A collection of the Chicago Tribune's weekly "Spending Smart" articles from the award-winning business journalist and NerdWallet's credit cards expert.Spending Smart is a compact but immensely helpful collection of columns penned by Gregory Karp. Offering tips for consumers across a wide variety of fields, including insurance, banking, cars, phones, homes, travel, and more, this book is a terrific primer for how to take better care of your money a...

Clark Howard is a media powerhouse and penny-pincher extraordinaire who knows a thing or two about money. A lifelong entrepreneur who is now the hugely popular host of a talk radio program and television show and the bestselling author of several books, Clark consistently delivers expert financial advice to his wide and devoted fan base.Living Large in Lean Times is Clark's ultimate guide to saving money, covering everything from cell phones to student loans, coupon websit...

A simple, powerful idea that's reinventing the way smart, adaptive companies do business.Most businesses follow the same basic formula: create a product or service, sell it, and collect money. What Lisa Gansky calls "Mesh" businesses throw this model out the window. Instead, these companies use social media, wireless networks, and data crunched from every available source to provide people with goods and services at the exact moment they need them, without the burd...

It doesn't matter how old you are or where you're from; you can start a profitable business. The Young Entrepreneur's Guide to Starting and Running a Business will show you how.Through stories of young entrepreneurs who have started businesses, this book illustrates how to turn hobbies, skills, and interests into profit-making ventures. Mariotti describes the characteristics of the successful entrepreneur and covers the nuts and bolts of getting a business...

Acres of Diamonds is a classic personal development book about a farmer who heard about others discovering vast diamond mines. So he sold his farm and began a fruitless worldwide search for his diamond fortune. Discouraged and broke he eventually threw himself into a river and drowned.The new owner of his farm found an unusual looking stone on his property that was eventually determined to be a diamond. His farm became the site of the largest diamond mine ever.Moral of the ...

$20,000 to $2 million in only three years— the greatest stock-picker you never heard of tells you how you can do it tooChris Camillo is not a stockbroker, financial analyst, or hedge fund manager. He is an ordinary person with a knack for identifying trends and discovering great investments hidden in everyday life. In early 2007, he invested $20,000 in the stock market, and in three years it grew to just over $2 million.With Laughing at Wall Street...

Be richer by this time tomorrowEvery month you spend money in twelve major categories. And at the end of each month, you scratch your head and wonder, Where did it all go?In The Little Book of Big Savings, America’s Financial Expert,® Ellie Kay, will help you uncover the extra cash just waiting to be found in every area of your life. Not only will you never again wonder where your cash went, you will have extra to save–and even to share.

Leading pricing expert Rafi Mohammed shows businesses how to reap a financial windfall and foster growth using the underutilized and often overlooked strategy of setting prices.The 1% Windfall reveals how modest incremental changes to an everyday business practice—pricing—can yield significant rewards. Illustrating the power of pricing, a study of the Global 1200 found that if companies raised prices by just 1%, their average operating profits would increase by 11%. Using a 1% incr...

In these days of bursting real-estate bubbles and spiraling unemployment, conspicuous consumption is “out” and serious thrift is “in.” The global economic meltdown has forced most consumers to become more aware of their spending habits in order to make do with less, pay off debt, and pad their savings accounts for the future. Yet even for those people willing to make big changes in their spending, it can be tough to figure out where to begin. Cue Lesley Voth’s "1069 ideas you can use to sa...

A budget is a guide that tells you if you are headed in the right direction financially and is an important part of managing your personal finances. Budgets fail because people have unrealistic expectations, use a budget incorrectly, or don’t have a written plan. The purpose of this book is to overcome those problems and teach you how to use a realistic spending plan so your budget works effectively. Additionally, this book provides lots of money-saving tips and strategies that will save y...

"This book shows you how to catapult yourself to the top of the luxuryreal estate market with proven, practical strategies that work for anyone."Brian Tracy, Author of 55 books in 38 languagesBe the one listing and selling the top 10% properties in your market.Success at this level is all about relationships—the kind you can start creating today. Selling Luxury Homes shows you how to become the trusted advisor to high net-worth buyers and sellers who call on y...

Personal finance is not usually taught in school which leads to learning most financial lessons by making costly mistakes in the real world. Additionally, most financial experts are actually salespeople in disguise whom are looking out for their commission rather than your investment. While you personally do not need to be an expert, having some basic knowledge on personal finance, and doing some research, will drastically help when making financial decisions. This book will start you in t...