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The Sims Life Stories

2007-02-08T23:30:00.000-08:00

The Sims™ Stories, a laptop-friendly game is the first in The Sim Stories series and features an all-new directed Story mode that lets you take Riley or Vince through a unique story full of conflict, romance, and dramatic moments. In open-ended Classic mode, you create Sims and then choose how they'll fulfill their dreams through life's biggest moments.

The Sims Life Stories is the first release in an all-new, standalone product line called The Sims™ Stories. All releases in The Sims Stories line offer two fun ways to play, directed Story mode and open-ended Classic mode, and are designed with laptop-friendly controls that let you play even when you're on the go!. Play by all the gr8 moments of your Sim's life in this easy-to-play, laptop-friendly version of The Sims™ Stories. Laptop-Friendly means that The Sims Stories can be played on both desktops and laptops.

The Sims™ Stories game doesn't require a video card and the controls have been designed specifically for the laptop with an auto-pause function where you can start and stop the action when you open and close the lid. Even the game runs on both desktops and laptops, one of the main priorities was to design a game that could be played in a separate window while you IM and chat with friends.

The Sims Life Stories, play through Riley's life story as she returns home to start a new life with new friends, new experiences, and unexpected surprises. A second story lets you sort out the love life of Vince, a love-struck high-tech whiz who's been unlucky in love so far.

Also Coming Soon to The Sims Stories Line: The Sims Pet Stories challenges your Sims to care for and train loveable but unpredictable pets, while The Sims Castaway Stories helps your Sims make a new life in an unexplored island paradise.

This game is very different from The Sims or The Sims 2. The big difference is the addition of the new directed Story mode, laptop friendly system specs, and the ability to play the game in a separate window while using your own IM and email to stay connected with friends & everybody.

All The Sims Stories games are standalone games and do not support expansion packs or stuff packs from The Sims or The Sims 2 collections.

In The Sims Life Stories, you can select to play through 2 different stories. Start off by playing through Riley's life story as she returns back home to start a new life with her new friends, new experiences, and unexpected surprises. A second story lets you sort out the love life of Vince, a love-struck high-tech whiz who's been unlucky in love so far. After you've completed all the story goals you can continue the drama in open-ended Classic mode.

Stacy Ferguson

2007-02-08T23:24:00.000-08:00

Biography
Fergie was born in Whittier California (CA) to Patrick Ferguson and Terri Goreon 27th March 1975. Fergie is an American pop and R&B singer, occasional actress and songwriter. "Fergie" was raised in nearby Hacienda Heights. As a child actress, she appeared on the television program Kids Incorporated for many years with Renee Sandstrom. She is a former member of Kids Incorporated, Wild Orchid, and also a former co-host of the TV show Great Pretenders. She attended Glen A. Wilson High School. Ferguson's well-scrubbed image on that show presents quite a contrast with the "ghetto-funk" image she has more recently begun to cultivate. Ferguson was the voice of Sally Brown in two Charlie Brown specials: It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown (1984), Snoopy's Getting Married, Charlie Brown (1985) and also voiced Sally in the 1985 version of "The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show". She has one sister named "Dana", who is an actress.

Ferguson is a vocalist of "The Black Eyed Peas". Fergie is also a multi-platinum solo artist, who released her first solo album, The Dutchess, in year 2006.

How to Find More Keywords!!!

2007-01-25T02:34:00.000-08:00

More than 300 million times each day in the United States, a person types in a search request and receives a set of results. According to estimates, approximately 50 percent of all searches are commercially driven, meaning the user is seeking a specific product or service.

How many keywords is enough? Over years of talking with and surveying our advertisers, we have found that the most successful marketers have between 50 and 5,000 keywords. The fact is, most of our clients could be bidding on many more unique terms, and, consequently, are leaving many potential sales on the table. Ironically, it's relatively simple for any advertiser, in any industry, segment or product category, to increase their list of keywords.

Finding Your Niche

Very specific keywords, which we call "niche" terms, should be your focus in expanding your keyword mix at minimal cost. Niche terms often feature few competing bids, or none at all, and they also convert very well.

