SmartyPig is a Des Moines, IA based company that offers online savings accounts that allow borrowers to save up for specific goals. Many in the financial blogosphere (including us) have compared SmartyPig to other online savings account offerings such as ING Direct and FNBO Direct, but maybe that’s not the most apt comparison. SmartyPig is [...]
January 24th, 2010 | admin | Comments | ContinuedAccount Reviews Articles
SmartyPig.com: A Great Savings Account for Kids
Teaching children to practice sound financial fundamentals such as saving up for making major purchases and associating doing work and earning money is an important part of any family’s child development process. If you have a child that you would like to help learn to save money, there’s a great savings account offering that you [...]
January 20th, 2010 | admin | Comments | Continued
TradeKing Review 2010: A Review of TradeKing’s Online Brokerage Service
TradeKing is a highly competitive discount brokerage service that puts a high-emphasis on customer service. Here’s our TradeKing review.
Discount brokers have been out in force for over a decade now. As a trader, you want to be able to buy and sell stocks, have your trades executed quickly and not have your returns be eaten [...]
How to Save for Specific Goals with SmartyPig.com
“Save up and pay for it” is a phrase that we very rarely hear in our debt-driven society. One company, SmartyPig, has taken it on themselves to step into that gap and encourage people to only buy the things that they can save up for and actually afford to purchase.
SmartyPig can be best described as [...]
SmartyPig.com: The Website That Will Help You Save More Effectively
If you’ve made a new years resolution and are hoping to save more money this year, there’s a website that you need to know about—SmartyPig.com
SmartyPig.com provides a new variation on the idea of an online savings account. All savings accounts give you a place to put your money, but none of you to actually make [...]
SmartyPig Savings Account: How SmartyPig Re-Envisioned the Online Savings Account
Most offers of online savings accounts are very similar to what you would get from your local bank, with the notable exception of a slightly higher interest rate. Although these products have provided customers with better rates, they have not done much to innovate the idea of an online savings account.
SmartyPig’s savings account is a [...]
SmartyPig Christmas: Using SmartyPig to save for Christmas.
If you’re suffering from a Christmas debt hangover, consider taking a different route for your Christmas shopping next year. Instead of paying for your Christmas presents with credit cards, develop a savings plan so that you can save up for your Christmas Gifts and then have all the money that you need in November to [...]
December 28th, 2009 | admin | Comments | Continued
SmartyPig Gift Cards: Getting the Most Out Of Your SmartyPig Savings Account
SmartyPig is a goal-based FDIC-insured online savings account that allows consumers to save for specific goals and helps consumers develop automatic savings plans to meet their goals. Once consumers have met their savings goal, they have the option to redeem their goals for cash or redeem them in the form of gift cards at major [...]
December 28th, 2009 | admin | Comments | Continued
SmartyPig Fees: What Fees You Pay When Using the SmartyPig Savings Account
SmartyPig provides savers with an innovative ways to save for major purchases. The SmartyPig savings account helps consumers establish specific financial goals to save for and allows others to contribute to your savings goal. When SmartyPig first launched its product, there were a number of fees that consumers had to pay, but SmartyPig listened to [...]
December 26th, 2009 | admin | Comments | Continued
How to Develop an Automatic Savings Plan with SmartyPig
In David Bach’s book, “The Automatic Millionaire”, the author stresses the importance of developing an automatic savings plan so that you actually meet the financial goals that you have. We all want to save up and pay for new things such as a new car, a new television or a new computer, but we often [...]
December 25th, 2009 | admin | Comments | Continued
Using Smarty Pig To Pay For College
SmartyPig is a goal-based online savings account that allows individuals to pay for major purchases, such as flat screen televisions, computers and new cars. You can use the service to save for just about anything, even college.
Before suggesting how you might save for college using SmartyPig, it’s important to note that there are some significant [...]
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