The Wealth Artisan
Hi There,
I’m glad that you wanted to learn a bit more about me and the Wealth Artisan. I’m a young guy, I’ve been married since December of 2008 to Humble Laura, Mayor of Humbleville. I’m currently attending a University working on a degree in Finance.
I enjoy finance, it is definitely my passion. I’ve always enjoyed economics classes, financial theory, investments, and just about anything that has to do with business. I love entrepreneurship, and I have a huge soft spot for small businesses.
I really enjoy helping people, and that is what spurred me to start this website. I originally wanted to help my family, but the blog just continued growing. I try my best to provide well thought out, well backed up information, but if you’re looking for a pedigreed financier to give you a complex investment strategy to take advantage of a falling knife, you probably won’t find it here.
I do provide some stock information, feel free to browse around, but I tend to stick with more time tested investment strategies. I definitely have an interest in many of the complex topics, but I just don’t have the experience to be guiding people through things like that. Theory is one thing, experience is a whole different ball game.
Faith and Mission
Mission: We want to provide the best possible financial information, in the most easily understood way, and to continuously grow ourselves.
As a Christian I will do my absolute best to provide honest, upfront, and transparent information that falls in line with Christian Financial beliefs, such as: Savings, Planning, Frugality, Generosity, and Fairness.
I believe in being frugal while maintaining an enjoyable standard of living. I also believe in risk taking if it is done intelligently. No penny stock information will be found here, but we’re very supportive of starting businesses. Here are some things that you will not find at The Wealth Artisan:
- Silly Get Rich Quick Schemes
- Business “opportunities” with hidden upstart costs
- The best deals on the biggest, newest flat screen TV
- We don’t believe in what we call “Uber-Consumerism“
- The best ways to use debt to leverage your investments
- We have an anti-debt ideology. Yes, some people can use debt as a tool, but the majority get financially ruined by it, thus our current economy. For the sake of our readers we will discourage unnecessary debt.
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- We would not include a link to a known malicious site, nor would we endorse something that we didn’t find to have true value. This includes book reviews, product reviews, site reviews, and any other endorsement we could make. When doing a review, we are completely honest with the author and we send the review to them before hand so they can accept or reject it. Due to the nature of publicity, few authors would approve a negative review of their book/site/product, which might account for why you usually will only see positive reviews. We might post negative reviews but that would only be on unsolicited reviews or a review where the author doesn’t mind the negative review, which would be rare.
- Links, especially to products, will most likely benefit The Wealth Artisan financially in some way, which helps us to provide you with all of the great information we provide. Many reviews that you read may be solicited or we may just like the product that much. Links to Amazon, or any other online retailers are most likely an affiliate link to which we would incur a financial benefit. Additionally, there will be links to other sites that may have a financial benefit to us as well. Again, we wouldn’t endorse something that we don’t find valuable to our readers.
If for some reason you don’t want to help us out by clicking these links and buying the products then don’t! Hover over the link to see if you can figure out how to cut off the affiliate part. If you can’t figure it out then use the “Contact Us” page or leave a comment and we’d be more than happy to provide a non-affiliated link.
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