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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
