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investors. Therefore, I may rank my internal screening tool very high for getting stock leads, you may be dissappointed if you do not have access or can not pay for those powerful tools at reasonable cost.

4. Online Message Board Networking

Stock message boards are wild and you may be surprised that I put this as one of top sources of information for getting stock leads. Well indeed, I got tips and found very solid stock leads from internet message boards.

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Maybe you’ve heard of autoresponders. They’re online systems set up to help marketers deliver an automatic message directly into an email inbox. Autoresponders are so great because a prospect voluntarily signs up to receive your message. They are opting in, and giving you permission to send them information. Autoresponders are an excellent way to promote products, services, newsletters, and web sites.I have three autoresponders that are actively working 24/7 to deliver my special messages to eager information seekers. You’re probably wondering how do you get people interested in signing up for your autoresponder message. It’s simple: Give them some information they want!You’ve gotta offer something of value by way of their interests. Someone visits your web site looking for some specific niche information and hope

1. Insider Buying Information

Insiders are company's CEO, Chairman, board directors, executive vice president of various departments.

Insider buying information top my list for obvious reasons. Insiders have lots of reasons to sell their shares: buying a house, huge vacation expense, etc. However, there is usually only one reason when insiders buy their company's shares with their personal money: the insiders believe the stock price are cheap and they can make money by buying their own stocks.

Insider buying information is also very informative to understand market sector movement. Many time I looked at the insider buying information from sector point of view. Certain sector during certain period of time constantly had insider buying activities from different companies of the same sector, which could indicate a sector wide undervaluation or bullishness. That was exactly what I found in late 2003 and early 2004 when I found insiders of lots of oil and natural gas companies constantly buying their stocks. Eventually I picked two oil and gas stocks in late 2003 and early 2004 Whiting Petroleum (ticker WLL) and Chesapeake Energy (Ticker CHK) from insider buying information and they have been huge success for my premium investment newsletter Blast Investor Real-time Plus (BIRTP) and rewarded myself financially very significantly.

2. Guru Watch

It is certainly worth the effort to track stock picks or ideas from legendary gurus such as Warren Buffet, Eddie Lambert, Jim Rogers, etc.

Wall Street Journal is great source of investment and financial information. My 2003 stock pick PetroChina (PTR) was from an article of Wall Street Journal, which published news of Warren Buffet buying PTR. I immediately bought into PTR stock on the same day that I read the article and profited handsomely from this pick.

Warren Buffet is the best value investor in the world and you can not afford to ignore him. One way to track Warren Buffet picks is to go to Yahoo Finance and then read news headlines under stock ticker of BRK-A.

Recently, internet information grew so large and I believe it is now much easier to track gurus from web rather than reading newspapers or magazines. An easier way to track guru picks is to use tracking services offered in the web. Here I highly recommend the tracking service provided by Gurufocus.com. Gurufocus tracks almost all the value-oriented Wall Street gurus. Their list of gurus is huge, Warren Buffet, Edward Lambert, George Soros, etc. They even publish a newsletter alerting you the latest guru buy and sell actions. Their service is great and best yet, it is all free!

3. Software Screening Tool

BlastInvest operates internally a Mysql based relational database storing about seven thousand stocks with all kinds of valuation metrics and tools that I can do for Benjamin Graham NCAV ranking, return on equity modeling, low pe or low price to sale screening, etc. We update database information every week and I constantly mine the database looking for the huge winner that can reward both me and my newsletter readers.

Insider buying information could be even more powerful when you can combine insider buying information with valuation or strategy screening, which exactly what we do at BlastInvest with this powerful internal relational database.

However, I found the free or cheap screening tools out there in the web are not impressive. Validea.com tool is nice, but it lacks the powerful feature that I want. Yahoo tool or MSN tool works, but still they are not for power value investors. Therefore, I may rank my internal screening tool very high for getting stock leads, you may be dissappointed if you do not have access or can not pay for those powerful tools at reasonable cost.

4. Online Message Board Networking

Search Engine Optimization: Understanding Miami
Hello Again.Have you ever been to Miami?I ask because I think that Miami is a wonderful analogy to understanding where the internet is going.How's that?Well, Miami is a wonderful dynamic and prosperous community. Up until 1977 English was the predominant language in Miami. Today the dominant language is Spanish. There are many sections of Miami that speak only Spanish.I grew up speaking Spanish so I have always felt very comfortable in Miami.How does this relate to the internet?Well the dominant method of communication on the internet has been TEXT. The internet version 1.0 has been a text based medium. However, like Miami that is all changing.Although the transition is very gradual the internet is slowly moving to an audio and video based medium.For those who

hat I found in late 2003 and early 2004 when I found insiders of lots of oil and natural gas companies constantly buying their stocks. Eventually I picked two oil and gas stocks in late 2003 and early 2004 Whiting Petroleum (ticker WLL) and Chesapeake Energy (Ticker CHK) from insider buying information and they have been huge success for my premium investment newsletter Blast Investor Real-time Plus (BIRTP) and rewarded myself financially very significantly.

