Kudos & Community Outreach

We are also very proud that our website has been referenced in several books relating to personal finance issues, including The ABC's of Getting Out of Debt: Turn Your Bad Debt to Good Debt (part of Robert Kiyosaki's NY Times bestselling Rich Dad Poor Dad Book Series), Live Well on Less Than You Think: The New York Times Guide to Achieving Your Financial Freedom by bestselling author Fred Brock (multiple references in the credit card chapter), Deal with Your Debt: The Right Way to Manage Your Bills and Pay Off What You Owe by Liz Pulliam Weston, one of MSN Money's most-read columnists and author of the Q&A column "Money Talk" which appears in newspapers nationwide, Financing College: How Much You'll Really Have to Pay and How to Get the Money & Raising Money Smart Kids: What They Need to Know about Money and How to Tell Them from the editors of Kiplingers Personal Finance Magazine, Coach Yourself to Success: Winning the Investment Game by Joe Moglia, CEO of Ameritrade, Money $marts: Personal Financial Success in 30 Days! by Dr. Judith Briles, Managing Debt For Dummies by John Venture and Mary Reed, Credit Hell: How to Dig Out of Debt by Howard S. Dvorkin, CPA, founder of Consolidated Credit Counseling Services, Inc. (non-profit), For Richer Not Poorer: The Newlywed's Financial Survival Guide by Deborah Wilburn, contributing editor for Elegant Bride magazine and former financial columnist for Modern Bride magazine,The Quarterlifer's Companion by Abby Wilner and Catherine Stocker, Dirty Little Secrets from the Credit Bureaus by Jason R. Rich, a bestselling author with 30 books to his credit, Streetwise Small Business Book Of Lists by Gene Marks, CPA, For Teens Who Think They Know Everything by Kandias Conda, Smart Debt by Jason R. Rich, a bestselling author with 30 books to his credit, Physician's Guide to Investing, The A Practical Approach to Building Wealth by Dr. Robert M. Doroghazi, and edited by Dan French, PhD, Moolah or Bummer!: A Humorous Look at Finance and Investing by Moget Africa, Microsoft Money 2006 For Dummies by Peter Weverka, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Personal Finance in Your 40s and 50s by Sarah Young Fisher, CFP, and Susan Shelly, CashCow Kids: The Guide to Financial Freedom At Any Age by Lisa Jordan and Sheri Provost, Evil Money- Evil Credit by Alton J. Jones, Getting Loaded: A Complete Personal Finance Guide For Students And Young Professionals by Peter G. Bielagus, The Hip Girl's Handbook: For Home, Car, & Money Stuff by Jennifer Musselman, and Net Worth, Using the Internet for Personal Financial Planning by Carrie Mauriello.

On a related note, we are extremely proud to announce that we will be publishing our own book about credit cards soon- more details forthcoming!

We are proud to have been referenced in a recent segment about minimum credit card payments hosted by Ray Martin, CBS News financial adviser, on "The Early Show on CBS". We are also proud that our founder, Curtis Arnold, was interviewed recently on CNN Headline News regarding credit monitoring services. Click the logos below to watch the videos!

While we would like to take credit for the success of the site, we realize that we owe a great deal of our success to consumers like you (click here to learn why our site is much more consumer friendly than other credit card related sites that are strictly advertising based). Thank you so much for helping to make our site a trusted source of reliable consumer information!

New! Special thanks to Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee for signing a proclamation during the 2006 legislative session that declared April as "Financial Literacy for Youth Month"- click here to view a pic of the proclamation signing ceremony with Gov. Huckabee! This event was part of our voluntary community outreach program and was done in conjunction with the Jump$tart Coalition for Financial Literacy. We are proud that Curtis Arnold, Founder of CardRatings.com, is currently serving as co-chair of the Arkansas chapter of Jump$tart. Curtis was also interviewed by KARK's Evening Newscast (NBC television affiliate) about this outreach effort.

We are proud to be featured by The Open Directory Project, the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web (and the source for the Google Directory). We are also very proud that our credit news articles will soon be included in the Google News index.

We are proud to have been featured by various media groups throughout the past several years. Please click on the links below to see an archive of our media mentions and community outreach efforts.

• 2008 Recognition
• 2007 Recognition
• 2006 Recognition
• 2005 Recognition
• 2004 Recognition
• 2003 & Earlier Recognition