Prosper Review – Investing with a Peer to Peer Lender

December 10, 2011 – 5:11 am

Investing With Prosper

Are you looking for higher rates of return than you can earn on certificates of deposit, online savings accounts, and bonds?

If you are willing to accept a bit more risk and want to mix up your portfolio to not rely solely on stocks then peer-to-peer lending can be a great option.

was the first successful company in the peer-to-peer space, and remains a great place for you to invest money in P2P lending.

What Problem Does Prosper Solve?

If you find yourself in a financial bind and in need of cash, you have several options. You can borrow from family or friends, use your credit card, a personal loan from your bank, or as a last resort use payday lending. These were your options up until about 4 or 5 years ago when peer-to-peer lending arrived on the scene. With peer-to-peer lending you have a new option. Instead of having to go to a financing company to solve your money needs, you can turn to other individuals.

Read more…

Tags: Investing, Investing Peer

Interview with InetSoft – Business Intelligence Software

December 7, 2011 – 5:13 am

The market research industry is booming as exampled by one of the top market research firms, Nielsen Company, taking in $5.1 billion in revenue last year. Much of the information gathered and turned into reports by market research firms is purchased by other industry-specific firms to help gain an advantage over the competition.

A large amount of data is generated by small businesses when they process transactions with customers, get visitors to their websites, and can even be found by a simple web search. Thanks to computer integration in the workplace, small businesses now have to opportunity to conduct their own market research by utilizing software that is customizable to each business’ specific needs.

One such firm that offers these insights is InetSoft whose business intelligence (BI) tools and Dashboard Software provide small businesses with performance metrics in an easy-to-understand format. <

Read more…

Roku 2 HD for $47.99

December 1, 2011 – 11:14 am

While back I wrote how you can hook up your computer to your TV.    That is one way to get Netflix, Hulu and other online content on the big screen TV.

Roku is a much easier way to accomplish the same goal.   Roku boxes used to cost $100 when they came out (if I recall right).

Right now you can get the Roku 2 HD box on sale for $47.99 with free shipping.

I don’t own one and haven’t used it but they have pretty high reviews.

Tags: Roku, Roku Hd

List of Personal Finance Blogs that have Sold for $1 Million or More

November 28, 2011 – 5:37 am

There has been a poorly kept secret circulating among personal finance bloggers over the past few years. And with the publication of a Wall Street Journal story yesterday, the secret is out of the bag. So I thought Id bring it until full focus today. And the secret is that several popular personal finance blogs have been sold to major corporations over the past few years for seven and even eight figure deals.

Here is a list of personal finance blog sales based on publicly available information:

PF Blog Buyer Date of Acquisition Price Source

Bankaholic.comBankrate Inc (NYSE:RATE)September 2008$11.9 million (plus $500k indemnification escrow)Bankrate Form S-1 (page F-44) GetRichSlowly.orgQuinStreet, Inc. Read more…

Tags: Finance, Personal Finance

House prices to rise by 15% by 2016

November 24, 2011 – 5:51 am

A lack of housing supply will push property prices up by 15% over the next five years, according to the latest forecast from the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR).

The rise in prices will push the value of the average three-bedroom semi from £176,184 to £202,068 by 2016. Previously in August, the thinktank said prices would rise by 14% by 2015. If inflation remains at its current level of 5%, this will represent a real-terms fall in the value of the country’s housing stock.

The CEBR said prices will rise by just 1.6% next year, revised down from its August prediction of 2.4%. Prices will then pick up, increasing by 2.2% in 2013, 2.6% in 2014 and 3.2% in 2015.

House prices will also be bolstered by 2% in the first year of the government’s plan to underwrite mortgage lending, according to the CEBR. After this, the program’s impact will be broadly neutral. David Cameron and Nick Clegg announced the program earlier in the week. The gov

Read more…

Tags: Rise, Rise 15