Benefits Link

Links to information and services for US employers sponsoring employee benefit plans, companies providing products and services for plans, and participating employees.
benefitslink.com/index.html

Employee Benefit News

Contains articles and updates on employee benefits updated monthly.
www.benefitnews.com

The Rouse Companies

Arizona based company providing customized financial education workshops and financial planning software that educate employees about the value of their company benefits.
www.rousecompanies.com

Benefit Planning Consultants, Inc.

Illinois based, full service employee benefits consulting company.
www.bpcinc.com/

Baker, Thomsen Associates Insurance Services, Inc.

California based benefit and compensation consulting company. Includes a detailed listing of services offered.
www.btabta.com/

Advanced Personnel Systems

A directory of benefits and compensation software.
www.hrcensus.com

Online Benefits, Inc.

Web-based employee benefits and human resources communication and administration services for employers who want to automate online information.
www.online-benefits.com

S & S Financial Services

Independent benefit consulting firm, based in Arizona, which represents no specific insurance, investment or administration company. Personnel handle all administrative, claim and benefit-related problems.
www.snsfinancial.com

Wyman and Associates, Inc.

Specializes in performance management, organization analyses, recruitment, strategic compensation, employee benefit cost management, analysis, selection and promotional processes.
www.wymanandassociates.com

Coty & Bruce Benefits, Inc.

Comprehensive independent employee benefits plan administration and consulting. Provider searches.
www.cb-benefits.com

The PSP Guide - How To Download Music and Video's to Your PSP


By Neil Gerstein

Congratulations on buying that new PSP. You bought some great games with your new PSP and to play them, all you need do is slip a cartridge in the slot and your good to go. Sweet, isn't life great. Hey, how about playing some of your favorite songs or watching one of your music videos on your new favorite toy. Oh! Oh! The store didn't have a cartridge for that! Now what? Don't panic, just follow the step-by-step instructions below and life will be sweet again.

To download music to your PSP you will need to follow these steps.

Definitions

CD Ripper Software - Software that extracts (rips) music/mp3 files from your CD and puts them in another file on your computer's hard drive.

PSP Video Converter - Converts your personal computers (PC) video/movie format files into Sony's PSP video/movie format so that you can view them on your PSP.

USB Cable - Cable used to connect peripheral equipment such as camera's, external hard drives and PSP's to your computer's USB port.

1) Put your music CD (the one with the songs you want converted) into your PC's CD drive. Start-up your CD Ripper software or PSP Video Converter.

2) Choose the songs you want to extract to your PSP and select "Extract & Encode". This will convert the selected songs PSP format and transfer them to a file on your PC's hard drive.

3) Using the USB Cable, connect your PSP to your computer.

4) Turn on your PSP and select "USB Connection" on your PSP. Your computer will automatically detect the new USB device connected to it and designate a new drive letter, usually E:, but not always. You can check in "My Computer" to be sure.

5) Create a new Folder (name it Music or Videos) under the E: drive or whatever letter your PSP was designated. This new folder will actually be your PSP.

6) It's time to start downloading your music and/or video files from your computer to your PSP.

7) That's all there is to it. After you have downloaded all of your favorite video's and music, disconnect the USB cable and you're good to go.

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I live in Largo, Florida where I work for the states largest Power Company. I currently have two websites, one being http://www.moviesmusicgamesandmore.com/ and I also have a Squidoo lens: http://www.squidoo.com/game-download-sites-review I also enjoy writing articles on different subjects.

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How to Get Number 1 Rankings on Google, Yahoo and MSN Using Video Hosting Sites


By Jeff Mills

Proper tagging elements include coming up with a TITLE for the Video, a DESCRIPTION, and TAGS or KEYWORDS. Let me say a little about each area.

The TITLE tag is the #1 most important tag. It's the one the search engines will display in the search results. If someone searches for "free home based business dvd" in a search engine, and you are offering a free home based business dvd, you want your website to come up, as well as your video. So tag your Title well, with up to 3 phrase or keywords you are hoping to be found by. As a marketer, you can find out what are the most popular keywords by simply looking at Google's Trends website. Search for Google trends and they tell you what is hot right now in search.

The DESCRIPTION tag is the #2 most important tag. I always recommend, if you are plugging a website or are marketing something, put the URL as the first thing people see in the description slot, follow by a logical telling of what the video is about, being mindful of good keywords and phrasing. Make sure the URL begins with http:// in the front, as some movie hosting sites will turn it into an active an hyperlink, while sometimes they won't. I dunno why they work sometimes, and then not work others.

The TAGS are simply the keywords and phrases to plug your video with. Don't be stingy with your tagging. Get em all in there so you might be found, but try to be a relevant to the video and do not tag spam!

Finally - Make sure all your login and pw info is stored correctly in Tubemogul so that your videos will post correctly to the video hosting sites, and then push the button that makes this machine come alive and within hours, you'll see your videos posted in their appropriate places in your accounts. I love using tools which can easily automated task one used to have to do by themselves.

Do a quick Google search, using the title of your video and see how fast Google has indexed that video. When I did this last time, within 24 hours, I had the top 3 listings for the keywords I wanted to be found and listed with.

So, making a video or using audio and pictures to make a video is really simple. Once you have your video made, upload it to Tubemogul, tag it and post it and within hours your videos will be all over the search engines bringing you free leads and traffic daily.

