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Best Money Tips: Finding Cheap Airline Tickets

Today we found some awesome articles on finding cheap airline tickets, choosing the best credit card for you, and tasks to organize your finances.

Financial Benchmarking: How Do You Compare to Your Competitors

Benchmarking your performance against that of your competitors can propel you to greatness.

Expected Value: How to Play the Odds and Come Out Ahead

By understanding the expected value concept, and making realistic assessments of your odds of success, you can make better decisions about how to allocate limited resources.

Best Money Tips: Improve Your Life

Today we found some awesome articles on ways to improve your life, steps to take when you feel financially vulnerable, and when buying in bulk is more expensive.

Efficient Expense Reports: Building a System

As your business grows, you'll likely have other people paying money out. Tracking those expenses and, if need be, reimbursing them, requires a system that you can sign off on a

Résumé Quirks to Embrace and Avoid

To gain deeper insight into a candidate's capabilities, try these techniques for evaluating candidates with just a few résumé and work-related quirks.

Clipped Wings: Can Consumers Fix Air Travel?

From luggage fees, late flights, and TSA screening procedures, can air travel be saved? How can consumers help improve the industry?

How Bazaarvoice Beat the Odds

Austin has a thriving tech startup community, and there is perhaps no better representative of its unique entrepreneurial culture than Bazaarvoice.

Local Branding: Make Your Company Part of the Community

Being seen as a valuable member of your local community can keep you in mind for prospective customers or clients in a way that many other branding strategies can't.

Best Money Tips: Avoid Pesky Baggage Fees

Today we found some awesome articles on avoiding pesky baggage fees, looking good on a budget, and surviving wedding season without going broke.

12 Ways Your Financial Statements Tell Lenders the Wrong Story

Your financial statements may not make the bestseller list, but they do tell an intriguing story — at least to a banker. Unfortunately, the tale they tell may be misleading.

6 Ways to Get the Most from Local Search

As internet search goes local small businesses have an opportunity to stand out on computer screens large and small.

4 Steps To Perfecting Your Social Media Strategy

If you've added a social media component to your marketing, be sure to actively measure and track your efforts.

Putting Pinterest to Work for You

Pinterest, the interactive pinboard, is another social media platform gaining popularity. It's also another opportunity to get noticed and gain customers.

MegaMillions - Mo' Money Mo' Problems?

Last night's MegaMillions drawing was for $370 million dollars. They say that money doesn't buy happiness, but I've got enough happiness right now. So I could totally use $370 million for, say, shoes. Did I say 'shoes'? [more]

Best Money Tips: Save Money on Vacations

Today we found some awesome articles on saving on vacations, being charitable on a budget, and saving on groceries.

Last Minute Tax-Filing? Extended Post Office Hours and More

Isn't it weird that there isn't a central list of post offices at, oh I don't know, say, USPS.com, that tells you which post office branches are going to be open late tonight for last-minute filers? [more]

You know you're a Wisebread reader if...

What makes a Wisebread reader? Why are you guys so, well, special? I sat, I pondered, I scribbled down notes furiously. This is what I came up with. It's a small list, just 30 entries. [more]

Money After Graduation: Highlights from Our Chat with UNT's Student Money Management Center

Don't miss the highlights from our chat with UNT's Student Money Management Center on money after graduation.

Best Money Tips: How to Get the Most Cash From Your Old Phone

Today we found some great articles on tips to get the most cash from your old phone, the colleges that are leading the way for sustainable dining, and cheap ways to welcome fall.