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Blog Updates & Blogging Tools
I just wanted to share a few blog updates and share some blogging tools with you! Site Rankings For the first time ever, we were featured on the Fire Finance list of the Top 100 Personal Finance Blogs. We made the number six position on the site meter rankings. You see the complete list here. If you have a personal finance blog, you can can request to be considered for the rankings. The list is also a great place to find more financial inspiration and check out some new blogs! Also, for the first time ever [...]
Life and Debt in America
The trouble with the rich dads, the poor dads and the Suze Orman's is: they don't know about us. They are NOT us. The so-called "personal finance bloggers" are much more like ordinary people. Trouble is, the situations that they find themselves in may not match up exactly with yours and mine. What are some REAL do-able steps that YOU can take to shore up your personal financial situation? 1 - Take inventory. I don't mean rummage thru all your stuff and sell it on eBay or Craig's List. I mean sit down for a [...]
Prudential outsources call centre to Vietnam
Teams based in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City will sell personal finance products Financial services group Prudential has signed a two-year agreement with supplier Harvey Nash for the outsourcing of its call centre operations. Using voice over IP technology, the outsourcer will handle the sales of consumer finance products through a 250-strong workforce based in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi in [...]
Better banking always helps
First off let me just say this website can only directly help those banking in the United States but the same ideas are pretty universal. You just have to check to see if there is a website for your country. eMoneyCentral.com is a personal finance website site that helps to track the best rates on checking [...]
Personal Brand Stereotypes #8: Choose Your Major Wisely
The number one most important factor to employers selecting entry-level candidates is their major (44%). I think it’s pretty obvious why this carries the most weight. If you are a finance major applying for an entry-level position in marketing, it may be challenging to convince them that your experience and learnings can apply [...]
Expensr
expensr is a free online personal finance application. expensr is currently in beta so let us know what kind of features you'd like to see!expensr is founded by Reman Child and Shawn Gupta. As working professionals, they needed a fast and easy way to track their spending habits. After complaining to each other over lunch one day about not knowing where all their money went, they decided to do something about it. That's how expensr was born. The founders still have trouble putting money away, but at least [...]
Sarah Lacy’s Personal Branding Confessions
Sarah Lacy has reported on startups and venture capital in Silicon Valley for nearly a decade. She writes Valley Girl, a biweekly column for BusinessWeek and co-hosts Tech Ticker on Yahoo! Finance. Sarah is an award winning journalist and author of a brand new book called “Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good: The Rebirth [...]
Carnivals
M.B. & I are really trying to grow the blog, so we have decided to start entering carnivals to get our blog out to new readers. If you get a chance this week please stop by these carnivals that we are featured in: Carnival of Personal Finance at Lazy Man and Money Mom Blog Carnival at Dance of Motherhood Carnival of Debt Reduction at Broke Grad Student Festival of Frugality at Sound Money Matters [...]
Colleges And The Financial Impacts of Selecting One
I'm currently reading "Live Well on Less Than You Think" by Fred Brock. I really love this book - it's very good and covers so many different topics than your average personal finance book. In this book, there was a chapter dedicated to college. I thought this was a pretty appropriate thing to discuss since we are in prime graduation season! In the book, "Live Well on Less", Fred writes about choosing a college. He says that families and students need to weigh all of the options when selecting a college, [...]
Rebalance your Retirement Accounts Periodically
Sometimes it feels like there are so many recurring things to take care of regarding personal finance that it's tempting to just throw up your hands and say "enough." Between checking credit reports to make sure they're accurate to paying monthly bills to filing tax returns, there are seemingly a million different things to do, and all of these things take time. One more item to throw on the pile: rebalancing retirement accounts periodically. This includes 401(k)s, 403(b)s, and IRAs among others. Four great [...]