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    Don't Hire a Financial Coach! (Until You Read This Book): Financial Freedom for Smart People
    Don't Hire a Financial Coach! (Until You Read This Book): Financial Freedom for Smart People
    Don't Hire a Financial Coach! (Until You Read This Book): Financial Freedom for Smart People
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    Don't Hire a Financial Coach! (Until You Read This Book): Financial Freedom for Smart People

    By Todd Tresidder

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    About this ebook

    All financial coaches AREN'T created equal.

    There's no relationship between how much you spend for financial education and how much value you actually receive. Of course you need to grow your financial intelligence to increase your wealth, but you need to do it in a smart and efficient way without getting ripped off by overpriced "secrets of the rich" nonsense. Author and financial coach Todd R. Tresidder shows you the way.

    Don't Hire a Financial Coach (Until You Read This Book) gives you an insider's view into the financial coaching industry. Once you learn the good, the bad, and the ugly, you'll know how to get the best value out of financial education services.

    In this book, you'll discover:

    • The 7 rules for buying financial education that pays you more than it costs
    • 12 warning signs that you're dealing with an illegitimate "dream merchant"
    • 3 steps to choosing the right money coaching service for your personal needs and style
    • How to choose between group financial coaching and individual financial coaching
    • 7 ways that smart clients maximize the value they get from money coaching

    Don't pay someone to make your decisions without doing your homework. Tresidder's book takes a sincere, common sense approach to navigating the financial coaching world. If you like having all the answers in one direct, well-written, and valuable guide, then this is the book for you.

    Buy the book today to make sure you get the most out of your financial coaching.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTodd R. Tresidder
    Release dateAug 27, 2012
    ISBN9780982289129
    Don't Hire a Financial Coach! (Until You Read This Book): Financial Freedom for Smart People

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    Don't Hire a Financial Coach! (Until You Read This Book) - Todd Tresidder

    Foreword

    Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

    Albert Einstein

    Financial information is just like Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Too much. Too complicated. Too confusing. It is seldom just right.

    • Too Short: The Internet is filled with sound-bite-length half-truths forcing you to waste hours searching repetitive and contradictory articles to uncover the whole truth.

    • Too Long: The bookstores are filled with hundred-page tomes padded with fluff chapters like A Brief History of the Financial Markets and What Is a Stock? when all you need is 10 pages of concrete ideas you can put to use.

    • Too Simple: The financial content mills produce reams of articles for magazines and web sites written by professional writers who aren’t financial experts and lack practical experience.

    • Too Complicated: Academic journals have great research, but it’s written in an inaccessible style using financial geek-speak so that only a trained expert can decipher the encrypted meaning.

    These problems are why I wrote the 60 Minute Financial Solutions series of ebooks.

    Each ebook provides a concise, definitive answer to an essential financial question that you will inevitably confront on your path to financial security. Each ebook is a one-stop solution to a single financial issue so you learn exactly what you need to know, when you need to know it.

    What you get with each ebook is the distillation of everything that is valid and the elimination of everything that is not. The goal is to simplify without oversimplifying so you can make an independent, intelligent, and appropriate financial decision—in about 60 minutes.

    Best of all, these books are written by a genuine financial expert. I was trained as an economist and I’ve published in the academic world. I also refined my practical knowledge as a hedge fund investment manager for more than a decade with 100% winning years (except one small loss of less than 3%). I now work as an educator coaching people just like you to achieve their financial goals.

    In short, I’ve spent a lifetime mastering personal finance and investing so you don’t have to, and I’ve condensed all that experience into this solution-oriented series of ebooks. The stuff that works is in these books, and it’s provided in straightforward language to make it as accessible as possible.

    The goal is to empower you with the knowledge necessary to take charge of your finances and achieve your goals. Personal finance doesn’t have to be complicated. I’ve taught many others and I can teach you as well. Financial security really is possible if you just know what you are doing and take the right actions.

    All you need is the right information—not too much, not too little, not too simple, not too complicated—just the right stuff.

    If this book delivers on its promise, please let me know with a favorable review so I can thank you. If it doesn’t, please write me at todd@financialmentor.com so I can send you a refund and correct any potential problem.

    Thanks for your support!

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    Introduction

    There’s a sucker born every minute, declared P.T. Barnum.

    Judging by the promotion techniques successfully used at various money coaching and financial mentoring companies, I would have to agree.

    It’s amazing to watch people spend thousands of dollars to learn information you could buy for less than $100 at your local bookstore. Apparently, selling premium-priced financial coaching programs is no different than convincing consumers about the superiority oft high-priced, brand-name aspirin over generic. Everyone knows it’s not true, but consumers fall prey to marketing tactics like this every day.

    This guide is different. It provides you with a businessperson’s perspective on financial education by showing you how to get the best value for your money. It uses logic and business common sense to appeal to smart consumers who want to make informed decisions with their money.

    This ebook is designed for people who are dedicated to growing their financial intelligence so they can grow their wealth. If you’ll be buying books, courses, seminars, or coaching over the next few years to improve your personal finance and investment skills, then this book will be an important resource that saves you many times its cost.

    It’s a consumer’s guide that shows you the right and wrong way to purchase financial education. It will teach you what education best fits your needs, the correct price to pay, and how to maximize the value you get from this education. It gives you an insider’s view behind the financial education business so you can avoid the potholes and rip-offs.

    In short, it’s a summary of all the lessons I learned working both sides of the financial education business—as a buyer and a vendor—in the hope that you learn from

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