Blogs
Should You Be An Entrepreneur?
Mar 9th
Should you join the millions of people every year who take the plunge and start their first ventures? Daniel Isenberg, a former entrepreneur and management practice professor, examines the personal qualities and mind set that tend to be common amongst the successfully self-employed.
Daniel further states, which caught my eye, on the average, people who set up their own businesses don’t make more money, although a few do succeed in grabbing the brass ring. But the “psychic benefits” — the challenge, autonomy, recognition, excitement, and creativity — make it all worthwhile. Continue reading “Should You Be An Entrepreneur?” »
Changing credit card information on PayPal? Be careful
May 1st
Here’s a tip: If you have to replace a card on Paypal, first add the new card, and then delete the old card if you have subscriptions. Just adding the new card to your account won’t switch the subscriptions over, it will still cancel any subscriptions that were started on the old card.
To know more, read Rita Wilhelm’s experience about this.
The Chinese iTunes Gift Voucher Trick
Mar 12th
Outdustry is reporting that China’s biggest C2C online shopping site, Taobao, is the platform used for selling the cards. “All the seller actually sells is the gift voucher code which they send you directly through Taobao’s IM software. You can then redeem the card in your iTunes account,” Outdustry explains.
So, this gives Apple a depressing price point for its iTunes services in an otherwise unfathomable online music market: $2.60 (18RMB) for $200USD worth of products.
* Update: Bumped into a blog that has a step-by-step tutorial for those of you who don’t understand chinese.
Be warned, this is probably illegal where you live.
If you lose your cards, Citi has a novel rescue
Dec 27th
If your wallet is ever stolen, now you needn’t contact all the banks to freeze the different credit or debit cards that were in your wallet. Just one phone call will solve the matter.
Citibank, in partnership with CPP Assistance Services, has launched a card protection plan wherein you don’t only get protection for your Citibank credit or debit cards, but also for those of other issuers, and even non-financial ones such as store, loyalty and membership cards.
The cardholder is also protected from any fraudulent use that may have occurred seven days prior to discovery and within 24 hours of notification of card loss. CPP Assistance is a subsidiary of CPP Group, a global leader in the assistance services market.
[Source] — Read more @ Hindustan Times
Investment Musings
Apr 19th
It feels great when your blog post is a source of inspiration for others to start a new blog. And that’s precisely what happened with this post Black Money Saves Our Financial Sector. Continue reading “Investment Musings” »
148th Edition of the Carnival of Personal Finance!
Apr 15th
Gather Little by Little has hosted the 148th Edition of the Carnival of Personal Finance! and The Orange Paper is listed in the Real Estate section. Be sure to check all the fantastic articles listed in the carnival.
Money Hacks Carnival #6
Apr 2nd
Just received an email from Peter who informed me that The Orange Paper is listed at the Money Hacks Carnival # 6.
Hmm… feels good 
Thanks Peter!
Blogsvertise.com – Get Paid Per Post
Mar 24th
Photo by niallkennedy
I have just signed up with Blogsvertise, because which personal blogger doesn’t want to be paid for their work? I’m going to experiment with this form of freelancing. And their policy is that they will not require writers to say only good things about their advertisers. So if anyone wants to make a few bucks, give registering with Blogsvertise a go — it can’t hurt.
In short, Blogsvertise.com = A Nice Way to Make a Little Extra Money
(This is a sample post about Blogsvertise that they ask us to post in order to make sure we understand the concept.)