2. Guru Watch

It is certainly worth the effort to track stock picks or ideas from legendary gurus such as Warren Buffet, Eddie Lambert, Jim Rogers, etc.

3. Software Screening Tool

4. Online Message Board Networking

How to Answer The Most Difficult Interview Questions
The following 'difficult' questions are common to most tricky or adversarial interviews. In order to convince the interviewer that you are the best person for the job, you must prepare and rehearse your answers meticulously. Study the job description and the candidate profile; research the company; and match your skills and accomplishments to the employer's requirements.When preparing your answers, consider what each question is designed to find out about the candidate's suitability for the position on offer.1. Why are you leaving your current job?The employer is seeking to identify problems you have had in the past that you may carry over into your new job. Always cite positive reasons for joining and leaving a company. Never criticize your previous employer or work colleagues. Avoid statements that may co

ad the article and profited handsomely from this pick.

3. Software Screening Tool

4. Online Message Board Networking

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Many successful authors and publishers know that talk radio is the perfect venue for promoting almost any non-fiction book. Most authors of how-to books, financial advice books, self-help books, travel books, medical books—even history books— are welcome guests on talk radio because the hosts like to present their listeners with useful and topical information from an expert.So where does that leave fiction authors? Facing an uphill battle! To put in blunt terms, it’s been tough for fiction writers to land those coveted talk radio interviews and attract other major media exposure. But don’t give up hope because it’s not a lost cause. There’s a knack to grabbing the attention of hosts and producers and getting booked on their shows. You have to know how to throw them the perfect pitch.Fortunately, over the pas

4. Online Message Board Networking

Understanding Compression...The Key To Professional Sounding Recordings
So many people have a hard time understanding what compression does. If the compressor is doing its job the way it should you do not know it is there. It is when someone is using his or her compressor wrong that it starts to stand out.A compressor reduces the dynamic range of your audio file. This means it reduces how loud some notes are and it also shrinks the difference between the loudest and softest notes in your audio.This will even out your performance. Image a rock singer dancing around on stage. He is swinging the microphone wildly as he dances around sometimes singing right into the microphone and other times the mike may be a foot away.Compression is the perfect tool for this job lowering the singing when he is right into the mike and raising it when the mike is far away.We will look at com

4. Online Message Board Networking

Actually, I started myself as quite wild BBS stock guru many years ago before I started blastinvest.com newsletter business. Lots of Chinese American friends who frequently visit big online BBS (mitbbs.com, or goofiz.com) would know my past track record very well. My past BBS investment performance certainly beat performance of most if not all of the value mutual funds hands down. My past history certainly can tell you something on the nature and quality of message boards. Sure, most of BBS members probably are not investing gurus, and some folks in the stock forum may well be dangerous stock promoters or hypers. But certainly there are some excellent stock gurus there and there are valuable investing or stock pick information there. So just be careful and do your homework when you use information from online stock boards.

Two of the well known value investing forums in US are Valueforum and Value Investor Club. Unfortunately, Valueforum is fee based message board and you can not post any messages without paying fee. Value Investor Club seems to reject beginners or amateurs and they only want gurus (maybe Wall Street Gurus) offering stock tips to each other.

I myself certainly disagree with approaches of Valueforum or Value Investor Club. That is why Blastinvest LLC recently launched a free forum dedicated for individual value investors: value-investing-forum.com. For more information on why you should participate in a forum regardless whether you are a value investing beginner or a savvy value investor, please click here: http://value-investing-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=483

5. Traditional Newspapers and Magazines

This group includes Investor's Business Daily, Forbes, Fortune, Barrons, etc, I read them all from time to time.

If you live near New York city and tune in to Bloomberg radio, you are going to hear bombardment of ads such as "Barrons, the best source of stock investing information".

However, my rating on their capability of giving me stock leads or ideas are poorer than above channels. The stock picks published in the public media are pretty mediocre.

Of course, I still believe they are very useful information to understand economics and to know what Wall Street gurus are doing or thinking. So they may not be worth subscription fee for you to pay, they are certainly worth your time to visit public library once a while to read them.

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