The Mogo Blog

Get some Klout - (perfect for job hunters)

Your Klout score and why it matters so much. Nikki digs deep to find out a new trend in personal online scoring – find out what your reach is, and how it can effect your life on and offline. Does your Klout matter? Read on to find out! This will be especially helpful to any Mogo-ers that are finishing school and entering the job market. Good luck! When Sam Fiorella applied for a marketing position at a large Toronto firm, he was sure that his excellent portfolio and 15 years of marketing exper

Get answers with the new Mogo Online Help Centre

Have questions about Mogo or our loan products? This week we launched a new Help Centre to make it easier for you to get answers when you need them. The new Help Centre lets you search or browse by category to find what you’re looking for, and it should help you get the answers you’re looking for much faster – best of all, it’s available 24/7. Of course, there will always be questions about your account that can only be answered by one of our Care Centre team members, so you can still reach us

Use Science (and these tips) to get a ton of happiness out of your spending

Coding Horrors’ Jeff Atwood neatly breaks down Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs, the happiness associated with earning more, and offers a full look at spending styles/tips/strategies [http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/05/buying-happiness.html]. Buying Happiness a truly entertaining read and is awesomely captured in the following quote: > But even if you’re fortunate enough to have a good income, how you spend your money has a strong influence on how happy – or unhappy – it will make you. And, a

Toronto Locavore Delights

More foodie posts from the Mogo Lounge! We’re your source for the best ways to spend your cash on great Canadian eats! Strawberries from Mexico, avocados from Peru and bananas from Brazil; with all that traveling, your summer salads may have the same carbon footprint as Boeing 747. We have grown accustomed to year-round availability of all our favorite produce and we don’t always stop and think about how far our well-traveled food has flown. Now a new movement is changing all that; locavore eat

Vancouver Seafood Lovers: the spot prawn festival is here!

Starting this weekend (May 5, 2012), seafood enthusiasts in Vancouver have another reason to get excited. The 6th Annual Spot Prawn Festival [http://www.chefstablesociety.com/spotprawnfestival] will be hitting our shores at False Creek Fisherman’s Wharf. Get your fill of these googly-eyed ocean-dwellers and enjoy some of the best cooking and locally-available fresh fish in Vancouver. The festival is held by the Chef’s Table Society and offers up great food, wine and access to locally sourced i