Articles for category: BUSINESS & FINANCE

A Review of Sam’s Club Merchant Services

After switching credit card companies several times due to rising fees, downgrading of rates, or too high of a PCI compliance fee, I thought i found the solution with First Data Bank offered by Sam’s Club. With rates as low as 1.98% for manually entered cards and .20 a transaction, I loved that I would ...

How to Bid for Fencing Jobs

Putting up fence around your property can be a big job, so many people search for the best deals on fencing before committing to a company, especially if they want to fence a large property like an entire subdivision. Whether you own your own fencing company, install fence for a living, or work for someone ...

Retirement Planning for Young Adults

If you are a young adult, planning for retirement, which is decades in your future, may be very low on your list of financial planning priorities. Here are 6 reasons why retirement planning should become a top priority now. The sooner you start saving the more your money can grow. If you start investing even ...

Who was Robert Wood Johnson?

One of the most respected hospitals in New Jersey is the Robert Wood Johnson University Medical Center. But who exactly was Robert Wood Johnson? Actually, there were two men named Robert Wood Johnson, father and son. The story really begins with the elder, born in 1845. He was raised in Crystal Lake, Pennsylvania. At the ...

How to Negotiate a Severance Package

In 2004, after working over 11 years for my employer, I was told that my position was being eliminated. This, of course, was quite a devastating shock and my immediate concern was loss of income and health benefits, as well as vacation time that I had worked hard to earn. While employers are not required ...

5 Tips for Getting in on an IRS Auction

Under authority of the Internal Revenue Code , the IRS has the ability to seize certain assets held by a taxpayer, such as real property. Once these assets are seized or acquired for nonpayment of tax, they are generally sold at auction to try to recoup the outstanding liability. Here are five frequently asked questions ...

How to Say Renminbi

Overview China’s economic rise has led to much talk surrounding China’s currency. In many cases, so-called financial or China “experts” incorrectly pronounce the name of China’s currency, leading informed listeners to doubt the knowledge of those so-called “experts” on China or other financial topics. There are two official names which refer to China’s currency: Renminbi, ...

Simple Ways to Earn Extra Cash on Weekends

Imagine you have worked a long and exhausting week. You’ve just been paid and you decide you want to do something fun next weekend. There’s only one problem, you have to make a decision between keep your electric going and attending this once in a lifetime event. What do you do? Do you pay for ...