How To Verify Whether Your Business Can Succeed
Businesses fail because new business owners don’t plan much beyond the first year and they don’t do the right research before they start. Does your business idea make sense to anyone but you? Hopefully! But how do you know? You’re going to have to talk to people. Here’s how to validate your business idea.
How To Tell If Your Business Idea is Right For You
I hear this a lot: “I’d like to start a business one day, but I’m just not sure where to start – I don’t even have an idea.” If that’s you, here’s a quick thought exercise that may help when you’re just starting to brainstorm and define business ideas.
How to Deter the Most Worrisome Financial Cyber Threats
It’s always been important to protect personally identifiable information and access to your financial accounts/information online. But with so many recent hacks in the news right now it’s more important than ever. I sat down with some experts at the FBI and SEC and provide the top 5 ways you can protect yourself from hacks in this article.
What is the Financial Planning Process All About?
Financial planning is more than just investing or retirement planning. Even if you’re good at dollars and cents, you could probably still benefit from thinking through some new financial planning strategies. Here’s some information about what the financial planning process is all about.
How to Reward Yourself With Your Tax Refund
During this time of year all sorts of new and unexpected funds come our way. It’s tax season and it’s performance review season so no matter your situation you’re probably expecting some sort of cash infusion soon. Given that, I’ve been getting these questions a lot lately — what should I do first? Spend? Save? Pay down debts? How much? This article tackles how to rock your decision making process and make sure you save enough toward your goals.
How to Avoid Paycheck Creep (Yes, That’s a Thing)
How often have you found that you’ve already spent your annual raise without even thinking about it? It’s so common that most of the time we don’t even have to think about it, it just happens, and that’s the problem. I call this phenomenon paycheck creep, and it’s preventable with a little planning at the beginning of the year.
