Looking for Laura’s favorite financial tools and resources to accomplish more with your money?
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Laura's Free Community
Dominate Your Dollars Facebook Group
Dominate Your Dollars is Laura's free, private Facebook group for members who want to improve their financial lives by eliminating debt, raising credit, and reaching their financial goals.
Laura's Online Education
GET OUT OF DEBT FAST--A Proven Plan to Stay Debt-Free Forever
Debt can be devastating to your financial well-being and happiness. Laura's best-selling, affordable online course will teach you how to face your finances, get out of debt, and stay debt-free for life. You'll come away with a clear plan to eliminate credit cards, student loans, car loans, medical bills, mortgages, and any debt you have.
BUILD BETTER CREDIT--The Ultimate Credit Score Repair Guide
If financial challenges are holding you back from having great credit, this course will put you on the road to more success and less stress. You'll learn what to do, when to do it, and how to do it so you repair your credit and get the financial life you deserve.
Bookkeeping & Budgeting
QuickBooks (Windows or Mac)
Intuit products are the industry standard for bookkeeping, and they make it easier than you could imagine! QuickBooks is perfect for all your small business needs. It manages payroll, inventory, sales, reporting, and more.
Quicken (Windows or Mac)
A complete solution (for desktop or online) that aggregates your financial accounts in a dashboard and categorizes your transactions. It connects to your bank and credit cards, creates a budget, and helps you get out of debt.
Mint
A free financial service owned by Intuit that aggregates your accounts and categorizes transactions. That makes it easy to see where your money goes and keep track of your finances on any mobile device.
FreshBooks
This is a simple and intuitive way to keep up with accounting for your small business. Invoice clients from your desk or on the go and accept credit card payments with no additional setup required! Plus, talk to a real, live person anytime you have a question.
Credit Report & Score
Credit Karma
Credit scores typically cost about $15--but they’re 100% free (with no strings attached) at Credit Karma! Since I check my credit scores often to make sure no one has stolen my identity, this site saves me almost $200 per year.
Annual Credit Report
This is the official free credit report site. Use it to get your report from each of the three nationwide credit reporting agencies (Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion) every 12 months to give your credit a checkup.
Credit Sesame
Get your free credit score each month and monitor your credit report for free! Plus, you'll also get personalized monitoring alerts about changes to your credit report.
Retirement & Investing
Betterment
Start investing with a radically simple online brokerage or IRA. You indicate your level of risk and Betterment does the rest through diversification, rebalancing, and low fees. Expect higher returns than a typical DIY investor.
Acorns
A mobile app that allows you to automatically invest your virtual spare change from everyday purchases. Then it constructs a diversified portfolio and monitors your investment program, so you don't have to. That's genius!
Blooom
Not exactly sure what's in your 401k or 403b? Blooom does the heavy lifting and shows you its health by analyzing your investments and offering professional advice on how to allocate your retirement funds.
Financial Calculators
Dinkytown.com
This site is loaded with online calculators that help you crunch the numbers on just about any personal finance issue, such as mortgages, retirement, insurance, taxes, credit cards, debt, investments, and more.
Taxes
H&R Block
With Block, you can file taxes online easily from any device. Plus, you have the option of having your return checked by a Tax Pro before filing so that you get your maximum refund, guaranteed.