Personal Finance Advice

If you’re looking to make some extra money this holiday season, consider being a Christmas Light Installer. I did this a couple of seasons as a high school student and have a friend that still does it as an extra money earner during the holiday season. He brings in a five figure income for the [...]

I stumbled across this extremely well built Hybrid vs Standard car calculator that allows you to compare the lifetime cost of a hybrid vehicle to a conventional vehicle you may want to buy. With so much information out there saying that hybrids don’t save you money due to higher costs, you can put in two [...]

It’s seems to be a video weekend. I came across this series of ten NASDAQ 100 commercials that I thought some people woud find interesting. There are a good range of leaders of companies promoting the NASDAQ stock exchange:
NASDAQ - Visionaries: Intel (Craig Barrett), Cisco (John Chambers) and Staples (Tom Stemberg)

NASDAQ - Visionaries: Microsoft (Steve [...]

A little humor from Ameriquest to start off the weekend…

and a bit more…

I was in the city and came across these huge pieces of art down by the bay. What made them so unusual was that they were made entirely from junk. Basically, they had been constructed from old nuts, bolts, scrap metal and various other pieces of material that were to be thrown away (close-up shown [...]

I absolutely hate when I do things like this. I had a clean up day and ended up coming across a lot of interesting stuff I had stored for years. While that was fun to see, I also came across a few items that didn’t make me happy. Among all the stuff, I found 5 [...]

I was rummaging around the garage today and found a few boxes of old baseball cards. These are left over from high school and college days. Baseball cards were probably my first introduction into entrepreneurship and helped me leave college debt free.
I think this experience has gone a long way to help me turn [...]

When it comes to saving money, most people immediately think that they must reduce their spending in order to save. While this is one way to save money, it isn’t an exclusive way to save. Many people have the impression that in order to save money you shouldn’t spend any money, but there are a [...]

I was walking to the post office today to pick up a registered letter that came while I was away up north and as I was walking down the street, there was a TV sitting on the side of the road with a piece of paper attached to it saying “FREE” So I went to [...]

I saw a brilliant marketing move as I walked through the San Jose airport today on my way back from Seattle. In the middle of the San Jose airport is a bar/cafe. This is nothing unusual except for the name of the cafe which is “The Expedia.com Cafe”

The brilliance of it is that they get [...]