Jim over at Blueprint for Financial Prosperity commented on my short little Restaurant.com post — the one where you can use coupon code TREATS to save 80% through Halloween — saying that the participating restaurants in his area had left the service. One might conclude that these restaurants are in a bit of contraction mode. … Read more
A few billion here, a few billion there … pretty soon the bailouts add up to some real money! Financial stocks are getting junked. Maybe your portfolio has a few. Maybe they’re worthless now. If that money is gone, it’s gone. But if you have a job (as I do) you can make more money, … Read more
Earlier this week my wife had the opportunity to go back to work as an English teacher at a local private Christian school. (As in, go back to work outside of the house. She works plenty hard as it is raising our daughter.) She ultimately decided not to pursue the job after praying about it … Read more
If you can type 200 words per minute and got 800 on your Verbal SAT, then you probably don’t need to visit these websites. I tweeted something about time sucks and got a link from the author of Freelancedom with a list of her favorite time-wasters. There are literally an infinite number of ways to … Read more
It’s likely that there are some things about your job that bug the tar out of you. We all have days like that, including me. Work may bug you enough that you might start up a side business after hours. Once that side business gets rolling and you look at the numbers, you might begin … Read more
Be thankful for it. Ranting about your job or things associated with your job on a regular basis undermines this thankfulness and puts your job at risk. I starred a couple of articles over at Clever Dude at the beginning of the month. The first was ten tips for Mrs. Dude’s fellow drivers, and the … Read more
Maybe I’m one of a minority that has problems getting down to business when I hit the computer, work, or whatever, but when I sit at the computer I really have to be conscious about what I’m doing there. If I sit down without a plan, I gravitate toward “easy” activities, like surfing on traffic … Read more
EBay started its Partner Network today. This is its affiliate program. EBay had been running its affiliate program through Commission Junction, but is terminating this relationship within a month or so. It’s easy to understand why: eBay now owns its affiliate program rather than having to rent the service from Commission Junction. I don’t know … Read more