How to fool eBay scammers

Legit eBay sellers listen up. We know that most people on
eBay that buy our stuff are GOOD people, but...there are
exceptions that must be dealt with.

Ever have a customer on eBay tell you that you shipped them
the wrong item even though you shipped them the right one?

Doesn't it burn you up when a customer tells you that they
did not receive their merchandise even though a tracking
number to the correct address shows 'delivered'?

Ever have a buying customer falsely call your designer item
a fake and then demand a refund (holding you hostage)?

Do you hate it when a customer bids up an item, wins an
auction, and then backs out refusing to pay for some
lame reason?

 

 

Sunburn Treatment

Sunburn treatment is a misnomer -- there is no way to actually get rid of sunburn, only to relieve its symptoms until it goes away on its own. Here are some quick tips that may help ease your suffering:

• Try taking a cool bath or shower. Or place wet, cold wash cloths on the burn for 10 to 15 minutes, several times a day. You can mix baking soda in the water to help relieve the pain. (Small children may become easily chilled, so keep the water tepid.)
• If your skin is not blistering, moisturizing cream may be applied to relieve discomfort. Aloe gel is a common household remedy for sunburns; it contains active compounds that help stop the pain and inflammation. Hydrocortisone cream may also be effective.
• Do not apply petroleum jelly, benzocaine, lidocaine, or butter to the sunburn. They make the symptoms worse and can prevent healing.
• If blisters are present, dry bandages may help prevent infection. Do not puncture blisters as that may slow healing.
• Over-the-counter medications, like ibuprofen, may help to relieve pain from sunburn. (Remember, do NOT give aspirin to children.)
• Do not wash burned skin with harsh soap.

Call a doctor immediately if there are signs of shock, heat exhaustion, dehydration, or other serious reaction. These signs include:

• Feeling faint or dizzy
• Rapid pulse or rapid breathing
• Extreme thirst, no urine output or sunken eyes
• Pale, clammy or cool skin
• Nausea, fever, chills or rash
• Your eyes hurt and are sensitive to light
• Severe, painful blisters

Since sunburn indicates underlying damage to the DNA in skin cells, it should be avoided if at all possible. Chronic overexposure to the sun is associated with skin cancer, mostly the basal cell and squamous cell types.

A history of three or more blistering sunburns before age 20 also greatly increases your risk of melanoma, the most deadly form of skin cancer. Too much sun also causes wrinkling, premature aging, age spots (lentigines), and cataracts.


To prevent sunburn and its associated health consequences, be sure to apply broad-spectrum sunscreen, avoid the midday sun, and wear a hat, sunglasses and other protective clothing.

From Timothy DiChiara, Ph.D., former About.com Guide

Updated July 01, 2009

4 Level of Wealth!

There are basically four levels of wealth you must aim to attain.

Level 1: Financial Stability

The first level of wealth is known as financial stability. This is
the most basic level of wealth that you must first attain.

You have achieved Financial Stability when:

1. You have accumulated enough liquid assets to cover your current
expenses for a minimum of six months.

2. In addition, you have life and hospitalization insurance to
protect you and/or your family's lifestyle should you be
permanently disabled, unable to work or if you pass away suddenly.

When you have attained this first level, you will have the peace of
mind that should any unexpected challenges befall you (like
retrenchment, business failure, pay cut, death or disability), you
and your family's lifestyle will not be compromised. Or worse, you
or your family will not slide into debt.

Once you have achieved this, you must then aim to achieve...

Level 2: Financial Security

You have achieved Financial Security when you have through the
investment of time, money and ideas, accumulated a critical amount
of Positive Cash Flow Assets that generate enough passive income to
cover your MOST BASIC expenses.

In other words, when you reach this level, you can stop working and
maintain a very basic lifestyle. It also means that if you continue
working, all your active income can be channeled towards your
investments and this will further compound your assets and increase
your in-come streams.

Of course, we shouldn't be satisfied at being at this level. Once
accomplished, you must then aim to go for...

Level 3: Financial Fre-edom

Many of us have heard of the dream of achieving financial fre-edom
but what does it really mean?

