Pecuniarities

Pecuniarities is 1 year old this month! The actual date of the anniversary is a little ambiguous, as this was my first blog ever and it took me a little time to get it up and running. After writing several posts, I dated the first post February 13, 2008, but it wasn’t till after the [...]

Favors for Nice Customers
Here are some examples of our experience in dealing with customers in our business where we, as a business, decided to do one of our customers a favor in return for niceness on their part.
Example #1
We have a customer who has ordered costumes from us for her Great Dane twice before. She [...]

As mentioned previously in Part 1 of this series, It’s Business But It’s Also Personal, no matter how professional a business tries to be, we sometimes can’t help but be affected by the people we deal with because we are human. When a customer is nice to us, we are nice in return. In many [...]

When I decided to do an article on how being nice can save you money based on my own experiences in business and customer service (both as receiver and provider), I had intended it to be a single post. But the end result was over 2,100 words, and I figured the chance that even one [...]

Money on the Mind: Social and Psychological Ramifications
I came across an interesting article on MSN Money last night titled Does money make you mean? which described a study conducted on a group of subjects who had been preconditioned to have money on their minds when various experiments were conducted. The study found that those with [...]

We would like to thank the following Blog Carnivals for featuring our posts.
(This list will be updated to include future inclusions for the month of April 2008.)
Descending chronologically by inclusion date

April 16, 2008
The 8th Edition of the Money Hacks Carnival
Article: The Frugal Literates Guide to Affordable Reading (Double thanks for the editor’s pick!)
April 15, 2008
The [...]

PF Bloggers
Here are some great articles by some of my fellow PF Bloggers from this past month:

Seb at Pinching Copper gives us Five things you should buy used
Jonathan at Master Your Card offers a guide on How to Pick the Right Credit Card
JB at Get Rich or Die Trying had a very close call and [...]