Author Archive for: ‘Ginger’

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  6 Reasons Why Your Home Is A Crappy Investment

  Is your home an investment or just another place to live?  Many homeowners say that it’s an investment because it helps them sleep at night after sipping the Kool-Aid during the housing boom.   Well, I’m here to get in your face just a bit [...]

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  21 Days to Rock Your Finances: Day 14 – Single Women Money Tips

  These tips really apply to anyone but since we’re focused on women’s money issues we’ll go with “single woman money tips” today. Believe it or not your personal finance goals are very different when single.  If you’re planning on getting married in the future, now [...]

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  4 Insurance Policies You Must Have If You…

  I have a love hate relationship with insurance. It’s one of those things that you hate to have but love when you actually need it. Still you hope that you never have to use it which creates this love – hate relationship which leaves you [...]

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  5 Tips That Teach You How Forex Professionals Learn To Trade

  Have you ever wanted to dip into the vast ocean of investing, but you didn’t know where to start? With the stock market, commodities, CFDs, indices and more, there are plenty of options to grow your savings. If you’re wondering what age is good to [...]

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  Women And Money: The Road Back To Financial Independence

  Women are the default partners who volunteer to take care of children when they are sick or just by default of having a child. They decide to stay at home which can have detrimental effects on their career when getting back into the workplace. Sadly, [...]

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  5 Tips To Beat The Rat Race And Work from Home

  This post is first in a series discussing the many ways in which you can work from home while spending more time with children and family while pursuing other interests. Please submit your stories if you are currently working from home or have a telecommuting [...]

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  Avon Regional Sales Executive Interview: Maria Sutej

  Maria Sutej A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of interviewing Maria Sutej- Regional Vice President, Sales with Avon Products, Inc. Maria Sutej is a Regional Vice President in Sales at Avon Products, Inc.   Maria leads a team of professionals with cross-functional skills [...]

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  21 Days To Rock Your Finances: Day 13: Creating An Emergency Fund

    Creating an emergency fund is critical in being able to maintain financial stability.   We often hear and read that creating an emergency fund is important but what’s hardly discussed is how to go about doing so.  Let’s look at a few ways to create [...]

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  Is Graduate School Worth It? 6 Things To Consider Before Taking The Plunge

    I consider myself to be a student of life, however there comes a time when you realize that maybe going back to school may be the best thing for your career.  A great education is priceless but for our purposes, let’s discuss a few [...]

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  21 Days to Rock Your Finances: Day 12 -Contact Your Creditors

  Today’s post in the Rock Your Finances series addresses taking yet another baby step around setting up your debts on paper or on a spreadsheet.  The rationale for this is to to prepare yourself for the call to your creditors after you’ve devised a plan [...]

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  21 Days to Rock Your Finances: Day 11 -Get Out And Stay Out Of Debt

  Today’s post gives you soup to nuts as it relates to getting out of debt!  So if you’re in debt and need a strategy?  Pull up a seat! Before we get started, it’s important to underscore the importance of this step.  If you’ve been in [...]

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  5 Reasons To Stop Scrambling To Feed Your Creditors Before You Feed Yourself

  If you’re currently in “safe mode”, then this article is for you. This article continues the “Save Yourself Series” where we examine financial tactics that should be taken when in dire financial straits. What exactly is safe mode? Safe Mode describes anyone who has recently [...]

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  4 Tips For Maintaining The Right Perspective

  I’m sure that most of you are filled with questions about how to get started with regards to your journey to [tag]financial freedom[/tag]. Its daunting believe me, I’m right there with ya! We are faced with changing years of bad money habits, habitual emotional spending [...]

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  21 Days to Rock Your Finances: Day 10- Dispute Credit Report Errors

    Once you’ve obtained a copy of your report and reviewed for errors, highlight each error and get ready to contact each bureau in order to dispute the information.  Some of he errors may include listing a credit account twice, reporting an account as late [...]

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  21 Days to Rock Your Finances: Day 9 -Review Your Credit Report

  (photo: essence.com) Today we tackle that holy grail we call credit.  Depending on who you talk to, we have to live with it but must learn to do without it.  Until you get to a point in your financial life where you can live on [...]

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