Articles from October 2011



How to Buy Gift Cards Online at a Big Discount

With the holidays fast approaching, it seemed like a good time to talk about how to buy gift cards online at a discount. Rather than paying full price for a Home Depot, Amazon, Kohls or any other gift card, there is an easy way to save as much as 30%. You can buy store gift cards at significant discounts from Plastic Jungle. Ive written before about how to sell gift cards for cash, but Plastic Jungle is also a great place to buy store gift cards for big savings.

You can think of Plastic Jungle as the eBay of gift cards. Plastic Jungle buys gift cards from folks who want the cash. These cards are purchased at a discount off of the face value of the card.

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Goodyear makes all time record quarterly sales at $6bn

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber, one of the world’s largest tyre companie, has reported that its third quarter 2011 sales and earnings were the best in its history. Quarterly net sales exceeded $6 billion for the first time ever.

Richard J. Kramer, chairman and chief executive officer said “Our third quarter results are another step on the path toward our 2013 targets and especially meaningful given the challenging market conditions in much of the world.”

“All four of our tyre businesses set all-time quarterly sales records as our teams did an excellent job offsetting higher raw material costs with improved price/mix and selling new, innovative products in targeted market segments,” Kramer said.

“While our third quarter results are evidence of the fundamental improvements we have made to our business, we continue to see many opportunities to build on this success by driving efficient, standardized processes throughout our business.”

Goodyear’s third quarter 2011 sales were $6.1 billion, up 22 percent from a year ago and the highest ever achieved by the company in any quarter. Tyre unit v

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Credit card basics

Comparing credit cards is important to ensure you get the best deal. However, before comparing it is essential to understand what the different terms mean. A clear comprehension of the credit card keywords will help you to understand what the banks are talking about when it comes to credit cards.

Before making any decisions regarding credit cards, read these explanations first:

Annual Percentage Rate (APR) is the rate you end up paying if you make a late payment, you exceed your credit limit, or your credit score drops below a certain amount. Pay close attention to this because APR could triple depending on the terms of the credit offered.

Balance transfer is when you transfer a credit card debt (the balance) from one credit card to a balance transfer credit card.

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Opening a Roth IRA investment Made Easy – Some Tips

roth iraThere is one important thing running through the minds of every working individual out there. Man is socially pre-programmed with a desire for stability and security and thus pension arrangements form an important part of any person’s future plans. There have been different retirement plans that have been preferred by people at different points of time. But the one that is said to be most favoured in the current scenario is roth-ira.org. I Read more…

Jeff Visscher Joins Commonwealth Capital as Business Development Manager, Direct Originations Group

Clearwater, FL – October 24, 2011

Commonwealth Capital Corp. announces that Jeff Visscher has joined the firm as Business Development Manager, Direct Originations Group. Visscher will be responsible for business development and key account management for Commonwealth.   Visscher has more than 15 years of experience structuring sophisticated lease transactions for his clients. Jeff has funded more than $500 million in lease transactions amongst many different equipment classes. He worked as Midwest Sales Manager at De Lage Landen and as Finance Manager at Ingersoll Rand/Citicapital.   “Jeff is a welcome addition to the Commonwealth family,” said Hank Abbott, President of Commonwealth Capital Corp. “We are thrilled to add to our Direct Originations Group a professional with Jeff’s breadth of experience and industry knowledge.”   Commonwealth Capital Corp. is a WBENC certifi Read more…

HEFCE – student number controls

Following the recent consultation, HEFCE have this week published “information on the new approach it will use to implement the control on the number of full-time students that universities and colleges can recruit for 2012-13″. The document confirms the White Paper’s ‘Core and Margin’ approach, with HEFCE setting core entry control limits for each HEI, while students achieving AAB or better can be recruited ‘quota-free’. There is then a ‘margin’ of 20,000 places which can be bid for by institutions charging less than an average of £7,500 a year, after tuition-fee waivers. Details of how to bid for these places are included in the report.

There are a number of interesting points in addition.

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