Month: August 2011

Month: August 2011
General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Enticing Cash Bonus Sign Up Offers

I was reading about a deal that a bank was offering where you could potentially get a free $250 for simply signing up for an account and doing some services such as a direct deposit or auto bill payment feature. I was so tempted to do this as I was thinking at worst I could

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General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Offering Services Instead of Money

For one reason or another today there appeared to be news about Nadya Suleman who is known as the “Octomom.” Naturally, any story attached to her brings up topics on how she appears to rely on various forms of media attention in order to bring in money to take care of the kids. It is

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Business

Lure of Free Food or Items

I noticed there was a grand opening for two different stores. As usual, they try to do things in an effort to draw a crowd. Both of them were trying the free giveaway routine except one business was giving away free food where they were having a free barbeque of sort while the other was

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Business

Wanting To Giveaway Offers As To Not Waste

Google must be on some kind of campaign spree with businesses. As you may recall, a few days ago I received a free $100 Google Adwords credit from Sage which I thought was a nice gesture. Now today, I received a mail from one of the banks here called The Royal Bank of Canada who

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Financial Management

Buying Movie And Event Tickets From Stores

Today I went to a wholesale club store to check out some of the prices they had in comparison to non membership based stores. One thing that caught my attention were these movie theatre passes that were hanging on the wall like a gift card. It was interesting as usually the price of a child

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Financial Management

Researching Local Auctions When Businesses Close

I had a friend today that was frantically searching very large auction company as a small electronic store recently closed its doors. His way of thinking is that most most companies simply sell their inventory to these places as they would rather not deal in trying to get rid of all their old furniture and

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