If you are new to earning money on the internet, chances are you have already come across the Paid to Click websites, which are mushrooming all over the internet. They seem very attractive at first glance because it requires absolutely no skill whatsoever and can be done as passively as is humanly possible. They provide [...]
Read More >>Blogging is one of the most trendy ways to make money online these days. The question is, though, is it effective? Meaning, for the time you put into it, are you getting as good of a return as you could somewhere else? I’m not sure. That’s saying something considering that I’m a blog developer. Don’t [...]
Read More >>I am one of the many people who are better at “paying back” than “saving up” for bigger ticket purchases. That’s obviously not a good reason to use credit cards (or any other form of debt), but that’s my personality. So what is a spender to do when faced with this dilemma? Anyone remember layaway? [...]
Read More >>Last week I received notification that the site 100 Big Coupons wanted to purchase a review here. Fair enough, I thought, and agreed. According to their review request, they “… offer coupons for all the major online stores to help people save money while still getting what they want. The service is free to use [...]
Read More >>I know I just posted about Dreamhost’s deal yesterday, but today I’m going to post about a completely different kind of web host, and the permanent deal they offer you. NearlyFreeSpeech.net is a very unusual host. To start with, they don’t offer any hosting “plans”. They do something that’s almost unheard of instead: they charge [...]
Read More >>A month or two ago, I received an email from someone who had seen this blog and wanted to tell me about his own frugal site. I get a few of these emails each month, but this one hit me at a crazy busy time, and I didn’t take the time to look at his [...]
Read More >>Yesterday morning, I was reading the Excess Voice newsletter by Nick Usborne. The topic of the newsletter is copywriting, of all things, but it started me down a path that had some surprising results. In this issue, Nick was talking about the importance of being aware of new technologies and services as they relate to [...]
Read More >>I just signed up for Blingo on the recommendation of a friend. It is an interesting idea. Basically, it’s a search engine built on top of Google (it provides Google results) that gives away prizes (hence the “Bling” part of their brilliant name). I’m assuming that they use Google to supply the results but put [...]
Read More >>There are a limited number of good, free personal finance programs available, and less that are web-based and platform independent (meaning I can recommend them to anyone). So it was with great interest that I read a press release today announcing a new online personal finance budgeting application: MySpendingPlan.com. A first glance at the site [...]
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