Well, Financial Fre-edom is when you have through the investment of
time, money and ideas, accumulated a critical amount of Positive
Cash Flow Assets that generate enough passive income to sustain
your CURRENT LIFESTYLE.

When you reach this level of Financial Fre-edom, you can choose to
stop working and still maintain your current standard of living...
indefinitely!

In reality, most people who achieve financial fre-edom love their
work so much that they continue working not because they have to,
but because they choose to.

I can tell you from personal experience that it is a great feeling
to have...being free of financial pressure & worries and working
purely out of passion!

Obviously, the more expenses you have now, the more luxurious and
indulgent your standard of living, the longer it will take for you
to achieve financial fre-edom.

So besides increasing your passive in-come, reducing your
unnecessary/frivolous expenses will accelerate your way towards
this fourth level. Finally, you must aim to achieve...

Level 4: Financial Abundance

So what is the ultimate level of wealth you can achieve? Financial
Abundance is when you have through the investment of time, money
and ideas, accumulated a critical amount of Positive Cash Flow
Assets that generate enough passive income to sustain your DESIRED
LIFESTYLE.

Your desired lifestyle is the amount of monthly expenses it will
take for you to live the life of your dreams. This is totally
subjective depending on the lifestyle that you desire.

If your desired lifestyle is to live in a 20,000 square-feet
bungalow with a swimming pool, send your kids to the best schools
and drive a Mercedes Benz S-Class, then you could be looking at a
monthly lifestyle that'll cost a cool $50,000.

Of course the more luxurious your desired lifestyle, the longer it
will take for you to achieve financial abundance.

The moment you reach the level of Financial Abundance, you will be
able to choose to stop working and live your dream lifestyle
indefinitely.

Again, most people who do reach this level usually love what they
do so much that they keep on working for fun, channeling 100% of
their active income towards charitable causes and further
compounding their wealth.

With the right strategies and plans in place, you too will be able
to achieve this ultimate level of wealth.

The Power With OPTIONS

When you have a thorough understanding about Options and how they
work, you can actually use Options to REDUCE RISK! Yes, that's
right...reduce your risk (I thought I would say it again in case you
thought it was a typo).

In fact, when used in the right way, Options can actually be less
risky than stocks and at the same time, result in 5-10 x greater
returns than buying stocks.  In addition, Options allow you to make
money no matter what direction a stock price takes. This means you
can make profits when the stock price goes up, goes down and even
if it doesn't move at all.

What is an Option?

An option is a contract that is written on a specific asset like a
house, a car or a stock. In the English language, an 'Option' is
defined as the 'right to make a choice'. So an Options contract
usually gives you the right to buy a specific asset at a
pre-determined price.

For example, if you have an option to buy a car at a pre-determined
price of $50,000, it means that you have the RIGHT to purchase the
car at $50,000 within a specific time period. An option written on
a particular house means that you have the RIGHT to purchase that
house at $1 million within a specific period of time.

Note that an Option gives you the RIGHT to purchase the asset and
NOT the OBLIGATION. In other words, you can choose to exercise your
right to purchase the asset within the time period or choose not to.

Similarly, when you have a 'Stock Option' written on a stock like
American International Group (symbol: AIG), you have the right to
buy AIG stock (usually in lots of 100 shares) at a specific price
(e.g. $65) within a fixed period of time (e.g. one month). This
type of stock option that gives you the right to buy a stock at a
particular price is called a CALL OPTION. (i.e. you have the right
to call the stock from someone).

Another kind of Stock Option is known as a PUT OPTION. This type of
option gives you the right to SELL a particular stock at a
pre-determined price (e.g. $65). So if you have a PUT OPTION
written on AIG stock, you have right to sell the AIG stock at $65
or choose not to. (i.e. you have the right to 'put' the stock to
someone else).

By exploring these two types of options in greater detail,
investors who know exactly how to use this powerful instrument in
the right way can be successful in accumulating huge returns.

Time is Your Money!

Besides taking steps too increase your value, you must also
increase the time you spend creating value to boost your in-come.

