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Muscular Portfolios Update — Oct. 3, 2018
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Get the best price at Amazon
Amazon.com and other online booksellers have many "sneaky" shortcuts you can use to get the lowest price. Now that Amazon is actually shipping Muscular Portfolios in the next few days, we can use it as an example to help you get the greatest discount from the giant retailer on thousands of products.
STEP 1. Check the formats. Examine the editions and vendors Amazon lists. Look for suppliers other than Amazon that may offer the lowest price. (In this example, Amazon's Kindle ebook edition won't be priced accurately until the printed book starts shipping this week.)
STEP 2. Look for the "orange" coupon. At this writing, Amazon is offering 36% off the list price of Muscular Portfolios. You can easily get an additional 6% off that if you simply check the box beside the orange coupon icon on the main product page.
Amazon makes more money when harried shoppers don't notice coupon icons like the one on the Muscular Portfolios page. The box only shows up on products that Amazon itself sells and ships. Even then, it's only on some, not all products. Surprisingly, the box doesn't sign you up for anything or obligate you in any way. It's just there to close the sale with people who are price-sensitive and take the time to look.
STEP 3. Promo code 6SAVE. Amazon and the publisher of Muscular Portfolios are offering an additional 6% off the above-discounted prices just for four days: Oct. 3 through 6, 2018. When you put the book in your shopping cart and finally get to the Checkout page, enter 6SAVE as the promo code. Press the Apply button, as shown. You should see the extra savings applied to the total on the right-hand side of the Checkout page.
With all of the above discounts, you can get Muscular Portfolios this week only for almost half off the list price. Most booksellers show a ship date of Oct. 9, but Amazon is notorious for shipping several days before the "official" release. The book is finally on its way!
Thanks very much for your support. You keep me going! —BL
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This is a Muscular Portfolios UPDATE
 By Brian Livingston
Our first regular monthly newsletter was published on Sept. 11, 2018. The second will come to you on Oct. 9. We're publishing issues about 25 days apart until we start coming out in the first week of each month.
I'm truly grateful for the people who've written to me with ideas. One reader, Thomas P., added a suggestion to my Sept. 11 article on how to get 10 times better rates on idle cash than your brokerage probably gives you in its "cash sweep" account:
"I keep all my funds that are waiting to be invested in a High-Yield Savings Account. Visit Bankrate and click the Savings/MMA [money-market account] option for a list of financial institutions offering these, as well as the interest rates currently offered by each institution. The funds are insured by the FDIC (so real safe). There is typically no annual fee, no management fee like with MMA/ETF funds, they offer low minimum balances if any, and the rates are very competitive to those you mentioned. Plus the rates are variable, so they change with interest rate changes (currently favorable, since rates are rising)."
To take advantage of the high rates you may see at Bankrate.com, you might need to move your money out of your favorite brokerage firm. That's a hassle and can entail transaction costs. But if the interest rate is high enough, all of that might be worthwhile to you.
Keep those ideas coming. I have a special email address just for responses to this newsletter: MaxGaines (at) BrianLivingston (dot) com.
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