May 14 2012

    Six Ways to Cut Costs in Your Small Biz

    Keep your profit in your pocket with these tips

    by: Sarah Deveau

    If you run your own small business, you know that every dollar saved in your business is a dollar in your pocket. Here are six ways you can cut costs that will increase your profit margin.

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    May 11 2012

    HGTV Show Looking for You!

    Have you moved something weird, unusual or unique?

    by: Sarah Deveau

    Are you moving and have something large, small, fragile, cool or and/or just plain strange to take with you? We’re talking collections, heirlooms, statues - even stuff you don’t want to talk about. Or have you done this kind of move in the past?
     
    I've partnered with a television production company to produce a tv pilot for a new show for HGTV Canada. We’re looking for Canadians to profile in a written show synopsis for HGTV. If the move hasn't happened yet, you may be asked if you’re interested in being featured on the show when filming starts.

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    May 9 2012

    Credit Cards Cause Debt Regret

    Survey finds 60.1% of Canadians are not comfortable with their current level of debt

    by: Sarah Deveau

    A staggering 60.1% of Canadians are not comfortable with their current level of debt, according to an independent survey from RateSupermarket.ca, Canada’s largest impartial rate comparison service. Among the 2,929 respondents from across the country, the leading cause of debt concern by far (38.8%) is credit card debt.

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    The Face, The Voice, The Blog!

    Sarah Deveau’s first memory of saving up to buy something she really, really wanted was at age five, when she saved her allowance and birthday money for six months to buy a mini waterbed for her Cabbage Patch doll. She’s been in love with money every since; making it, spending it, and saving it too.

    The author of two personal finance books, Money Smart Mom: Financially Fit Parenting, and Sink or Swim: Get Your Degree Without Drowning in Debt, Sarah’s work has also appeared in Today’s Parent magazine, the Calgary Herald, and other newspapers and magazines across Canada.

    Shortly after her first daughter was born, Sarah opened her own business, an award-winning children’s consignment boutique in Airdrie, Alberta. But once daughters two and three came along, she closed her store to invest in a lakeside farmhouse on 40 acres in rural Nova Scotia. Sarah and her high school sweetheart husband plan to move east within the next ten years and semi-retire before the kids hit high school, made possible by the everyday money decisions they’re making now.

    Whatever your financial goals, be it a vacation home, college savings for the kids, or getting out of debt and stop cringing at credit card statements, this blog is for you.

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