If you are self-employed, then you are usually paid by the hour or
by the job. So obviously, when you work longer hours and more days,
your in-come will increase!

Now you may be saying to me, 'I am already working 18 hour days!
How much harder can I possibly work?' Or if you are working for
somebody else you may be thinking, ' this does not apply to me.

As an employee, my hours of employment are fixed from 9am to 6pm. I
do not get paid more for working longer hours.'

Well, when I talk about increasing the time you spend creating
value, I do not necessarily mean that you must work longer hours.

Rather, you must spend more of your time only on activities that
create the greatest value...that generate the most profits for your
company.

Whether you are an entrepreneur or an employee, you will have a
list of things that you must do daily as part of your role.

You will find that not all the things you do create the same amount
of the value. There are some activities that create high value
while some activities are low in value. I

n fact, I have discovered that for most average income earners,
they only spend 20% of their workday doing truly high value
creation activities while they spend 80% of their time on low value
activities like checking email, attending unproductive meetings,
chit chatting, complaining, waiting, finding lost items...stuff that
does not generate profits or help clients meet their goals.

High-income earners are the opposite. They tend to spend 80% of
their time on high value creation activities like business
development, closing sales, innovating new revenue streams,
marketing strategy, following up with prospects, strategizing on
how to improve productivity, managing projects, getting feedback
from clients...stuff that lead to high customer satisfaction and
higher profits!

So start keeping track of how you send your time each day and focus
more of your time on high value creation activities and your in-come
will increase.

Spend your time on high value activities and you will maximize you
income, making you a millionaire in no time.

The Right Mindset

The most common question that people ask about getting rich is,

'What is the best career or business that will make me the most
money?' 

Should I go into education? Food? Insurance? Network
marketing? Healthcare? Options trading? Property? What's the best
industry to be in right now?

Well, you will find that in ANY industry, there will be a minority
who will be making plenty of money, while the majority will be
struggling to survive.

So my answer to that question is that you can become a millionaire
in ANY INDUSTRY, only if you are one of the best! If you are not
one of the best, you will never become rich in ANY industry.

You CAN become a millionaire in insurance, property, options
trading, children's education, pest-control, retail, food or
Internet marketing ONLY when you are one of the best.

So, how do you become the best in the market? The answer is by
being totally, absolutely one hundred percent committed towards
your particular career or business.

All successful individuals have one thing in common. They love what
they do. And because they have such an intense passion for their
particular career or business, they do not distinguish work from
play.

Their work is their play and vice versa. As a result, they spend
every single day and every waking hour working (to them it's not
work), and that is why they become so good at it that they become
market leaders and experts.

Have you ever wondered why Bill Gates, the richest man in the world
who is worth US$46 billion still works 18-hour days, every single
day?

Why doesn't he just sit back and relax on the beach? The reason is
because like all millionaires, what drives him is never really the
money per se; it is the love of being at the forefront of
technology.

It was his obsession of 'putting a computer in every home running
Microsoft software' that made him the best in the field.

Many people have the belief that millionaires are people who are
just naturally more motivated, disciplined and focused. The truth
is that when anyone does something he or she loves, the motivation,
focus and discipline always comes naturally.

If you find that you lack the motivation and discipline to become
successful in what you do, the reason is very obvious. It is not
your passion!

Think about it. Do you have a natural passion for something? Do you
have a hobby? Like playing golf? Looking at beautiful women or men?
Computer games? Football? Playing with children? Haven't you
noticed that whenever you are doing what you love, the energy never
stops?

It's like no matter how tired you are, you will always find the
energy to do what you love. Well, this is the secret that will lead
to your success and wealth!

You have to find something you are extremely passionate about and
build your career or business around it!

When you do, you will find that you will be naturally focused,
committed and energized to work at it. When you give your best to
whatever you are crazy about, you will become the best!

So start asking yourself...

· 'What do I love to do'? ' What would I do even if I didn't get
paid?'

· 'If I had all the money in the world, how would I spend my time?'

· 'Who are people who have made their fortunes around this passion
I have?'

