Rubicon Project now in progress

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

Bush Unveils $3 Trillion Budget Proposal

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

• Bush Unveils $3 Trillion Budget Proposal

• On the Web: Budget of the U.S. Government (pdf)

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.”

Bills.com Offers Powerful Information to Master Personal Finance

Jan 2nd, 2008 by admin1 | 1 Comment

SAN MATEO, Calif. (PRWeb) January 10, 2007 — Last year, Bills.com co-founders and co-CEOs Andrew Housser and Brad Stroh offered more than 200 tips to help consumers manage personal finance issues, and they are making those tips available to interested media parties via a list of topics this month.

“Education is a powerful tool when it comes to taking charge of personal finances,” Housser said. “We would like to remind consumers and media professionals alike that Bills.com is a consumer information portal designed to help individuals master their money to reach their personal goals.”

In addition to the news release tips, Bills.com offers a free consumer guide, “Debt Freedom: You Can Be Debt-Free, Starting Today.” The guide is available electronically in PDF format by visiting www.bills.com/guide.

The news releases are available online via Bills.com’s media room at http://www.bills.com/news_releases/. To request more information on any of the topics below, or to arrange an interview with Housser or Stroh, contact Aimee Bennett at (303) 843-9840 or via e-mail. Members of the media who have requests or ideas for tips on additional topics can also contact Bennett.

Consumer Finance Topics Available

Consumer debt
1. The Four Flavors of Healthy Debt
2. 4 Steps to Make the Most of Your Student Loans
3. Level the Playing Field With Collections Agencies for Fair Debt Payment
4. Back-to-School Season Means Hitting the Books - for Smart Ways to Borrow
5. Hone Your Debt Consolidation Savvy
6. Crash Course in Credit Scores
7. Understanding — and Avoiding — Credit Denials

Credit card debt
8. Expert Available to Discuss Increase of Minimum Payments on Credit Cards
9. 6 Steps to Begin Digging Out of Credit Card Debt

Credit counseling
10. IRS Credit-Counseling Investigation Advances, Strips Tax-Exempt Status From 50 Percent of Industry
11. Experts Available to Discuss IRS Crackdown on Credit Counseling Industry
12. 8 Ways to Spot a Credit-Counseling Scam

Bankruptcy
13. Expert Source Available to Discuss Bankruptcy Bill
14. Screws Tighten for U.S. Credit Card Borrowers With Higher Payments, Rising Rates, Bankruptcy Reform

Holiday spending, post-holiday debt
15. 5 Ways to Avoid Holiday Overindulgence
16. Six Ways Not to Overindulge in a Post-Thanksgiving Spending Spree
17. After Holiday Spending Craze, Consumers Can Refocus Spending
18. Holidays Timely for Personal Financial Checkup

Home finance
19. $360 Billion of Mortgage Debt at Risk of Foreclosure Among U.S. Homeowners
20. Home Loan Tips: Avoid Mortgage Troubles, Other Pangs of Rising Interest Rates
21. When Second Mortgages Make Sense
22. Is Now the Time to Refinance?
23. Reverse Mortgage Basics
24. Loan-to-Value: The Key to Getting the House You Want
25. ‘Is My House in a Bubble?’ Avoiding Foreclosure in Today’s ‘Bubbly’ Market
26. More Americans Refinance Homes to Pay Existing Debt — But Should They?

Insurance and health care
27. Choosing the Best Type of Health Plan for Your Budget
28. Insurance 101: The Basics Explained
29. How to Take a Scalpel to Medical Costs

Taxes
30. Don’t Delay in Managing IRS Tax Debt
31. Halftime for Tax Year 2005: Estimated Tax Deadline Looms on Sept. 15

General personal finance
32. Keep Spending Down as Temps Climb
33. This Year, Resolve to Clean Your Financial House
34. Experts Available to Discuss National Financial Literacy Month
35. Financial Literacy ABCs
36. The Feminine Financial Mystique: How Every Woman Must Take Control of Her Finances
37. Feast-or-Famine Budgeting: Savings 101 for Consultants, Freelancers, Artists and the Self-Employed

Based in San Mateo, Calif., Bills.com is a free one-stop online portal where consumers can educate themselves about complex personal finance issues and save money by choosing the best-value products and services. Since 2002, Bills.com and its partner company, Freedom Financial Network, have served more than 10,000 customers nationwide while managing more than $350 million in consumer debt. The company’s co-founders and CEOs, Andrew Housser and Brad Stroh, were named Northern California finalists in Ernst & Young’s 2006 Entrepreneur of the Year Awards.

The Rubicon Project - A Tool for The Internet Advertising Community

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

SEOlogs.com - A great place for resources - And a Contender with MyBlogLog.com contest

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

Bangladesh Cyclone - I Can Feel it in NJ - II

Nov 18th, 2007 by SalMaggio | Comment

Wow, i heard from Istiak Shams this afternoon. I am so freaking happy my friend is alive. !

And all this time i think he has been running around clutching his laptop under his arm. LOL. I guess nothing will stand between his computer and him.

