I'm a 24 year old Stanford grad, software engineer, & personal finance nerd living in SF! You can find me on Instagram @organized.finance.
I’ve been running an anonymous personal finance Instagram account (@organized.finance) since January of 2022, and I've experienced firsthand the power and potential of maintaining anonymity in the digital sphere. Over the past 2+ years, I've cultivated a thriving community of 60k+ Instagram followers, garnered a regular blog readership of 5-7k readers/month, and grown my mailing …
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Alongside my personal finance Instagram account (@organized.finance), I create content for my blog, newsletter, and podcast. I then repurpose that content to several secondary platforms, including Medium! You can find the details of my content repurposing strategy here, but the relevant part of it is that I post to the Organized Finance blog twice a …
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Similar to credit card travel hacking, bank account churning involves opening up new bank accounts to get their sign-up offers and closing them/moving your money out of them once you've received the bonus. It can be an easy, low-effort way to use your money to make money! I made 60k miles from bank account churning! …
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Medium is a popular online publishing platform that allows authors to write and post original content, as well as import in existing content from external blogs. Medium also has a Partner Program that allows writers to earn money for the content they publish. Read on to see how much money I make from Medium! My …
After growing my personal finance Instagram account to 50k+ followers, I decided to add blogging to my list of mediums. In December of 2022, I committed to posting two blog posts per week, and I've stuck with it so far! Read on to see how much money I made from 45,000 blog views (you might …
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This seems to be an unpopular opinion, but I love my 9-5. Full-time entrepreneurship isn't for everyone, and that's okay. 9-5s get a bad rap these days. Social media is inundated with posts pushing toxic hustle culture, entrepreneur-or-bust mindsets, and shaming those who choose to work stable jobs for a consistent paycheck. When I was …
I can't remember a time (since I was in high school) when I didn't have multiple jobs, side hustles, or sources of income at once. Since I started working my full-time software engineering job in the summer of 2021, I've done tech contracting projects for startups, tried (and failed) to set up an education-related business, …
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I started posting about personal finance on Instagram in early 2022, and since then, my page has experienced a lot of growth. Along with increased followers and views came increased opportunities to make money (including offers for paid collaborations with companies). And yet, my income from Organized Finance has dropped in the last few months...largely …
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Here are 3 ways to make extra money that require no extra effort (and that do NOT require you to spend more money than you already do). I use all 3 of these apps myself and made over $500 in cash back from them in 2022. Remember, the best way to take advantage of these …
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In early December 2022 I monetized my blog and committed to writing & publishing 2 posts per week to my website. My intent here wasn't really to turn blogging into a huge income stream, but rather to offset the cost of hosting & maintaining my website. Here's how much money I made from 3 months …
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