospects Bright?”
Of course being the host of a hit stock market television show he strongly supported investments in stocks throughout the interview. But Cramer touched on some points about the young and their investments, and the desires he has for people to get into playing the stock market.
Cramer’s take…
“I am advocating that stocks are great- I mean Multi-year great. I see many years of tremendous opportunities to make money outside of your paycheck..I want to emphasize that people should be investing furiously from when they’re 15 to when they’re 65.”
Cramer is then asked about the easiness of getting into the stock market through the use of the internet. And about the Google generation we live in, and is all for it, stating: Youth plus Google equals “I know what people are buying in the real world, and I can go buy their stocks and make money”
With that statement in mind Cramer lastly touches on the youth and what their investment strategy should be:“Play your hunches. Buy the wildest stock. If you’re wrong you have the rest of your life to make the money back. But you could also hit the proverbial home run and be set for life. These aren’t lottery tickets. There’s not one winner. There are alot of winners. If this were the NCAA Tournament, you’d be taking a chance on the 16th seed.”
My thoughts…
I am currently in the process of getting my portfolio set up, but I have almost saved up $3000 on the side to buy some stocks, when I reach that mark. But, looking past my inexperience in the market, I too, agree with Cramer.
A while back I wrote an article entitled “Is Time More Valuable then Money” and quoted an unknown source’s line which stated: ” waste money but never time, money comes back to you but minutes are hard to find.” This definitely is the philosophy of investing for the young in my opinion. Like Cramer said as the young investor we definitely have more time to make up our losses, so it is ok to chase whims and gamble on certain stocks. I encourage people to get started as soon as they can, investing on whatever they think can make them money, before it’s to late.
Cramer also hit the nail on the head about the Google generation, with Google and the technology that is available to our generation, we are more capable of investing and doing research now more than ever.
It should not be that hard to pick a good stock if you know how to use the internet, there are even sites that rate stocks such as TheStreet.com, to give the investing newbie an head start on finding a good stock.
If your a young investor, use your knowledge of pop culture to make you money by using Google, don’t underestimate yourself about knowledge of the economy. You are the consumer and you know what people want and need, so use that knowledge to buy a good stock.
So gamble a little bit, it is the only way you will have a chance to make money, and who knows it may pay off
As far as investing furiously up to the age 65, I do not agree with that, as you get older obviously your risk taking needs to get lower and lower to secure your future, but definitely gamble away until your mid forties in my opinion 
What do you think? Should we gamble away while we are young? Is it as easy as Cramer says to find a good stock by using the internet? What is your investment strategy right now?
Aug 30th, 2007 by Leonid Shalimov | 4 Comments
Got $100 lying around in your checking or savings account? Why not take a shot at investing. You might think “oh no that would be way to complicated, screw that noise.” But let me tell you, it’s a lot simpler than you might think. If you’ve already invested and are actively trading, this article will be overly simplified for you as it is aimed at beginners. If you have never invested in your life, keep reading!
About a year ago I decided I wanted to invest. Why? I’d never done it before and I figured it would be a learning experience. I knew that I didn’t have much but I could put away $100-$200 and try my luck. And I did. I opened up a ShareBuilder account and got to work.
Why did I choose ShareBuilder? Well, I looked at a lot of options and most of them are for hardcore-tons-of-cash-investors, and that wasn’t me. I needed something cheap and easy and luckily ShareBuilder offers $4 stock trading. Now don’t be fooled, the $4 trading is a time system, not real-time. If you want real-time trading it will cost you $15~ per trade. The $4 system you can trade twice every month.
OK, I understand the ShareBuilder thing, now what do I invest in and how should I go about choosing?
Well of course, research is the answer. But before we dive into that, let’s look at what mistakes a beginner investor makes so we don’t make those same mistakes (which will obviously cost us money).
1. Diversify your portfolio, don’t put all your eggs into one basket.
As the old saying goes, it surely applies to stocks. I invested in two stocks when I just started, a couple of shares to AAPL (Apple) and a bunch into SUNW (Sun MicroSystems). I bought Apple stock at around $70 a share and now its up over $130. However I also bought SUNW at about $6.60 and now its down to $5.21. If I had decided to put all my money into SUNW I would be down a decent amount per share.
Now I also made a mistake. I shouldn’t have just gotten into regular stocks, I could’ve put a couple of dollars into Mutual Funds and the like (but at the time I didn’t have enough money to do so) but I decided to stick to my guns.
2. Getting into the market at the “right time” is a myth.
There is no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ time. According to a classic study by William F. Sharpe, Nobel Prize-winning economist and a founder of Modern Portfolio Theory, a widely followed statistical method for minimizing risk while maximizing investment returns. The study revealed that a person who attempts to time the market needs to be right roughly three times out of four to match the performance of a buy-and-hold investor. Given that the market tends to make major moves in response mainly to unexpected events, that 75% accuracy rate can be a tough mark to hit, as the dismal record of individual investors demonstrates.
3. Stay away from penny stocks if you want to sleep at night.
Not much to say here. Penny stocks are the most volatile trading tool. Sure, you can make a lot of money, but you could also lose all of it. Stick to the ‘blue-chip’ stocks (big companies & fortune 500’s) when starting out to ensure your money will grow (hopefully).
That should cover the beginner mistakes. If you have anymore, feel free to leave a comment and add on.
A quick tip from MSN Money.
For the small-dollar investor, one of the best ways to get started is to buy exchange-traded funds, or ETFs. These are instruments that trade like stocks and mimic the behavior of a variety of different types of assets (stocks, bonds, real estate or commodities) or indexes (S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrials ($INDU), Russell 2000 ($RUT.X).
More to come.
This is the first part in a string of articles I will hopefully be publishing in the near future to try and get young investors on their feet and putting a little money away. Let me know if this article helped you and I’ll be sure to continue the series.
Aug 22nd, 2007 by Leonid Shalimov | 4 Comments
We all have that anticipated new job that we need to have. Future decisions like this can often stir us to become nervous and impatient but don’t fret! Here are 8 surefire ways to make sure that you nail your interview and get the job you’ve always wanted.
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Aug 20th, 2007 by David Murphy-Colonna | 1 Comment
As we all know running your business or blog can be expensive at times. After getting started with your venture, and covering the basic expenses, sometimes we are left with little cash to work with to improve our business or blog.
In these cases we either have to sacrifice(which is a no no), or as crafty entrepreneurs, think of other ways to attain the services and goods we need for our businesses. One great way to do this is to use the barter system.
Yes I said it, the barter system, the trading system of goods and services that was once used when money didn’t exist(definition in a nut shell.) → continue reading
Aug 5th, 2007 by Leonid Shalimov | 3 Comments
People are different, that’s what makes economy and the business market so great and vast. However with this fact comes the unobtrusive reality that not everyone has the essential skills to run a successful business. Of course anyone can learn how to be a better business owner but foundational skills and know-how still need to be present.
Step in front of the mirror and take a long clear look at yourself. Evaluate your skill set and know your strengths (as well as your weaknesses). Don’t jump in the pool if you don’t know how to swim. You’ll need to know the risks before you devote time and money to your business.
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