This has truly made my day. I wake up late in the afternoon to see a buzz on my yahoo i.m. lol. I really thought after all the devestation i see in Bangladesh i would never hear from him again.

And all he has to talk about is other ideas for plans we were working on. What a die hard. I guess some prayers do get answered. THANK YOU, and welcome back into my world Isti !

Regards,

SAL

AND I JUST NOTICED HIS LETTER TO ME FROM BANGLADESH:

Dear Sal,

First of all me and my family are safe. Thanx a lot from my heart for your kind concern about me.

Now, the cyclone actually didn’t direct hit Dhaka but it hit our main national power grid so almost the whole country went under blackout. Also because of high wind most of the power/electric polls was broken down. So it took time to bring back the power. Also the local lan system/Dish TV Cable connection/telephone connections were broken. Its a total mess. Though the cyclone didnt affect us physically but we went totally communication less. I just couldnt think of such a stupid situation in this 20th century. Anyway, God Almighty Saved us.

I was also anxious that you will be tensed about me but i had no way to contact u. Thanx man. thanx a lot that you took it so deeply.

Right now the local lan system is connected and i am writing you the mail. I tried to complete a few tasks.

Also i am looking for better and bigger network. So I will catch u soon at yahoo to talk about it.

ahh i forgot to ask, how r u ? hope you are fine and having fun in life… soon we will talk.

thanx once again

take care

isti

Bangladesh Cyclone - I Can Feel it in NJ

Nov 17th, 2007 by SalMaggio | Comment

I spent the last day trying to contact one of my new friends, Istiak Shams, a guy i am working with on developing sites and who has helped me reorganize some of my internet stuff after i lost many sites from my last server crash, and even gave me part of his server to help me thru this ordeal. I sent emails to him several times and was really surprised i hadn’t seen him on Yahoo. That was kind of odd, because we had been spending a real lot of time online, and he is just, always there for me.

Well then i hear about the Cyclone hitting Bangladesh. I have been so distraught all day after finding out about this. I am so sad to hear about this, because Isti lives in Dhaka, Bangladesh where the worst damage is reported. I really am praying that he and his family are ok and ask others do also. I really hope to hear from him soon.

I don’t think i have ever made an International Phone call, but i did today. I Tried his home and cell phone that i really just happen to have his numbers from his info posted on a money transfer i sent. Unfortunately there was no answer.

Its funny, i am arrogant and sometimes just don’t give a crap about much, but i developed such a great friendship with this guy over the last month or so, and this devastation which he is in just really bothers me. After probably searching for the last couple years for the right kind of co-worker/partner, online, Isti was that person. And i actually told him that after the first day or so working with him. Wow, well right now all i can do is pray he is ok, and i am the furthest from a praying person.

I am in NJ and have a pretty nice life, and could not imagine the devastation he is going through.

I know this is off beat from this websites topic, but just felt the need to write about him, and chose to do it here.

Anyway, i hope to hear from him soon.

Regards,

SAL

I have posted some donation and information links below:

http://www.directrelief.org/EmergencyResponse/2007/CycloneSidrBangladesh/CycloneSidrBangladesh.aspx?gclid=CI2N6Ma3448CFSBMGgodgl8UCghttp://www.care.org/BANGLADESH

http://www.worldvision.org/Worldvision/eappeal.nsf/egift_cyclone_relief_bgh?OpenForm&campaign=11365552&cmp=KNC-11365552

http://www.ifrc.org/index.asp?gclid=CMvw2pe4448CFQp_Hgodfg3DZQ

http://plancanada.ca/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=753&srcid=273&gclid=CJW-xKi4448CFRGoGgodB0gpDA

http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/AMMF-78ZJ2Z?OpenDocument

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE7DB1F31F931A25756C0A967958260

Mike Cheney’s AdSense-Videos

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
what happened to me and since then I’ve just spent time working
out how to earn more and more each day.

Q. How much do
you make with AdSense?

A. Some days I can earn
close to $1000 and others it’s less than that. But it all comes
down to how much time and effort you devote to creating a quality
site that people like visiting. AdSense is not what my business
is based on by any means - but it is a great way to earn revenue
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

New Free eBook Download Box in-place

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 !

Bush vetoes $10bn increase in health/education budget, signs $40bn increase in Pentagon budget

Nov 15th, 2007 by admin1 | Comment

Bush vetoes $10bn increase in health/education budget, signs $40bn increase in Pentagon budget
by John Aravosis (DC)

Bush is vetoing bills that would add money to health and education, claiming America just can’t afford to spend the money, but he has no problem signing bills that spend four times as much money on the Pentagon. Bush just asked for another $200 billion for his wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but he can’t/won’t spend another $10 billion on health and education programs for Americans since, according to him, $10 billion spent on Americans is an obscenely high figure. I just refuse to believe that this kind of thing polls well for the Republicans at all. People are sick of this war, and for Bush to outright refuse to help Americans while shoveling the money to foreigners, I mean, wow.

