How Can RSS Feeds Help Your Online Business

Written by Brandon Hong


How RSS Feeds Can Help Your Online Business?

So who should I use RSS Feeds? How can it help with my online business?

1. RSS Feeds allow you to deliver your newsletter/message directly torepparttar desktop of your subscribers and readers, BYPASSING email.

As you might have read or heard, email is not getting through to a lot of people, especially now with CAN SPAM law in place, ISPs are filtering a lot of emails with certain subjectlines in them.

Imagine if you have a 10,000 list and 20% of your emails doesn't get through.

That means 2,000 mails are not being delivered. How much sales are you losing from this alone?

It is also costly to hire services that help you dorepparttar 135999 monitoring and ensure your autoresponders/emails get through.

Your readers and subscribers themselves are getting numb torepparttar 136000 constant bombardment of emails from other parties, bear in mind they are not just subscribing to your newsletter.

With RSS Feeds, you can get your readers to subscribe to your news feed using a newsreader software or online web service for reading rss feeds).

This way you can bypass allrepparttar 136001 email SPAM and reach 100% your readers. And with some good headlines, you can bet your message gets read.

2. Get your site listed by YAHOO within 24 hours and save $299

With RSS Feeds, you can get your site listed in Yahoo within 24 hours and save $299. Yahoo is currently building an RSS directory and as such has inadvertently opened a "back door", allowing people to list their website with RSS feeds.

This secret is revealed in my Video Course on Blogging and RSS, (www.marketing-rampage-with-blogs-and-rss.com).

Each day more people are discovering this secret, and I'm not sure when Yahoo will pullrepparttar 136002 plug.

Asset Searching for Recovery Actions - The Decision Maker’s Most Critical Tool – Part 1

Written by Thomas C. Lawson


As certified fraud examiners (CFE), we all knowrepparttar nuts and bolts of our respective areas of specialty, and hopefully, we are all growing professionally at an astounding pace. Crime does, unfortunately, pay – just not forrepparttar 135998 criminal.

After conducting asset research for over 14 years for such demanding institutions as FDIC, FSLIC, and RTC, as well as major hotels and casinos inrepparttar 135999 gaming industry, property management firms, and many ofrepparttar 136000 nation’s larger law firms, one thing that has emerged is a distinct lack of information – not aboutrepparttar 136001 type of items searched, butrepparttar 136002 depth and quality of other searches. In cutting torepparttar 136003 chase,repparttar 136004 following isrepparttar 136005 result ofrepparttar 136006 compilation of asset search guidelines, and should serve to assist in setting at least a baseline standard for developing a viable domestic asset search strategy.

Subject Identification

Prior to beginningrepparttar 136007 acquisition of information on any subject of an asset search,repparttar 136008 subject should be properly identified. Studies have shown that as much as 30% ofrepparttar 136009 American population uses undisclosed aliases and/or “akas” to conduct and transact various levels of personal and professional business. This statistic does not take into accountrepparttar 136010 existence of corporate, DBA and/or partnership entity names, which are created to transactrepparttar 136011 various forms of business on behalf ofrepparttar 136012 principals of said entity. To properly identify a non-corporate subject,repparttar 136013 following minimum recommendations are made for non-law enforcement environments: Obtain credit reports fromrepparttar 136014 three major credit bureaus, per Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) requirements.

However, make sure that obtainingrepparttar 136015 reports is in compliance with permissible purposes as defined in Public Law 91- 508, Title VI (FCRA), to avoid tainting your pursuit shouldrepparttar 136016 matter ever be litigated. Remember, inrepparttar 136017 context of this discussion, we are focused on asset searches as recovery medium, andrepparttar 136018 basic assumption is thatrepparttar 136019 asset search has already been determined to be sanctionable. This could be determined, for example, by a loan in default, a judgment that has been rendered, or a court order obtained forrepparttar 136020 release ofrepparttar 136021 credit information in cases that are not clearly defined underrepparttar 136022 FCRA.

Remember this simple guideline: credit reports are legal post-judgment, for purposes of collection, and/or where consent has been given somewhere inrepparttar 136023 stream ofrepparttar 136024 creditor/debtor relationship. Inrepparttar 136025 case of a receivership institution (i.e., where a director is being scrutinized for alleged conversion of assets), consent may also have been given for a credit history during pre-employment evaluation or as a policy-based condition of employment.

