Archive for the 'money' Category
Payday Cash
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 23rd Mar, 2007
Don’t you hate it when there’s a few days left to pay day and your bank balance is dwindling down to nothing. You scrimp and scape at the bottom of the barrel to get by for the last few days, using up food in your freezer and borrowing money from your mates. Then finally your [...]
Credit Card Incentives
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 21st Mar, 2007
It’s a fact of today’s world that energy prices keep soaring and fuel is certainly no exception. However, one interesting idea that I came across today has not made it to the UK yet. It’s the idea of have a special credit card, which instead of giving points or cashbacks, give you discount on your [...]
Read up about Forex trading
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 19th Mar, 2007
I was originally exposed to Forex trading when I was developing software for Trust Fund companies around 8-9 years ago. My business acumen was a bit more limited back then, so I was really coding to spec without really know what a Swap was, why people went Long or Short or why anyone would ever [...]
Dell Coupon Codes
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 5th Mar, 2007
Dell have a pretty interesting marketing model. Instead of working through a retail network, they chose to sell directly to their customers thereby maximising their profits and their customers’ savings.
When adopting this model, the biggest question is how to get the word out about your great deals. Well, Dell advertise heavily on TV and in [...]
50% of teenagers in debt
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 14th Feb, 2007
Just read an article today that 50% of teenagers are in debt by the time they are 17! That’s pretty shocking when you think about it. Not only is it scary because it’s hard to have a stable income at that age and therefore easy to dig yourself into a hole; but also becuase it [...]
PayPerPost Update
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 9th Feb, 2007
I’ve been looking through my PayPerPost stats and I’ve just realised that I’ve made almost $1,500! Amazing isn’t it.
For those of you who have never come across them, they’re the market leader in blog advertising, providing a marketplace for advertisers and bloggers to meet and help each other out. They’ve also recently rolled out a [...]
Money titbits
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 16th Jan, 2007
Here’s an interesting conundrum. Look at the picture of the team on the right. The question is. If someone approached you with the opportunity to invest in this team would you go for it? The bottom line is that the team you are looking at grew to become Microsoft Corporation (the guy in the bottom [...]
Help the environment - Recycle your toner cartridges!
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 11th Jan, 2007
Have you ever stopped to think about all the toner and Inkjet cartridges you consume at home and work? It’s probably quite a large number and the majority of us will just throw these away. Did you know that around 7 million toner cartridges are discarded in the UK annually and only a very small [...]
Get the world to talk about your product
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 11th Jan, 2007
It’s interesting to watch companies around the world trying to shop bloggers some love. First we have Microsoft giving free laptops to people, and now a number of other companies are trying the same technique to encourage reviews and comments from people all around the world and try and take advantage of The Long Tail.
Today [...]
So, what is spread betting?
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 10th Jan, 2007
Anyone curious as to what spread-betting is? Well, I was, so I looked it up on Google and came across Spread Bet Guide which explains what it’s all about. Spread betting is all about gambling on whether the price of a share will go up or down. Well, you could call it gambling, though it’s [...]
Wish I had a new camera
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 1st Jan, 2007
I remember a time when I used to be the gadget man around the house. I always had
the latest toys to play with; the most modern gizmos. However, my position has now
been usurped! Now that the wife has her band new shiny EOS
400D, I am no longer the gadget master, the gizmo lord; instead I [...]
PayPerPost goes Full Disclosure
Posted by: Owen on Saturday, 16th Dec, 2006
Picked this
up from TechCrunch tonight. Looks like PayPerPost (the
place where you get paid to blog)is going
to adopt a Full Disclosure policy where bloggers will need to have either a site-wide
or per-post disclosure of any posts they are being paid for. Won’t be an issue for
me, as I’ve popped my disclosure policy on the left-hand side [...]
How to claim back bank penalty charges
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 14th Dec, 2006
Interesting article on the
BBC about how people are starting challenge the way banks charge extortionate
fees for people breaking their terms and conditions. The challenge stems from the
fact that banks shouldn’t be profiteering from this sort of activity according to
the Unfair Terms in Consumer
Contracts Regulations 1999. So here you
can find a step-by-step guide to claiming back [...]
Car Refinancing
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 10th Nov, 2006
It’s funny how different countries end up having different ways for doing things.
I was speaking to a friend of mine in the US and we started talking about how the
health system is different to the UK, then we switched to buying cars.
Apparently in the US, it’s quite common to switch your car financing from one [...]
Learn to play the stock market
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 10th Nov, 2006
If you’re interested in learning how to make money off the stock market, have a look at PortfolioLink. It lets you set up a virtual portfolio of stocks and track their valuation across time, effectively learning what and what not to do, without paying the price. You can also browse other people’s portfolios to learn [...]
