Author: Financiarul

Whether you run your own business or work for a small company, traveling to meet potential clients or partners is important. Although phone conversations with customers are still very much a part of the sales funnel, it’s estimated that about $1 trillion in consumer spending is influenced by calls placed to businesses, travel is essential in order to grow your business All that travel can end up getting pricey. This is especially true if you’re using your own business funds. … Continue reading “3 Ways to Save Money When Traveling for Work”

Finding ways to save money as a millennial can be incredibly challenging; most of us don’t make terribly high salaries to begin with, and the money that we do make often quickly gets eaten up by rent, car payments, student loans, and other similar expenses. And although young enough to often be able to forego regular trips to the doctor, even relatively minor health issues can eat away at the little savings millennials have. In fact, nearly half, 47% to … Continue reading “Millennial Money Management: 4 Tips To Make Ends Meet”

Although the U.S. housing sector can and has fluctuated on a week-to-week basis, seemingly having a mind of its own, it has at least remained a sellers market over the last year or so. According to Zillow’s Q3 2018 Home Price Expectations Survey, which asked 100 real estate experts, economists, investment strategists, and analysts — 76% said the real estate sector will remain a seller’s market throughout 2019. The typical home that was sold stayed on the market for about … Continue reading “3 Tips For Staging Your Home In a Seller’s Market”

Nowadays, most people know to recycle in their homes as a great way to help the environment. However, for many people, that’s not enough; these families are looking to take their environmentalism even further in how they integrate their eco-friendly values into their home. If you’re looking for more ways to go green throughout your home, try some of these methods. Keep It Clean Keeping your home clean isn’t just good for maintaining a healthy home, it’s important for living … Continue reading “Easy Ways To Go Green In Your Home That Aren’t Recycling”

Here’s a bizarre tale from Texas: According to a recent report in Forbes, the Texas town of Georgetown paid EDF, a company that’s 84.5% owned by the French government, for their own electricity. Buckle up, because this gets confusing. At least 57 times in 2017, and many more last year, Georgetown’s residents paid EDF, a company owned 84.5% by the government of France, around 6 cents per kilowatt hour for electricity produced in the middle of the night when demand … Continue reading “In Bizarre Green Energy Fail, Texas Residents Pay France For Unused Electricity”