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☆ I'm a beauty influencer who's gone on several brand trips. It may look glamorous, but they can be loads of work and I've experienced inequality on the job.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-13 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

I grew up watching YouTube beauty gurus go on brand trips, and now it's my job to do the same thing. I started creating beauty content for the free makeup, but I found a full-time career instead. So far, I've been to Florida, Turks and Caicos, and more on brand trips with beauty companies. While most believe the whole point of brand trips is to produce content, some companies invite us on trips with no strings attached. In your daily life it's easy to pace yourself, but there's pressure to optimize your time on brand trips.

☆ Can AI answer your money questions? We put chatbots to the test
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-13 | by ( Chris Taylor | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

NEW YORK, April 13 (Reuters) - Face it, we could all use a little help with our money. So who better to ask for personal finance advice than a couple of the most powerful chatbots on the planet? Each has far more processing power than, say, any individual personal finance writer (ahem). That in mind, we asked our AI assistants-slash-overlords these classic personal finance questions:What is one great business idea? I couldn’t leave our new AI friends without asking a deeper question about money and its role in our existence.

☆ Big tech companies continue cost cutting
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-03 | by ( Paayal Zaveri | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Tech companies have chased short-term fads in a desperate attempt to win the favor of Wall Street investors — and it's making the online experience worse. As tech companies continue to focus on efficiency, it's clear that one metric is the most important: revenue per employee. After years of over-hiring, tech companies are now looking to squeeze the most efficient performance from each worker, my colleague Hasan Chowdhury reports. But it's another sign that tech companies are drifting away from pro-remote work policies. Google, Meta, and Microsoft have all failed to make their AR and VR devices into mainstream successes.

☆ 6 red flags to look out for before accepting Airbnb bookings, according to a superhost making $35,000 in revenue a month
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-03 | by ( Robin Madell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

My wife, Melissa Forrest, and I run an Airbnb business together and have taught hundreds of others how to do the same. We've learned that by recognizing red flags in a guest's booking request, we can keep our properties booked with great guests that respect the neighborhood and our homes. Their booking request is full of spelling and grammar issuesAnother red flag is getting requests from guests that look like a text message. Airbnb typically confirms this verbally on the phone, saying that because we have this written in our house rules, guests know what to expect. Do you run a successful Airbnb business and have a story to tell?

Our experts answer readers' credit card questions and write unbiased product reviews (here's how we assess credit cards). This brought us to open our first premium card recently — The Platinum Card® from American Express. If you're unfamiliar with the Platinum Card, it is a heavy-duty metal card, and it's definitely got the sleek factor going for it. Prior to obtaining this card, the most we had paid for an annual fee was $250 for the Delta SkyMiles® Platinum American Express Card. When my husband and I were initially discussing the Platinum Card it definitely gave me sticker shock.

You might want to consider using a credit card instead of a personal loan to fund your trip. If you're dying to get away but you're short of the money to pay for a vacation, you may be tempted to take out a vacation loan to cover the costs. A vacation loan is simply a personal loan used to pay for travel expenses including transportation, hotels, meals, and other costs. There's no one-size-fits-all answer to this question, but you should be careful before you take out a personal loan. If you pay off your credit card balance before that promotion expires, this option could cost significantly less than a personal loan.

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