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Hi HelpYourMoney.com Readers! Thanks for visiting our website. Here is a little about the owner of HelpYourMoney.com, Tim Schroeder.

• I’m 29 years old. I live in Florida.

• I am married and with one child. We also have one dog.

• I do not work in the finance industry but I have learned a great deal over the past few years and believe I make sound financial decisions and have a lot to offer our readers. I want to share what I’ve already learned with you. I also want to share with you what I’m still learning about! I’ll also feature other great guest and contributer articles on HelpYourMoney.com (such as Robert and Jed Pittman).

• I am self-employed and own my own business under the name ePressive LLC. I work from my home office.

• My expertise is in Internet Marketing (Affiliate Marketing and SEO to be specific). I make a living from various websites I own online including my popular webmaster forums located at www.webmaster-talk.com

I am one of many HelpYourMoney.com Writers and Contributers.

Other Currently Active HelpYourMoney.com Writers Include:

>> Jed Pittman:
Jed Pittman is a twenty-something web programmer who works in a small research company in Massachusetts. He is currently interested in larger economic issues like inflation and technology improvements and trying to understand the impact that they will have on the average person. He also runs a small consulting business on the side and is always interested in new and unique tax-reduction opportunities.

When asked about how he first became involved with personal finance, Jed writes “Although I was learning about personal finance from my grandfather even when I was very little (He taught me the rule of 72 when I was still in high school.), I finally took the bull by the horns this past year when I received a statement from Fidelity Investments. The statement showed that I was only going to make about 50% of what I needed to make for retirement. It was scary. The result has been an aggressive change in my attitude in order to try to repair the damage I’ve done with my retirement.”

Jed’s hobbies include exercising, writing, programming, reading, and playing computer games.

In the process of fixing his own mistakes Jed has also realized that other people who are important to him are having the same issues with personal finance. The result is that he is working toward [link to “rescue your parent’s retirement] helping his parent’s and close relatives improve their retirements. Jed writes, “the biggest mistake I ever made with my own retirement is that I never really understood what it meant to contribute more early on. As smart as I was, I never realized the positive-side impact of compound interest in a 401k or IRA. Therefore, I never put more than 4 or 5 percent in for the first 5 years of working. Putting just a little more in during these years would have been the best thing I could have ever done for myself. It would have been far far better than putting more in now. But I am stuck with what I know now, and therefore I am aggressively changing it as fast as I can.”

>> Amanda Keefer:
Amanda Keefer has achieved her real world financial know how by working and managing money from the young age of 12. Born and raised in Southwestern Pennsylvania, she obtained her degree in journalism from Point Park University in Pittsburgh.

Upon graduation, she moved to Orlando to work in the marketing department of Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex as a public relations representative. After Kennedy, Amanda spent time as a senior account executive with YPB&R, internationally known advertising and public relations firm, handling clients such as Panama City Beach Convention & Visitors Bureau, Wynn Las Vegas and CaribbeanWay Luxury Villas.

Most recently she was employed with Wyndham Vacation Ownership as manager of corporate communications, managing internal communications to over 14,000 employees internationally. After welcoming her first daughter into the
world, Amanda now works from home as a freelance writer and public relations consultant.