FinCon: Finance, Blogging, and New Media
A peer conference for financial bloggers. Learn to blog and discover the latest trends in the financial world.
Here’s a community spotlight post about the latest group project being spear-headed by Jeff Rose of Good Financial Cents. It’s time for another movement! The financial blogging community came together to help get the word out about a topic that young investors to need to know about – the Roth IRA. The Roth IRA Movement [...]
Editor’s note: In this blogger spotlight, Romeo Clayton, shares his latest community-wide project, the Wealth Number Challenge, aimed at encouraging action with retirement savings. If you are a financial blogger and have a community-wide project in the works, please contact me about sharing it here on the blog. Here’s Romeo… Last year at the first [...]
It doesn’t happen much, but when it does, the world comes crashing down. When I don’t have access to the Internet because of a power outage, or because something’s gone wrong with my service provider, I’m in serious trouble. My livelihood depends on my ability to connect to the Internet. So, it’s important for me [...]
In honor of Halloween, I thought I’d review the book Zombie Economics, by Lisa Desjardins and Rick Emerson. It was recently published, and takes a look at, “How to slay your bills, decapitate debt and fight the apocalypse of financial doom.” Not only does Zombie Economics offer practical, realistic advice on getting your finances back in [...]
We all make stupid choices with our money sometimes. Money Talks news was at FINCON11, asking bloggers about money advice and about the mistakes they made. It’s interesting what some people consider mistakes, while other mistakes are kind of obvious. My biggest money mistake was taking out student loans for my undergrad — even though [...]
We all know that saving money is important. Money Talks News talked to some of the attendees about saving money, and some great folks, including @BudgetsAreSexy, @LenPenzo and @ChristianPF shared their favorite tips. Watch for another video on Friday, as Money Talks News shares another video straight from FINCON11. And, of course, if you have [...]
Thanks to Matt Schulz from CreditCards.com for putting together some nice content using attendees at FINCON11. He asks bloggers for their best money advice and this is what he got.
Who: Financial bloggers, financial professionals, columnist, authors, financial companies, new media types.
What: FinCon is a four day conference designed to bring together the best of the financial blogging community for networking and learning. Read more...
When: October 17-20, 2013
Where: Hyatt Regency St. Louis at The Arch [Book for $119/night]