I guarantee you that when you start looking for them, you will find
no lack of role models you can learn from. Remember, do what you
love and you will never work another day in your life!

Paradigm Shifts And Gold Rocket Launches

 

There are certain periods of time in history when seemingly obscene prognistications are right. I believe we are in one of those times. It is at times like these that "conspiracy theorists" (whatever that means) become what I like to call "reality theorists." 

Economic shocks come from nowhere. One day the global economy is humming along; the next day it collapses. Crashes don't occur because the fundamentals suddenly change; they occur because the public at large recognizes the fundamentals and heads for the exit at the same time. What's crashing next is the public's confidence in governments across the Western world. You can guess how that will affect the price of gold.

If you study the bull market of the 1920's and the Great Depression of the 1930's, one of the amusing things you'll discover is how consistently wrong the mainstream was. During the great bull run of the 1920's, the mainstream was forever expecting a stock market crash. 

 

Remember, the decade began with a severe Depression (which incidentally came to a swift end without government intervention). The great Jesse Livermore was the only one who recognized the bull market very early on in the 1920's. He was mocked, but he was the only one making money for the longest time.

On the other side of the coin, the mainstream refused to believe that we were in for a prolonged period of economic weakness in the early years of the Great Depression. People were continually calling for a bottom in the economy. Of course the bottom didn't come for a decade.

So what gives? What causes the mainstream to consistently miss the boat at key turning points? When does the risk/reward dynamic skew towards the seemingly insane- such as $3,000 gold?

Why Do People Miscalculate?

What we must realize is that economic orthodoxy is  constantly changing. For example, it used to be common knowledge that interest rates rise in bull markets and vice versa; now the average investor believes the exact opposite. Back then, people feared the slightest rise in inflation; now the Helicopter Bens of the world are scared out of their mind of deflation.

So what causes people to miscalculate? It's pretty simply actually: Economists and investors alike fail to adjust their economic models to account for changing underlying conditions. They try to fit square pegs into round holes- then they scratch their heads and wonder what went wrong.

Our leaders haven't the slightest clue. They are using the same medicine to cure a different disease. Keynesian economics can work in theory if it were used sparingly and only in response to a true underutilization of productive capacity. But what we have on our hands right now is a debt crisis. Our leaders think they are geniuses curing the disease, when in fact, they are making it worse.

What amuses me is the brouhaha over Keynesian economic stimulus as if it arrived yesterday. Excuse me, but what do you call the last 50 years of American economic policy characterized by debt-financed consumption? Is it not Keynesian economics and has it not already failed?

Gold Rocket Launch

I am a big believer that Pareto's law applies to markets. In other words, 20% of inputs will drive 80% of outputs. I honestly couldn't care less about productivity numbers because what's coming is no demand-pull inflation. I am much more focused on the dollar, bond rates, bond/dividend spreads, TIC capital flows, and the stupidity of governments around the world. Of all these variables, I am most confident in my prognostication that politicians will become increasingly foolish as the economic crisis on our hands becomes more complicated.

I have been preparing for the gold rocket launch for many months now. I am probably different from most people in that I focus more on the likely flow of capital than inflation when trying to figure out gold price movements. What I foresee is a flood of capital going from bonds into gold. The bond market is so huge that even a small percentage of capital flowing from bonds to gold will result in a volcanic eruption of epic proportions. So the potential rocket launch in gold depends largely on the bond market.

You all know where I stand. U.S. government bonds are the biggest bubble I've seen in my life. If you are trying to rationalize 10-year yields at 3%, then you are probably the kind of person who rationalized bubble home prices by using the "there's a fixed amount of land but a growing population" argument. In other words, your mind is stuck in the 5th grade. I advise you to think rationally for a second and consider the credit quality of a country that has to monetize its debt in the face of falling tax receipts and a stalling economy. Are you really on the right side of the trade going long bonds?

There will be monumental paradigm shifts in the years ahead. Everyone is asleep, but I think this is going to change fairly soon. The big changes, which will be evidenced by huge moves in gold, are still ahead.

