Archive for the 'Guest Posts' Category

Managing Money Becomes Easier When Using Personal Finance Tools

When I featured Thomas Suarez last week, I told everyone that I became inspired to explore the opportunities in mobile app development. That actually led me to ask, towards the end of the post, for some ideas on what kind of personal finance app would you like to have. One suggested a tax calculator, while [...]

How I Lost 20 lbs and Put 20k in my Emergency Fund

Lose weight and save more money – these are two goals that many people want to achieve. However, I’ve noticed that today – a good number of people believe that one must spend money to lose weight better. Early this year, a friend who wanted to shed some pounds had to enroll himself in a [...]

How I Converted An Investment To Make More Money

Investments are not only passive instruments that make money for us. They can also be a source of funds, if ever we want to pursue an active income opportunity. This is one lesson that Craig, our guest blogger for today, discovered in recent years. Below, he shares how he made more money by taking out [...]

Getting Your Finances In Shape For 2012

We’re halfway through the first month of 2012. So how’s your budget coming? Have you paid yourself after receiving your first salary for the year? Were you able to track your expenses from the past two weeks? I hope your resolve to make your finances better this year is going nice and smooth for you. [...]

Better Personal Finance in the New Year: Personal Finance Tips to Make Your Resolutions Count

Almost all of my friends have resolved to save more money this 2012. Indeed, financial resolutions is among the most popular that people make during the New Year. However, the desire to simply “save more money” is often not enough. That is because many people fail to translate that general resolution into concrete actions – [...]

Simple Things I Do To Save Energy At Home

It’s going to be the holidays soon and for most Philippine households, it’s time once again to put up those decors and Christmas lights to brighten our homes. Unfortunately, with the longer nights and all those lights, our household electric bills could go up more than usual. Save for the fact that we might be [...]

Cost Efficient Ways to Grow Your Home Business

Putting up a home-based business has become faster and easier through the years – all thanks to the internet and many other technologies that have made it possible. Indeed, in today’s information age, skills development knowledge can be researched online, social media sites are now being utilized as a marketing tool and business transactions can [...]

What to Teach Your Kids to Keep Them Out of Debt

Many people struggle with getting out of debt, specially credit card debts. One reason for this is because I believe, there is very little emphasis on the importance of proper personal finance in our educational system. While we are all advised that saving money is good, we are however not really taught in school how [...]

The Best Strategy is Always to Sell a Product that Sells Itself

I have a friend who works as a medical sales rep and I think he has a relatively easy job simply because the product he carries has no direct competitor in the current market. In short, he doesn’t need to do much sales talk, and he usually just needs to reach out and present medical [...]

You’ve Got To Know When to Hold Debt — and When to Fold It

I have friends who are really debt-averse. Sadly, I can’t blame them for being that for most have personally experienced, or have seen someone close to them, struggle through the difficulties of being in deep financial debt – the worries, headaches, sleepless nights and much more. But on the other hand, I’m fortunate to know [...]

Habits for Success

Success is simply a product of excellence. And to be excellent, it’s best that you follow your passion. But following your passion does not automatically create excellence. You need perseverance, determination and focus. You need to practice and hone your craft until it becomes almost second nature to you. And that’s what Kiley, our guest [...]

Three Common Debt Collector Lies

Being deep in loans and credit card debt is hard enough – but add to that the negativity and harassment of debt collectors, and you’ve got yourself a major headache. Fortunately, we have today guest blogger, Christopher, who shares below three common lies that debt collectors tell. His examples may show cases for the US, [...]