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People often over-estimate the returns from real estate in their mind. A house that they bought for $100,000 in 1985 that has appreciated 6 times in price and costs $60,000 now only returned 7.18% annually. If a house doubles in value every 10 years, that just means the annual rate of return is 7.18%. Doubling every 10 years is the most that can be expected from real estate, that's if you are lucky. Use this calculator to see for yourself. http://www.moneychimp.com/calculator/discount_rate_calculator.htm
There are several posts all over the web about both of these services. But not many report on actual performance or results from them. A quick background first. AMA - ArticleMarketingAutomation.com
Posted by: admin in seo, link building on
Jul 1, 2010
Don't let people make SEO a big messy maze. It's not. It's simple, if you keep it simple. At Simplosys, we like simple. So much so that we named the company after that :) Now, this doesn't mean it's EASY. There's a difference. The concept is simple. Which is what you need to understand. VERY well. Then the implementation will depend on how well you execute the simple concept. But if your understanding of the basic concept is flawed, you'll never get results, really, never. So, here you go:
Tons of people, including greats such as Warren Buffett (who actually invented the concept) recommend value investing. The idea of buying shares of companies that are fundamentally sound, but trading well below their actual long term potential. Sounds great in theory and has worked well over the years, for one simple reason - the overall market grew as well at a pretty reasonable pace. So if you simply bought the market (sau DJI index fund) and stayed with it for 10 years, from any period between 1940 and 2000, you'd make roughly 5-10% per annum, which is pretty good. So it makes sense to pick ones that will beat the market, so you'd make even more than that average, but also run the risk of making lesser. Risk, reward, I get it. But from 1998 to today, the market's actually DOWN about 0.5%. That's like 12 years of economic development with nothing to show for it. In this market, how the heck are you going to invest in companies when fundamentals don't seem to matter? Everything goes down when China changes an economic policy or Spain declares bankruptcy or Indian real estate approaches a bubble. It's all way too interconnected. And noone, NOONE can predict what'll happen in all these places, all correctly. So it's impossible to pick stocks anymore for the long term, or so it seems, at least for ordinary investors that don't spend all day keeping track of Reuters press releases hoping to get information before everyone else, but in vain. Long term investing is dead. Why? Because there is no such thing as long term anymore. Is long term 2 years, 3 years, 5 years? The future of the world economy is hardly something anyone foresees at this point, beyond 1 year at least. Most developed economies have debt to GDP ratios of over 50%. If your annual income was $50k and you had a 25k debt at 5%, what would you do? Borrow more, so you can go to school to learn more and make more money some day in the future? Well, most people would take up a job and pay off the $25k, or at least most of it, before getting more debt. That's because in this economy, two years from now, the job market could be even worse, so it makes sense to not run big loans and put yourself at risk of bankruptcy. But sovereign nations don't get that. They do exactly the opposite. Issue more debt, so they can build more schools and roads, as investments for the future. A future, that most people don't see as very rosy.
Article Marketing is perhaps the easiest and most common form of link building. Everyone does it. Either themselves or through their SEO or a link building service. There is nothing wrong with it when it's done right and in moderation. One problem with article marketing is that it's difficult to measure results right away. Directories take days or even weeks to approve an article and this can make it hard to know whether your submission was right, was approved, Etc., especially if you are submitting tens or even hundreds of articles, for yourself or multiple clients. Here's some tips that I've used that have helped me increase the acceptance rate and stay on the good books with article directories that I submit to.
Posted by: admin in Untagged on
May 8, 2010
Fidelity, Scottrade, Schwab and most other large trading brokerage firms allow multi-user accounts these days. This is something that I did not know and thought I should share with you guys because you may benefit from this too. Read this conversation which explains it pretty well. This was with Fidelity but should work in a similar fashion with other brokerages. Always remember NOT to trust just anyone, needless to say, your buddy or uncle doesn't qualify (unless he/she also happens to be a professional with loads of experience and credibility...
It's amazing how little info there is out there about CRE Loaded features/hacks. The book that costs $40 hardly covers anything in depth. Here's a conversation about setting up gift certificates or vouchers on your site. If you have a CRE Loaded site, you should set this up. It's free, and just one more way that you can market your site by giving away free gift certificates to bloggers and popular social media account owners in exchange for a review or promotion on their site. This is a great way to build links and get some viral buzz going about your site. Mahesh: Hello, how can I help you?
