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If you are planning to start an online web service to make cash online, here are some things you ought to know so that you can avoid losing time as well as loan.

Squidoo and HubPages are 2 terrific writing neighborhoods that permit you to make money online with writing and affiliate marketing. They're both AdSense revenue sharing sites, however next to AdSense you can likewise generate income promoting and selling amazon products with your Amazon Associates ID. You can use these two sites for promoting your primary articles on your own blog or you can create special material on HubPages and Squidoo for specific products https://www.liveinternet.ru/users/e7ixkkb788/post439923809// and offer them there. What so great about them is that they're well established websites with a lot of users and traffic. You'll certainly get more attention and potential purchasers there than on your blog site if you're at the beginning of your blogging path.

The extra features do vary slightly between them, but they all have the same fundamental features you will require to get going and lots of training product for you to have a look at.

Try to find a $ per sale of at least $15. Ideally, you'll get back at more than this - upwards of $30+ per sale. In addition, search for a gravity of a minimum of 30. The gravity represents the number of affiliates have effectively sold that product in the last few weeks.

For instance, it could be about books, cd's, dating, home hold items, shoes, clothing, etc. After you set your blog up you need to include content (short articles & posts) that belong to your picked niche. You then place your Amazon affiliate links on related item on your blog. You earn cash when someone makes a purchase through any of your links. This is an easy way to make income online.

The last but not the list are specific niches. With a great deal of competition out there you cannot anticipate to rank high in online search engine if you're selling and promoting stuff like books, computer systems, toys or music. Rather of selecting significant topics aim to dig deeper and select more particular topics and products. Rather of selling computers sell Laptop -> Acer Laptops. Then go even more and sell just Acer AS5253-BZ684 15.6-Inch Laptop. This will lower your competition, improve your rankings and increase your prospective sales.

Discovering the best keyword expressions to promote is a matter of supply and need. You have to discover which expressions are in high need but have little supply. There are numerous methods to do this. You can do this by going to overture and using the inventory tool to discover the demand for a keyword expression and then type the expression into Google to discover the supply. In order to get ranked high in Google and other search engines you require to promote a keyword phrase that has a high need and low supply. There are likewise keyword tools that will automate this process, so after you start on Squidoo you might want to invest in one of these tools. The tools will speed things up for you.

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Xerox reports that it’s filed an 8-K report with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission regarding an SEC investigation into the accounting for certain ACS (Affiliated Computer Service) equipment-resale transactions.

The SEC has issued Wells notices…

by Gina Williams

In the early 1990s red light cameras (RLCs) began to be used in the United States.  Almost 22 years later, 26 states and Washington DC have implemented these cameras in various major cities. 

RLCs are supposed to prevent deadly accidents by making people think twice before gunning it through a yellow light, or blatantly running a red light.  Their proposed purpose and their actual purpose, however, are two different things entirely. 

Looking at government conducted or funded studies will lead readers to believe that RLCs work.  Digging a bit deeper, however, leads to a different conclusion for two reasons.  First, studies demonstrate that RLCs are associated with increased accident rates at intersections. 

Second, the private companies running the red light programs and our government have a vested interest in ticketing people; they want people to run red lights because they make money from it, and a ton of money at that. 

Sadly, the steps both entities have taken to ensure their own financial benefits pose safety threats to citizens.

Why They Want Us To Run Red Lights

How Things Seem

Here is how RLC programs generally work:  Private companies are contracted by local municipalities to install camera surveillance systems.  If someone runs a red light, multiple pictures are taken of their vehicle.  The pictures are later “inspected” by a law enforcement official; if it is deemed that the citizen ran the red light, they are sent a ticket in the mail.

Sounds straight forward, right?  People who break the law are ticketed and others that would break the law think twice.  Lives are saved.  World peace is probably achieved somewhere in there as well. 

How Things Are

Remember how people always say that nothing is ever as it seems?  That’s the case here.  It seems like our government is trying to protect us, but like everything else in life, the government’s motives are based on financial gain. 

Contracted, private companies, such as Redflex, American Traffic Solutions, and Affiliated Computer Services, actually have quota clauses written in their contracts with municipalities; as a result of that and the desire for financial gain, municipalities gladly take actions that encourage motorists to run red lights. 

According to The Atlantic Cities, “The problem [with RLCs] is that many of the contracts signed with these companies force cities to commit to standards that encourage the running of red lights. Some of the contracts, written by the companies themselves and later signed by municipal governments, require each camera to record a certain number of red light-runners every year and for police departments to issue a minimum number of tickets.

The companies, after all, have a fiscal incentive to have as many people as possible move through the intersection illegally, since they usually pocket a percentage of the ticket fee.”  Municipalities obviously have a fiscal incentive for people to run red lights as well. 

After enduring the initial costs associated with the cameras, every fine they receive for a red light violator is money in the government’s pocket; after all, it’s not like they’ve hired a police officer to sit at every traffic light to ticket red light violators. 

