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Ensuring you save and plan for the future

Ensuring you save and plan for the future

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Ensuring you save and plan for the future

- It's truly difficult to launch a business while also planning for your financial future, but you've just got to do it. You'll need to think about how you could invest in expansion, which markets are growing, which ones are shrinking. You've got to be strategic about your thinking and pull in those advisors that we talked about in our very first chapter so that you can really bounce ideas and also see what is going on from their vantage point. They might have some different connections in the community that will help you make those decisions. But most importantly, you will need to think about you. Retirement might seem miles away, but do consider setting up an IRA and speaking with an investment advisor. And I'm not one, so that's why I'm saying you want to speak to a professional. Making automated monthly payments into this fund, even small ones at the very start of your business, will make a big difference to you one…

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