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SEO - Writing SEO For A Living
Sometimes if you get good enough at writing SEO you start considering doing it for a living. Be warned however --this is not a career for people who are perfectionist or who see it as a way to having a reputation as an expert advertising copywriter.If you want to research the SEO writing market go to the big writing auction sites like Elance and Guru. This will give you a good idea of the low pay involved in such a career. You will also notice that the individuals with the least feedback and work on there are those that have the idea that they will be selling high quality writing on the Internet. This is not the market nowadays.Lower priced writing that is done for cheap is what most business people on the Internet are willing to pay for. Most of them are likely to have less education then you and also have no real idea what great writing is. Great writing, which is what the mass majority of Americans, which have a Grade Four Reading level, can read. So this is not really the arena to start writing like Shakespeare.For instance on Elance there are many writers from the United States stuck in off-line world prices for their work from 1988. You see them bidding for jobs at a dollar a word. However the going price is more like a cent a word and they have no idea that the market has changed to favor outsourcing from India. They have nothing to offer a client of value except for a resume dripping with obsolete education. Unfortunately what they teach you as an English major is not the skill set that you need to please the client who wants SEO articles done.If you truly are a great talent then take yourself to an offline agency

ed up $9.19 to close at $49.95, the run up is due to a buy out offer from Energy Partners Limited (NYSE: EPL) of $2 billion, Big Lots (NYSE: BLI) traded up $2.80 to close at $16.31 due to a better than expected earnings forecast, this pushed Big Lots to a two-year high, Companhia Energetica (NYSE: CIG) traded up $5.22 to close at $41.05, J2 Global Communications (NASDAQ: JCOM) traded up $3.20 to close at $28.15, eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) traded up $3.68 to close at $33.88, United Natural Foods (NASDAQ: UNFI) traded up $3.31 to close at $33.72 and Geoglobal Resources (AMEX: GCR) which traded up $1.07 to close at $6.32.

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Due to market conditions we found it necessary to make our readers/listeners aware of companies that have been taking a little spanking, some of these stocks may be at a discount but you need to do your research, look at the charts and make sure that nothing fundamentally has changed with the company and whether it is just being dragged by the market or not. There are companies that are actually a slave to the Dow and present buying opportunities.

Forex Trading - Do Not Jump Into It
Forex Trading - Do not jump into it until you are successful in Paper TradingWhat is paper trading? Paper trading is where you receive an imaginary amount of money, for example $100,000, and pretend to trade it as though it were real. Most forex brokers will set you up a demo or dummy account where you can practice trading with all the benefits and features of a real trading account.This serves two very important purposes. The first is to let you get familiar with your brokers trading platform and how all the various orders are placed. Many beginner traders underestimated this. Whenever you learn a new set of software or trading system, there is always a learning curve. You do not want to be on that learning curve with your own money. Next, it will let you practice the method without risking any of your own money. You will feel a lot more confident about this or any other trading method if you have actually practiced trading with it and made money. Practice makes Perfect.It is highly recommended that new traders spend at least three months paper trading before they even think about going live, using real money. In reality not many people have the discipline to do it. That is why so many beginner traders lose money in the forex market.There is a good argument that - no amount of paper trading will ever put you through the emotional turmoil a real trade will. This is absolutely true. There is no substitute for the emotional roller coaster your first few live trades will have on you. Studies have shown that traders who spend more time paper trading in the beginning tend to handle the em

It’s Friday May 26, 2006, and it’s the last day of the trading week and the beginning of a three-day weekend for the market. First and foremost we want to remind everyone to lower their flags to half-staff in memory of the soldiers that have fallen in battle to keep the United States of America free. We also want to send our thoughts out to all the families of fallen soldiers of the most recent war that is taking place in Iraq.

Now lets get down to business, history was made yesterday and some justice was served in a Texas Courtroom, as Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling were found guilty. This is the pair that single handedly forced the Sarbanes-Oxley Act or SOX to be established following the collapse of Enron that left many people without pensions to fall back on. So this is a little retribution as the pair could spend the rest of their lives in prison. They will appeal to verdict but it may do them no good, as they will just delay the inevitable a few more months or so. I don’t think that anyone was really shocked by the verdict but the families of the defendants, as Lay and Skilling pleaded the “It Wasn’t Me” defense. So lets hope that they are supplied with soap on a rope.

