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Bridging the Rhetoric-Reality Values Gap
"The values gap is the largest single source of cynicism and skepticism in the workplace today." — Andrall Pearson, former president of PepsiCo.Recognizing the need to become more "values-driven", many managers have developed statements of "core values", "management philosophies", "guiding principles", or "aspirations". While this is a start in the right direction, many of these statements produce a "high snicker factor" throughout their organizations. Team and organization members dutifully humor their managers by placing their left hand over their heart, raising their right hand, pledging commitment to the pretty words - and then going back to work.During more than a decade of work with hundreds of organizations struggling to redefine the desired values at the center of the new culture, we have found two common

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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 ab

Email List Marketing - Nichefying Your Existing List
There are several specific ways that you can nichefy your existing list. The first, one I have already discussed, is simply asking your list what their wants and needs are, and then begin to meet specifically those needs. Now one thing that will happen is that some people will unsubscribe from your list as your offerings become more tightly themed, but the increased revenue from the subscribers who stay on your list should eclipse the lost revenue from the ones who drop from your list. Do not be overly concerned with the ones that leave your list; be more concerned that you are streamlining your list so that it makes you more money. Remember what you are in this business for, and constantly measure what you are doing against that goal.The second way that you can nichefy your existing list is to send out a free gift t

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

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.

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.

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 abo

5 Easy Ways To Improve Your Web Page Content
If you’re writing your own Web page content, you need to make sure it’s working for you. Content should be useful to your readers and be relevant to the rest of your site. If you’re not generating the traffic you hoped for or your visitors are leaving after just a few minutes, you need to improve your Web page content so that it appeals to them enough to keep them reading. The following are five easy ways to improve your Web page content.1. Proofread your site or hire a proofreader. Sites filled with errors in spelling and grammar may lead visitors to believe you are careless. If they think you are a careless proofreader, they may also think you’re a careless service provider or product manufacturer.2. Stop writing for the search engines. Keywords are important for generating traffic, but traffic won’t do yo

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

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 ab

How to Generate 27 Qualified Subprime Mortgage Leads Per Day
There are several benefits to focusing on subprime mortgage leads. One good reason for generating subprime mortgage leads is that the borrowers are less likely to shop your offer. Also, the commissions on subprime mortgage loans can be quite lucrative.I’ve found that one of the best ways to generate subprime mortgage leads is by direct mail.So let’s look at the steps involved in putting together a profitable direct mail campaign to generate subprime mortgage leads.Prospect ListThere are two sources I recommend for obtaining your mailing lists – list companies and credit agencies.Here are two sample criteria to request from list companies in order to target subprime borrowers:1) Get a list of home owners who have just filed a chapter 13 bankruptcy. Do a cash out refinance and p

heir 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

4. Online Message Board Networking

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 ab

How to Sell Your Own Business
Not Recommended for Companies with Sales Greater than $1 MillionPURPOSE: To provide a quick guide to business owners that desire to sell their business but do not want a significant portion of the transaction value to go to a business broker or M&A intermediary.1. Have an idea what your company is worth. The most common rule of thumb is that buyers usually pay a multiple of EBITDA. The normal range is a selling price between 3 and 5 times EBITDA. There are exceptions to this rule, but if you have a main street business, you generally fall in that range. If you are a member of an industry association, they may be helpful to you in identifying industry multiples or resources that can help you determine a selling price range.2. Create a blind profile. It is a brief summary of your company and is designed to co

etting 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

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 ab

Chief Executive Officers - It's Lonely at the Top
There’s not much sympathy for most Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) in companies. No matter what the size of the company they tend to be viewed as getting a high salary, lots of perks, no-one telling them what to do and everyone doing what they say.Some of this is true. However, there is an unseen side to the CEO position that is only really understood by those who have been in the role or those who have acted as their close adviser or coach.It can be a very lonely place.The CEO is expected to make all the decisions and direct the company. They’re expected to have the answers and to provide the right solution when the company runs into problems. They have to be the face of the company whether the results are good or bad, and they have to take the decisions that no-one else wants to take. They are where

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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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