How to Stretch Your Retirement Fund

As soon as you start earning money, even if very young, you should start your retirement planning and creating a proper retirement fund. There are multiple strategies to save for retirement and chances are you’ll put most of them into practice for your golden years. And now you are retired. Are you pleased with your retirement fund? Do you think your money will last you all the retirement? Are you foreseeing any new retirement expenses you didn’t account for? Whatever your retirement fund status now, there are ways you can still make the most out of your money. Here are few tricks to stretch your retirement fund: Downsize One of the biggest expenses we have in our lives is related to our house. Even if you paid off your mortgage off years ago, a posh home location will cost you a lot: taxes, utilities, repairs etc. What if I told you there are places in this world that are amazingly beautiful and less expensive to live in? If you don’t mind switching countries, you can easily find a paradise location and live there for a fraction of the costs you incur in the US. Even better … you can rent your house in the US and use the money you earn like this to live in the new country. In many such places your rent alone could easily cover for rent, utilities, food and even some traveling. If you don’t like the idea of going outside the US, there are less expensive states to live in. Just look around and find the best location for you. Do you have too many empty rooms in your house? You can rent them and earn money, even if you don’t like the idea of moving out of your house. Understand how much money […]

How to Promote Your Startup Online and Increase Your Sales

Did you create a website for your startup and found out that you need to do more to get sales? Years ago, all you had to do was build a website and you’d get an audience for it the next day. It’s more complicated now. You’ve probably attended a workshop or two on how one can leverage the internet to expand business and make great sales (If you haven’t or have forgotten, you can read up about this here). Maybe you have social media accounts set up to better promote online. And it still doesn’t bring you enough clients. Here are 7 ways to get better website conversions from your business website: Properly build your business website and optimize it You can’t promote your startup effectively if you don’t have a website. I’ve met companies who spent a lot of money on advertising and failed to build a proper website. When advertising money is gone, so is your chance to get customers at your virtual door. There’s nothing wrong with paying for advertising, but make sure you have a proper website set up, so that you can redirect all this traffic ‘somewhere’. Optimize the site by making it visually appealing (using more pictures, videos, and great graphics), mobile friendly and making sure pages load quickly, so users can easily access it and be persuaded to stay longer on it. You can test your site here to check if it’s mobile-friendly. Create a business blog and update it Over 75% of my web design clients come from my web design and SEO blog. It’s a lot of business I couldn’t get, if I failed to create a proper blog, showcasing my knowledge and convincing my clients that I can help solve their online businesses. If you noticed, most big companies keep […]

How to Save Money on Homeowners Insurance

Homeowners Insurance can be quite costly, if you don't know how to properly shop around and get some better deals. Find out what strategies can help you lower your homeowners insurance premiums and save more money in the process.