At a recent Yahoo! advertiser event, one of our clients shared a story that illustrates this point. One of the products that she offers is bed jackets for women. While most of us unfamiliar with the product might think, "who's going to search for that?", our advertiser stated that she was pleasantly surprised to receive a significant number of potential customers through Yahoo! once she bid on the term "ladies bed jackets". She also explained that users who clicked on her listing were extremely motivated, thrilled to find the product, and highly committed to purchasing.
Buying Cycle

A Web site attracts many potential customers who are at different stages of the buying process. This paradigm, known as the "Buying Cycle," explains why different customers who ultimately purchase the same item will search for it in a variety of ways.

The Buying Cycle has three stages. To illustrate their differences, let's assume you sell DVD players:

1.Become Informed: Users are gathering information about products, as
well as the key retailers or service providers that offer the products. Searchers
in this stage use more general search terms. Thus, to attract this customer, you
only need small number of fairly general terms, such as "DVD."

2. Shop: Users
are tracking and comparing purchase criteria, including availability, price, shipping
charges, etc. Buyers in this stage reveal their preferences, so more specific
keywords (for example, "Panasonic DVD") are needed to cover all possible search
terms.

3. Purchase: Users show a commitment to buy through their choice of keywords.
The keywords you use to attract buyers at this stage are the most specific; for
example, "Panasonic DVD-RP91K black". Don't forget to bid on the name and URL
of your own site to ensure that committed buyers can find you for a return visit.
It's important to select words across all three stages of the Buying Cycle, so
that all types of search users can find your site. The Search Begins

Perhaps the best way to start generating more keywords is to look within. Start with your home page, and make a list of all the words and phrases that relate to the content of your pages. These keyword ideas should range from the most general words relating to your site to the most specific.

When you've run through your home page, methodically complete the same exercise for every page on your site. If you are a retailer, every model of product you sell should be in your keyword roster, along with brand names and product features, when relevant.

As you do this, it's important to do some "reverse thinking." In other words, think like your customer, and determine what search terms he or she would use to find each product or service.

Another way to get inside the heads of your customers is to review your internal search logs, if you offer that function on your site. This will enable you to look at the terms that visitors search for after they've arrived.
The (Mix and) Match Game

Do you market multiple products from a single manufacturer or product line? Or maybe you offer products or services that vary by color or location? Search users will potentially seek out your offerings using a multitude of phrases. For example, if you sell sports apparel, it's not enough to bid on "jerseys." You'll need to scour your product database and make lists of your products, including all of the teams you have represented, all of the sports represented, all of the colors you offer, etc. Then combine these variables in all possible combinations to instantly create new, specific keywords, such as "UCLA home blue football jersey", "Texas burnt orange basketball shirt", "Cleveland Indians batting practice jersey", etc.
Know Thy Enemy

Once you've exhausted every source of keywords on your own site, it's time to start looking elsewhere. A key place to mine ideas is on your competitors' Web sites. Because they are marketing similar items, this research will likely yield some keywords that are highly relevant to your own site. An added bonus is that you might come across some ideas for changing your own site in terms of page organization, the user interface or checkout process.
Tool Time

Last, but not least, there's the Yahoo! Keyword Selector Tool, one of our most popular tools. The Keyword Selector Tool is available from the Add Listings page in your account. Advertisers who need some help in coming up with new terms to bid on can type in a general topic and immediately review a number of related keywords, plus forecasting data and real-time bid prices for those terms. This lets you instantly see how users are searching for particular products or services.
Traps to Avoid

While we clearly advocate that our advertisers seek out more keywords to increase their customer traffic and sales, we also stress the importance of discretion in selecting new terms. Make sure your keywords are relevant to your site, so that your listings will get approved by our editors. Customers will be much more likely to spend time--and money--at your site if they immediately find what they're looking for. Also, your site credibility will be enhanced if you accurately represent your offerings in search listings. Finally, using relevant keywords will maximize your budget, because your clicks are more likely to convert to sales.