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Branson backs loans for student business plans
Friday, 16 Mar, 2012 – 6:00 | 4 Comments

Billionaire entrepreneur and founder of the Virgin Group, Sir Richard Branson, has this week backed a plan for school leavers who opt not to go to university but start a business instead.
Branson’s plan, which is currently …

5 Ways to Improve Cash Flow
Thursday, 16 Jun, 2011 – 6:00 | 4 Comments
5 Ways to Improve Cash Flow

Are you a business owner struggling to collect debts from customers?  If you’re serious about making strategic changes to your business to collect debts faster, read on.
Cashflow is like oxygen to a business, the more …

Why Pricing Is Important
Thursday, 9 Jun, 2011 – 6:00 | 5 Comments
Why Pricing Is Important

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Most business owners recognise that if they price their products or services too low, then they risk leaving money on the table. On the other hand if they set prices too high, …

How to save £5,000 in 30 days
Friday, 23 Apr, 2010 – 6:00 | 6 Comments
How to save £5,000 in 30 days

This is my conclusion to a challenge I set in March is Money Month – to save £1000/$1000 in the next 30 days.  This is the end of my month of targeted actions to …

Challenge: Save £1000/$1000 in 30 days update
Tuesday, 13 Apr, 2010 – 6:00 | 8 Comments
Challenge: Save £1000/$1000 in 30 days update

This is an update to a challenge I set in March is Money Month – to save £1000/$1000 in the next 30 days.  Just because the official challenge is in it’s 3rd week, doesn’t mean …

Pay your self first and other money lessons
Tuesday, 30 Mar, 2010 – 6:00 | 20 Comments
Pay your self first and other money lessons

It is now almost the end of the March is Money series and I thought it would be useful to look back at the previous 22 posts and recap the key lessons.
The most important lesson …

How to Invest In Property
Monday, 29 Mar, 2010 – 6:00 | 13 Comments
How to Invest In Property

Property is in a bit of the doldrums at the minute. So many people are steering clear of it as investment, which reminds me of the quote by the world’s greatest investor, Warren Buffett
“Be fearful …

How to make a difference to your finances in 2010
Friday, 26 Mar, 2010 – 6:00 | 8 Comments
How to make a difference to your finances in 2010

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From time to time, on a Friday, we feature guest posts from cool people making their own small dent in the universe. At the the end of January we announced that 6aliens.com …

5 Steps to manage your finances
Thursday, 25 Mar, 2010 – 6:00 | 3 Comments
5 Steps to manage your finances

If you do nothing else
If you do nothing else this month then follow these 5 simple steps. Each step builds on the previous step, so when you finish the first go on to the …

How to get rich the boring way
Tuesday, 23 Mar, 2010 – 6:00 | 16 Comments
How to get rich the boring way

Would you rather be rich or rather be sexy? Is the opening chapter in Ramit Sethi’s book; I will teach you to be rich.
This is your lesson plan on how to get rich:
According to Sethi …

How to create An Emergency fund
Monday, 22 Mar, 2010 – 6:00 | 3 Comments
How to create An Emergency fund

What do you do when you car breaks down or your bathroom leaks and you have to call a plumber?
Put it on your credit card, right?
Well maybe to get points or rewards, but certainly not …

Challenge: Save £1000/$1000 in 30 days
Sunday, 21 Mar, 2010 – 6:00 | 6 Comments
Challenge: Save £1000/$1000 in 30 days

[warning: this post could seriously improve your finances, if you're prepared to take action]
So, over the last week you’ve been looking at where your money goes. A good few of you have also got some …

50 ways to save £50/$50 per month
Saturday, 20 Mar, 2010 – 6:00 | 17 Comments
50 ways to save £50/$50 per month

Never got enough money? People often tell me that they can’t afford to save because their expenses frequently equal or exceed thier income.
Saving a little each month will pay big dividends. Whilst saving can …

Where did it all go?
Friday, 19 Mar, 2010 – 6:00 | 7 Comments
Where did it all go?

If you’ve took part on Monday’s challenge – Where Does It All Go? to track everything you’ve spent your money on, by now you will have started to collect some useful information. If you …

Cut costs on the big things
Thursday, 18 Mar, 2010 – 6:00 | 6 Comments
Cut costs on the big things

In Tuesday’s post we talked about spending money on the the things you love and not simply to cut expenditure and live like a monk. Because that’s not sustainable.
From time to time you need …

Wednesday Wisdom
Wednesday, 17 Mar, 2010 – 6:00 | 11 Comments
Wednesday Wisdom

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve posted two book reviews; a book review of Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad Poor Dad and also a review of Ramit Sethi’s I Will Teach You To Be Rich.
This …

Spend money on the things you love
Tuesday, 16 Mar, 2010 – 6:00 | 16 Comments
Spend money on the things you love

If you’re trying to loose weight and you go on a crash diet, sure you’ll loose some weight, but eventually it will all get too much for you and before your know it, you’ll  hit …

Where does it all go?
Monday, 15 Mar, 2010 – 6:00 | 8 Comments
Where does it all go?

The good news is no one gets fat overnight. Instead it slowly creeps up in a bar of chocolate here and a packet of crisps there. Not having the time to exercise after baby’s born …

Where are we now?
Friday, 12 Mar, 2010 – 6:00 | 8 Comments
Where are we now?

I thought I’d wrap this week up with a quick review of what we’ve covered so far this month and also what we’re going to be talking about in the next few weeks in the …

Do you want to retire rich or do you want to retire dead?
Thursday, 11 Mar, 2010 – 6:00 | 9 Comments
Do you want to retire rich or do you want to retire dead?

Yesterday I was reading my Twitter Feed when I spotted a link on @breakingnews quoting a story on CNN Money that 43% of Americans have less than $10k saved towards retirement
The CNN story refers …

Control Your Debt (part #2)
Tuesday, 9 Mar, 2010 – 6:00 | 6 Comments
Control Your Debt (part #2)

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This is the second part of a two part post on controlling debt, which is the first step to finanicial freedom.
In the first post we looked at the  difference between Good Debt …

Control your debt
Monday, 8 Mar, 2010 – 6:00 | 10 Comments
Control your debt

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In The Secrets of Becoming Rich we talked about the six steps to creating a solid foundation to build your wealth. In case you’ve not read the six steps, you can catch …

The secrets of becoming rich
Friday, 5 Mar, 2010 – 6:00 | 16 Comments
The secrets of becoming rich

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How to make your millions…
Making money is quite a simple process in theory, but like all the best journeys the road is not always straight forward.
In this post we look at the …

How to get rich – What does it all mean?
Monday, 1 Mar, 2010 – 6:00 | 18 Comments
How to get rich – What does it all mean?

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We have all heard the term rich. But what does it all mean?
There are books on how to get rich, classes  or internet articles on how to get rich that are headed …