Now what this pair did is a far cry from a stock options issuance, but the stock options probe still continues and is growing. There are companies being dragged into this probe that are actually good companies and have done well for investors, companies such as UnitedHealth (NYSE: UNH) and Power Integrations (NASDAQ: POWI) which we happen to like but this probe is a dark cloud over both of these companies. Now what all of this scrutiny may actually do is deter good CEO’s from running public companies and push them into the private sectors.

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As you know, “Wall Street to Main Street” is issued only once a day and due to numerous requests we found that it may be a good idea to initiate stock alerts via email to our subscribers. So this is the plan, we will begin to alert subscribers of various stock trading opportunities that are presented through out the week. Subscribers will receive a few possibilities; we will show the trend and our thoughts. Because there are times that a stock is in motion during the day and we may know about it but that doesn’t do anything for our subscribers.

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Michael Dell or Dell, Inc (NASDAQ: DELL) has been awoken, and when you awaken a sleeping giant things do begin to happen. Dell has inked a deal with Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) to have Google’s software bundle in millions of new Dell computers coming out of the factory. So this is just another step for Dell as their next step is the retail sector.

Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) has found synergy with eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) as the companies team up in a multiyear partnership that will draw on the strengths of both Yahoo and eBay in online advertising, payments and communications so they can connect with even more Web surfers than they already do. This is a strategic move for both companies as they band together to combat the mighty Google.

As we anticipated Las Vegas Sands (NYSE: LVS) beat the competition and has won the bid to build Singapore's first casino this morning. LVS is the largest casino operator in the world and this entry into Singapore is a big step for the company as the profit margins in Asia for casinos are much higher than in the United States so you can expect Las Vegas Sands to easily traded above its 52 week high of $73.14, as investors and institutions begin to realize their future potential. This company could actually bring in more revenue than ever once this casino is completed.

Movers and Shakers

Some major movers in yesterday trading session include Stone Energy (NYSE: SGY) which traded up $9.19 to close at $49.95, the run up is due to a buy out offer from Energy Partners Limited (NYSE: EPL) of $2 billion, Big Lots (NYSE: BLI) traded up $2.80 to close at $16.31 due to a better than expected earnings forecast, this pushed Big Lots to a two-year high, Companhia Energetica (NYSE: CIG) traded up $5.22 to close at $41.05, J2 Global Communications (NASDAQ: JCOM) traded up $3.20 to close at $28.15, eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) traded up $3.68 to close at $33.88, United Natural Foods (NASDAQ: UNFI) traded up $3.31 to close at $33.72 and Geoglobal Resources (AMEX: GCR) which traded up $1.07 to close at $6.32.

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SEO - Don't Be Sent to the Google Sandbox
The Google Sandbox is a kind of virtual holding cell where websites that don’t quite make the grade or that are suspected of spamming are put into a kind of purgatory. As you may or may not know, the Google spiders make two trips to your index before they index it. The first trip by a spider indexes your strengths and weaknesses and if there is a lot of weaknesses then it could take the search engine months to analyze your site. If the site seems like it spamming somehow or inethical it may not be indexed at all.Basically when the Google Spiders index your site they also take note of how you may be trying to manipulate the search engine rankings. Two things that could definitely get you into trouble are over optimizing the web site with keywords and building too many low quality links too fast.You should be extra careful about this if your website is new. Over optimizing is what a lot of copycat sites do to beat out the competition and the search engine spiders may note this. If you have a new site with way too many links it is automatic evidence of link farming to the Google search engines who will then penalize you for it – i.e. send your site to the Google sandbox.There are certain industries that are more suspect than others and that Google may have less patience with when it comes to link farming and keyword stuffing. This includes the porn, pharmaceutical, Internet, work at home business, psychic and yes, even the SEO industry. In fact if you are selling business to business products or ebooks about how to make more money using SEO then you might be a number one candidate to be sent to the Google sandbox as you are displaying

ing. There are companies being dragged into this probe that are actually good companies and have done well for investors, companies such as UnitedHealth (NYSE: UNH) and Power Integrations (NASDAQ: POWI) which we happen to like but this probe is a dark cloud over both of these companies. Now what all of this scrutiny may actually do is deter good CEO’s from running public companies and push them into the private sectors.

