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Five Tips For Helping Loved Ones With Financial Problems

When loved ones struggle with finances, it’s natural to want to help. However, sometimes it’s difficult to provide assistance without straining a relationship or compromising one’s own financial well-being. Take Charge America, a national non-profit credit counseling and debt management agency, has the following five tips for helping loved ones with financial problems:

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Report: Americans’ Focus on Saving Could Impact National Growth

Harris Private Bank, part of BMO Financial Group, released a report which found that, while incomes in the U.S. rose slightly in June 2012, consumer spending stagnated, suggesting Americans are using their earnings to increase their savings and pay down household debt. the report also revealed that:

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Six Steps For SMBs to Improve Revenues

According to a recent report released by The Guardian Life Small Business Research Institute, by using a list of six steps, small business owners can improve their revenues in the year ahead. Those steps are based The 2011 Guardian Life Index: What Matters Most to America’s Small Business Owners, which surveyed around 1,100 small business [...]

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Five Secrets Financial Advisers Hide

Having a qualified financial adviser is more important today than ever.  Everyone expects the information received from financial advisers is accurate, up-to-date and trustworthy.  This is not always the case, as some large brokerage firms, insurance companies, and financial planning firms have big secrets that they don’t want you to know, according to Jim Cantrell, Certified [...]

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30 Slogans for Doctors, Financial & Sales Businesses

In 1996, Ivan Misner published his book “Seven Second Marketing : How to Use Memory Hooks to Make You Instantly Stand Out in a Crowd”. There, he cited many slogans, mantras, and Motto that he has come across or helped to come up with. I’ve hand-picked the best ‘memory-hooks’ (as he called them) and am [...]

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[Guest Post] Top 5 Signs that It’s time to Retire

For many seniors, the end of their working days / retirement time becomes a time of uncertainty, as they wrestle with the timing of this monumental decision. Many factors can influence the choice to retire, from company loyalty to financial capability, but fortunately for the millions of impending retirees, there are a few yet obvious [...]

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[Guest Post] 5 Steps to Create a Budget & Stick to it

This is a guest post from Carol Montrose, an MBA student at CSUN. She writes to tell us about how it’s always important to keep track of your money; both what’s coming in and what’s going out; in order to ensure that you’re not living beyond your means.  But with the economy still in a [...]

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11 Financial Planning Strategies for 2011

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) of San Francisco compiled a list of the top 11 financial planning strategies for individuals to consider for 2011. These comprehensive tips will help investors start 2011 on the right financial footing. Pay Yourself First The best way to start building wealth is by establishing an automated savings program. Start [...]

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The day I got my Termination Letter

Update 1: I want to thank the Figurative Language website for sponsoring this post. Kindly show your support and visit it. Update 2: Due to the popularity of this post and increased number of daily visits, I want to point the reader to some possible legal concerns when firing an employee in some countries, which [...]

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[The Simple Dollar] One Year to an Organized Financial Life book review

Every other Sunday, The Simple Dollar reviews a personal finance book. This week, they’ve reviewed: One Year to an Organized Financial Life by Regina Leeds basically lays out a week-by-week plan for getting your financial house in order. The book is divided into twelve chapters (months), each containing four subsections (weeks in a month), and [...]

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