Should Your Credit Score Be Fair Game for Potential Employers?
A note from Nicole Thanks to Dave Thomas for his timely and relevant post that hits home for me in a few ways. 1. I’ve had to get my credit checked as a stimpluation...
Category: Money
Negotiate a Lifetime of Higher Earnings
You have just a handful of chances to dramatically increase your earning power. No, it’s not when annual review time rolls around. Demanding that your boss match a counter-offer won’t work either. The best...
Tips on Reducing Student Loans
By, Patricia Briggs In the US, many (if not most!) students are forced to take out loans in order to manage their college expenses. Student loan debt outweighs credit card debt and is growing at...
Keeping up with the Jennifers and Jolies
Today’s post is by Gabriela Vega. In today’s society with the numerous magazines covering the world of women’s fashion, countless television shows featuring vain reality stars and limitless red carpet coverage scrutinizing the clothing...
Does Freelancing Qualify as a Small Business?
Today’s post is by Stephen Cline. There are many questions to ponder when one decides to brave the world as a freelancer; a position free of the entanglements of a nine-to-five job. One of...
Bridging the Gender Wage Gap: Knowing When and How to Ask For a Raise
Even though women, for the first time in our country’s history, represent over fifty percent of the workforce, and even though more women than men hold degrees in advanced education, there still remains a...
La (Debt-Free) Dolce Vita
By, Rachel Hansen After reading Nicole’s Credit Card Confessions, I knew I had to chime in. You see, I’m one of those “frugalistas” Target is always, well, targeting. A coupon-toting, ebay-loving, craigslist-furniture-buying cheapskate. And...
Credit Card Confessions
This week has given me that “back to school” feeling I always had in Septembers growing up. After an awesome Labor Day weekend, summer is officially over (well, socially at least). My online class...
Financial Institutions: Building Trust via Customer Service Marketing
What makes marketing financial institutions very different today than ten years ago? Trust. Ten years ago, trust was assumed. The stock market was booming,successful dot-coms were popping up everywhere and jobs were plentiful. But...
Ramit Sethi’s Solution to the Post-Christmas Blues: Earn More Money
The title of Ramit Sethi‘s latest post couldn’t be more timely for me. It’s simply called “Earn More Money in 2010.” My week started out in a panic when I faced the doom of...