Jasmine Birtles

Jasmine Birtles
Born	Jasmine Birtles
Nationality	British
Occupation	Author, Journalist, Television presenter, Entrepreneur
Home town	London, England

Jasmine Birtles is a financial and business commentator, journalist, TV presenter and radio presenter, author and humourist. Her consumer website Moneymagpie.com contains information on all aspects of making and saving money. She regularly appears on various TV and radio programmes, including GMTV, BBC News, This Morning, The Wright Stuff and Sky News. She has presented numerous TV programmes including Homes Under the Hammer, STV's Spend Spend Spend as well as First Time Buyers and Doctor Dosh for UKTV Style.

Financial journalism

Broadcast media

Jasmine presented the debt programme for The Insider for Channel 4. She is a regular financial commentator for This Morning, GMTV, BBC News, Channel 5 News and The Wright Stuff. She is also a frequent financial guest on radio programmes including You and Yours, Radio 2, Radio 5 Live and BBC local radio and commercial stations. She is currently appearing on BBC raw money alongside Dominic Littlewood. She has also done work for the Department for Work and Pensions, appearing in educational YouTube videos, and the Personal Finance Education Group as part of their 2010 'My Money Week'.

Writing

Birtles has a daily bargains column in the Daily Express, six days a week. Furthermore she writes for a number of newspapers and magazines including The Spectator, The Observer, The Scotsman, The Herald, The Sunday Times, She magazine, Red magazine, Glamour, Essentials, Prima magazine, and iVillage.

She is also the author of 38 books, a mix of humorous and financial titles, including the best seller A Little Book of Abuse (2000, Boxtree) and her latest publication Beat the Banks! (2010, Vermilion). Other titles include:

• A Woman's Little Instruction Book (1995, Boxtree)
• Do You Still Miss Your Ex-Husband? Yes But My Aim Is Improving. (1996, O'Mara)
• A Parent's Little Instruction Book (1996, Boxtree)
• 1001 Knock Knock Jokes (1998, Robinson)
• The Little Book of Excuses (2001, Boxtree)
• A Girl’s Best Friend Is Her Money (2002, Boxtree)
• A Little Book of More Abuse (2002, Boxtree)
• A Bit on the Side, 500 Ways to Boost your Income (2005, Piatkus)
• Money Book: Control Your Money, Control Your Life (2006, Piatkus)
• The Money Magpie (2009, Vermilion)

Public speaker

As a public speaker, Birtles has hosted conferences for a wide variety of companies and organisations including BT, IBM, Ernst and Young, Barclays Stockbrokers, Sainsbury’s, Egg and Abbey National. Her one-woman show - a humorous take on money management - which she launched at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2005 is called "How to be Rich Without Really Trying".

Moneymagpie.com

Birtles says she founded Moneymagpie.com in 2007, “to be a fun, easy-to-follow guide to managing the money you have, making more of it and living a richer life all round”. The company owning Moneymagpie.com, Moneymagpie Ltd, was registered on September 5th 2006.

Content

There are 1400 feature articles on the Moneymagpie website. These focus on ways to make extra money and ways to save money on bills and other expenses. There is a forum with 1346 members, and an option to sign up to a weekly 'bargain alert' email. Each month, Moneymagpie.com updates its list of restaurant voucher codes.

Campaigns

Jasmine Birtles has spoken publicly about her belief that many people are paying too much for their mobile phone contracts. She has endorsed Mobilife, a tool which analyses mobile telephone bills.

The writers at Moneymagpie.com have produced a series of articles on how to reduce the cost of a wedding. Jasmine has written about this issue for websites such as ukbride.co.uk,, and Moneymagpie.com have released a wedding e-book which claims to help brides and grooms save money.

Jasmine Birtles and the Moneymapie team have spoken out about the difficulties young people face in trying to get onto the property ladder. Birtles appeared on Channel 4 News to discuss the pros and cons of renting your home.

Monetisation

The main way the site makes money is through affiliate links. If a link on the site is in a bold typeface, it generates some revenue for Moneymagpie.com each time a visitor clicks on it. Birtles claims that this use of affiliate links does not affect the objectivity of the articles on the site.

Clever Video Production

Birtles set up a video production company, Clever Video Production, in 2011.

External links

• Jasmine Birtles Official website
• Moneymagpie
• raw - money BBC