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Blooom Review: How to Optimize Your 401(k)

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A 401(k) is one of the most popular investment accounts available, but many of us are not utilizing it to its full potential. That’s where Blooom comes into play, and I’ve got a full Blooom review of this 401(k) optimization company below.

Get Started Today: Get your free 401(k) analysis from Blooom today, and make sure you are in good standing.

Look, I get it, there are a lot of things that are more fun than optimizing your 401(k). I’m sure you’d rather be:

Okay, maybe not so much the last one, but that’s important too!

The good news is Blooom (yes, 3 O’s) created a service to help everyday investors get the most out of their 401(k). It’s definitely worth learning more about them, including the 100% free analysis that they provide, which can help answer questions like:

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Jobs for 15 Year Olds: How Teens Can Make Money

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Similar how the best time to start investing is yesterday, the best time to start earning an income is yesterday as well.

For most of you reading this, it’s probably too late to get a job at age 15 if you didn’t have one. Unless you have a time machine.

But it might not be too late for you kid. Or niece or nephew. Or neighbor.

Below are some good reasons to consider getting a job as a teenager, and some good ideas of where to look first.

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Easy Ways to Make Money from Home

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Learning how to increase your income is one of the best ways to balance your budget. That’s because the amount of money you can earn is unlimited, while you can only cut so many expenses until your left with nothing. And making money from home is probably one of the best ways to increase your income!

Todd from Invested Wallet is an expert at it. Check out his list of great ideas on how to make money from home below.

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Betterment Review: Is Betterment Worth It?

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Betterment is a Robo-advisor that offers a ton of great features, like managing your investments for you and optimizing your investments for taxes. But it is also more expensive than investing on your own. So we did a full Betterment review with this question in mind – is Betterment worth it?

The short answer is, yes, it is worth it if you are a new investor. Or if you are someone who just wants to take a hands-off approach to investing.

So, if you’re ready to start investing today and want to skip the full details of the Betterment review below, you can get started with Betterment here:

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Index Investing for Beginners – You’re Ultimate Guide to Getting Started

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Everyone should be investing in some capacity if they can. Whether it’s through a 401(k), a Roth IRA, or just a personal brokerage account, investing is one of the best things you can do for yourself! And if all those fancy numbers and abbreviations (looking at you, Roth IRA) mean nothing to you, don’t worry, we’re breaking down how anyone can get started in this index investing for beginners guide.

Before we get started, imagine this for a second… Let’s say when you were born you put $100 in your piggy bank. And every year for your birthday, you were fortunate enough to add $100 to that piggy bank (or your parents added it for you). When you turned 18 and went to withdraw that money, instead of it being $1,800, it was $3,700. Over double the amount you expected!

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