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Politics And The Internet
According to a recent poll conducted by ComputerWorld, about forty percent of the population believes that people can increase their political power by going online. Hence, many academics believe that people in western societies are becoming more technologically educated in order to gain more influence in the political sector. For example, Mr. Jeffrey Cole, a director at the University of Southern California states, “This year, 6% of regular Internet users said they have their own blogs, 16% said they post pictures on the Web, and more than 10% maintain their own web sites. In 2003, 3% of Internet users said they blogged, 11% posted photos, and less than 9% maintained web sites.”(ComputerWorld, 2005: 1) Thus, the question raised by many is, “Is the Internet providing a more democratic and participatory human society for the future?”Mr. Cole agrees that the Internet plays a pivotal role in providing a more equitable society that encourages participatory development. He argues that due to the younger generation having the ability to effectively communicate through Internet forums, they are more willing to express their political opinions online. The younger generation also has the opportunity to engage in academic discussions with people who are older and have more experience, such as university lecturers, or people who specialize in the area of discussion. Hence, the Internet has clearly demonstrated its use in terms of educating the younger generation for the future. However, the positive benefits that can be gained through the use of the Internet not only extends to young citizens, but has a

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Federal Trade Commission Screws Over Small Business Again!
Recently the Federal Trade Commission put forth a franchise report for possible rule making. In the report is offers possible law changes, which will screw over small business. Isn’t this so typical of the Washington DC bureaucracy with their fingers up everyone’s you know what? The Federal Trade Commission appears to want to revamp the franchise rule and effectively crush small business franchised outlets.The biggest issue now in American Commerce is how can small businesses compete with the larger Box Stores? Well, through economies of scale, small business co-ops and franchising. But if franchising is inhibited in the market place you have in fact eliminated the competition of the giant corporate box stores. Yet small business employs over 70% of our economy. So further regulations on franchising and incessant over disclosure (190-230 page UFOCs) doesn’t help anyone as it causes the following;Over Disclosure creates barriers to entry into the franchising field for franchisors, who have a mortality rate of 5:1 in the first five years already, yet the Federal Trade Commission claims to be pro-competition? BS, it is total protectionism, helping larger corporations against entrepreneurship. If no new industries get a foothold the older industries like text tiles, mining, steel will slowly dwindle with no new venues to buy up or expand into. Without new industries starting and with old ones maturing and dying we cannot have a healthy economy. The $25-35K to prepare documents and the $20K to stay registered in Franchise Registration states and the $45K for yearly audits does not allow for future Ray Kroc, built from scratch entreprene

happen. Dell has inked a deal with Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) to have Google’s software bundle in millions of new Dell computers coming out of the factory. So this is just another step for Dell as their next step is the retail sector.

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Creating a Foundation for Your Marketing
Creating a Foundation for your MarketingA marketing calendar is the key to bringing your value proposition to life. Intelligent marketing is marketing based on your firm’s core idea—or value proposition. “What is the main benefit you offer your clients?”Every one of your marketing weapons must be an extension of your value proposition. Advertising, stationary, direct mail, telephone marketing, signs, web site, all must support your value proposition.To do this, you need to have a focused strategy. Your marketing calendar propels you to your goal by coordinating your marketing weapons in an orderly, logical manner.BenefitsAmong the benefits calendars offer: • Process, not event. Marketing calendars encourage on-going consistency rather than hit-or-miss marketing that never builds momentum and often results in lost opportunities.• Freedom from budget surprises. Marketing calendars control your investment and help you avoid overspending or under-spending.• No more “deadline madness.” Marketing calendars protect you from last-minute costs, stress, and surprises. Marketing calendars make planning, buying and staffing easy.Tracking your marketingGuerrilla Marketers also use marketing calendars to identify their most profitable marketing tools by measuring the results of their marketing against written goals.Tracking helps you eliminate marketing investments that miss the target and double investment in those that hit the center of the bull’s eye.Case studyA recent client, for example, who owned a furnitur

