http://www.savingsguide.com.au How to Save Money in Australia - A Daily Blog. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:22:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hello Money Savers! Welcome to the very first Savings Guide Newsletter! Designed specifically to offer you the latest tips to help you save money and get your finances working for you, not against you. Newsletter Contents: Tip of the week Win $20 for writing an article, $200 to give away! Top 5 must read articles Special ... http://www.savingsguide.com.au/saving-money-newsletter-21st-nov-2008/ ANZ today announced the launch of “SmartyPig”, Australia’s first online savings account that uses Web 2.0 banking technology and social networking sites to offer people a uniquely social and secure way to save. ANZ will partner with United States-based SmartyPig to bring the virtual piggy bank to Australia. The technology is already ... http://www.savingsguide.com.au/smartypig-a-new-platform-for-anz/ Savings Guide are proud to announce that you can now follow up to the minute updates on ways to save money using Twitter. Over the course of any given day, we may put some saving money tips directly onto Twitter for those wanting to know how to save money in all ... http://www.savingsguide.com.au/saving-money-tips-on-twitter/ The first step to saving more money is to figure out your plan of attack, which would indicate the need to develop a savings plan that is built into your overall financial goals for the year. Today we will look at how to write your savings plan for 2009 so that ... http://www.savingsguide.com.au/writing-a-saving-money-plan-for-2009/ Saving money on phone calls has never been easier, now days we not only have competitve phone plans for both the home phone and mobile to look at, we also have the emerging usage of what is called 'VOIP'. VOIP is a great way to save money on phone bills and ... http://www.savingsguide.com.au/saving-money-by-using-voip/ ANZ have recently released an online platform called 'Money Manager', a simple and easy to use online based application that lets you keep a close eye on all of your finances, and the best part is - it's free! It will monitor your money from upto 9000 financial institutions globally, ranging ... http://www.savingsguide.com.au/save-money-with-anz-money-manager/ Pay as you drive Insurance is a new concept, that of which you only pay for how many KM's you use on your car when it comes to comprehensive insurance. The potential savings on such a method of payment will really help some people who only use their cars on ... http://www.savingsguide.com.au/pay-as-you-drive-insurance/ Voluntary super contributions are a great way to save extra money for your retirement. Each dollar you add to your superannuation will grow x10 over the life time or your balance or more, so adding money frequently and early will greatly increase the ammount of money you will have for retirement. Australian's ... http://www.savingsguide.com.au/voluntary-super-contributions-will-help/ Many readers of this site are small business operators or stay at home mums running business ideas from within their house. People have often asked, what is the best way to save money for my tax return at the end of the year? Today I will share with you how I ... http://www.savingsguide.com.au/save-money-for-tax-return/ Public transport can really help you save money. It is cheap, enviro friendly and allows you to save money in a number of ways. This article will look at the costs of using public transport and how it can help you do your part for the environment, but also help ... http://www.savingsguide.com.au/save-money-using-public-transport/