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My Top List Of Finance Movies From The Last 40 Years!

Watching movies about finance (and money) are an excellent way to learn about the history of how money, investments, and various scandals have impacted the different economies around the world. Primarily, in the United States of America.

The first finance movie I ever watched was in my 12th-grade Economics class; it was Wall Street by Oliver Stone.

At the time I thought; A movie about the stock market? How Boring!

Now almost 20 years later, I’ve really learned to appreciate what my teacher was trying to actually teach me at the time. Finance and Money matter when your adult!

Below, I’ve handpicked my favorite finance and business movies from over the last 40 years. I highly recommend these titles for anyone who wants to learn more about:

Cash Money & The Dollar
Investing in Stocks, Mutual Funds, or any kind of Business
How to avoid being scammed or swindled
How powerful positive thinking can attract more money
The history of past Recessions and Scandals

I’ll be adding more titles to this movie list over time.

Get some popcorn and enjoy!

My Top 13 Finance Movie Picks

1) Wall Street – This one of my favorite movies about trading in the … READ MORE

Should You Hire A Professional Writer?

When you’re starting a new blog it can be a challenge writing and creating content for it. Especially if you’re not already a writer or passionate about writing.

Below I’ll share a few thoughts to help you decide whether you should hire a professional writer, or do the writing yourself.

The Small Business Professional

The value of your blog will serve as a lead generation tool and an educational resource for your existing customer base. If you’re a natural at writing and you can do it effectively, I highly encourage you to do it yourself.

HOWEVER… At some point, you might discover that your time is better spent doing the day to day operations of your business.

Hiring A Professional Writer

Hiring the most qualified professional writer will be the only option if you have no interest or time to do the writing yourself.

In the long run, you’ll save the most money by hiring not the cheapest writer, but the one that knows your industry and subject matter the best.

If your blog or business is in a niche industry, you may need … READ MORE

The Top Common Blogging Questions Answered

Starting a blog can be a frustrating process when you have a lot of questions unanswered. If you’re starting your first blog, sometimes you don’t even know the questions need answering until your halfway into the process! You end up wasting a lot of time and energy trying to figure things out.

Below, I will share with you the most common questions people ask me about starting a blog. I’ll provide answers to each question as well.

Note: As we go through each question and answer below, it would help to make some notes for yourself. Think about how each question and answer will impact your plan for starting a blog.

Let’s Begin!

1) What Is A Blog And How Did Blogging Start?

BLOG is short for Web Log; it was initially used for publishing news, tutorials, magazine articles, pictures, and digital art. Today millions of blogs are used by small businesses, personal brands, and news sites to publish all sorts of digital content.

WordPress (which is a pure CMS or Content Management System) is the leading blogging platform that is used, powering about 25% of all the websites on the Internet.

That’s a lot of websites!

2) Is It

Why Does The Credit Repair Industry Exist?

We’ve all been there before; you get denied on a credit application because you don’t have enough credit history. Or worse, you have too many bad marks on your credit report such as missed payments or written off accounts (which will eventually roll over to a collections agency.)

A common problem I hear about the most happens when a collections agency picks up a charged off account; then they make a new account for it. This could cause a duplicate record on your credit report. Making a single late payment now show up as two, one for the original account you had with the lender and the second for the new account opened at the collections agency.

There should only be one active account reporting late payments!

This is just one example of many of the oversights companies have when reporting information to your credit report.

On top of that.

Most collections agencies will use very questionable tactics for conducting business and collecting debts from consumers.

This is why the Credit Repair industry exists: to combat the shady practices of Collection Agencies, Credit Bureaus, and Lenders.

Charge-offs, late payments, and disputing mistakes are the most common and simplest issues to … READ MORE

How Delivering NewsPapers Teaches You About Making Money

Having a paper route (delivering newspapers) as a teenager was a great way to make extra money! It’s how I started learning the basics of business. The basics of buying something low and then selling it at a higher price for a profit.

It’s amazing how a job like delivering newspapers can boost your confidence as a young kid. I remember my first-day delivering papers and thought: How am I ever going to get all of these newspapers delivered in time?

Then you do it a second day, a third day, and you do it again and again. You work out a system to get the work done faster. You learn, adapt, and come up with solutions to make the job easier and efficient. Later you take those skills to an even higher paying job or opportunity. You grow in life as it should be.

Delivering NewsPapers Teaches You About The Following Business & Money Concepts…

Buying Low & Selling High; As A Reseller

When you have a paper route, you are a reseller of the newspapers. Every morning a bundle of newspapers was delivered on my porch. These are the papers that I bought and the expenses were automatically billed … READ MORE