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How Todd made $13,000 in 5 months, doubled his salary, and turned down a $25,000 raise

Todd exemplifies everything about I Will Teach You To Be Rich — focusing on the big wins, negotiating a raise from his ordinary salary (see chapter 9 of my book), and always looking for a creative solution to earning more while others complain.
Check out how he earned more than $13,000 in 5 months (and [...]

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Video from my appearance on the CBS Early Show

I’ve been in New York for the past few days kicking off the media tour for the book. More posts to come soon, but I thought you might want to check the video of me at the CBS Early Show this morning.
If you guys want, I’ll give you a behind-the-scenes look at what a [...]

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Roundup of my favorite recent posts

If you’re coming here from today’s AP story, or you’ve been reading a long time, here are some of my favorite recent posts that you may have missed:
How I’m saving $25,000 in 2009. What to do when you make major purchases, keeping account information in one place, negotiating down service providers (cable, cellphone) once per [...]

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Get your credit card’s annual fee waived

A reader named Becky emailed me yesterday:
Just wanted to say thanks for inspiring me to get my $95 annual credit card fee waived tonight. I remembered reading one of your previous entries about asking your bank (or credit card company) nicely for these types of things. I just got an AMEX and I [...]

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How a pro does it — My friend Rachel made $1,000 an hour negotiating a new job

[I was featured on Yahoo Finance and the Huffington Post. New readers, click here for a 1-page introduction / list of my most popular articles.]
Here’s what my 25-year-old friend Rachel just negotiated:
“I got a 28% raise in base salary which comes out to more than $1000/hr based on how much time I spent. Plus stock [...]

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Here’s how I negotiated out of bank fees — part 2

Here’s how I negotiated out of a $20 overdraft fee and a $27.10 finance charge from Wells Fargo.
I accidentally overdrafted a couple weeks ago (overdrafting is when you don’t have enough money in your checking account to pay off your bills, so your bank helpfully transfers money from your savings or credit-card account. They also [...]

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