Online Business Ideas

Nov 6th, 2007 by admin1 | 3 Comments

Online Business Ideas
By Sam Silverman

Looking for some low cost online business ideas? I will share some with you that I know others or myself have had great success in.

Drop Shipping is becoming huge. To be honest, all I know about it is there can be a great deal of money to be made, and there is a very slim chance of losing any money. But, because I haven’t tried it, only heard about its growth and success, I can not guarantee anything for it.

Another business is domain buying and selling. I happen to be in this business. It’s quite simple. You go to either godaddy.com (That’s what I use) or another domain provider, register a domain or buy one from someone else for a cheap price that you think others would be interested in (Try to stay between $10-$20), and you go on domain selling sites like Sedo.com and sell them for a higher price than you bought them for.

A different business that you could get into online at a low cost is building a website on some sort of subject of a variety of subjects. Then put affiliates or google adsence on your site and all you need to do is keep adding content, and then you sit back and hope the money starts flowing. If you want an example of a site with a variety of subjects that does this, visit www.WebsterContent.com or if you want an example of a site on one subject that does this, visit www.Rubiks-Cube-Solutions.com.

My last low cost online business idea that I will tell you about is quite simple. Look around your house for some stuff of yours that you don’t want and you think others would, and sell the item on eBay. Try to remember back to when you bought and what you bought it for, and sell it for more on eBay. I have done this before with a lot of the items in my basement that I didn’t want anymore and got quite a lot of cash.

I hope my ideas were helpful. Please comment and tell me what you thought and if you’re going to use any of my ideas. Thanks!

(We are not responsible for any of your success of failure in any of these businesses.)

“People should be investing furiously between the ages of 15 and 65″ says Jim Cramer

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?

Horrible Hosting Experience

Oct 23rd, 2007 by SalMaggio | 2 Comments

Well Hello, and i am so glad to be back !

This was definitely the worst week in my internet experience. I had problems with my VPS server and it had gone on for a little while. Well Spry.com, my host, offered to give me another VPS. Sounded great, thought is was good customer service as well. When the server went down i was to be emailed when the new one was ready. I figured 2 hours maybe. Anyway, 8 hours went by and i decided to email them. I finally got an email the next day indicating it was ready 20 minutes after they started. I literally waited up all night, and it turned out, for nothing. So the new VPS is ready. I have spent the last 6 days not being able to access any accounts. Emails going back and forth and back and forth, fixing one thing or another. Talk about frustration. But still got no where. I still could not access accounts and pull up any domains. I cleared my cache, thinking it was an issue on my end. Rebooting 1 computer after another here, and still it said “server not found” . SPRY’s CUSTOMER SERVICE WAS HORRIBLE. A plan of action and things to follow up with before changing over would have been nice. We all forget one step or another here sometimes.


Also, i’ve paid 1 year in advance, pretty much for the discount i received, and am still waiting to hear from the billing department for my refund. I am not quite 1/2 way thru with my plan. Lets see how long it takes to get my money back.

I had a problem with my backup of my sites and asked for there most recent backup prior to the change-over. That took a whole week to get any answers, and come to find out the only thing that was ever really backed up was site structures. Now, i originally had 1100 domains/accounts listed on the server. Over 70 were running sites with 1 1/2 years time spent building and buying sites. All lost… Man i came so close to crying and ripping every piece of hair out of my head. I decided to write some of the people i bought sites from to see if they happen to have backed up copies. I have been a little fortunate and got info back for about 15 sites. I guess better than nothing. Well this site was the first one i got back up and running, Thanks to LEONID SHALIMOV who started the “Bulge Theme of websites” for having a copy of this site. It is so appreciated. This site has had really great traffic and i was really afraid of loosing readers.

I did lose the past couple of posts that i’ve done and any comments, and still have to update several links on the site. But am so happy to have CashBulge back online.

All i can say, is make sure all your stuff is backed up, and maybe even on 2 computers, because would not with this on anyone. It almost feels like i am starting all over, and in a sense i am.

I also have to thank Istiak Shams, big time ! This guy stepped in and offered his server to at least get started again, and has helped me with so much time of his, just to help me grab my head and help me get reorganized. I met him thru a forum and we kicked off a really good friendship. I was fortunate he has a dedicated server and helped me just to get things rolling again. I will plug him here, and he deserves way more than that for all the help he offered. He has a small Hosting site ” HostBix.com” , but let me tell you, he gave me soooo much more support than than the Horrible service i got from Spry. Its amazing an holds true, the little guy always has better service. I am a customer of his, not some email that goes back and forth, taking 8 hours for responses. SPRY, I HATE YOU ! Never again. Everything was great till i had a problem.

Thanks again, LEONID SHALIMOV and ISTIAK SHAMS for your help, enabling me to get this site back up.

Also let me mention, the Forum for this site is up and running again, BulgeLounge.com .

And thank you Istiak for that also. You are well appreciated !

Ok, we’ll be back shortly, i need to get some fresh content and information on CashBulge.com again . So stay posted !

Regards,

SAL Maggio