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How To Avoid Fraud When Booking Your Next Trip Online

 
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The following is a guest post by Amy Johnson. If you’d like to have your own guest post featured on The First Million is the Hardest see my guest posting guidelines and send me an email! Avoid Credit Fraud when Booking Your Plane Tickets Online Buying travel tickets online is no different from online shopping. Experts remind travelers that the risk of credit card fraud is always present. They strongly advocate for safe computing habits and considerable amounts of common sense. And these measures need to take effect from day one that travel plans are set in motion.                               Safe Online Booking Tips for Your Vacation Travel Plans Online booking of airline tickets is essentially online shopping. Internet security experts strongly recommend the adherence to the same measures to protect consumers from becoming victims of credit fraud. The rule of thumb is to trust only reputable service providers and to … Continue reading →

The Money Conversation – Why Is It So Hard?

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The following is a guest post by Ashwin Warrior from NerdWallet.com. If you’d like to have your own guest post featured on The First Million is the Hardest see my guest posting guidelines. What is it about money that makes it so hard to discuss? We live in the age of Twitter, a magical time when people instantaneously share the most intimate and mundane details of their lives with the entire world—but when it comes to discussions of money or personal finance? Crickets.   What is true on the Internet is also true in our daily lives: discussions of money are treated as taboo, to be avoided at all costs. In homes and workplaces these important, meaningful discussions go unaddressed; friendships are soured, and marriages are thrown into disarray, all over money.   Why? It doesn’t help that far too often salaries, savings, and investment portfolios transform into yardsticks by … Continue reading →