Cheryl Zhao

Cheryl Zhao, a financial expert, has been a part of our team for five years. After earning her MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management, she worked as a real estate broker before turning to blogging. Cheryl’s extensive knowledge of the housing market and trends, coupled with her passion for financial literacy, makes her blog posts an essential read for anyone considering becoming financially independent.

Joined: January 29, 2019
Articles: 590
Comments: 486

Finance

4 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Starting a Small Business

A regular job or your own small business? This questions pops into everyone’s mind, at least every once in a while. Some are content with their job and the security of a monthly check, while others try to find new…

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Top 5 Reasons You Can’t Get Out of Debt

Debt. The biggest financial problem of many people around the globe. From maxed out credit cards to huge mortgage and student loans, the modern man has it all. It doesn’t matter how big or small your debt is, if you…

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6 Freelancing Myths that Stop You from Earning Real Money

6 of the biggest freelancing myths and misconceptions. Find out the truth about freelancing.

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7 Critical Home Staging Mistakes to Avoid

Here are the biggest home staging mistakes you should avoid.

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How to Stop Mental Accounting and Gain Control over Your Money Again

Find out how to prevent mental accounting from leaving you broke each month. Few strategies to gain control over your money and become financially independent.

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3 Ways to Overcome Writer’s Block and Boost Productivity

How does one begin writing an article about how to overcome writer’s block? That is the question! Let’s just skip the dull part about how writer’s block is totally normal and how it can (and probably will) happen to anyone. The fact of the matter is, if you side hustle on the side to make more money or if your entire business depends on writing content for the web, it doesn’t matter that even the greatest writers of all time have stared at a blank page at least a few times during their careers! If you don’t overcome writer’s block ASAP, you’ll have a difficult time boosting your productivity and making your business work. There are a myriad of articles online that debate this very topic: how to overcome writer’s block. Many have come up with various tricks to get the creative juices flowing and have shared their wisdom all over the internet. Some of these tricks really work, many are rather dopey, a few I haven’t tried yet. The fact of the matter is, every person is different. We are all unique. Some methods work for some writers, some do not. Maybe few of the tricks work when you’re in a certain mood. Maybe not. For instance, washing the dishes while listening to music has never worked for me. Yet, these 2 tricks to defeat writer’s block are highly recommended by so many web content writers! So, what does work? Personally, I’ve found these 3 ways to overcome writer’s block to be the most effective: Read blogs / websites within your niche to overcome writer’s block Nothing can be more inspiring than reading about the topic you’re supposed to write about! If you have a niche blog to maintain or one of your own, you probably know about other […]

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Real Estate: The Pros and Cons of Buying an Already Built House

Interested in a new home? Find out if you should buy a home or build it yourself?

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What Is SEO Writing and How Does it Help You Side Hustle

What is SEO writing? Isn’t all web content the same? SEO writing plays a great part in getting traffic to a website. And if you’re looking to side hustle to start earning money from home or even open up a freelancing business, content writing gigs make for a great place to start! For the untrained eye, all websites look alike. Search engines though see websites in a very different manner. What do you think a website owner wants to achieve when they set up a new website and make it look like eye-candy for the public? Regardless of the niche or the type of website (blogs, forums, business showcase websites), your main goal should be to get as many people as possible to visit it and read its content. In other words, you should generate organic website traffic with the help of SEO writing for your clients. How does SEO writing help a website (and help you earn money with your new freelancing business) Besides proper search engine optimization techniques, SEO writing is your best chance at attracting organic traffic for a website (visitors who find you on various search engines, without the help of paid advertising). Millions of people use the search engines every minute of every day. And they are all looking to find useful information that could help them solve their problems. Google, Bing, Yahoo and others are still the no. 1 source people go to when they need to look for something specific. And it’s the well optimized, quality content that determines the search engines to push a website to the top. You could use SEO optimized content to help your clients boost their website or even practice web content writing on your own freelance portfolio. SEO writing is content written in such a way that it targets […]