Guest Post I won’t make a mistake if I tell that each person dreams of financial success, but there is a question: do all of us know the essential measures to be taken to achieve it? Instead of dreaming and visualizing the winning of a jack pot isn’t it more useful to find out the…
Robots in the Workplace: How Taxing Automation Could Save Jobs
At the rate it’s going, robots could potentially take over more than 10% of the jobs that humans currently perform, and possibly even more in the not-too-distant future. For companies, this is a great development, as robots can perform tasks with high accuracy and consistency, without needing pay, training, or time off for illness. You…
Blackberry and Kobo Touch: why crappy Canadian products are not helping Canada’s technology case
This is the first time I am writing a critical review of any product. And unfortunately enough, it is a Canadian product. Being from Canada myself, it makes this review a little more significant. Two years ago, I bought a Kobo Touch e-reader for my fiance as a birthday gift. She loved it and…
Streetwise Entrepreneurship: Lessons Learned Roaming Athens in My Teens
Since childhood, radios have always fascinated me, particularly AM and SW radio. Arriving in Athens, Greece, in the mid-90s as a young teenager, I found myself without a radio, a necessity I sorely missed. However, at 14 and without a job, I wasn’t inclined to ask my family for money to purchase one, considering it…
Paying with debt or cash will help your local merchant and small business
Merchants pay up to 3% of every transaction back to the credit card company. Not only that, but these credit card companies have a lot of power and influence while small business don’t have any choice. One way to help your local small business is to use cash or debt when paying. Cash is even…
6 Tips to ensure your summer is not ruined by a nasty hydro bill
It is summer and it is July and it can only mean one thing: hot and soaring temperatures that can only be weathered by a cool and blasting AC! But we all know what that means for your pocket: a nasty bill at the end of the month or cycle. So how can you ensure…
Making the minimum payment on your credit card balance is a trap
When you see the ‘minimum payment’ (MP) field on your credit card statement, think of it as your credit card’s way of making you feel good and not to worry. It is their way of telling you “Don’t worry, though you have thousands to pay us, you only have to pay us a fraction of…
ING makes saving money cool and interesting
I have been using ING bank to save money since 2008 and it is one of the biggest reasons to which I attribute my increasing interest (pun intended) in saving money. There are a lot of places you can go to open a saving account but ING is different. Different for three reasons: higher interest…
How To Create the Right Emergency Fund
How To Create the Right Emergency Fund By: guest author ‘Alicia Sanders‘ Unfortunately, we live in complicated financial times when lots of consumers complain that they don’t have an opportunity for saving money because their budget is really tough. Many Canadian consumers don’t have any savings and that’s why when an unexpected financial problem arises…
Is time your friend or enemy? On the path to saving and paying off debt
Time is a very crucial concept when it comes to saving money and paying off debt. It could be your friend or enemy, depending on how much of it (time) you have. Generally and simply put, the more time you have, the more you are able to save money and pay off debt. Having said…