The Colour of Money

Empire Direct are offering 5% off all their LCD and plasma TVs (excluding packages) at the moment.

To take advantage of this offer, click here to visit their site and use the following discount voucher code

Voucher ID: EM4610
Username: edsave

Do not press enter/return once the code & username have been entered; click on the checkout button for the discount to be applied.

Exclusions: The 5% discount only applies to LCD & Plasma products but excludes packages. Delivery charges, EdXtra cards & Warranties are excluded from the promotion.

Empire Direct is the largest independent electrical retailer in the UK with 12 National Electrical Warehouses across the country. Their huge buying power means they can purchase stock at discounted prices. This allows them to provide you with a huge choice of top brand Electrical Appliances at truly unbeatable prices.

At its monthly meeting to review interest rates, the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) opted to keep the base rate unchanged at 5%.

This is not the kind of news which is going to do much for the mortgage industry or the UK housing market.

As I talked about in a post earlier this week, there are already far fewer mortgages available now than there were a year or so ago. According to an article I read this week, there were over 15,599 different mortgages available this time last year. Now the number of different mortgage products has fallen to 4,679.

More and more mortgage borrowers are now realising the vital role that a professional mortgage advisor can play in helping them find and secure a suitable mortgage. With deals changing all the time and lending criteria shifting almost daily, a mortgage broker who knows where to go for a decent mortgage can be worth his weight in gold.

Sites such as this mortgage website are worth checking out if you want to get access to a qualified mortgage specialist with access to a range of mortgage deals. Read the rest…

If you are the owner of a website there may well come a time when you want to sell your website to someone else.

Broadly speaking, there are two reasons why someone might want to sell an existing website. It might be because the website has grown into a proper internet business which is now worth a considerable sum to the right buyer.

Or (and this is more often the case) you may want to sell a website because it is failing to give you any kind of decent income and is becoming more trouble than it is worth.

If you have got a site that is of no use to you, you’re probably thinking that no-one in their right mind would want to buy it. But, the good news is that there are actually people who go out of their way to buy websites from people - especially websites that are no performing very well.

Why is this? Are they mad?

Well, perhaps it might seem that way. But, don’t forget that people have been buying failing or ailing businesses from other people for years and certainly long before the birth of the internet. Read the rest…