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Too Much Debt, Not Enough Oil

Looking out, there's NO WAY that most Western governments can ever pay their ongoing obligations or pay off past debt!

But that doesn't mean that governments won't try to maintain their expensive and intrusive invasion of the private sector.

In fact, the odds point to rising taxation and tightening strictures on all aspects of capital formation. The effects will be to make you poorer, either by taking your money or by blocking you from pursuing your dreams.


We're in the midst of a "Greater Depression" and right now we're basking in the calm eye of the hurricane.

Indeed, he shared five ways reduce the inevitable damage:

• Abolish the Federal Reserve and return the US to a gold standard.
• Reduce government spending by about 95% - give or take.
• Withdraw US troops immediately from across the world, and end the ongoing wars in which the US is involved.
• Abolish the income tax.
• Do the "honest, ethical thing" and default on national debt. "After all," says Doug, "We're never going to pay it back. Or if we do, it'll be with dollars that are utterly worthless."

These proposals are mere "pipe dreams," he admits. "The government is doing the exact opposite," says Doug, despite the clear evidence that "the very idea of the nation-state - which has been around only since the 17th century - has failed."


Blowout in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM):

As in no large deep-water drilling vessel would ever sink. "We thought it could never occur," he said. "Never."


I looked back at two other disasters, both in January 1969. I reviewed the terrible fire aboard the nuclear-powered Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise on Jan. 14 of that year.

The flight deck was an inferno, with 500-pound bombs cooking off. Dozens of sailors were killed, with hundreds more injured. The ship suffered severe damage, and for a time, there was a distinct possibility of the vessel - and its eight nuclear reactors - sinking in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Yes, heroic actions by the crew saved the ship. But it was a close call.

Santa Barbara, Calif., oil blowout about two weeks later, on Jan. 29, 1969. No lives were lost, but the environmental impact was severe. Political pressures all but closed off the West Coast of the US to future energy exploration.

Out of these two disasters, the Navy, of course, kept on going with nuclear power, but with much-changed procedures to improve safety and harden against damage. The oil blowout was a key factor in the rise of the modern environmental movement. The offshore industry redoubled its efforts to drill safely, in deeper and deeper waters.


In a sense, looking back over the decades, it was almost easy to imagine big, expensive, well-built drilling rigs would never blow up and sink. It sure fooled the normally flinty insurance industry.

Also, considering the track record of operations, it was easy to believe that deep-water wells would never blow out. It apparently fooled the engineering and regulatory community. Surely, no one was ready to deal with the current Gulf of Mexico blowout.

The hastily imposed GOM drilling "moratorium" is just one more energy problem for the US. It compounds an already dysfunctional national energy policy. It's as if we would shut down the entire airline industry just because one airliner crashed - due almost certainly to pilot error, by the way.

The GOM drilling moratorium is terrible policy for medium- and long- term US energy production. We're already seeing rigs leave the GOM destined for other continents. We won't see those rigs back here for many years, most likely. And GOM oil output is now destined to fall, meaning that US oil imports will rise - if we can find the oil in a competitive world.

The Best Way to Create a Freelance Website

Freelancing can be a lucrative way to earn money while perfecting your craft. Freelancers earn money by working on a contractual basis for clients or companies that pay according to specific projects, rather than a regular salary. Freelancing can be a very profitable endeavor for the “artist” who is able to secure regular clients and keep the cash flowing. However, many freelancers struggle due to the lack of exposure they receive. Many companies are not aware of where to find good freelancers and how to bid for their services. Creating a good website is an effective way to market your services and connect with clients who want to take advantage of your expertise.

A great deal of freelancers are not aware of how a website can help them secure new projects. Graphic artists, writers, IT specialists and actors all benefit from a well-designed, information-rich website. Websites are the best way to reach a diverse audience of available clients, while showcasing your work and outlining your rates and policies.

Offtopic:

Do you know about freelance websites where you can start your career as designer or developer today.

Create a Budget

The first consideration in creating an effective website is to develop a working budget for the site. The most important factor in your budget is to find a cheap web hosting services. The provider will house your site, and provide you with the bandwidth needed to maintain your graphics and files on the server. Finding an affordable web hosting provider is imperative, because many companies charge outrageous fees that eat into your marketing budget.

