Posted by
Sam Bragg on October 6, 2009 |
No commentsI’m excited about a new website I just launched at www.HyrumSmithFarm.com!
This is a vacation home in Nauvoo, Illinois that I manage through Nauvoo Property Services (NPS), which manages about 30 properties. Of the many ways available for marketing our vacation homes, I have long wanted to pursue individual domain names specific to each home. This allows NPS and/or homeowners to individually market their home. It also improves our search engine results by having multiple sites linked together as well as more potential result pages. We can have targeted search engine ads directed to specific homes. And I’m sure there are other benefits and potential uses of individual sites.
To develop this idea, I decided to register the domain www.HyrumSmithFarm.com and begin working on a dedicated website for that home. After quite a bit of experimentation, I feel like I have put together a pretty nice template for presenting the homes individually. I do have more ideas and I expect the template to evolve, but I really like this as a starting point.
Enjoy!
Screenshot of the current home page.
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Posted by
Sam Bragg on September 21, 2009 |
One commentOne of my favorite web sites for market analysis is www.seekingalpha.com. First of all, the content is free, and that is a pre-requisite for me! But honestly, they have really good analysis on almost everything I have looked at investing in and new articles are posted regularly. Most of the mainstream finance sites…yahoo, CNN, MSN, bloomberg, [insert media conglomerate here]… are like lemmings when it comes to market analysis. One week they are all saying “the sky is falling” and the next week the mantra changes and they all fall in line. I’m really over those sources for analysis other than to know what sentiment they are pushing that day. For real substance, this site provides plenty of food for thought.
No matter what you like to invest in, Seeking Alpha provides easy to find information. I really like the way they break up the site. Features are posted on the Home page. The Macro View is perfect for getting a variety of views on the current trends in the overall economy and staying in touch with economic reports. Stocks & Sectors breaks articles down into a handful of focused areas…I tend to focus on the Energy sector. Then there’s Global Markets, ETFs (I spend a bit of time here also), and Investing Ideas. It works for new and experienced investors.
I like to look for swings in oil and natural gas, and try to buy undervalued funds or companies. Right now there is a feature article at Seeking Alpha about such a company, China Natural Gas. Here’s a link to the article: http://seekingalpha.com/article/162508-china-natural-gas-deeply-undervalued. I wouldn’t buy something based on one article, but it did peak my curiosity.
Happy Trading!
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Posted by
Sam Bragg on September 16, 2009 |
No commentsI spent most of my day rebranding various corporate web sites and applications. The former Gregory B. Bragg & Associates, Inc. is now officially doing business as York Insurance Services Group – California. One of the web apps I previously built was known as BOBS for Bragg Online Billing System. It will hence forth be known as YOBS! This was my favorite part of the rebrand just because I love the acronym. Here is a screenshot of the redesigned app (designed in Photoshop and coded in ColdFusion):
YOBS - York Online Billing System
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