Welcome to the July 18, 2009 edition of carnival of struggling bumbling newbies.

Brian presents >Think Positive & Fight Depression posted at >How To Live a Longer Life, saying, “Positive thinking can help improve mortality rates and assist in disease prevention and recovery but only in cases where the positive thinking is genuine. How then can one genuinely think positive thoughts when fighting depression or loss?”

ickybana5 presents >Thing of the Day: Remote. Rating: NOT AWESOME posted at >Hyperbole-And-A-Half!, saying, “Talking down to inanimate objects”

nickel presents >Credit Score - Good? or Good Enough? posted at >fivecentnickel.com.

jim presents >Bank CD Rates posted at >Blueprint for Financial Prosperity.

Olivia presents >Immigration and Assimilation posted at >Mount Your Soapbox.

Sam presents >New !! Make Money With the Best Stock Investments in the Market posted at >Surfer Sam and Friends, saying, “Thanks for including my article. Here’s an excerpt…

Make Money with the Best Stock Investments
Surprising Winners in the Stock Market This Year

We screened stocks on the NYSE to find outstanding performers during the first six months of 2009, a period that began with general doom and gloom. There’s a lesson to be learned from these winning stocks. When strong brands are oversold by pessimistic investors and trade at $1 or less, the best of them will bounce back with triple-digit gains. And small cap stocks have the advantage on the rebound. It’s a lot harder for a $40 billion company to double in size than it is for a small cap $400 million company.

This Was the Best Quarter in the Stock Market

As investors jumped overboard this year, company stocks were driven into the basement. Buyers who went bottom-feeding and dumpster-diving this year found good values in the $1 stocks. A look in the rear view mirror shows us what stocks were ready to pop.

With investors anticipating that worst of the credit crisis was over, the second quarter of 2009 brought happy news in the stock markets. The S&P 500 index, representing over 70% of the total market capitalization of all stocks traded in the U.S., was up 15.2% for second quarter, its strongest quarter since 1998. The Dow rose 11% with its best quarter since 2003. And the NASDAQ Composite climbed up 20%, also its strongest quarter since 2003. The top 5 Dow stocks were Bank of America Corp, up 93%, American Express Co, up 70%, ALCOA Inc., up 40%, Microsoft Corp, up 29%, and The Walt Disney Co., up 28%.

The Top Ten Money-Making Stock Investments

On the New York Stock Exchange, the top 10 performers during the first half of 2009 were:”

Shawn M. Driscoll presents >Real Growth in Unreal Times posted at >Shawn Driscoll.

brian young presents >Retail Safety: Key Benefits of One-Time Security Locking System posted at >Retail Security Products.

Robert Alan presents >Tips for Effective Cross-Selling and Up-Selling posted at >Sell It on the Web, saying, “Here’s a list of tips for bloggers and online retailers on how to cross-sell and up-sell their products and services to increase revenue, order size and profits.”

Gregory E. Rouse presents >What is Passive Income? posted at >Free Online Business.org, saying, “FreeOnlineBusiness.org “How to start an online business for FREE without spending one cent!” This site finds and posts FREE tools for running an online business!”

Scientific Living presents >Drug Company Hypnotizes Viewers posted at >Scientific Living.

Debbie Foster presents >How to Ramp Up Your Blog Traffic posted at >Internet Income - The Journey.

Nui Loa presents >69 Amazing Resources to Help You Plan Your Dream Wedding posted at >Love Hacks.

GreatManagement presents >What posted at >We Build Your Blog, saying, “Most bloggers feel that by uploading content onto their blogs they are providing information that will be believed to be accurate and contribute to their online credibility. However, that it is not always the case.”

Jeannie Anderson presents >How to Create Successful Blogposts: Part 1, Planning posted at >The Writer in Me - Teaching, Writing, Living, saying, “This is part 1 of a three-part series. Part 2, drafting, goes live Thursday, and Part 3, revision, on Friday.”

The Digital Archives presents >Get great exposure through article directories posted at >The Digital Archives, saying, “Article directories are a great way to get exposure for your articles and for yourself the writer. And if you have an internet marketing business then you will most definitely want to use article directories to help you market your business.”

Isaac Yassar presents >Monetized Blogging: Part-time or Full-time? posted at >Go Blogger (dot) net, saying, “Good day! Money is always attracting a lot of interest from normal people, due to its importance in our life, no? When people is about to start a blog, some of them already have this idea of making money online from blogs, perhaps including you. It is perfectly fine and there is nothing wrong with it. However, fact says that successful bloggers are usually the full-timers. As obtaining the ability to earn income from blogs takes time, would you starve for a few months first on full-time blogging before getting your first income? Otherwise, are you afraid if you blog as a part-timer you won’t reach success, because you are not devoted maximally?”

Dan Miller presents >Robert Redford and Sibylle Szaggars: Married! posted at >Celebs Free Pics, saying, “Robert Redford married Sibylle Szaggars in Hamburg, Germany last weekend.The 71-year-old acting and directing legend wed the 51-year-old Sibyelle after the two had been dating for a while. She”

Dan Miller presents >Student Loan posted at >Student Consolidation, saying, “Student loan consolidation is a great way to get a lower interest rate, as a reputable consolidation company will buy each loan off of the original lenders, lump it into one loan and offer lower interest and even deferment plans. Consolidate student loans to get them paid off more quickly with financial advice from a guidance counselor in this free video on student loans”

Robert Alan presents >Big Mistakes to Avoid with Your First PPC Campaign posted at >Sell It on the Web, saying, “For all you newbie online marketers out there, here’s a great list of the most common mistakes and things to avoid when building out and running your first PPC search campaign.”

Douglas Manning presents >Time Management Tools: Creating An Effective To Do List posted at >SuccessHound.com, saying, “You cannot have a time management system without an effective “To Do.” Learn how to create an effective “To Do” list and reap the benefits of this powerful time management strategy.”

jim presents >» List of Cards with 0% Balance Transfer Offers for 12 Months on Blueprint for Financial Prosperity posted at >Blueprint for Financial Prosperity.

Outshined presents >Food, Stress, and Anxiety posted at >Personal Web Guide, saying, “This article discusses the direct correlation between your dietary intake and your stress and anxiety levels.”

Debbie Foster presents >Ad Copy Quality For Your PPC Campaign posted at >Internet Income - The Journey.

Russ Wood presents >The Lucid Dreaming Experiment posted at >Russ Wood, saying, “This is the introduction post to an experiment I am doing on Lucid Dreaming.”

Wren Caulfield presents >Moving? Save time and money with these great tips. posted at >True Adventures in Money Hacking.

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