Srini Venkataramani: Hey Mahesh, a customer wants to buy a gift certificate from the site. How do I turn that feature on?
Mahesh: Hello Srini
Mahesh: You need to create a product for that and set model name as GIFT_25, GIFT_50 depending on the certificate price you want
Srini Venkataramani: Model number?? what is that?
Mahesh: Thats your product model number field , you will get that whe you create products through admin
Srini Venkataramani: Ok, trying now
Srini Venkataramani: I created a product with model GIFT_25. What should I set as price? How does it work, meaning, how will customer receive a code that is worth $25?
Mahesh: You can sell these product with any price and your customer can send this to there freind as a gift voucher
Srini Venkataramani: So when customer buys this gift cert, how will they send this to their friend? And how does the friend redeem the certificate?
Srini Venkataramani: Mahesh, are you there?
Mahesh: Hold on please
Srini Venkataramani: Sure
Mahesh: when customer buy it, its still pending then when admin gets payment they go to Gift voucher queue and select the voucher and redeem it so its released to the persons account
Mahesh: e they update the status to delivered first then gift voucher queue
Mahesh: then redeem it, after that the balance will be on the customer account to use or send to friend
Srini Venkataramani: Hmm..I guess it would be nice to have some kind of tutorial or screenshots of this process. Makes sense to me but a but confusing. I guess I can test this with a product priced at $0, right?
Mahesh: No I will suggest you to test with $0.01.
Srini Venkataramani: Ok, will do. Thanks for your help!!
Posted by: srini28 in Untagged on
Apr 6, 2010
Yeah yeah this blog is not about stocks, but well, who isn't interested in shares at some point or the other? If you aren't investing them yourself, and trust someone else to handle your money matters, good for you, ignore this post. For those like me that try to dabble in everything and think men aren't just work machines and the concept of a career doesn't sink in too well, you are into stocks then, aren't you? I've been following CNBC Fast Money and Mad Money (BOOYAH Cramer!) shows for some time now - about a year I'd say give or take, more because they are fun and keep me abreast of our economy which I like to do. But also for stock picks. I started a VERY conservative investor, reading books about value investments, buy and hold, Etc., but man, is trading addictive! I made 5 trades in the last week alone and luckily, all but one paid off (some more than 10%!) THANKS TO TIM SEYMOUR!!
Posted by: srini28 in seo, link building on
Mar 31, 2010
Over the last couple of years, frustrated webmasters that have tried all other SEO measures unsuccessfully (or with partial but not significant success) have turned to link networks to build links very fast very quickly. I am talking about sites like articlemarketingautomation.com , seolinkvine.com (which launched today - Brad Callen's latest venture), Etc. There are many more. The idea is thatyou are part of a network where your articles/blog posts with links to your sites are picked up by others in the network (who benefit from the free content) and post it to their blogs, giving you quality contextual links. The idea sounds great, IN THEORY. In reality, what happens is something totally different. People looking for free content usually DO NOT have great quality blogs. Which means you write awesome quality articles but they get published on crappy blogs. This approach can work for some websites though because of the sheer quantity of links you can build this way. seolinkvine.com gives one example where they built 29000 links for a site and got it ranked at #3 on Google for a competitive phrase. That's great, but now you stand the risk of Google changing their algorithm to weed out the effect of these mass-acquired low-quality links at some point (and it will happen at some point if you know Google). So may be a good idea for a short-term website. For example, if you launch a blog that you are going to write only for a year (like the Julie and Julia blog) or something like that - then may be I'd go for this (hesitantly.
Posted by: srini28 in entrepreneurship on
Mar 31, 2010
Check out this entrepreneur quiz . I got only a 27 on this, which according to them, means I may not enough of the characteristics of a typical entrepreneur. Some of the questions really did make a lot of sense. While I was answering them, I could see what they were getting at, and sometimes, sadly, why my response is not the one an ideal successful entrepreneur would provide. I guess reminded me that there is SO MUCH more to being a successful entrepreneur than having the right idea and the money. This questionnaire helped me a lot. Go try it, and more than the score, focus on the questions and what a successful entrepreneur that you know of (Bill Gates may be your uncle who made it big in business or if you really can't think of someone, pick someone from this list of entrepreneurs) and think of what their response would be...
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