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6 Times to Use Credit Cards Instead of Cash

Frivolous use of credit cards is a good way to slip into debt, but if used wisely, plastic can boost your credit and help your finances. Here's how.

How to Thank Customers without Spending Too Much

Use the host-beneficiary relationship to thank your customers. Or to gain new ones.

3 Scary Truths about Multi-Tasking (and 5 Ways to Stop)

How can you, "Do one thing. Do it well," when you're doing twenty things at once?

4 Ways to Treat Your Customers Like People

Your customers are people, too. So treat them that way!

7 Generic Home Goods Buys Better Than the Expensive Originals

Skip the fancy brand name. For these seven household items, generic does the best job — at the better price.

4 Free Tools To Increase Your Website Conversions

Visitors are visiting your site, but sales aren't as robust as you'd like. Try these free tools to tweak the user experience and generate more conversions.

Why Brand Image Is Important to the Tiniest of Businesses

Many small business owners overlook -- or avoid -- brand building. Too often, that's a critical mistake.

3 Simple Tips for Saving the Most Money This Holiday

There's only three things you need to know to save this holiday season.

Take One More Thing Seriously

When time and money are tight, it's natural to try to narrow down what you're trying to get done. But the opposite might be what you really need.

Ask the Readers: Have You Started Holiday Prep?

Tell us if you've started to prep for the holidays and we'll enter you in a drawing to win a $20 Amazon Gift Card!

Ask the Readers: What Is the Best Lesson You Learned From Your Mom?

Tell us about the best lesson you learned from your mom and we'll enter you in a drawing to win a $20 Amazon Gift Card!

Ask the Readers: Have You Ever Hired a Financial Planner?

Tell us whether you have ever hired a financial planner and we'll enter you in a drawing to win a $20 Amazon Gift Card!

Ask the Readers: How Do You Save Money on Thanksgiving?

Tell us how you save money on Thanksgiving and we'll enter you in a drawing to win a $20 Amazon Gift Card!

3 Technologies That Help Stay-At-Home Moms Build an Online Business

It takes a certain amount of perseverance and creativity to mesh your personal and professional life. While Moms have moved beyond the days of working in their pajamas and scheduli

Find and Track Deals on Twitter: The Ultimate Guide

Twitter is huge: someone is very likely to be Tweeting a great deal right now, and unless you know how to "hear" that Tweet, you will miss it. Luckily there are quite a few tools t

Guest post: Live a rich life on a budget

I have a guest post up at Get Rich Slowly that suggests that you be a bon vivant: "A bon vivant is a person who lives well — someone who enjoys the best things in life, especially

10 Tips to Make Working From Home a Success

Working from home is hard work, especially if you have kids in the picture. Here are 10 tips to help make the business adventure a success.

Best Money Tips: El Nino is Coming

Welcome to Wise Bread's Best Money Tips roundup! This edition features Bank of America policy whistleblowers, credit freezes, getting enough sleep, the weather forecast for the

Financial IQ Test: How Healthy Are Your Bank Accounts?

Following is a Financial IQ Test, designed to help you determine how healthy your bank accounts –- and your interaction with them -– are. Tally up your score and see how you fare.

Home Delivery: Local and Long Distance

If your interests in simplicity and frugality have as much to do with protecting the environment and using less resources as they do with saving money, give some thought to revi