How to Build Wealth by Creating Urgency in Others!
December 4, 2006
CopyBlogger wrote a recent article discussing the best ways to create urgency in your readers. While his topic centered on generating urgency to create a sale, I think the need for urgency applies to personal finance sites as well. Getting the Message Across The importance of starting to plan, save, and invest as soon as […]
How You Can Extend Your Life and Fatten Your Wallet by Planning Ahead
December 2, 2006
How many times have you been stuck at work or on the road with an empty stomach? Snack Attack Trying to concentrate when you’re hungry is near impossible. We often turn to fast food, soda, candy, and salty snacks to ease our growling stomachs. While these items may ease our discomfort, they are also affecting […]
How to Save Money on Your Christmas Tree
November 26, 2006
What Thanksgiving traditions does your family have? One of our favorites is bringing home and trimming the Christmas tree Friday after turkey day. Although we have always used a live tree, I couldn’t help listing the ways we could save money having an artificial one instead: 1) Save gas money I’m no Clark Griswold; we […]
Finding a Save / Spend Balance that Works for You
November 26, 2006
I agree with a recent Blunt Money post, arguing that although many of us tend to see spending and saving money as mutually exclusive, they are not. Live for Today, Spend for Tomorrow I like to live by the rule, “Live for today, spend for tomorrow”. Enjoy the here and now but when you’re spending, […]
You Don’t Have to be Donald Trump to Count Your Money Blessings
November 22, 2006
Since Thanksgiving is a time to reflect on our blessings in life, I came up with a list of my money blessings. In no particular order, these are items that have contributed to my progress in having a money smart life: 1) Money Mentors Thanks to my parents and grandparents who taught me the value […]
What Wesabe Learned from Google Adsense
November 19, 2006
What will be the most useful tool on Wesabe? I predict it will be context sensitive financial tips. Personalized Advice A person could spend 24 hours a day reading financial advice on the Internet and never get through it all. What we need to make our financial decisions more quickly and effectively is information targeted […]
Do You Need A Financial Checkup?
November 12, 2006
Financial Health and Physical Health Why do we need to take care of our financial health? To achieve financial freedom. Why do we need to take care of our physical health? To help us live a long life and enjoy the years we’re alive. There are many similarities between keeping yourself physically and financially healthy. […]
Financial Checkup – Teamwork
November 12, 2006
Financial Checkup Recap The Financial Checkup series looks at how to improve our financial health. So far we’ve talked about our financial Behavior and how to Motivate ourselves to change it. Surrounding ourselves with good Influences will help us learn from them and pick up their financially healthy habits. One way to find an influence […]
Are Americans Obsessed with Money?
November 9, 2006
What is the one thing most Americans have in common? Amanda Congdon, former host of the popular videoblog Rocketboom, has been traveling across America and from her journey she concludes that many of us “seemed to have money on the brain”. When asked by Guy Kawasaki what she’d learned from her trip across the country […]
Financial Checkup – Find a Mentor
November 4, 2006
Principle 4 – Find a Mentor What do many successful people have in common? They learned their habits from someone else who was successful. The search for a mentor is basically a search for experience. You are looking for someone who has accumulated knowledge and has turned their mistakes into learning opportunities. Who Should Be […]
