Financial Reflections

Personal Finance for those stuck in the middle.

Archives for the ‘Reviews’ Category

BigCrumbs Review: Cash Back Shopping

By admin • Dec 31st, 2009 • Category: Reviews, frugal

BigCrumbs is a shopping portal that allows it’s members to get cash back when they shop online though the site with participating retailers.  That’s a pretty straightforward idea that’s been around for a while, but BigCrumbs has added several features on top of that basic concept to build a community for both shoppers and sellers [...]



Book Review: Stumbling on Happiness

By admin • Feb 2nd, 2009 • Category: Reviews

What makes us happy? Do we really know? After all, we all are allegedly engaged in the pursuit of happiness, no matter where we live, but we all know so many people who’ve done a terrible job finding it. Children go astray, in spite of their parent’s best intentions and millionaires who seem to have it all make choices that put them in jail. So just why are we so bad at figuring out what makes us happy?



Book Review: Blue Ocean Strategy

By admin • Jan 13th, 2009 • Category: Entrepreneurship, Reviews

Suppose you’re a small business owner, corporate mover-and-shaker, or an entrepreneur trying to get a start up off the ground. Wouldn’t it be great to find the next big thing? Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant promises to show you how to find just that — wide open blue waters you can hunt in, without trying to fight it out with all the other sharks in crowded markets.



Review – Outliers: The Story of Success

By admin • Dec 30th, 2008 • Category: Reviews, Success

Your birthday matters. At least to Malcom Gladwell it does. Gladwell is the author of Outliers: The Story of Success and studies the exceptional among us – the outliers on the bell curve of life – and shows how the outliers of their history – the data we’d never expect to make a [...]