Jeff Mills is a former Youth Pastor of 9 years, and now a self made millionaire, a full time internet information entrepreneur, seminar promoter, book author, speaker, sales coach, and also an avid traveler. Learn more about Jeff at http://www.whoisjeffmills.com

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SEO, the HTML Source Code and Competition


By Ricci Mathew

You have a business, and ever since you started the SEO campaign, business has been good and most of your business enquiries have been coming via your website. You are getting professional SEO support and an ongoing SEO program takes care of all your SEO work.They have optimized your website and now it attracts a fairly good quantity of relevant incoming traffic which has been resulting in good business enquiries and sales. Now, suppose you have other competitors for your business in your region and would like to know if your competitors also have an SEO campaign going on with their website. As you are ignorant on this issue it has been making you anxious. They have always been your stiff competitors so you can't just call them up and ask about it! So what do you do?

Ok, if you want to find out about your competitors are also optimizing their website it is a very simple process to find it out. It is not necessary for you to send some one out to spy on your competitors to get this information because it will only take you a few minutes to find out and confirm this information online. All you need to do is just go to your competitor's website and check on its HTML source Code!

This is how one should go about it. Go to the concerned web site's homepage on the browser and click on "view" and choose "source" and the HTML source code page opens up. If you are using Internet Explorer 2.x, right-click on the web page, and then click View Source. To view the HTML source code for a web page that contains frames, right- click the web page in a frame, and then choose "view source". Looking at this page you will be able to get the required information.

On this HTML source code page, just see if there are main keywords in the header tags KEYWORDS , the title tags KEYWORDS , and in the image alt tags KEYWORDS . These are always located near the top of the source code. Also if the content on the webpage has been optimized for the search engines, you will find that the text on the web page contains a minimal repeated use of the keyword. These clues are more than enough to confirm the fact that your competitor is also smart enough to have gone for website optimization. (Now you have another new area of competition and must outsmart him)

The author of this article is Ricci Mathew of Outsource Strategies International (OSI), a US based company that offers services in Search Engine Optimization, SEM, PPC advertising for clients across the US.

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Alexa Traffic Rank - Improve Your Low Ranking


by Tim Predaina

Informing Alexa Of All Website Visitors

I wanted Alexa to know about "ALL" visitors my traffic exchange website was receiving, not just traffic from their toolbar users. I wanted them to know not because I support them, but because so many other users did. Users that were apparently unaware of the traffic-ranking prejudice. I accomplished this by installing the Alexa traffic rank banner on all of the pages within my website.


Free Advertising

The Alexa traffic rank banner is a free advertisment for them. Adding their banner to your site is a small price to pay for the increase in traffic rank. They offer several types of banners in different sizes, so it should be easy to one that fits your pages.

Since installing the code on January 15, 2007, the traffic rank for checks4free.com had improved by over 4.5 million within 15 days. That does not mean there was that much traffic. It means that the website had moved up the list from the number 6 million spot to approximately the 1 million spot.

You can view the Alexa traffic rank for the Checks4Free Traffic Exchange using this URL: http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?url=checks4free.com.

Conclusion

If your website has a low Alexa traffic rank, I hope the suggestion in this article will help you to improve your ranking as well. The help file on the Alexa website talks about the biased ranking. However, to the millions of users that base an opinion about a website using the Alexa traffic rank, numbers speak louder than words. Your only other option is to hope that more Alexa toolbar users visit your website.

Tim Predaina is with Checks 4 Free, a free manual traffic exchange - http://www.checks4free.com - that delivers real visitors to your websites. Visit: http://copywriting.predaina.com for information about writing articles for content to build traffic.

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Heads of 9 Texas public colleges earn more than $500000
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A Day After Sell-Off, Market Seeks a Course
Uncertainty and fear dominated early trading as financial markets probed new lows. But after being down about 2 percent, the markets struggled back.


Oil Price Falls Below $50 as Consumption Remains Weak
Oil dropped briefly below $50 a barrel for the first time in 22 months, shedding close to $100 in four months in an ailing global economy.


Jobless Claims Reach a 16-Year High
The weekly report provided more evidence of a rapidly weakening job market that is expected to get even worse next year.


Nordic Countries Add $2.5 Billion to Iceland’s Bailout
Iceland finally received international backing for its bailout plan on Thursday, as Nordic countries followed up a loan by the International Monetary Fund.


After Losses, Pensions Ask For a Change
Some of the nation’s biggest companies want Congress to roll back rules requiring them to put more money into pension funds.


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Citigroup shares plummet 25 percent despite Alwaleed move (Reuters)

Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal in a file photo. (Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters)Reuters - Citigroup Inc's largest individual investor gave the troubled bank new support, saying he would boost his stake modestly, but failed to revive investor confidence as the bank's shares tumbled another 25 percent.



Shares briefly edge up after losses (Reuters)

A share trader reacts while checking share prices in front of the German share price index DAX board at the German stock exchange in Frankfurt, November 20, 2008. (Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters)Reuters - Stocks briefly edged higher on Thursday after the benchmark S&P 500 index fell to its lowest level in more than six years, triggering short-covering after breaking key technical levels.



JPMorgan cuts investment banking jobs: sources (Reuters)
Reuters - JPMorgan Chase & Co is cutting about 10 percent of its investment banking staff as the credit crunch and slowdown in the economy bite into bank earnings, people familiar with the situation said on Thursday.

Citi, JPMorgan, Capital One bid for Chevy Chase: sources (Reuters)
Reuters - Citigroup Inc , JPMorgan Chase & Co and Capital One Financial Corp are among the final bidders for Chevy Chase Bank, a Bethesda, Maryland, lender, sources familiar with the matter said.

Weekly jobless claims surge to 16-year high (Reuters)

A man registers to begin his search for a job at the Verdugo Jobs Center in Glendale, California, November 7, 2008. (Fred Prouser/Reuters)Reuters - The number of U.S. workers filing new claims for jobless benefits surged last week to their highest level in 16 years, Labor Department data showed on Thursday, as a harsh economic environment forces employers to cut back on hiring.



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