Today I was notified by a reader about the new promotion from HSBC. According to the promotion page, you can get up to $100 MasterCard gift card for opening a Plus checking account and an HSBC credit card. Although I personally think this promotion is not attractive to all of us, I’d like to mention this promotion at MyCardBlog together with another checking account bonus offer from Wells Fargo.

I have two posts about Advanta recently: Ideablob from Advanta and Small Business Network from Credit Card Issuers. Both of them introduced the pretty cool website from Advanta—Ideablob.com. Today I’m going to introduce the latest and most special credit card product from Advanta which is a dedicated credit card company for small business in US.

Compass Bank just released another promotion offer from which you can get up to $150 bonus for opening a Compass Build-to-Order Checking account online and then use their Visa Check Card in 45 days. My previous post “Free Apple iPod Shuffle from Compass Bank” introduced the latest banking promotion from Compass Bank. But it was ended on June 30, 2008.

We all know that a credit card issuer will look at your credit score, usually referred as the FICO score, before issuing you a credit card. Actually, business lenders use a similar approach or credit scoring system to determine your business credit performance and decide whether or not to give you credit.

I received an email from Daren who is “a loyal MyCardBlog.com” reader about his newly luanched App-O-Rama. Daren completed his AOR a few weeks ago, and “it’s time to report the results and some nuggets of info and techniques gleaned in the process.”

iGoBanking.com, a division of Flushing Savings Bank, FSB (FDIC insured), is offering $50 bonus gas card for opening a checking account online and making bill payment service.
At the same time, the First Federal is offering $75 bonus for opening a checking account online and making 5 activities.

Today I received a pretty nice T-Shirt from Advanta innovative team for blogging about their very special webiste: www.ideablob.com. (”Small Business Network from Credit Card Issuers”) As I indicated in my previous post, the ideablob is an active online community for entrepreneurs and small business owners. People can submit their ideas to the community and get some comments or advice from cummunity members and advisers. At the same time, every month, the community votes on the best idea. The winner will get $10,000 to help their idea grow. Because of its uniqueness, I’d like to give an brief review on ideablob which I think is of great helpful to those small business owners.

This is my monthly updated list of credit card sign-up bonus. I have a special page for credit card sign-up bonus where you can find a complete list of credit cards which will offer you a certain amount of sign-up bonus. I hope this list will be helpful for those App-O-Rama planners. I think it’s necessary to keep a tidy list of credit cards with some fulfillment requirements. The aim is to keep you updated with sign-up bonus offers.

After I released the post ” Is Your Bank Safe” several days ago, I received many emails qestioning about FDIC Insurance. They wanted me to give more detailed information about FDIC and how it keep consumers’ money safe and sound. I did a little research and will give you some simple tips on how to keep your money safe and sound in your bank.

Normally, the back-to-school season is the second largest retail season of the year. Microsoft launched the “Back to School Deal Days” promotion and doubled the cash back rate for most of its merchants. If you want to find something for this fall semester, it’s time to do a little research at www.live.com/cashback to save money for the coming school year. However, Microsoft is not the only one to promote back-to-school deals. PayPal just launched the back-to-school promotion from which you can save up to 50% when you shop and pay via PayPal.