Reflections through Cyberspace

Social Spark is a social marketing network that connects advertisers and bloggers through an online advertising marketplace. Advertisers are able to target blogs based on conversational topics and make cash sponsorship offers to the bloggers who publish them. On the other hand, bloggers can make money by either placing display advertisements on their blog or [...]

Some time ago I heard about payday loans, and from what I could understand, these pay day loans are paid back by debiting the payment from the debit card on pay day for the agreed amount. Basically the advantage of pay day loans is that they give financial freedom, especially in times of emergency, when [...]

Yesterday I mentioned a couple of websites of financial businesses (based outside Malta) which offer comparisons for various financial services, such as credit cards and loans (home loans, personal loans, vehicle loans) amongst others. As I already mentioned, the advantage is that you can compare before getting a deal. Apart from such financial services mentioned [...]

In my previous post I mentioned how one could make better financial deals by comparing offers by the various providers in the market. Up to now, I never came across a similar website for financial services locally, but I have come across various ones abroad, such as in the UK and America.
Some of the most [...]

One of the greatest advantages of the internet is surely the possibility to compare the services offered by various service-providers in a large number of industries. Nowadays there are a lot of comparison websites, whereby one can compare for example the various insurances, loans and financial services offered in the market, including credit card comparisons [...]

Today I came across a website with plenty of information on UK Mortgages. The interesting aspect of this website is that it has a news section, whereby news items related to mortgages and lending as well as other financial news are listed in this section.
An interesting news article which I read in this section is [...]

This morning I was reading an article about credit cards, where it was found out through research that in the UK, Britons are twice as likely to have a credit card, compared to people in other countries in Europe. Britons’ extensive use of credit cards has seen them collectively run up £54.93bn in plastic debt [...]

Insurance may be one of the major expenses during the year for many, especially if one has to pay for more than one insurance, such as car insurance, home insurance and life insurance. At least at the moment I only have to pay for my car insurance once a year - unfortunately I have to [...]

Last time I was discussing with friends of mine who live abroad how loans have become a necessary evil for some. In the end, some may end up in a bad credit situation, which might pose problems for their everyday life. They were saying that where they live they have a large number of financial [...]

Yesterday I was preparing some notes which I will be studying for the HR exam, and one of the topics which I was doing was family business and entrepreneurship. I was reading somewhere that crafts and small businesses employ more than 53% of the EU workforce. I was trying to come out with a SWOT [...]