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Some stocks that traded down yesterday include Joy Global (NASDQ: JOYG). Now this is a stock that was ripped apart in yesterdays trading session and it was most certainly overdone. They reported that their profit doubled but that was due to improved margins, something that would not be repeated in future quarters. So the sellers came out in force and smaller investors followed. The stock went as low at $45.77 before institutions rolled in at about 2:30 pm EST give or take a few minutes, and started to buy cheap stock. As an investor you need to seek out oversold situations like Joy Global because as quickly as they come down in a trading session as they could easily bounce back up once the bleeding stops. This is why we are going to initiate stock alerts on the NAMC Newswire for our subscribers..

Here we go again, another situation that was oversold, the China based online game operator and developer, The9 Limited (NASDAQ: NCTY) dropped down $3.55 to close at $23.72, the stock dropped as low as $21.89 before the bleeding began to stop. They missed the mark with their earnings this is what dragged the stock down, So you have either a flood of shorts diving in or a few institutions unloading shares, either way it puts the stock on a downward pattern, investors panic and start to unload and in certain cases forces the stock to break certain levels on the charts which trigger even more selling. But then you have bottom fishers that are looking for situations like this and they usually profit nicely from it.

Now lets look at a company called Libbey (NYSE: LBY) it has been climbing down the mountain after a couple of attempts of making upward movement. The stock broke a one-month low and could fall lower but this isn’t a mass sell off, the stock is just gradually breaking down on the chart. It traded down 86 cents to close at $11.38 yesterday and could continue that downward movement as the next support level is in the $9.50 range. At that level you may find an entry point but not before then,

Other stocks that traded down yesterday include Lyon Williams Homes (NYSE: WLS) which traded down $9.05 to close at $122.00, Genesco (NYSE: GCO) traded down $2.00 to close at $36.55, Omnicare (NYSE: OCR) traded down $3.54 to close at $44.46, Blue Coat Systems (NASDAQ: BCSI) traded down $3.91 to close at $15.65, MWI Vetinary Supply (NASDAQ: MWIV) traded down $2.99 to close at $30.19, Books-A-Million (NASDAQ: BAMM) closed down $1.22 to close at $14.13 and KongZhong (NASDAQ: KONG) which traded down 95 cents to close at $11.55.

Analyst Upgrades/Downgrades

Recent Analyst upgrades include Joy Global (NASDAQ: JOYG) the oversold stock was upgraded to a Buy from a Neutral by UBS, Superior Bancorp (NASDAQ: SUPR) was upgraded to a Buy from a Neutral by FTN Midwest Research, Volt Information Sciences (NYSE: VOL) was upgraded to a Buy from a Neutral by Sidoti & Co, Alkermes (NASDAQ: ALKS) was upgraded to a Buy from a Neutral by Pacific Growth Equities, Arrow Electronics (NYSE: ARW) was upgraded to a Buy from a Neutral by Merrill Lynch, Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS) was upgraded to a Peer Perform from Under Perform by Bear Stearns, and SkyWest (NASDAQ: SKYW) was given an upgrade to a Strong Buy from an Out Perform by Raymond James.

Recent Analyst downgrades include XM satellite Radio (NASDAQ: XMSR) which was downgraded to a Market Perform from a Out Perform by Barrington Research and to a Under Perform from a Out Perform by Bear Stearns, Blue Coat Systems (NASDAQ: BCSI) they were downgraded to a Market Perform from a Market Outperform by JMP Securities and Dollar General Corp (NYSE: DG) which was downgraded to a Neutral from a Out Perform by Credit Suisse.

FURIOUS FIVE

This is the Fifth of our “Furious Five” companies that we see excelling in their industry in 2006. Today we are featuring Coldwater Creek, Inc (NASDAQ: CWTR) it trades on the Nasdaq under the symbol CWTR.

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We cannot stress enough that investors need to do their due diligence, call the companies, get the information, consult with your investment advisor and if you do not have one consider getting one. Put the same time into investigating these companies as you do when you go to purchase a new television, it’s only for your protection. When it comes to thinly traded securities stagger your orders or put a limit order in to avoid a run up.

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