Financial Planning & Advice for the Modern Family
Who We Are
We offer informative resources on everything from budgeting and business advice to increasing your income and planning for your kid’s college education.
Whether you’re a family of 4, a single parent, a widow or one-half of a cohabitating couple, we can offer you some valuable advice to help you stay in control of your finances.
Our content contributors have over 55 years of industry experience.
Our Vision
Given the current economic climate, it’s now more important than ever before to stay in control of your finances.
Our goal is to inform, educate and help our clients and readers to better budget their monies, maximise their investments and plan for the expected and the unexpected.
OUR SERVICES
Planning Services. We can help you to better manage your money so that you’re never under pressure when it comes to unforeseen expenses.
Business Strategy Services. Family business owners have to do a lot to keep their heads above water today. It’s getting more and more difficult with each passing day so our aim is to offer the best business strategy advice and services to ensure a positive ROI for family business owners.
Business Consultation Services. Ongoing assessment is essential if you want to keep your family business’s income in the red. We offer you free advice on our blog section and we also offer business consultation services that will ensure a successful outcome.
ABOUT US
Our company was founded in 2007 at a time when everyone was struggling.
We witnessed the huge devastation that family businesses experienced with closures happening in Colorado and all over the country.
We saw an opportunity to help family business owners (and families in general) to stay afloat financially and our company was born.
WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT US
Joe James
“This was the first time that I started a family business and I needed some professional help. I was searching for someone with a lot of experience that will help me and provide me with important advice. Then I found this company that was focusing on providing clients with an informative resource for family businesses.”
Amy Sandoval
“I love working with them, they helped me and my family business out a lot. Without them, I am sure that my business would have failed a long time ago. They provided me always with the best advice and informations about my family businesses. I would recommend them to everyone that has a family business.”
Patrick Jenkins
“All the problems that I had with my family business disappeared when I started working with this informative company. They saved my family business that my father left on to me. Their advice was very helpful, they always understand what I wanted from them and they delivered each time.”
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OUR POPULAR ARTICLES
5 Steps to Taking Your Business Global with Virtual Offices
When it comes to owning a bricks and mortar business, most business owners are content with getting the business of their own local area. That is the only business they can get! People in their local community. When it comes to the modern entrepreneur, sometimes that...
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Looking to Get A Raise At Work, But Don’t Know How To Go About it?
One of the hardest things you can ever do in work, is approach your boss to ask for more money. It is the stuff of nightmares for a lot of the workforce, something to be dreaded and feared. However, it doesn’t need to be this way at all. There are some tips you can...
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Marketing Ideas For Family Business
Marketing is a huge and very important part of family business. Nowadays, there are many different ways you can market and advertise your business. All of those marketing strategies are evolving each day, and that’s why you have to stay updated. In order to have a...
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The Best Budgeting Tools for Families
These days, it is harder and harder for families to get by, with the cost of living rising ever higher, while it seems that pay packets have stagnated, and don’t match the rise in the cost of just surviving. And we know it can be hard to come up with the funds to even...
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Affordable At Home Family Events
When you have a family with two or more kids, it can seem overwhelming when you start to consider doing “family” things together. This is because every place you may want to go can become expensive. A trip to a skating ring can cost nearly $100 for a family of five. A...
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Why Buying In Bulk Can Make Better Financial Sense for Your Family
In the current climate, purchasing foods and other sundry items can be pretty darn expensive. Doing a weekly shop can often erode away a pay check pretty fast. However, there are a few things you can do to lessen this financial burden, and one of the easiest ways to...
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The Best Ways to Save Money on Holidays
We all need a holiday from time to time, an opportunity to unwind from the rigors of the daily grind, and to reset the stress levels to somewhere near normal. However, the problem with a lot of holidays is, they are quite pricey, and can stretch a family’s finances to...
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Tips On Running A Successful Family Business
To successfully run a family business, you have to have a lot of experience and knowledge about some important things. Without experience and knowledge, you will be struggling to run your family business. One thing that can have a huge impact on family businesses is...
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The Best Financial Based Apps For Your Smart Devices
I don’t think there’s any of us out there that could not use a little help from time to time with managing of finances, preparing budgets, or any of the other monetary challenges placed in the way of today’s family units. In this article, we break down some of the...
