Smart Money Mindset

Salary Negotiation – How I Helped a Friend Get a 7 Times Larger Pay Rise

Making sure you get paid what you are worth can be difficult, especially if you have just been offered a great job. But don’t be shy, and remove the myths about salary negotiation from your brain, because if you don’t, they can prevent you from getting the salary you deserve. I used these principles recently [...]

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3 Top Tips for Saving Money

Though the current global recession seems to be easing we can all still use tips to help us save some of our hard earned money. Just by utilising a little creativity and changing our mindset we could each be saving hundreds, if not thousands per year and increasing our own bank balances rather than [...]

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Reduce the APR on Your Credit Card in 5 Minutes!

Learn how in only a 5 minute phonecall you could save double digit amounts on your credit card interest rate! Credit card companies are keen to keep you as their customer – no matter how they may act. You are worth a lot of money to your card company and have a lot more power than [...]

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How Being Too Polite Costs You Money

Here’s some advice on using negotiation tactics learnt from Indian parents to save yourself plenty of money. One thing about being the child of Indian parents is that you get to see them in operation across a number of areas – feeding 200 members of family with a highly effective mobile kitchen infantry unit; fitting 200 [...]

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Save Money With Indian Negotiation Tactics!

Save Money on Virtually Anything With The Top Ten Indian Negiotiation Tactics (TINTs) Here’s my top ten list of the Indian Negotiation Tactics (TINTs as I call them) that I have picked up off parents, uncles, and random relatives I’d never seen before or probably will again… I’ve used these and similar tactics to negotiate anything from [...]

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