Five ways to finance your new business

… Your savings and retirement accounts provide a personal safety net and risking them is not … with credit cards, a home equity loan or some other form of debt. … . And in some countries, there are loan programs with favorable terms designed specifically for …

Privacy advocates arrive in Congress with requests for regulation

… information, even if it isn't "personally identifiable"; a prohibition on the use … “target vulnerable consumers for high-price loans, bogus health cures and other potentially … consumers can obtain and tweak their personal data online. In their letter, the …

There's nothing wrong with liquidity

… is therefore extremely appealing to them. Whether to pay off student loans, start a family, put a down payment on a house or what … you, it takes a lot of chutzpa to call a young person interested in setting themselves up in life a "mercenary". Facebook …

Q&A: Glasses Direct founder Jamie Murray Wells

… a web developer and used the last £1,000 of my student loan to get it started.  How did you start up with so little … good service has been vital in building up the business. I have personally delivered frames to customers to see that they were happy with …

Q&A: Kieron Donoghue on affiliate marketing and ethical SEO

… to target the mass markets like car insurance, loans, cashback sites etc. There is no point whatsoever … bet'. Problem is, it just takes one person to report you or one of the … an affiliate trying to compete in the loans sector via PPC for example then you …

Q&A: Media Corp's Justin Drummond on online advertising

… , it used to be a lot of direct response advertising where people were looking to sign up credit card customers or customers for their loan products. They would look at how much they were spending and working out a CPA model based on ROI. We are now …

Note to Chris Anderson - lunch is never free

… people eating a lunch that they're personally not paying for can't see who … it's (re)packaged and sold. I personally hope that Anderson practices what he preaches … to these innovative public buildings where they loan books to poor consumers like Drama 2 …

Zopa takes $12.4m for US expansion

Launched two years ago this month, Zopa allows users to give and receive unsecured personal loans and has clocked up 135,000 users. We'd also like to see the service extended to small businesses, …

Q&A: Rick Bruner, director of research at DoubleClick

… Germany - we asked about air travel, hotels, rental cars, loans and mortgages, banking services, mobile phone service plans and devices … how do you insert yourself into the chain of person-to-person influence? Some marketers do things like sending beautiful …

Search Engine Keywords Research for the Finance Industry

In July, there were over five million searches for the top 10 loan-related searches, with ‘home loan’ the most popular query, with more than 1.5 million searches on Yahoo. The report highlights some niche …