General
We have prepared this guide to help entrepreneurs and small business owners grow their operations into successful companies through sound planning and reliable financial growth. It’s been broken into four chapters to outline the steps necessary in developing your operations into a thriving company. First, we’ll look at the attitudes and personal traits required for business people to overcome…
What’s the first big lesson you learned about money? How did you learn it? Many of us start learning about finance as kids. We watch those around us, and we learn by trial and error. That can teach us some important basics about finance. And it can open the door to learning some of life’s…
How much of a struggle is it for you to keep your resolutions? When was the last time you actually kept one? For most folks, it’s a real challenge. And even if you’re pretty good with resolutions, no one’s batting a thousand here. We’ve all got room to improve. How do we do it? We…
How financially literate are you? How much do you really know about interest rates and inflation? What about financial risk? Only about 1 in 3 folks can score 80% on a simple financial literacy quiz. And only 7% answer every question right. So, how will you measure up? Can you beat 93% of your fellow…
What do you think inflation will do over the next year? What about the next 10 years? When you see the word “inflation,” do you fall asleep? Panic? Click to the next thing? It’s with us all the time, but most of us don’t spend a lot of time thinking about it (beyond noticing higher…
Has the pandemic changed your mind about where to travel? For many of us, it has. Instead of visiting pre-COVID hotspots like theme parks and entertainment destinations, most folks want to get away to scenic, open spaces, like beaches and national parks. And most are looking for destinations closer to home. Those choices can be…
Over the past years, tech salaries have been growing consistently. Whether you work in the healthcare or manufacturing sector, if you were part of the tech team, you probably got a pay rise. In the digital era, learning tech skills have become a must and the increasing need for tech professionals has made organizations offer…
You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway. — Author Robert Jordan Do you worry about how fact and fiction get mixed up and propagated? Do you…
“Can you hear me?” That’s the latest ploy of phone scammers. They’re trying to get recordings of people saying “yes” and use them to authorize fraudulent charges on people’s accounts.1 It’s just one of many different phone scams that raked in at least $493 million in 2019.2 In fact, even though we’re living in the…
The greatest enemies of the equity investor are expenses and emotions. —Warren Buffet Fear, anxiety, and greed can make us impulsive. These emotions can blind us to logic and make us vulnerable to all sorts of biases. That’s never more true than when we feel threatened or stressed. When emotions run high and impulse takes over,…
