The big banks have been teaming up with consumer-finance outfits, for example, which offer better prospects than their moribund corporate-lending businesses.
In the U.S., there are several real estate crowdfunding platforms, such as Fundrise and RealtyShares for example, which offer small investors to gain exposure to real estate investments using the concept of crowdfunding.
Expedia's Winter Getaways Cruise Sale, for example, which offers savings of up to 75percentt off certain sailings, ends Feb. 28.
Philip Pearson, of Southampton-based independent financial advisers P&P Invest, says: "Barclays Bank's Golden Isa, for example, which offers instant access, currently pays 3.55% gross interest a year - which is considerably higher than the average return from premium bonds.
Culling from applicants, he handpicks vintage vendors with good, reasonably priced merchandise and artisans who make quality work, then throws in a couple of wild cards to add to the atmosphere — like McClure's Pickles, for example, which offers jars of pickles ($10) and relish ($5) in spicy or garlic-dill.
Take the follow structure, for example, which offers up just as much benefit as it does quandary.
Of course, that's not entirely true – Google has "Car Home," for example, which offers big buttons you can tap more easily while at the wheel.
Now there are so many opportunities to leverage social media, for example, which offers bi-directional or multi-directional communication and collaboration.
The company recently introduced its "Organizations" feature, for example, which offers real-time project visibility in a Twitter-like feed, and team management tools.
It's a requirement that is speeding up the foundation of new national PhD student organizations across the continent--in Greece, for example, which offered to host the 2004 meeting.
The company has also been expanding its focus of late to include original content in its lineup, through Total College Sports, for example, which offers a mix of original programming with an in-studio team.
