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Insurance

How to Shop for Home Insurance

If you have not shopped around for home insurance in some time, you may find that better deals await you elsewhere. Certainly, your current insurer may want to keep your business, but with double-digit rate increases in some areas it pays to shop around.

Home Tips

7 Energy Savings Strategies for Every Homeowner

Have you looked at your electrical bill lately? If so, it may have made a spike especially as summer approaches.

Small Business

Small Business Recruitment Tips & Tricks

Let’s face it: as a small business operator you cannot compete against large corporations for talent. At least not in the same way that large businesses compete, especially on salary.

Credit Cards

Credit Card Application Made Easy

You can apply for a credit card online and receive a decision is as little as 60 seconds. At least that is the contention of some credit card providers, including those that have streamlined the application process in recent years.

Education Tips

How to Curtail Your Dental Expenses

Visits to the dentist can set you back several hundred dollars for just an oral exam and a cleaning. Have two or three cavities filled or seek out other work beyond the basics and your bill can easily top $1,000.

Small Business

How to Start a New Business With $20 or Less

It can cost at least $250,000 to launch a franchised business, but there are some business models that can be started with little to no cash.

Education Tips

Medical Bill Problems and How to Handle Them

Quite easily, any medical emergency can result in large bills, debt that must be repaid and usually in a timely fashion. A visit to the emergency room can set you back hundreds of dollars, a short stay at the hospital can top $10,000.

Education Tips

Have a Complaint? Then Write a Letter!

The days of letter-writing are dead, aren’t they? Well, not entirely. One area where letter writing can make a big difference is in the complaint department, as in a consumer complaining about a product.

Small Business

5 Tips for Starting a New Business

If you are planning to launch a new enterprise, a business plan is essential to help guide you. Such plans outline what is required to get your business started and must outline its management structure, partnership responsibilities and its growth plans.

Autos Express

What You Need to Know About Small Cars

Tweet This feature may be important to you as elevated gas prices have forced consumers to consider how much it costs to fill up their gas tanks in addition to

Autos Express

5 Summer Car Rental Savings Tips

Are you planning a trip this summer? If so, will you be taking your own car or will you be looking to rent one?

Home Tips

5 House Hunting Deal Breakers

Tweet Unless your desired home is brand, sparkling new, it may have certain issues that need to be settled before you can close on the deal. Some issues are easy

Fun Stuff

Celebrate Summer With These Snazzy Hosting Tips

From Memorial Day to Independence Day and then on to Labor Day, summer gives us what seems like boundless opportunities to spend time outdoors. Likely, you will be having your share of get togethers, as the guest at some events while hosting others.

Consumer Financing

How to Vanquish the Credit Card Debt Monster

Too many consumers are consumed by debt, usually credit card balances that never seem to go away.

Home Tips

Does Your Garage Door Offer Easy Access to Your Home?

Automatic garage doors are a convenience enjoyed by millions of homeowners. Simply hit a transmitter button in your vehicle and the garage door lifts up, enabling you to slip carefully inside.