Archive for January, 2007

If you’ve ever spent more than a few minutes around somebody who participates in a multi-level-marketing sales program such as Quixtar or Amway, you know they will throw around a lot of seemingly complex business terms in order to make their business model look like something that is worthwhile for you to be a [...]

There are a number of online savings accounts available to consumers. There’s a lot of competition around for your savings. Companies are offering all sorts of deposit bonuses and high interest rates for consumers who are willing to open a savings account with a bank that doesn’t have a branch that you can visit. [...]

This is just a reminder and you have two days left to enter! Getting Green is going to be giving away a copy of The Millionaire Mind, by Thomas Stanley! You can read a full review of the book over at Amazon. In essence it’s a great follow up if you’ve read The Millionaire Next [...]

For most people, when it comes to investing there aren’t a lot of fancy options out side the stock market. Some dabble in real-estate, but beyond that there’s not much for the casual consumer to invest in that’s worthwhile. Fortunately there are plenty of good stocks and mutual funds to choose from, but navigating [...]

Haha! You guys will never believe this! I got this offer in my email that I cannot refuse! I was recently contacted by an officer from ECOBANK in Lagos Nigeria, who needs my bank account to transfer 13.5 million out of the country, and for my account, he’s going to let ME, me out of [...]

A couple of weeks ago, I had written an article about my experiences at a Quixtar IBO recruitment meeting. I had made some negative statements about the organization on my blog before, and I decided to do some investigative reporting on the manner to see if what I was hearing was accurate. I did [...]

I can only imagine how much some of my cohorts have wasted on gambling and the lottery. I know people who buy one, two or three tickets a week that win next to nothing, yet continue to play. They probably have averaged about 10% back each, It’s hard for someone who went to college [...]

In the last few decades, Americans have moved to a faster lifestyle. We’re up and out more hours of the day, and there’s always so much going on. Part of this movement toward a faster pace of life is making more extravagant purchases. We often buy new cars every two or three years in [...]

When I was in college, I had five different jobs; it was really an interesting experience. Since three of them were campus jobs where you would work maybe five or six hours a week, it really wasn’t anything more than a full time job. It’s really quite amazing the difference in salary I received [...]

I’ve kept my money in Share Builder’s money market account for quite some time, but after some quick looking, I soon realized that there were better places to put my money. Share Builder’s account currently only offers 4.46% annual percentage yield, does not have FDIC insurance, or any other advanced features. There are much [...]

Take a look through your receipts from the previous month, chances are all of your purchases came from just a few stores, whether it be the Wal-Mart down the street, Home Depot, your favorite fast food restaurant, or the gas station on the way to work. It’s amazing how just a few different places [...]

I was drive home today and drove by the local Shell station, and glanced at the prices, I thought I read it wrong, so I read it again, $1.99! Gasoline finally dropped below $2.00 for the first time in a year and a half. That felt pretty good. I admit it, it was an [...]

If you’re a savvy investor, you are naturally going to seek out the best interest rate on your money. If we were looking at interest rates and nothing else, we would head down to Vegas and put all of our money on double zeros, because after all it pays out 37 to 1! Of [...]

A while back I was chatting with a student who I had participated in high-school debate with quite some time ago, and I asked the student where she was going to college. She mentioned off the name of a top ten school that was very expensive. She proceeded to tell me that she was [...]