Mainvest – How To Invest In Small Businesses!
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Mainvest – How To Invest In Small Businesses!

ByMichael Gomez

What is Mainvest! Mainvest is an investment brokerage company that instead of focusing on the regular stock market or real estate like most brokerages nowadays, instead allows people to invest directly into small businesses and share in their profits. Their returns are supposed to be about 10-25% on average with returns as little as $100. How does Mainvest work? On Mainvest, investors can discover hundreds of small businesses that they can choose to invest in. You can get started investing with them with as little as $100. Once you invest in a business investors get access to “revenue sharing notes”…

Taxable Investment Accounts – What Are They and What Are Their Benefits?
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Taxable Investment Accounts – What Are They and What Are Their Benefits?

ByMichael Gomez

What are taxable investment accounts? No matter who you open an investment account with, most typically offer the regular taxable investment account. Unlike tax-deferred investment accounts, like traditional IRAs, 401ks, Roth IRAs, and etc., taxable investment accounts count as extra income every year when you sell for a gain or are paid dividends from your investments. This makes them noticeably less tax-efficient than tax-deferred accounts. Advantages of using a taxable investment account! There are, however, a few advantages to using a regular taxable investment account along with tax-deferred ones though. The first being that while you might have to pay…

How to Use the Ibotta App to Get Cashback on Groceries and Many Other Services!
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How to Use the Ibotta App to Get Cashback on Groceries and Many Other Services!

ByMichael Gomez

Getting cash back on groceries with Ibotta! There are actually more and more apps that pay people back for making the purchases they would make regularly. Some of you have heard of services like Ebates Rakuten on tv. However there are even more and, I’d say even better services that can be used to make money back and we’ll talk about one of them in this post One of my favorite cashback services is Ibotta. It’s a relatively new service that allows you to earn cashback from your everyday purchases, from a wide variety of different stores like Walmart, Target,…

Who I Am – Michael Gomez

ByMichael Gomez

Hello everyone, My name is Michael Gomez this is my new blog about all the different ways there are out there to save and make some extra money. It’s understandably hard out there with student loans and other types of debt and all the pandemic hardships weighing down on people’s minds nowadays. I’m writing this blog in order to help the average person with money issues. Why do this? Because it gives the average person the best leg up on their finances. In this blog, I will be talking about many different sections of money management. I talk about banking,…

Mudflap App – Save Up To 50 Cents Per Gallon on Diesel Fuel!
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Mudflap App – Save Up To 50 Cents Per Gallon on Diesel Fuel!

ByMichael Gomez

What is the Mudflap App? Mudflap is a relatively new cashback app, similar to the GetUpside app that gets you cash back on gas, that allows anyone to save a bunch of money when purchasing diesel fuel. I have written about a couple of other programs like the “My Diesel Fuel Savings Program“, “TSD Fuel Savings Program“, Checkout51, and GetUpside that offer savings and cashback for purchasing gas or diesel fuel. Mudflap takes the best aspect of these programs and puts them in one app that offers massive savings when purchasing diesel fuel! Some of the great things about the…

How To Invest with Robinhood – The Brokerage That Started Free Trade Commissions!
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How To Invest with Robinhood – The Brokerage That Started Free Trade Commissions!

ByMichael Gomez

What is Robinhood? Robinhood is an investment brokerage that’s named after the famed fairy tale character of Robinhood, who stole from the rich and gave to the poor. Robinhood named itself in such a manner because they were one of, if not the first investment brokerage that allowed people to invest commission-free. Before Robinhood, most brokerages had stricter limits on things like how much money people needed to get started to invest. More notably, brokerages charged a fair amount of money for trade commissions. Trade commissions are whenever you buy or sell stocks inside of a brokerage. Before Robinhood, depending…

What Are The Different Ways That Affiliate Programs Pay You?
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What Are The Different Ways That Affiliate Programs Pay You?

ByMichael Gomez

What are Affiliate Programs? Affiliate programs are programs that are set up by a business selling a product or service with the use of an affiliate network in order to help advertise the items they sell through third-party advertisers like blogs like this one in order to reach an ever wider audience that they can sell their goods and services to. The way affiliate programs and networks work is similar to the way that ad programs and networks, like Google Ads being one of the better-known ones, work. One key difference between the two is who is doing the work…

How To Earn 10% Cashback With The M1 Finance Rewards Card!
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How To Earn 10% Cashback With The M1 Finance Rewards Card!

ByMichael Gomez

What is M1 Finance? M1 Finance is an investment brokerage that offers investment and banking services. The unique thing about M1 Finance is that they were one of the first brokerages to offer both commission-free and fractional shares on any stock listed in the US stock market. They did have predecessors like the investment brokerages Stash and Robinhood that really started and popularized the investment trend of commission-free trades, started by Robinhood, and fractional shares, started by Stash. Technically, Stash also had commission-free trades, but they also charge a monthly fee for their accounts, so I’m not counting it as entirely…

What Is A SEP IRA And How Does It Work?
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What Is A SEP IRA And How Does It Work?

ByMichael Gomez

What is a SEP-IRA? Most people know about both traditional and Roth IRAs or individual retirement accounts. Both types of accounts are a type of retirement account that you can open through an investment brokerage and manage all on your own. The traditional IRA is a retirement account that is similar to the traditional 401k where all of the contributions are tax-deductible. The Roth IRA is a similar account to the Roth 401k where your contribution count as after-tax contributions and you no longer need to pay ANY taxes on that money in retirement. Both types of IRAs allow your…

How To Get Free Website Hosting With Ezoic!
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How To Get Free Website Hosting With Ezoic!

ByMichael Gomez

What is Ezoic? Ezoic is an ad platform, like Google Adsense, that allows publishers to use their service to monetize their blog or website. They are technically not an ad network, a third party that outsources ads, a header bidder company, an ad exchange, an ad management service (although as a non-techy person they kind of seem like one to me), or just an ad monetization company. They are actually more of a tech company that provides a wide range of services other than just helping you monetize your sites with ads. They help boost your site speed with their own…