This is referred to as “extended consent,” and constitutes valid use, especially in matters where a criminal investigation is under way, and whererepparttar 136026 conversion of assets is factually alleged asrepparttar 136027 result of a forensic audit or proven by admission. Be careful, though, as “extended consent” fromrepparttar 136028 employment perspective is still a gray area underrepparttar 136029 law. The following two items are available from credit bureaus and their sub-vendors but have less coverage extended to them underrepparttar 136030 FCRA, yetrepparttar 136031 “FCRA compliance attitude” should be used when accessing them:

•Obtain social security traces fromrepparttar 136032 three major credit bureaus. •Obtain address update/credit report header information fromrepparttar 136033 three major credit bureaus. •Obtain voter registration information forrepparttar 136034 applicable jurisdiction germane torepparttar 136035 primary, or most recent, residence ofrepparttar 136036 subject. Some states have compiled voter data through private repositories, which should be checked for movement.

Matchrepparttar 136037 information obtained throughrepparttar 136038 independent sources torepparttar 136039 information presented byrepparttar 136040 candidate inrepparttar 136041 form ofrepparttar 136042 credit application withrepparttar 136043 institution, and/orrepparttar 136044 information developed independently byrepparttar 136045 institution inrepparttar 136046 initial credit qualification process.

Many other methods of identification exist, butrepparttar 136047 above representsrepparttar 136048 very least that should be done. The reason for obtainingrepparttar 136049 information from all three bureaus, instead of only one, is to develop any alias and/or aka data, as well as current addresses (not specified), and/or any additional addresses that may provide venue data. This will assistrepparttar 136050 asset searcher in determining whether to adviserepparttar 136051 client to proceed with asset discovery in additional areas unknown torepparttar 136052 client atrepparttar 136053 timerepparttar 136054 asset search was requested.

Address verifications are usually difficult without a physical inspection ofrepparttar 136055 address in question, including a visual identification ofrepparttar 136056 subject entering and/or leavingrepparttar 136057 address. Address information that is cross-referenced and verifiable throughrepparttar 136058 major credit bureau repositories is usually presented in an asset search, and in most cases is very reliable.

To discoverrepparttar 136059 current telephone number ofrepparttar 136060 subject, methods available torepparttar 136061 fraud examiner include nationwide telephone directories, criss-cross directories, directory assistance contact, and attempts at contact existing telephone numbers known byrepparttar 136062 client. There are other methods of telephone number development available. However, these methods should not be utilized by a CFE in order to avoid taintingrepparttar 136063 legality ofrepparttar 136064 pursuit, inrepparttar 136065 even that litigation is ultimate undertaken.

Assets Determination

Assets determination usually constitutes an integration of certain liability data to offsetrepparttar 136066 assets “worth” in order to arrive at a net equity position. This is especially true in identifying and analyzing real property assets. There are multiple forms of asset determination, which are described as follows: Real

Property Ownership: A search should be conducted ofrepparttar 136067 applicable county jurisdiction. The exception is in California where a statewide assessor’s index is available, usually throughrepparttar 136068 “lien date” ofrepparttar 136069 prior year. This repository is made available through a private company, and is in no way sanctioned by any public jurisdiction. For traditional searches throughoutrepparttar 136070 rest ofrepparttar 136071 U.S., per jurisdiction research is conducted atrepparttar 136072 assessor’s office to determine ifrepparttar 136073 name exists onrepparttar 136074 assessor’s roll, and/or ifrepparttar 136075 known property (address) crosses-verifies torepparttar 136076 suspect owner.

A search ofrepparttar 136077 applicable jurisdiction’s Recorder’s Grantee/Grantor index (or general index as it may also be known) is then undertaken to determine ifrepparttar 136078 property is still vested torepparttar 136079 subject, and if any open Deeds of Trust and other liens exist which identify liabilities againstrepparttar 136080 property. The search inrepparttar 136081 recorder’s venue should also identify (in jurisdictions where this is possible)repparttar 136082 Documentary Transfer Tax Stamp amount, which should be divided byrepparttar 136083 applicable factor.

This yields a sales price forrepparttar 136084 property, which should then be scrutinized by contacting a local realtor to verifyrepparttar 136085 current market value. This “thumbnail” market value determination would then be subtracted fromrepparttar 136086 outstanding Deeds of Trust (encumbrances) for a net equity value ofrepparttar 136087 property.

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