Secondly, figure out whether you will design the site yourself or hire a designer to create a site for you. Many freelancers, especially those in the graphic and web design fields, save money by developing their own site design. This is a good option to cut down on cost. Freelancers who are not skilled in web design can search for site providers that provide user-friendly templates.

Gather Your Content

The second step is to decide what content you will feature on your site. Although it is tempting to add all of your work samples to the site, consider that your reader will probably not have time to review all of your work. In addition, large amounts of files take up bandwidth on your site and can cause your page to load slowly. Choose a few of your best samples, along with short testimonials from past clients, if available.

Avoid flashy graphics that some of your potential clients may not be able to load on their computers. Keeping your design simple, easy to navigate and user-friendly is key to creating a great website.

Elements To Include

The first thing you need to include on your site (besides your work samples) is information on yourself and your areas of specialty. This is especially important if you’re targeting a niche market, such as finance, medical fields, or education. A writer who only produces technical manuals, for example, should include that as an area of expertise on their main page, to effectively target those clients. This will also save the freelancer from fielding a lot of calls and emails from clients that are not a good fit.

Include detailed contact information on every page of your site. This should include an email contact, phone number and address, if applicable. Many freelancers fail to include contact information, or bury it in an obscure place on their site. This is a mistake. Your contact information should be prominently displayed on every page.

Add links to your site. For artists with published work, adding links adds credibility to your business and increases your chances of landing clients. Additionally, ask clients who have used your services to create a link on their page that points to your site. This will go a long way in making your site visible to a large number of potential clients.

Creating a website is a valuable marketing tool for freelancers and can lead to more projects and land you more high-profile clients. Finding an affordable web hosting provider, making your site user-friendly, and marketing your site goes a long way in landing those prime assignments.

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Check out this video to see how easy it is to add Amazon and eBay product listings and reviews to your affiliate blog with the WP Shopping Pages plugin for WordPress.
The video shows how I am using it on MyEnergyPal.com.

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All You Desire To Find Out On The Topic Of Web Design

If a good, nicely designed, properly maintained website adds for the brand value on the company, a poorly maintained site with poor net design erodes that brand equity easily too. So if you’re truly seeking to put up your website, if you are designing the site yourself or in case you have hired a net designer you will discover some significant factors about internet style that you should retain in mind.

You need guests to visit your internet site repeatedly so you’ll want to make the web site visiting expertise a fantastic one. Navigation need to be easy; your readers should have the ability to locate what they are in search of easily. The web design and style ought to not be too complex or cluttered. Remember, an excellent internet design and style doesn’t overwhelm the visitors. If your site takes more than ten seconds to load, you should get rid of some pictures, graphics unless it can be absolutely crucial to help keep it all. All the pages really should have a similar look and feel. Reduce the use of Java script and avoid Flash as very much as you can.

You can select ready-made templates or you are able to layout one. Avoid marketing lingo and focus on customer-friendly language. Choose beneficial background with large contrast and smart fonts. Avoid employing different fonts for the exact same page. Avoid pop-up boxes, numeric web page counters and auto play music. A very good world-wide-web design and style ensures a lot more traffic and much more visitors. Search engines rank the web sites with multiple links higher and thus it will make certain a increased ranking around the search engine results. Don’t forget to contain a feedback form that would guide the readers to connect.

Perhaps you are a stay-at-home mom with an arsenal of style programs at your disposal, seeking additional income to support your family; you could conversely be a student seeking to develop your portfolio and possibly help pay down college loans.

Lay outing is essential in a superb internet design. This is a really important tip; use various colors to differentiate between visited and non-visited links. This way the visitor is not confused and knows exactly where by he has been and decides in which he intends to go. Design the property web page a bit differently than other pages. A very good world-wide-web design and style hence ought to incorporate the suggestions discussed. So go for the very best net designing firms that will offer you the most beneficial deals.

