The one year anniversary of when I started the Amateur Financier is coming up rapidly. (It’s this Sunday, in fact; has a year really gone by this fast already?) As I look back on my blogging career, short though it might seem, I can’t help feeling that I could be doing much better in my […]
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(Welcome to another addition of Small Business 101. Today we’re going to talk about bootstrapping, one option you can take while starting a small business. Let the funding talk begin!) Q: Alright, just what is bootstrapping? A: Bootstrapping is where a small business makes due with only a small amount of capital and spends it
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Credit cards have become a regular part of most of our lives. Most of us use them as our major method of paying for our purchases. A large portion of them (including me) even make it our primary method of payment, because of the ease of use, the rewards offered by the credit card companies,
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When it comes to investing in stocks for capital gains, there are two different approaches that can be taken in order to ensure that your stocks increase their worth: growth investing and value investing. (There are other rationales for investing, such as investing for dividends, but for now let’s stick with growth and value investing.)
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As a consequence of the recent downturn in the stock market, one investing philosophy that has made a remarkable recovery is dividend stocks. Rather than investing purely for capital appreciation (or the growth in stock prices over time), you invest to get paid a regular, quarterly dividend from your stocks. Besides the appeal of getting
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