Alan’s Take On Mint.com Just a little while ago, Mint.com officially launched in Canada. Originally only in the United States, Mint.com is a finance tracking service offered to consumers that have a hard time manually tracking their income, expenses, and budgets. They do this by associating your Mint.com account with your bank accounts, your credit…
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Over a year ago I brought up the possibility of Mint coming to Canada. Then this summer Mint added Canadian banks but some accounts were missing and they still needed to add relevant information for Canadians like RRSPs and TFSAs. Well the official launch of Mint.com in Canada is coming soon! So what’s new? Is…
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Back in September I wrote about how it was expected that Mint.com was coming to Canada in early 2010. Then a week later it was announced that Intuit was buying Mint. This led to more speculation on whether Canadian banks were still in the cards and if so, when would it happen? Well now we…
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I got my first real job when I was in Grade 12. I worked for about four months, at slightly above minimum wage, so I didn’t exactly make a ton of money. Over the next four years I went to college, so I had jobs over the summer but I never made enough money to…
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One of the biggest obstacles to making and keeping a budget is not knowing where to begin. Thankfully, the Internet age has brought with it some wonderful tools designed to help you keep an eye on your spending. Here are just a few. 1. Wesabe.com: A lot of Web-based budgeting tools are similar, but one…
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BudgetPulse is a money management website that could be a great way for you to report and budget based on all your Canadian accounts. It’s actually something that they DON’T do that makes it work so great for Canadians looking to track and forecast their personal expenses. I’ve previously written about other websites like Mint,…
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Just last week I wrote that Aaron Patzer, the Founder and CEO of Mint Software had stated that Mint could be coming to Canada and the U.K. in early 2010. Well, plans may have changed now that Intuit, the company behind a similar service called Quicken Online has bought Mint.com for $170 million. Buy doing…
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