Archive for October, 2007
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New Features make Lending on Prosper Better than Ever
Prosper.com released a few new features recently. These features might be interesting to all lenders or potential lenders. Here’s a run down on some of the new features and how they could affect Prosper’s peer-to-peer lending market.
Portfolio Plans – Prosper now provides an automated method to bid on set portfolios. You [...] -
Did You Get Free Furniture From the Red Sox?
Yesterday I wrote about free tacos from Taco Bell (available today), but that’s small potatoes. The real winners are Jordan’s Furniture customers who took advantage of a furniture promotion. The promotion offered to refund all the customers’ money if the Red Sox won the World Series.
Now thousands of people are cashing in [...] -
Free Taco Bell Tacos – Courtesy of Tacoby Bellsbury!
When I considered buying an Ellsbury jersey back in July, I had no idea that he’d be giving me (and the rest of America) a free taco. Allow me to explain…
Taco Bell ran a promotion for free taco’s during the World Series. If there was a stolen base, they’d give America a [...] -
The Toughest Questions For Me To Answer
Ever since I’ve stopped working at my day job, everyday conversations with friends have gotten difficult. You don’t notice the number of times that people nonchalantly as how your job is going – until you are jobless. It’s as if they are saying, “How are you doing?”, without expecting to get a [...]
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Personal Finance Links: Announcing Lazy Man and Sports Edition
I started a new blog this week. I tried not to, but circumstances were beyond my control. Recently, I was driving home and though I was 3,000 miles away from my hometown of Boston, the radio couldn’t get off the topic. With the Red Sox in the World Series, the Patriots [...]
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Lazy Man Update
It’s been a little more than two weeks since I’ve been without a day job. Here’s a little update of the odds and ends of how that is going and what I’m doing.
I find myself twice as busy as I’ve ever been when I had a job. It’s a good busy though, [...] -
Three Great Commericals From One Financial Institution
Since I’ve resigned from my day job, I’ve found myself watching a fair amount of CNBC. I find that I learn something new almost every hour. However, for the second time this week, I want to focus on the commercials. In particular Lincoln Financial has a brilliant campaign going on. [...]
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My experience as a member of CNBC’s Fast Money live audience – Part 3
I surprisingly had a number of people write me to finish my experience as a member of Fast Money’s live audience. I was a little surprised because I got the feeling that I was going off topic for a personal finance blog. Alas you requested and I can’t make you wait any [...]
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Is It Better When You “Win” It?
Ebay has been running an interesting campaign over the last couple of weeks. You may have seen a series of “Shop Victoriously” commercials. These show people in competition for some kind of trinket or collector’s item, such as a classic lunch box or an urn. By the end of the commercial [...]
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My experience as a member of CNBC’s Fast Money live audience – Part 2
Yesterday, I took you though the preparation and process of being an audience member of CNBC’s Fast Money. When we last left, I was just arriving at the Computer Science Museum at 12:20, ten minutes before I was requested to be there and an hour and a half before the live broadcast starts.
12:20 [...]
