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I’m Giving You $500! It Pays to be Bad!

22 December 2011 – 12:46 am PST

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Hey People! Haven’t you notice that most people become generous all of a sudden at Xmas time? Maybe it’s because we feel fortunate and we know that some people are not. And maybe we are simply brainwashed by the media who show a bunch of little orphans with nothing to eat on [...]

20 Life Changing Questions For 2012

21 December 2011 – 12:46 am PST

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Here’s a quick, short post right in the middle of the last sprint before Xmas. Annually at this time of the year, I sit back and think about what I have done so far and what is left to do for me to achieve happiness. I present you with my 20 life changing questions that [...]

How to Stretch a Holiday Budget

20 December 2011 – 12:47 am PST

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(Especially if you’re not getting a bonus this year) When you’re working towards complete credit repair, one thing that’ll make the journey easier is learning how to stretch your purse strings as far as they’ll go. Finding debt relief is an important part of credit repair, and nothing can help you achieve that better than [...]

2011 Blogging Goals How I Sucked and How I Ruled 2011

20 December 2011 – 12:46 am PST

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While I crushed my 2011 financial goals, I can’t say that I have crushed all of my blogging goals! The sad part is I don’t know how to feel about 2011 when I think of my business: - I attended the FINCON11 and made tons of friends (while consolidating existing relationships) - I increased [...]

How Social Media Can Ruin You

16 December 2011 – 12:46 am PST

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Everyone’s always talking about social media and how you need to get on Twitter. If you’re not on Twitter or on Facebook your business is going to suffer and you’re going to go poor. You absolutely need to leverage social media to make it big. That’s all you ever really hear. Do you ever stop [...]

2011 Financial Goals Reviewed, When Things Happen But Not The Way You Think

15 December 2011 – 12:46 am PST

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Each year, I establish my financial and blogging goals at the beginning of the year. It is a way to focus on very specific things throughout the year instead of trying to reach all kinds of goals at the same time. So my 3 financial goals for 2011 were : #1 Paying off all my [...]

Preparing for an Interview

14 December 2011 – 12:46 am PST

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For the past 5 years on this blog, you have been able to follow my adventure in becoming a successful financial planner. In the upcoming days, I’ll be trying to get another promotion (read why here). I’m writing these lines while I don’t even know if I’ll get an interview or not (so [...]

How a Guy Potentially Lost 10K While Selling His Website And How To Put Your Blog For Sale On Flippa

13 December 2011 – 12:46 am PST

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Oh man. I’m upset. I’m sooooo upset! Last week was somewhat of a disaster for my company. Not a real disaster but it’s rare that things go wrong and this time, several things went sideways. First things first, we had a major server problem, so you might end-up [...]

Repairing Your Credit While Hunting for an Apartment

13 December 2011 – 12:38 am PST

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Wondering what’s keeping you from landing that dream apartment you’ve had your eye on all this time? It could be your credit history. What went wrong? Maybe you have student loans that were defaulted, a collection or two in your history, or are just in need of credit repair in general. Whatever the reason, you [...]

The Benefits of Being Transparent– Plus a Challenge

9 December 2011 – 12:46 am PST

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The Benefits of Being Transparent– Plus a Challenge

“Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.” — Benjamin Franklin There seems to be an influx of transparency in the blogging world. There are more blogging income reports, people taking pictures of their guts as they try to lose weight, and posts about some sort of [...]