I am attending two conferences next month and I want to make the most of them. Marci Alboher gives some great tips on how to “pre-game” for a conference.
 
 
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Spend some time online. Visit the conference’s website and start studying the speaker list. If
the conference is using a social networking tool like Crowdvine […]

Susan Payton posted an excellent primer on Mashable about how to be an industry expert in your business or profession. It doesn’t matter what the field; you can succeed if you do the homework.
 
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Being an expert in your field makes you the go-to person for your industry. There are many people that I […]

From the New York Times, Dutch bank and insurance company, ING, is breaking up.
The Dutch financial services company, said Monday that it planned to break up its insurance and banking businesses and raise up to 7.5 billion euros, or $11.3 billion, in a stock issue, after reaching a deal with the government to repay ahead […]

Last week after Finovate, I met with BillShrink’s Director of Marketing, Jenny Michalski to talk about BillShrink. We talked about how BillShrink may make consumers more brand agnostic especially when it comes to mobile phone service. However, people will tend to hold on to their American Express card even if there credit cards with better […]

 
Billeo is a site that makes it easy for you to pay bills and manage online passwords. At Finovate, Billeo.com announced their offer assistant which is a tool that shows what retailers have offers. This is similar to RetailMeNot but may be better since you find the offers via a Google search instead of going […]

While I was in grade school, I learned about money via Junior Achievement. In 2009, Skill Life has developed a game/web portal called Cents City. aims to teach kids about money with a fun interactive site where they can earn points and collect in a passport which can be used later for actual products.