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Tuesday

Don't Pay 20% Extra For Nothing

If you're going to renew or buy a subscription to the Wall Street Journal, you should do it now.

Dow Jones announced a price hike of 20% of more on their newspaper subscriptions starting on October 28th.

But you can get the best rate now at:
  • $99 for 1 complete year or
  • $125 for both print/online wsj.com for 1 year till then
These are both GREAT deals for home/office delivery 6 days a week.

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Thursday

#1 Recommended Tool for Juniors Applying to College This Year in the Fall



Everyone has great SAT test scores. Everyone has leadership on their resume. Everyone has volunteer experience that makes your heart melt. They are team captains and olympic-bound athletes. Yes, your kid is the perfect kid....for Harvard, Princeton or any other school of you choice. But will the Admissions committee see that in the application, essays and interviews?

Here's one differentiator still on the plate for high school juniors to take advantage of -- an enlarged worldview.

Most Juniors are so busy with cramming, studying, and shining in so many ways that they forget about the world around them -- literally.

How to cure this deficit? READ THE NEWSPAPER.



Time and time again, essays and conversations in interviews easily show those students that are "a more advanced" in their maturity. And one way is to get your kid to read the Wall Street Journal daily. They'll quickly become versed in some of the "adult" things in life from the great articles in the Personal Journal section. They'll also be up to date on global news and issues from the rest of the paper.

It will be some of the best dollars you spend on their education. Get the paper delivered, get them to read it daily for a month or two and you'll see. It is quite amazing.

LINK: 1 full yr of WSJ.com + the Journal delivered = $125 total (over 75% off!)

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Saturday

3 Options for Subscription Discounts to the Wall Street Journal

I read the Wall Street Journal daily and there are a couple of sections/writers that I like to flip pages to first when I get the paper delivered each day.

  • The Personal Journal Section - the writers are spot on for editorial topics and the section usually has at least one article daily that hits home. It's a fun read, and usually informative - and practically applicable to life.
  • Walt Mossberg - Technology column, called The Mossberg Solution - which is now written usually by Katie Boehret (actually she probably wrote a LOT of the content that Mossberg used in his columns previously, but now she has her own bylines and has moved up in the WSJ reporting offices it seems.
  • Joe Morgenstern's movie reviews -- You can usually get a good sense of how a movie is going to be from the headline and sub-heads, but if you read on, the movie reviews are WELL written and somehow capture the essence of what you actually feel while watching the movie, but can't exactly put into words precisely. . . untill you read Joe's reviews. He has the uncanny ability to predict exactly how I'll react to certain scenes, actors, storylines, etc. I search for his reviews of movies before I go watch them now to see how much of my ticket money will be a waste.
  • "Under the A-Head" on the front page - usually an interesting off-beat article that has human interest (vs. hard news).
  • Marketplace section - it's the 2nd section I turn to after Personal Journal. It's my kind of paper.

Now there's 3 direct deals from WSJ that make this dirt cheap from Dow Jones. They are basically giving the paper away it seems (with the online version too): http://1.wallstreetjournaI.googlepages.com

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Wednesday

75% Off Discount for The Wall Street Journal Subscription

This is a major deal alert:


GET A 1 YEAR SUBSCRIPTION TO WSJ.COM FOR $26

Think of it this way -- if you were going to order the WSJ for delivery, then you can get the online edition for only $26 more.

or. . . GET A 1 FULL YEAR + 8 WEEKS FREE OF HOME OR OFFICE DELIVERY OF THE WALL STREET JOURNAL FOR $26

If you were going to subscribe to WSJ.com online for the regular price of $99, you can get 1 full year of home delivery for only $26 more.

or. . . GET BOTH WALL STREET JOURNAL PRINT DELIVERY PLUS WSJ ONLINE SUBSCRIPTION FOR $2/week

And as a reward for getting BOTH together at once, WSJ is throwing in 8 free weeks additional! That's 60 weeks total for the price that's 75% off! Wow.

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