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If you’re in business, you almost surely have some sort of competition to keep tabs on. And in this day and age, you can bet that there’s some information to be found about your competition online. By making use of...

I have a few friends who have started mystery shopping for extra cash. All in all, it’s a respectable gig for someone with some time, ambition, and a desire to do something different. Having mystery shopped for dozens of...

“Budget” might well be the dirtiest word in the financial language. People hate budgets because budgets seem confining. Like diets, budgets are forever begun with grand intentions, only to be quickly ditched when...

Some people blame a fair-lending law for the mortgage meltdown and the resulting global financial crisis. Evidence shows otherwise. The Community Reinvestment Act, passed in 1977, requires banks to extend loans where they accept...

In October, we celebrated our first billion-impression month, and continued plugging away on WordPress 2.7 — along with a couple of other fun projects, to be announced. Here are last month’s stats: 323,786 blogs were...

Web design isn’t art. It involves a whole collection of different skills — from copywriting and typography to layout and art — all fused together to create an interface that not only features a pleasant...

When the housing market slumps, it’s often best to take your home off the market and wait it out – but not everyone has that luxury. Many people are forced to go through with a sale because of a job transfer or a...

Because some parts of your bill-paying history are more important than others, different pieces of your credit history are given different weights in calculating your credit score. Even though the specific equation for coming up...

Winter is approaching and in much of the United States, that means very cold temperatures, snow, and ice. Here in the upper Midwest, it gets particularly nasty: we had some amount of ice or snow on our driveway nonstop from...

Your credit history is one of the most important pieces of personal information that you have because it is used in many different parts of your life. An error in your credit history could end up costing you hundreds of dollars...