Four stocks increased their dividends this week, but no dividend aristocrats or achievers have made any relevant announcements regarding dividends.

General Mills (GIS), producer of branded food products, has increased its dividend 17% to $0.28 per share. This produces a new yield of 3.15%. MSC Industrial (MSM), an industrial marketing firm, has increased its quarterly dividend 10% to $0.22 per share giving a new yield of 1.74%. Freeport McMoRan Copper and Gold Inc (FCX), one of the largest copper producers worldwide, has doubled its dividend to $0.30 providing a new yield of 2.03%. Finally Government Properties Income Trust (GOV), a Read Complete Article

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Last time we discussed in a three part course, how it is possible to generate a truly passive income online, through a technique called BSF. For this course we used blogs and created them in a manner so that they could run without any maintenance  after they were created.

While blogs are most suitable for this type of revenue generation, the technique is by no means limited to blogs alone. In this regard, we decided to provide you with an alternative type of site, where the BSF method Read Complete Article

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In parts 1 and 2 of this course, we learned the concept, and basic set up for making money online, on autopilot. In part 1 the basic concept behind the technique was explained, while in part 2 we set up our blog, in a fashion, that will allow it to run automatically.

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Dividend investors across the globe are still worried about the effects of the BP oil spill on the dividends of that company, especially since BP is owned by some of the largest income funds in the world. For those of you looking to switch your money out of BP here are some alternatives you may want to consider.

Flowers Foods (FLO), manufacturer of bakery products in the US, has increased its dividend 14.3% to $0.20 per share. This results in a fresh yield of 3.22%. Tri-Continental (TY), a large US fund, has increased its distribution 11% to $0.05 per share. This gives it a new yield of 1.77%. Communications Systems (JCS), provider Read Complete Article

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In part one of our course we talked about the proper mindset for making money online, the autopilot way. In this part of the course we are going to be putting things together and start the testing stages.

Building the blogs

As we stated in part one, blogs are the most suitable for our project, and because we are going to do it the BSF way, we need the proper blogging software to do it with.

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Dividends have featured heavily in the news this past week as President Obama has told the UK company BP they must not pay a dividend this year and instead use the money to clean up the enormous slick. It will be interesting to see if any other oil companies decide to raise the dividends in the coming weeks to tempt investors over to them from BP.

Grief (GEF), global producer of industrial packaging products, has increased its dividend to $0.42 per share. This gives a yield of 3.03%. DuPont Fabros Tech (DFT), providers of large scale computing services, has raised its quarterly dividend 50% to $0.12 per share. This generates a new Read Complete Article

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The Internet, is one of the few areas left where it is still possible to make money, with little to no initial investments, but that does not mean that generating income from the world wide web is an easy goal to achieve. In fact, most people who start out online, fail. Let’s have a look at why so many fail at their first attempt to make money online:

The reasons for failing, vary from lack of technical knowledge, to lack of knowledge in the field of Internet Marketing (IM). However, those that persist, will eventually succeed.

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Nine stocks have reported dividend increases this week, although not much news from the dividend achievers or aristocrats and very little to say about the market’s performance this past week; let us get straight down to business.

Bunge Limited (BG), an agriculture company operating across the American continents, has increased its dividend to $0.23 per share. This produces a yield of 1.79%. Knight Transportation (KNX), a haulage company specializing in commodities and refrigerated goods transportation, has increased its dividend 20% to $0.06 per share, producing a yield of 1.24%. United Health Group (UNH), a large US health care Read Complete Article

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When Google introduced their AdSense program for webmasters, they revolutionized the entire online advertising industry by changing the way revenue building on websites works. Besides the typical pay per click revenue generating, they added the content factor, being the first ones to literally make the advertising match the content on a web page.

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Making money online, is all about creating revenue streams on your websites. Each little source of revenue will be a small part of what will ultimately be a stream of money, flowing into your bank account every month.

Advantages of online revenue streams

Revenue streams on websites, are partly passive, which means they will keep generating revenue, even while the site owner sleeps. This does not mean there is no work involved, it just means that after the initial work is done, the stream continues on autopilot, generating money.

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