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It’s only an advert but…

April 2, 2018April 3, 2018 Fergus Muirhead

There are some really dubious adverts on TV in the afternoons, and after a while they all kind of merge into one big long turgid televisual treat about how you can sue someone who made you break your leg as you fell out of your car at 100 miles an hour while you were filling in an application for life…

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Why you should keep your receipts.

March 27, 2018 Fergus Muirhead

Q. I tried to return a handbag to Jenners in Edinburgh where I purchased it only 6 weeks ago since the stitching came away in 2 separate places. I did not have my receipt as it was bought by card and the receipt disposed of after checking off bank statement. Not only did the rather surly supervisor refuse to change…

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Make money as you make music

March 20, 2018March 20, 2018 Fergus Muirhead

Recently we featured a series of articles written by Performing Rights Society head in Scotland Duncan McCrone as he explained the importance to musicians of understanding how they can generate a regular income stream from the music they write. Now you can listen to Finlay MacDonald, Director of Piping Studies at the National Piping Centre in Glasgow, as he explains…

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Travel safe this summer

March 20, 2018March 20, 2018 Fergus Muirhead

It’s hard to believe that it’s still snowing all over the UK the week before Easter. But it is! Easter weekend is the time that many of us traditionally start to book our summer holidays. Over the next month or so many of us will be online looking for a sun-soaked bargain abroad. Or perhaps this year we’ll go somewhere…

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Interest rates are now up over 5%.  But have the recent rises really helped to deal with inflation? Take a look at Fergus’s recent post to see what that might mean for you.

Moneysucks for musicians

Have a look at the first part of our series on how musicians can best maximise and protect their income from their own words and music.
We'll be adding to this in the coming months to provide much more useful information for musicians.

Any Questions

If you have any money or consumer questions for Fergus please feel free to drop him a line at info@moneysucks.net.

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