Thursday, November 20, 2008

Getting Secured With Your Health Before Retirement

Planning for poor health in the future is hard to do especially when you are healthy but that is the purpose of insurance cover; critical illness insurance is something that we all need to make provision for. After all, you are providing for the financial needs of your family in the future if something untoward happens where you will no longer be around to help them in person.

Studies have shown there is a strong possibility that at some stage in your life you will suffer from a critical illness so most of the insurance providers now cater for these conditions.

Studies have highlighted the problem with almost one man in five by the time they retire having a serious medical condition. For women, this figure is slightly lower with only one in six being affected by before retirement.

Researchers believe it is people's belief in their invincibility that makes them less likely to start a critical illness plan. Although this type of protection is taken out for many reasons, the majority of people use it to protect their mortgage repayments but these days, critical illness cover and life insurance can be linked directly with mortgage repayments.

More and more people now use the Internet to source their insurance cover and there has been an increase in the number of people who are arranging their health policies online. However, this is an area which is still developing and even now, problems occur owing to the nature of the policy type trying to be arranged. Not surprisingly, insurance providers often require the applicant to undergo a routine examination to clear up any possible existing complaints right from the outset. Claimants also need to know that if they do make contact to their critical illness insurance provider that they will be listened to with a sympathetic ear.

Some groups of individuals fall into high risk categories like those who smoke for example and can be expected to pay more for their cover. Many things are taken into account when dealing with the risk factor associated with any type of policy including the applicant's age, their overall health, whether the type of work they do is dangerous or any activities they participate in, not just whether they are a smoker.

Of course, no-one can underestimate just how much the financial assistance critical illness insurance can provide for a person who has a terminal illness. Family responsibilities are never easy but ensuring your family is looked after if you are diagnosed with a terminal condition does not have to cost the earth.

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Making Warcraft Gold - 7 Hot Tips

Making gold in the World of Warcraft isn't hard, but you do have to put in a bit of effort, if only in gathering stuff to sell. If you spend some time in the Auction House and learn what stuff should sell for you'll wind up making a lot more WoW gold that if you don't.

Tip 1 - First off, you're going to make three level 1 alts. One will be your main banker and you'll run it to your favorite capital city, whether Horde or Alliance, then the other two will go to the other capital cities and will simply be buyers. What'll they buy? Limited items and certain other goodies.

Tip 2 - Any and all sellable stuff (items with white, green, and higher names) found by your main character(s) will be sent to your banker for sale on the Auction House. As your man characters level they'll come across lots of stuff to send in. They shouldn't do any selling themselves and they should never visit the AH. All they'll do it hit the nearest mailbox and send stuff in.

Tip 3 - If you have some gold already send some to your banker and your buyers so they can pay for the auction fees and buy stuff. What stuff? Limited items. If you don't have the cash then start another character who will be your gatherer (or do it with one of your main characters.) This character will get the mining and skinning skills and work them. Every time you get a 20 stack of skins or ores you'll send it to your banker to sell. Soon enough you'll have a little stash of gold to start playing with.

Tip 4 - The capital cities each have several vendors with "limited items" for sale. These are the items where only one or two are available at any one time and these are what your buyers will be grabbing. Many of these items will sell for a lot more on the Auction House than what you will pay for them from the Vendor.

The White Wedding Dress, found in Stormwind, is an example. Buy it for a gold, sell it for 10. Only have one up at a time though, because if you post too many dresses you'll flood the market and kill it. Every once in awhile you'll find common items which sell for amazingly high prices.

Tip 5 - If you know the prices of any particular niche, "heavy leather" for example, and you see some of these items posted at a really low price, then buy them up. All of them. Then resell those items a few stacks at a time (don't flood the market.) This applies to any niche. I just bought a blue weapon worth 20 gold for only 80 silver today. I'm reselling it for a nice profit.

Tip 6 - If you see a blue or purple weapon or armor piece that you know is way under-priced consider buying and relisting it at a greatly increased price. Don't go too high or you won't sell it. Know the prices things sell for.

Tip 7 - Learn a couple of areas of the Auction House really well, such as ores and skins. Know what typical prices are and how much you're likely to be able to sell yours for. That way you'll be able to buy out the low priced stuff and make good estimates of what your stuff should sell for. You'll also know when to buy out low priced stuff and resell it for a profit.

Bonus tip - Get a copy of the Auctioneer Addon (Google it,) install it, and learn to use it. While not 100% accurate (due to players spoofing prices) it's pretty darn good and will give you a lot of good pricing info.

Follow the above tips and you'll be well on your way to making you gold stash, however big it is now, a lot bigger. Good luck!

If you really want to make Massive WoW Gold then you need to check out the Massive WoW Gold Blueprint, reviewed at the Azeroth Cookbook (http://azerothcookbook.com). You'll get tons of sneaky tricks and tips to make more gold than you can easily spend.

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Free Online Games at GamingBooth


Gaming Booth is a great free online games arcade that offers over 5,000 games. My favorite game is Onslaught 2. Check out the site and see which game is your favorite.

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

WordPress - Before The Blog

What do you want your blog to accomplish? Hint, hint, the answer is not to make money (well, ultimately, it is), but before you can make money, you have to decide on many things. The first one is: What do you want your blog to accomplish? Why are you getting a presence on the web? Or, why do you already have a presence on the web? What is yourpurpose? And, what do you want the purpose of your blog to be? These may seem like some tough questions as we go along, but they're really critical (critical to your success). So we are going to talk in depth about a lot of these things.

Next is: What is the title of your blog? The title is what will appear in the browser bar when people are on your site. You want to use keywords in your title because the title can either help or hurt your SEO and the effect of how people see you. It's really critical for people and for your SEO that you get the title right.

Now you need to write a brief Elevator Speech for your blog. Do you all know what an elevator speech is? It's what you can say about yourself in the amount of time that it takes an elevator to go wherever an elevator is going. You need this for your blog too, because it's going to go in the meta tag of your blog for SEO purposes (SEO - Search Engine Optimization). So, people in your blog won't actually see this description, but Google, Yahoo, MSN, whatever search engines are spidering your blog will see it. This description is what will appear when you are indexed and you get listed as a search result. If you have ever searched for anything (and I'm sure you have) on Google, then you know that the title comes up and then underneath that title there is a little, not quite paragraph, but several lines of text about the title. This is where your description will appear, so make it good, make it so that people will want to click on the title of the result and go to your blog to read it. Don't just say, This blog is about... Say what your purpose really is.

These are just a few of the 'before the blog' tips you need to consider. Now I'd like to invite you to http://www.thewordpresswizard.com for more information on WordPress and on blogging.

Cathy Perkins, The WordPress Wizard