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Thrifty DIY Home Pest Care Ideas
When it comes to homes, there are a lot of expenses for homeowners to deal with. There is an unending list of bills to pay, maintenance items to take care of, and more. The one thing we do not often consider is the amount of money we may spend trying to rid our home of pests. It is an added expense that most of us cannot afford to handle. However, it’s a necessary evil unless you want the bugs to gain control of your home. This is often why people search everywhere for affordable, DIY home pest care options.
Dealing with the Pests
Have you ever been sitting at home, minding your own business, and have a palmetto bug run across your foot? Or been lying in bed at night and hear a mosquito or a housefly buzzing in your ear? It is an annoyance that most people must face at some time. No matter how clean your home may be; insects find a way to invite themselves in.
This is why some homeowners opt to have an ongoing maintenance/protection plan. Every month or so, someone from a pest control service will come by and spray all the cracks and crevices of their home to ensure that pests never gain the upper hand. It is very effective and may be required in homes that have serious pest issues, but it is pricy. Some of these services can end up costing as much as a couple hundred dollars per spray by a professional exterminator. Price does depend on the size of your home. Can you afford it on top of everything else?
A Better Option for Thrifty Homeowners
If you want to avoid the high cost of professional extermination, it is possible to do it. There are numerous bug control options that you can spray around your home if you want to avoid chemicals and cost. Many of the ingredients may already be in your home.
For those who want faster results, there are many more mosquito control options at propane mosquito traps. They include options like bug zappers, propane traps, and more. There is no shortage of pest control options and one of them is guaranteed to fit into your budget, no matter how tight it may be.
Take Control and Avoid the Bugs!
Every homeowner must deal with some type of pest in their home at some point. Most often, summer seasons, dry weather, wet weather, and just pest migration can trigger an infestation of insects. They are unavoidable. This does not mean that you are stuck dealing with them. It is your home. Not theirs. Before you suffer through another insect invasion, make sure you know what your DIY pest removal options are. You will save yourself, and your family, a lot of headaches.
Affordable At Home Family Events
When you have a family with two or more kids, it can seem overwhelming when you start to consider doing “family” things together. This is because every place you may want to go can become expensive. A trip to a skating ring can cost nearly $100 for a family of five. A trip to the movies is approximately the same, maybe more if you add in popcorn and drinks for it. Going out to dinner, football games and other sporting events, and more are all going to come with a major price tag. For this reason, many families are looking for more affordable at home family events.
Affordable Entertainment At Home
Families began enjoying family game nights as a first solution to outrageous prices. Game nights could be weekly and allow each member of the home to choose their favorite games. Families also took that to the next level with family movie nights. Ordering a movie off Pay Per View or hitting the Redbox machine made it affordable. They could then cook their own popcorn and have their choice of beverages. These at home events are ideal, but as kids get older, they may want to avoid spending time at home. They may outgrow games or run out of movies that they want to watch. Instead, they opt to visit friends and life takes over.
A Better Way to Save Money while Bonding
Communities are also working toward a solution to put the “affordable” back into family life. The goal is to encourage families to live, play, and enjoy life as a family, together. A person within the community may open up their lawn for a neighborhood game night, pool party, or a cookout. Community dinners do not have to cost the hosting family a lot of money. Simply encourage all families to bring a food item. Someone in the community could also set up an outdoor movie night using affordable movie screens and a projector or a television with a DVD player hooked up. Outdoor speakers are affordable as well and you could even add an amplifier for outdoor speakers if you wanted.
Benefits of Community Wide Entertainment
By doing a community event in your neighborhood, you make it less expensive for families to get out of the house. You encourage people to get to know their neighbors and spend time as a group. You can host events that take up a single night each week. Backyard games such as horseshoes or badminton, movie nights, barbeques, cookouts in the park, and so much more. The options are endless. Even if it takes a little while to get everyone interested, it will still be worth it. Families and communities in today’s world barely say, “HI” to one another. They work, they go home, they sit on their phones, tablets, PCs, and video game boxes. Is that the way that we should continue to live? Or should we strive to know our neighbors, save money, and enjoy living life?