After a rapid web search, I was in a position to locate a multitude of hits whilst researching “web design in Surrey”; don’t be discouraged, since this can work with your favor. Knowing that there are other established enterprises inside your area can basically aid your website in being crawled a lot more frequently by look for engines- this in turn will give additional targeted traffic to your site and your portfolio.

According to w3 Education, careers in web pattern are at an all-time high, and are demanded worldwide. If you’re just beginning with your new found career, you will find numerous neighborhood resources in Surrey at your disposal. For instance, doing a quick seek via Floodlight for world-wide-web pattern courses in Surrey gives a big quantity of neighborhood courses that could support you to advance your know-how at your own pace. 

If you are not trying to attend a university, these courses might be a viable option. If you’re a lot more advanced with your knowledge, you might would like to brush up on your abilities by checking out some on-line resources such as Lynda to help sharpen your proficiency in the diverse software needed to do various style tasks for your potential clients.

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Strategize Your Web Content Creation

The internet has an unbelievable amount of search marketing potential for a business website but to just dive in and flail your arms around in the internet waters will not grow your business the right way. You have to take a step back and figure out which areas you want to be the most visible in and you will want to have a clearly laid out plan of attack. Let’s take a look at some of important ingredients you need to analyze when you put your content marketing strategy together:

Your Audience: 

You know your audience better than anybody else so you will understand their patterns and behavior more than most people especially if you have been in your industry for a long time. Step into their shoes and try to understand for a moment what type of approach they would like to see from you. What would entice them the most to respond? Before you market to your audience you must understand them 100% otherwise you could fall flat on your face.

Your Content: 

How is your content going to appeal to your audience? Your content has to be structured so that it will appeal to your audience in more ways than one. Everything from tone to style of writing is going to be an important step for you to become a popular force in your industry. Everything you do with your content must always appeal to your audience; if it doesn’t your following will never sprout. Your content also needs to be distributed in locations where your audience is going to be able to read it on a regular basis. It needs to be in high traffic areas and not just tucked away in article directories where it might never be seen.

Type of Content: 

Is your content the right content? Does it appeal to your audience? Is it savvy? Content needs to be refreshing and unique for others to want to link to you and read more. Put some personality into your content otherwise it is just another article sitting online not really doing much but taking up space. Good writing and interesting viewpoints go a long way.

Take the time and really think about your content and how you market your business online. Just shooting content from the hip will not allow your following and your brand to build how it should in the online space.

What Warren Buffet Taught Me about Gold

There is an old saying on Wall Street...

Stock markets are driven by two emotions: fear and greed.

Of course this is an oversimplification, but it can often be true.

And succumbing to these emotions can have a profound effect on our investment portfolios and overall bottom line.

The legendary investor Warren Buffett has two great quotes regarding fear and greed that apply to the current state of the junior mining stock market.

The first quote goes like this:

Unless you can watch your stock holdings decline by 50% without becoming panic-stricken, you should not be in the stock market.

And the second:

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

Let’s look at Buffet’s first quote with regards to investing in precious metal junior stocks.

The junior mining stock market is very volatile. Junior mining stocks can go up or down 50% in a heartbeat depending on market circumstances, news, seasonal trends, the outcome of drill results, and a number of other things.

Sometimes they seem to go up or down 50% for no reason or all. It can be quite confusing at times, especially for investors who are not used to this kind of volatility.

Yet for the past ten years, there has been no better place to put your money — as far as performance goes — then precious metal junior mining stocks.

This is a simple fact that Wall Street and the main stream media want you to ignore.

It's true that for the past decade, the junior mining stock market has been largely uneventful for 75% of the time. Yet during the other 25% of that period, junior mining stocks have been rip-roaring, making investors more money than they could have ever imagined.

I have watched the value of my own portfolio during this ten year period have wild swings to the upside and also to the downside.

One of the lessons you learn from these kinds of experiences is to not get too greedy when the market is hot and always remember to take some profits when you can. In other words, get your original investment back into your capital account as soon as opportunity presents itself.

The other lesson is not to panic when your portfolio swings to the downside.

Too many investors hastily step out of good positions when the market is down, even when the value is still there.

