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Have you read so much about personal finance that you actually feel overwhelmed by it? Have all the many principles, strategies, and techniques for taking charge of your money become so confusing that you don’t quite know where to start applying them? If so, this article is here to help. The Internet is teeming with free tools, cheat sheets, and calculators that allow you to plug in your numbers and generate useful intelligence on what you should change (or start doing.) Here are 25 of the best and most essential. Try to find the ones most useful to you and, most importantly, use them! [click to continue…]
Few things are more inspiring than the day you decide to get your finances in order. You start planning and plotting on how you will save more money and spend more wisely. You begin to set short and long-term goals and take visible steps toward reaching them. Before long, you’ve squeezed all the advice you can from newspaper columns and free web articles. You’re ready to advance your personal finance education to the next level. But where do you turn? Bookstore shelves groan beneath the weight of untold dozens of personal finance books, each promising to be the only one you need to achieve financial freedom. It’s no wonder you can’t decide which one(s) to buy!
Luckily, you don’t have to; at least, not yet. The Internet is bursting with personal finance e-books which you can read right on your computer screen – for free. We took the liberty of tracking down the top 25 free personal finance e-books that are actually worth your time. Read the descriptions below and investigate any books that pique your interest! [click to continue…]
If you’ve noticed more spam on Tip’d in the past week when you’ve checked our upcoming stories, you’re not alone. We’ve noticed the ugly spaminess here at Tip’d headquarters, too!
And we’re not, of course, about to let the spammers overrun the Tip’d community. We’re taking the follow action to make sure our upcoming section is (mostly) free of off-topic crapola:
Beefing up our moderator staff: The volume of spam is simply too much for one moderator to deal with, so we’re now taking applications for volunteer moderators! (Contact us if you’re interested.)
Making several algorithmic tweaks: Sorry, I can’t reveal them here, but rest assured if you’re using Tip’d as a legit user, they shouldn’t affect you 99.999% of the time.
Asking users to use the Topple button: Obviously the more the community gets involved, the better. If you see something that’s blatant spam, please Topple!
So hopefully in 4 days’ time, I’ll be writing the follow-up blog post: “How I Beat the Spammers Off with a Stick”. Stay tuned!
