Travel Search Engines I Use

Here are some of the travel engines I use. Give them a try, specially on Tuesdays at midnight. 1. Mobissimo 2. Kayak 3. Sidestep Good luck and happy traveling!

Cheap Prices on Air Travel

Right now there are some nice rates on air travel, specially to Europe, from now until probablly May or the start of summer. I have not seen these prices since a long time. What I have found is that if you do a search on Tuesday at around midnight, you get better prices than other days. Also try leaving on Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday and stay at least a Saturday.

Raw oysters!

I ate a rather interesting meal, well an appetizer that is, on one of my trips. Raw oysters! But instead of with lemon and tabasco or horse radish I ate them with a sauce which contained red-wine vinegar and shallots. I wonder if these would sell here in the US?

Don't Pay Full Price for Windows Vista

In his newsletter, Brian Livingston has a great tip on how to clean install the Windows Vista upgrade version on any hard drive, with no prior XP or W2K installation, or even a CD! Thanks Brian! By buying the upgrade and not the full version, one can save around $72. One can also buy the OEM (with no Microsoft support) or the student edition and save more as well.

Want to be a marketing guru?

learn Tip - I was at the bookstore last night and notice a nice,informative marketing book - The Marketing Gurus: Lessons from the Best Marketing Books of All Time According to Amazon: Marketing Gurus offers 17 summaries of marketing books published in the last 15 years. It's arguably a narrow range for the best "of all time". Featured books include:

• The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
• Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore
• Positioning by Jack Trout and Al Ries
• Kotler on Marketing by Philip Kotler
• The Popcorn Report by Faith Popcorn
• The Anatomy of Buzz by Emanuel Rosen
• Purple Cow by Seth Godin
• Relationship Marketing by Regis McKenna
• And more

Marketing Gurus essentially is a book that summarizes other marketing best-seller books with some updated comments and hints. So if you want to be a marketing expert and don't have time to read all the other books, grab this one.

Want a free advanced stock quote tracker/ticker tape?

Earn - Do you want to get started investing in stocks? Want to track a portfolio, chart some stocks, or have one of those nice stock ticker tapes running in your screen? Try Medved (www.quotetracker.com) quote tracker. Features:

• Streaming Real-Time quotes
• Live real-time intraday charts
• 50 Techincal indicators
• Streaming Level II Quotes
• Integrated Trading Intraday & Historical Chart Trend Lines
• Advanced Alert System with Email alerts
• NEWS Monitoring
• Multiple portfolios support
• Scrolling Ticker Tape
• Historical charts
• Ability to connect to many data feeds

It is supported by ads and you can pay to remove them. It is a pretty need system similar to the ones advanced investors/brokers use - and is free.

You can always have money in the bank...

save - From Ben Franklin's Poor Richards Almanack to The Richest Man in Babylon they can't seem to stress enough the idea of paying yourself first. 10% at least but one can start with whatever; you just need to get the rhytm going. Go ahead, open a HSBC, ING, or Emigrant savings account and start automatically paying yourself first. You must open an account that is seperate from your regular checking account since this will make it harder for you to withdraw your saved money. Consider it as a bill that must be paid to yourself. Pay it before all other bills. Try it and you will be amazed that you will always have money left over at the end of the bank; I know I do.

Access,share and sync your files from anywhere - FREE

do TIP- Ever need to access your computer files from another computer or need to share them so that others can download a la ftp? Then say hello to Foldershare (www.foldershare.com) *. Foldershare also lets you sync files between computers. Free - courtesy of Microsoft. *Note: As always, I put the address of the website in parenthesis so that you can see there is no affiliate marketing. I don't get a cent from these products. I just use them everyday and find them very useful and makes me more productive and that is the whole point of this website - bringing out the best in people. Thanks