We only want to get rid of a company if the value is no longer there, or the reason we bought the company in the first place no longer exists. We don’t want to jump out of good value positions because of fear.

What ultimately protects those of us who are investing in precious metals junior mining stocks is the fact that the long-term trend is on our side, even though most of the investing community hasn’t had a clue for the past ten years as to what is happening in our world and why.

The most important thing to understand in investing is to have a correct concept of the long-term trend. The long-term trend for the precious metals is extremely bullish, as we constantly talk about here in Wealth Daily.

Despite the ups and downs, gold recently hit a new record high of $1,266 an ounce. Sure it will correct back a bit before it goes to the next new high; but as I have already accurately predicted for over 12 years now, gold is going higher.

Now the bullish trend for the precious metals is going to go into hyper-drive. And in the coming months we should use any down periods as our schooling moments to better align our portfolios with value companies that will perform extremely well when the time comes.

The long-term trend is that abused fiat currencies will all eventually fail. Gold has moved higher against all fiat currencies for years, and it will continue to move higher because there is nowhere for these abused currencies to ultimately go but lower — despite the ups and downs you see in the short-term.

The lessons of history are absolutely clear on this point. Abused fiat currencies always collapse and return to their intrinsic value, which is zero!

Right now our junior mining stock market is being driven by fear, and this brings me to Warren Buffett's second quote, which illustrates his contrarian nature.

In other words, he buys when everyone else is fearful and he sells when everyone is greedy. This is the essence of successful investing.

Learn how to do this well, and you can’t help but be successful if you correctly understand the long-term trend.

Greed's influence

So often, investors get caught up in greed. After all, most of us have a desire to acquire as much wealth as possible in the shortest amount of time...

The internet boom of the late 1990s is a perfect example. At the time, it seemed all a broker had to do was simply pitch any investment with a “.com” at the end of it, and investors leaped at the opportunity.

Buying activity in internet-related stocks, many just start-ups, reached a fever pitch. Investors got greedy, fueling further greed and leading to securities being grossly overpriced, which created a bubble. It burst in mid-2000 and kept leading indexes depressed through 2001.

There are other bubbles that have been created in our society by excessive use of fiat currency being pumped into the system. That money created bubbles which still exist in real estate, Dow stocks, and the mother of all bubbles, U.S. T-Bills.

The air is now coming out of those bubbles, and deflationary pressures insure the air will have to be completely removed before governments opt to do what they always do throughout history when confronted with these circumstances — create insane amounts of money out of thin air to avoid deflationary disaster.

Fear's influence

When stocks suffer large losses for a sustained period, the overall market can become more fearful of sustaining further losses. But being too fearful can be just as costly as being too greedy.

Just as greed dominated the market during the dot-com boom, the same can be said of the prevalence of fear following its bust.

In a bid to stem their losses, investors quickly moved out of the equity markets in search of less risky buys. Money poured into money market securities, stable value funds, and principal-protected funds, which are all low-risk and low-return securities.

Warren Buffett showed us just how important and beneficial it is to stick to a plan in times like the dot-com boom. Buffett was once heavily criticized for refusing to invest in high-flying tech stocks. But once the tech bubble burst, his critics were silenced.

By avoiding the dominant market emotion of the time, Buffett was able to avoid the losses felt by those hit by the bust.

Keep in mind that managing fear and greed isn’t as easy as it sounds... There’s a fine line between controlling your emotions and being just plain stubborn. Train yourself to buy when the news is bad in our junior mining stock market and to sell when the news is good. And as you become better at this, your profits in trading junior mining shares will greatly increase.

You are the final decision-maker for your portfolio, and thus responsible for any gains or losses in your investments.

Sticking to sound investment decisions while controlling your emotions — whether it is greed or fear — and not blindly following market sentiment is crucial to successful investing and maintaining your long-term strategy.

Learn to think more for yourself. Managing fear and greed is really about understanding and managing volatility. It’s a balancing act that requires you to keep your wits about you at all times.

For those who can successfully navigate these tricky waters, the rewards can be great... particularly for those who correctly understand the major long-term trend and stick to it.