How to Beat the Stock Market

by on March 29, 2013

in Investing

Can Individual Investors Beat the Market? If so, how can you? I recently read this astounding statistics. Between 1993 and 2012, fund investors have underperformed the S&P500 index by an average of 4% points a year. Read this study here Not only this, but the hedge funds have generally underperformed the index in the last [...]

Advice for Building a Sustainable Online Business–Ignore Google

Sign Posts

by on January 18, 2013

in Entrepreneurship

For a long while webmasters everywhere depended on Google organic search for a bulk of their traffic. With Google enjoying about 67% of the search volumes, it is easy enough to fall in this trap. It has also been suggested many times that search traffic is better targeted since searchers are already in need for [...]

Plan–Getting from Point A to Point B

January 15, 2013

Why should you read me? Because I have a plan. This puts me in the 2% of the population who have actually spent time to think about the future, decided what it is going to be like and set out to get there. Have you decided what your future is going to be? Are you [...]

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How to Invest Money and Rack in Profits Year after Year

July 29, 2012

Most investors struggle to make money in the stock market. You may think you do not have time to properly pick stocks. Or maybe you  think that the market is stacked against retail investors like you or me. You are correct on both counts. But did you know that there are proven techniques that help [...]

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Diversifying Traffic Sources and Adapting to the New Realities

June 27, 2012

Google’s Panda/Penguin update or something along the same lines has impacted the traffic at Value Stock Guide significantly, to the point that what I used to see in an hour now takes the entire day (you do the math). Lately the site seems to be recovering but there does not seem any rhyme or reason [...]

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Membership Drive at Value Stock Guide

May 24, 2012

Just launched a membership drive at Value Stock Guide. It is about time that we fill up the 2000 slots so I can focus completely on taking care of the members by researching, analyzing and managing the stock portfolio. Sent out a couple of press releases as well to announce this PRLog PitchEngine So far [...]

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Expanded the Resources Area

April 14, 2012

I just added a comprehensive resources area that includes great links to quality sites on the internet with information on various topics. To be sure, the resources area existed before, I just filled it up. You can navigate to this area from the top menu bar. Hovering over the Resources menu will bring up individual [...]

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Making Pages Faster

April 3, 2012

For a long time I have had some of the key pages using the same theme as rest of the site on Value Stock Guide. In case of the landing pages, it was a problem as I used css to hide some of the non relevant content (sidebars, headers, menus, etc) from the visitors but [...]

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Getting Ready to Review the Steel Industry

March 29, 2012

I am working on analyzing the steel industry to see if there are some good investment options. You may know that I used to run a steel business in the past (see: this article) and exited the business when the steel industry was facing one of its worst years in the recent memory. So in [...]

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Getting Caught Up in the Google SERP Updates

March 29, 2012

Google continues to change its algorithms and it appears that this time around it has affected Value Stock Guide appreciably. While the traffic is down, quite a few of the pages have moved further back in the search results, more disturbingly, the sign up page. This is quite surprising since we have always maintained strict [...]

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