Almost a year ago, I released the Beating Broke Guide to your Credit Score.  Since then, a lot has happened and it seems to me that your credit score could become more important than ever as we recover from this economic disaster.  Previously, I had it set up such that you had to sign up [...]

I’m always looking for better ways to promote my blog and to find inspiration for better, more plentiful blog posts.  I may have found both!  It’s called the Yakezie Alexa Challenge.  It’s the brain-child of The financial Samurai.  Essentially, it breaks down to a cooperative of personal finance bloggers.  A great idea really. Here’s the [...]

Don’t know what PFBWLC is?  It stands for Personal Finance Blogger Weight Loss Challenge.  A bunch of us PF bloggers got together (challenged by Baker at Man Vs. Debt) and took a challenge to treat our weight the way we treat our debt.  We started 5 weeks ago on June 1st and will conclude on [...]

If you read this blog through a feed reader, or just haven’t visited in the last week or so, you likely haven’t seen the new banner that I’ve put up on the right side of the site.  It’s a lovely little banner (designed by me) for a White Paper / Report that I put together.  [...]

As I made mention of earlier, I’ve been playing around on twitter for a little while.  I’ve mainly been using my personal account, but thought that it was about time for Beating Broke to get some representation there. So, you can now follow Beating Broke on Twitter.  The user name is @beatingbroke and, while I [...]

Today, I requested and received the addition of this blog to the PFBlogs.org blogroll.  PfBlogs.org is the premier personal finance blog aggregator.  I am very proud to have Beating Broke as a member of the blogroll and look forward to many years of contribution and interation with the personal finance community. If you haven’t, you [...]

I know some of you are probably not Americans, but for those of you who are, Happy 4th of July!  I hope it’s nice and sunny for your celebrations and the fireworks are great tonight! Independence day is also a great day to think about your financial independence.  Take a look around you and think [...]

We haven’t started cranking up just yet, but over the next few days and weeks, you’ll start seeing lots of quality discussion on many personal finance topics.  Chief among them, the topic of Beating Broke.  We want to try and help you beat back your debt and work towards being debt free.  Along the way, [...]