Posted in Advertising, Blogging on Feb 16th, 2008
I wrote before about why I placed an ING Direct ad inside the text of my content about a month ago: I really believe that it’s the first step in taking control of your finances. I wanted to place and ad there because there’s no way a reader can ignore it—it’s primo space. But no [...]
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Posted in Budgeting, Finance on Feb 15th, 2008
Sun has a nice post discussing the importance of direct deposit. Direct deposit isn’t a must when it comes to keeping a budget and saving money, but it sure makes it a lot easier.
One of the first tenets you’ll hear repeated over and over in personal finance is “make it automatic.” That means setting up [...]
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Posted in Budgeting, Finance, Tips on Dec 17th, 2007
Or: How I boosted my monthly savings from $150 to $200
You hear a lot of personal-finance sites telling you to revisit your monthly bills regularly to make sure that you’ve minimized each one so you aren’t paying for something you aren’t using. I always kind of glossed over that advice, like many other people, [...]
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