The Dirty Truth – An Example of Governmental Actions that Harm Citizens

A 2004 Texas Transportation Institute study found that, “An increase in yellow duration of 1.0 seconds is associated with a [crash frequency] of about 0.6, which corresponds to a 40 percent reduction in crashes.” 

Despite this, many municipalities’ yellow lights are actually shorter than what this study and others recommend; this obviously puts citizens in a situation where their chances of an accident are higher than they could be. 

In 2008 alone, thenewspaper.com reported that multiple cameras in the following cities were caught purposely imposing short yellow lights in an effort to boost their earnings from RLCs:

·         Chattanooga, Tennessee

·         Dallas, Texas

·         Springfield, Missouri

·         Lubbock, Texas

·         Nashville, Tennessee

·         Union City, California

And these are only a few of the cities that have been identified for engaging in these types of activities.

The bottom line is this: Governments have a financial interest in ticketing people and have the full power to manipulate traffic lights to ensure that people get tickets.

#9 Michael "Big Brother" Bloomberg calls for a "camera on every street corner."

Bloomberg chastised anyone in Albany that might stand in his way of putting up ACS (Affiliated Computer Services), which is Xerox owned, scam cams all over New York City.

He needs state legislature to back him, which is why Bloomberg had such strong words directed at Albany.

Courtesy of The Long Island Press 

Seeing Red: Long Island’s Controversial Red Light Cameras

By Shelly Feuer Domash on October 6th, 2011

While making a left turn onto Uniondale Avenue from Jerusalem Avenue, a busy intersection in Uniondale, John Bohannon of Wantagh saw a pedestrian talking on a cell phone.

“[She was] sauntering across in front of me, oblivious to traffic,” he says. “I had to stop even though she was a jaywalker, walking against the ‘Don’t Walk’ sign.”

Bohannon had two choices: “Run her down and go on my merry way or stop and let her cross while the cameras flashed away. The light was red, a very bright sixty-dollar red.”

The inevitable ticket came, with the pedestrian clearly shown on the attached photo, he tells the Press. He chose not to fight it, however. A colleague of his in a similar situation got just $10 off of his fine after launching a lengthy and costly protest.

Charlie Sellitto of Bellmore has another tale.

“I was close enough to an 18-wheeler that the light could not be seen over the truck,” he explains. “I got another one that showed I was entering the turn when the picture was taken.”

Sellitto, too, decided not to fight because it was just easier to pay.

Former Nassau District Judge Samuel Levine did, though. His wife Lee was driving his car. She says the yellow light was too short and did not want to stop for fear of a rear-end collision. Although Levine did not win at his hearing, he still continues to battle what he describes as “serious civil rights, constitutional law and public safety problems” regarding the now 100 locations where 252 red-light cameras watch drivers throughout Nassau and Suffolk counties. And more are on their way.

Almost every Long Islander has, or knows someone who has, their own bitter and frustrating story. Are red light cameras a necessary evil that will reduce the number of accidents? Or are they just a money maker for the municipality and the private companies that install them? Can grassroots groups be successfully heard against the money and power of the large corporations who manufacture them?

One thing’s certain. Though many taxpayers here on Long Island may know little, if anything about the issue (other than seeing more and more bright lights flashing at intersections across the Island), the Press has learned that the two companies hired by Nassau and Suffolk counties to administer the red-light camera program—and rake in millions of dollars—have a sketchy, well-documented history of controversy behind them, spending huge amounts of money to fight local residents who oppose the cameras, millions on hiring lobbyists and contributing to the campaigns of politicians who are in favor of the cameras.

When you declare war on motorists' rights in your city, you'd better be ready to reap the whirlwind. Michael Bloomberg's ridiculous statements about wanting "a camera on every street corner" are not earning him any praise in the news media.

If he continues to push this agenda, don't be surprised to see the New York based parent company of his city's red light camera provider, Xerox, face a major boycott of their products and services. 

Last year, Xerox acquired Affiliated Computer Services, or ACS, for $6.4 Billion. ACS is the sole provider of red light cameras in New York City.

Here's the latest example of the backlash against Bloomberg:

National Review

Big Brother Bloomberg Traffic cameras have no place in a free society.

Charles W Cooke

August 25th, 2011

In keeping with that very modern desire to find complex solutions to problems that don’t exist, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg expressed his desire on Monday to put cameras on “every corner of the city” to enforce observance of red lights and, eventually perhaps, speed limits.

And so, in the same year that the Los Angeles City Council considered the evidence from its trial run and unanimously voted to do away with L.A.’s camera system, explaining bluntly that the “program did not work as anticipated,” Mayor Bloomberg is blithely seeking to expand New York’s camera network.

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For someone who says he's never taken a picture of himself, he sure likes to snap pictures of other people, by the millions.

Photo Courtesy of CBS New York.