Category: Product Reviews

Looking to improve your personal finances or run your small business more efficiently? We review the best services, apps, and tools for managing your personal finances, as well as tools and services for improving small business productivity and profitability.

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Money at 30: "Young, Fun & Financially Free" Book Review

by Kyle Burbank 3
Personal finance often gets a bad rap. Despite dozens if not hundreds of bloggers insisting that, no, budgeting doesn't mean depriving yourself of all non-essential spending, there's no question that this is still the impression most people get. Enter another expert here to insist that you can indeed lead a fulfilling life not in spite of financial responsibility but because of it. In Young, Fun & Financially Free: Live the...
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Money at 30: Paribus Review (2019)

by Kyle Burbank 3
Have you ever pulled the trigger on a purchase only to watch the price fall mere days later? That's the frustration Paribus aims to alleviate and eliminate. The Capital One-owned service helps consumers claim refunds on their purchases when items drop in price or their packages arrive after their promised date. So does Paribus live up to the hype? Let's take a look at what the service is, how it...
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Money at 30: InboxDollars vs. Survey Junkie Review

by Kyle Burbank 3
There's an old joke that suggests that, like a certain body part, everyone has an opinion. But did you know that you can make money by offering your opinions on brands, movie trailers, politics, and more? It's true — as the sites InboxDollars and Survey Junkie prove. Both of these sites allow users to take various surveys and earn a small amount of cash for their time. Then, when you...
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A Guide to Peer to Peer Lending Platforms for Borrowers and Investors

by Jonathan Dyer 5
Back in the late 90s and early 2000s, you may have heard the term “peer to peer” as it related to music sharing services like Napster. About a decade later the term gained new popularity in an entirely different field altogether: finance. More specifically, lending. Peer to peer (P2P) lending is a model that matches up borrowers in need of loans with investors willing to fund them. This system benefits...
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Money at 30: "The War on Normal People" Book Review

by Kyle Burbank
If you thought that the 2016 Republican presidential primary was packed, take a look at the roster of Democrats looking to earn their party's nomination in 2020. Among the nearly two dozen Dems courting voters are established brands like Vice President Joe Biden, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren alongside some lesser known figures like South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Representative Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii. One of the candidates...
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Money at 30: Vital Card Review - What You Need to Know

by Kyle Burbank
Ultimately, as concerning as it may look at first glance, I have no qualms about Vital Card's proposed concept and think it could be a hit. Moreover, since all that is currently required to sign up is an e-mail address, I really don't see any harm in giving it a shot at this juncture.
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Money at 30: "I Will Teach You To Be Rich (2nd Edition)" Book Review

by Kyle Burbank 3
Ever since I started paying attention to personal finance blogs, it was pretty much a foregone conclusion that Ramit Sethi's I Will Teach You to Be Rich would be included on any given list of the best books to read. More recently, Sethi has popped up repeatedly in my life, being announced as a guest mentor for the Teachable Creator Challenge as well as a speaker at the 2019 FinCon...
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Money at 30: "Broke Millennial Takes on Investing" Book Review

by Kyle Burbank 4
There's a common belief that, having come of age during the Great Recession, most Millennials have been turned off to investing. Well, until relatively recently, you could count me among those of my generation that were either too afraid, too uninformed,  or just too broke to invest. Perhaps that's why the second entry in Erin Lowry's aptly titled Broke Millennial book series is dedicated to the topic. The result is...