ReadyForZero Blog • Get Out of Debt, Get On With Your Life
Today, we are announcing the release of the new ReadyForZero savings platform. By allowing trusted financial partners to make personalized savings offers to ReadyForZero users, we are now able to give you options that will get you to your financial goals faster. If the product or service will save you time and money based on your ReadyForZero performance and financial…
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The new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has recently added debt collectors and credit bureaus to its list of consumer financial services “targets.” The agency hopes it can further support and stand by the American consumer in this way. There has been a dramatic increase the amount of debt being pursued by debt collections agencies over the past decade: currently, 30…
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Today we’re celebrating the 1-year anniversary of the public launch of ReadyForZero: We’ve been amazed and humbled by all the support we’ve gotten throughout the last year, especially from our users who are now regularly sharing their successes publicly. More than anything, we’re grateful to have this opportunity to reshape the way people control and reduce debt. Debt remains one…
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The idea of last-minute gift shopping is enough to make most people anxious. Over the next few days, those of us who have not yet finished our holiday shopping will be hurrying around to various stores trying to get it all done quickly. When you add the stress of having a deadline to the potential social cost of not spending…
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Rod, CEO/co-founder of ReadyForZero talking with a ReadyForZero user. Today (like many days) we received phone calls from a few of our users who had questions about ReadyForZero and called us for answers. Often, when I pick up the phone, people are surprised to hear the CEO on the other end of the line, and I guess I would be…
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We’ve been listening to your feedback and today we’re announcing the release of some exciting new features. But before we get into the details, we’d like to tell you about what we’ve learned since our launch and where we’re headed from here.
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We just wrapped up a Series A investment round to the tune of $4.5 million from Polaris Venture Capital with participation from Citi Ventures. Now we have even more resources to do what we do best: create simple financial software for managing and reducing debt. In addition, this provides us with additional expertise and solidifies our position as a responsible option for people in debt. Read more
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This is a cross-post from our recent guest post on lifehacker. If you are like most graduating college students, you probably have a few thousand dollars in credit card debt and even more in student loans. In fact, total outstanding student loan debt in the US has surpassed total outstanding credit card debt for the first time ever, and is…
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When we decided to build a company to help people with debt, we didn’t quite understand the entire spectrum of available options or magnitude of the problem at hand. Even though we had struggled with the problem ourselves, had first-hand experience helping friends and family, and had heard about things like Debt Management Programs (DMPs), credit counseling and debt consolidation;…
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Allie Johnson and the team at CreditCards.com wrote a timely piece on 6 expenses you should never put on your credit card. It’s a good article that received a lot of attention; some 650+ comments. Allie was also kind enough to mention us and we wanted to respond in kind to elaborate further on a few key points. We like…
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Meet Chuck, who got out of debt with ReadyForZero
Ben updates his progress toward being debt free