February 28th, 2008
I want everybody to take a moment now and analyze the time they spent throughout the day. You are going to compare important tasks against non-important tasks. Or is layman terms: time you spent being effective and productive to time you spent moving papers around.
Nearly everybody says they don’t have enough time to accomplish [...]
Filed under: Personal Development
February 28th, 2008
I would like to congratulate RJHe on winning the February Contest. He has won $20 worth of advertising.
There will be a new contest next month and a new way to enter, so stay tuned in March for more information.
Filed under: Contests
February 27th, 2008
Well now you know, I really dislike penny stocks and so should you. Roughly a year or two ago, I completly bought into the whole ethanol craze and was actively researching various Nasdaq and NYSE ethanol companies like Archer-Daniels Midland and Pacific Ethanol. As I did not have enough money on hand to purchase a [...]
Filed under: Due Diligence, Investments
February 27th, 2008
I thought I would respond to Stack Pennies article called Free Things I love with my own list.
Free Software: I absolutely love not paying for software which is clearly shown by my desktop. I have quiet a few shareware applications that I use regularly and having to pay for them would only put a frown [...]
Filed under: Articles, Frugal, Misc.
February 26th, 2008
[This this a guest post by my friend Rocky Kwan, if you have any questions please leave a comment]
As a young businessman and a student, there are many life lessons to be learnt. By taking your mistakes and learning from them, a person becomes stronger and more efficient in doing things. I’ve seen many coworkers [...]
Filed under: Articles, Personal Development
February 26th, 2008
Today you being the day searching google for the best Certificate of Deposit or Mortgage rate you can find. A plethora of results pop up and the “paid sponsored links” are showing some unbelieveable rates. Do youself a favor, turn off you computer.
Some of those links are scams and off-shore “banks”. One I came across [...]
Filed under: Articles, Saving
February 25th, 2008
When people ask me how I got my job, they are often surprised to hear that I didn’t need a resume, cover letter or a list references. They automatically assume that I was lucky or that somebody was looking out for me. Neither of which are accurate.
Having a few well placed connections can [...]
Filed under: Career, Networking, Personal Development
February 25th, 2008
Your credit card is going public on the NYSE according to an article out of CNN’s website.
With many different stocks typically raising $100-200 million per initial offering, this one plans to be huge. VISA Credit Card Services is planning on raising upwards of $18billion as some estimates have shown. With many stocks that we have in our [...]
Filed under: Investments, Portfolio Income
February 23rd, 2008
If you have been exploring the galaxy and haven’t heard of Zecco, you have some great news. For the average traditional investor such as myself who divulges into stock trading only a few times a month, we now have free commission trades.
Zecco.com launched about a year ago and was increasing popular as they offered $0 [...]
Filed under: Investments, Portfolio Income
February 22nd, 2008
As some of you may recall I wrote my First Investing Lesson about the important of doing research. So now I thought I would write about important of not following the media. I was naive when I learned this lesson, but I’m glad it was one that I learned relatively early in my investment career.
I [...]
Filed under: Investments, Portfolio Income