Alex Vitti

Marketing with the help of different forms of social media is called social marketing. When defining social media marketing, it is a type of Internet marketing that is designed to gain brand image and successful goals of marketing communication with the help of the social media.

Mortgage rates will continue to remain near lows for the year ahead, while home prices are expected to remain flat, the Mortgage Bankers Association's chief economist said on Tuesday. And both are expected do little to inspire anyone to buy a home.

A lender may lock without a particular requirement being fulfilled but make that requirement a condition for the lock being retained. Hence, the list of conditions for retaining a lock is the same as the list of requirements to lock enumerated above.

I made the cake perfectly so that no one would be able to tell it was gluten-free. Bonnie Stern's recipe was great, and the flour substitutions were undetectable. But the cream cheese is where it got interesting.

It was late in the evening last week and I was craving something warm, baked, sweet, and fast. So I got out my 250 Best Muffin Recipes cookbook–a rarely used item on my cookbook shelf–and went to work. I've been avoiding gluten when possible, so the flour got replaced with a gluten-free blend

I find myself buying butternut squash three at a time. Is that ridiculous? I'll usually roast them and then eat the chunks with rice or kamut or barley for lunch or a snack or a side dish. But I have the attention span of a goldfish recipe-wise, and I get bored of making the same foods over and over again.

The size of the prepaid market is open to debate. The Federal Reserve 2007 Electronic Payments Study estimated that open-loop prepaid transactions totaled $13.3 billion in 2006, and prepaid transactions as a whole totaled $49.9 billion

Low mortgage rates have some homeowners considering refinancing, even if it has been less than a year since they last refinanced or bought their home. Rates have been hovering near all-time lows, with the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaging below 4.25% for the past three weeks, according to Freddie Mac's weekly survey of conforming mortgage rates. But they could be ready to head up

With mortgage rates falling to record lows this summer and the housing market showing signs of a pulse, refinancing activity is perking up. It's too bad that so many people are relying on oversimplified advice and bad numbers to decide when to pull the trigger.

After a summer of discontent for the economy, September indicators so far are helping to allay fears of a coming second recession.