Joseph Hogue has 9 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 1 narrator, with an average listener rating of 4.3★ across 26 ratings. The most-rated is Step by Step Dividend Investing.
Step by Step Dividend Investing
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Stop Playing the Stock Market Game with the Only Stock Investment to Consistently Beat the Market Over the 15 years through 2014, stocks in the S&P 500 lost money a third of the time with investors losing an average of 16 percent when the market tumbled. Even on gains in other years, investors earned an annualized return of just 2.3 percent over the period...that's barely enough to cover inflation. But one group of stocks has consistently beaten the stock market game. In fact, this group has provided a source for positive returns every single year - without fail. Even when the prices of dividend stocks fall, the regular stream of cash they provide is a constant source for positive returns. After listening to this book, you'll know exactly how to take advantage of returns on dividend stocks and how to build a portfolio around income investments. This book is the second in a series of four, outlining a step-by-step process for a simple investing strategy. In this book about investing in stocks that regularly put money in your pocket, I start off by showing you the power of dividend investing. After talking about the three income investments everyone needs in their portfolio, I'll show you how to put together an investing plan that will benefit from a regular stream of cash and upside price appreciation. In this book, you'll learn: The four reasons why everyone needs to own dividend stocks and how they can help you reach financial freedom One group of dividend stocks that outperformed the stock market by 100 percent over the last decade The real estate dividend investment that has returned 13 percent a year for four decades The reason most investors lose money and a simple four-step process for investing in dividend stocks
©2016 Joseph Hogue (P)2016 Joseph Hogue
Step by Step Bond Investing - A Beginner's Guide to the Best Investments and Safety in the Bond Market
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Of all the opportunities to invest and make money, bond investing is likely one of the most neglected. Stocks are the get-rich investment, hyped by Wall Street and favored by investors. Commodities are widely used to hedge risk and to gamble on price changes. Even real estate is more widely held for its cash flow and other benefits. According to research by fund manager Vanguard, the average investor holds just 15 percent of their portfolio in bonds. Since older investors typically hold much more of their investments in fixed-income, it's safe to assume that many younger investors are neglecting bond investment all together. What you might not realize is that bonds are critical to reaching your financial goals. No other investment provides the kind of safety and security you'll get from bonds, and few other investments provide the kind of cash flow you'll get from these fixed-income opportunities. In fact, manage your bonds right and you might not need much more to meet your financial goals. You'll get stable returns for decades and won't have to worry about constant crashes in the stock market. You'll get nearly guaranteed cash flows to pay for expenses and the retirement you deserve. Putting a portfolio of bonds together that will meet your goals can be surprisingly easy if you know where to start. Understand bond basics and how to avoid the mistakes that cost other investors money, and you'll find an investment that's easier to manage than any other while moving you closer to financial freedom. This book will do exactly that, help you put together a step-by-step investing strategy in bonds to understand how much of your portfolio to invest and how to do it.
©2016 Joseph Hogue (P)2016 Joseph Hogue
Investing in the Next Big Thing
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There's a secret world of investing controlled by angel investors and venture capital. One investment has been the secret of the wealthy for more than 80 years. It accounts for nearly a fifth of the wealth for million-dollar investors and nearly four times the return compared to stocks. Investing in startups has led to an average 27 percent return for wealthy investors, nearly four times the average 7.4 percent annual return on stocks over the decade to 2013. When asked where they invested their money, investors with an average of $7.6 million told BNP Wealth Management those alternative investments like venture capital and startups were their second-largest investment after their own business. Consider Peter Thiel's 2004 investment of $500,000 in Facebook as its first outside investor. By the time the rest of us could invest in Facebook, Thiel had already made $1.7 billion for a 340,000 percent return on his investment. Welcome to the world of startup investing and equity crowdfunding. I've spent nearly a decade analyzing startup investments for venture capital firms and angel investors. I set up the research department for one venture capital investor and managed a team of six analysts, poring over pitch material and market research to find the best startups in which to invest. Investing in startups is like nothing you've ever seen in the stock market. These companies aren't covered by analysts, and you won't find a P/E value on Yahoo Finance. You won't hear other venture capital investors or angel investors sharing their process or picks on TV either. They don't want you stealing those 27 percent annual returns. That's what this book is all about, using a process I have developed over years as a venture capital analyst to avoid the risks in startup investing and find the best deals. It's not an easy process. It involves research and strategic planning on your part. I'm ready to share it with you if you're ready for the challenge.
©2017 Joseph Hogue (P)2017 Joseph Hogue
A Beginner's Guide to the Best Investments in Stocks
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Wall Street has brainwashed both of us.... It's brainwashed you into thinking that you need to beat the stock market to achieve your financial goals. Is it a coincidence that to do this, you need to pay for advice and brokerage fees from those same Wall Street firms? Wall Street has also brainwashed investment analysts like me. We're made to believe that everyone needs our advice and that advice needs to be a complicated investing strategy of timing and trading. It was only when I got off Wall Street and onto main street that I realized the truth. Spend enough time with real investors and you realize they just want a simple investing strategy that will help reach their financial goals. They want it laid out in a way that's easy to follow, and they don't want to lose sleep every night worrying about their money. That's what this book is about! This book is the first in a series of four, outlining a step-by-step process for a simple investing strategy. This book will get you started in what investing is really about and how to build an investing plan that's right for your goals.
©2016 Joseph Hogue (P)2016 Joseph Hogue
Step by Step Emerging Markets Investing
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Your world is changing. In 1992, developed countries like the United States accounted for two-thirds of the global economy. By 2015, the percentage of the world economy from these countries had shrunk to less than half while Asia and Latin America had almost doubled their shares of the global marketplace. The public debt of $16.3 trillion in the United States is now larger than the economy, and an aging population means economic growth will continue to slow. The days of parking your money in American stocks and enjoying a stable long-term return are over. Slowing economic growth in the developed world and huge demographic advantages in developing countries are shifting the landscape for corporate profits and stock market returns. Being ahead of these changes means opening your investments to the regions and players that will benefit you most over the next several decades. Average investors hold just 3 percent of their portfolios in emerging market stocks. That will leave them dangerously behind the game as the world changes. Those investing in multinational US companies as part of their emerging-markets investments are in for a surprise. While US companies book nearly 40 percent of their sales overseas, less than half of it is from emerging markets. The fact is that only direct investment in emerging-market stocks will provide the growth you need to meet your financial goals and reduce the risk of a stagnant economic picture in the United States. But emerging-market investing is far from a smooth ride to higher returns. In fact the chronic cycle of boom and bust in emerging-market stocks means a rebalancing strategy is absolutely essential to keeping your gains. Step-by-Step Emerging Markets Investing is the only book to give you a detailed process for how to position your investments for the developing change.
©2016 Joseph Hogue (P)2016 Joseph Hogue
From Zero to Business
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Hard work and passion are no longer enough for small business startup success. Small business funding collapsed along with the rest of the financial system in 2008 and has never recovered. More than half of business owners report a lack of financing options, and nearly a third say they may be pushed out of business for lack of startup funding. As always happens in a free market, new solutions have emerged to overcome hurdles in the old way of doing things. A new model of business funding has been born, staged-funded through alternative finance. This book is about that new model of business funding and how to start a business strategically. You'll learn first how to create a business plan from the executive summary through marketing and the financial projections that will impress investors. You'll learn how to create a stellar business plan that will not only get you startup funding but will guide your business strategy. We'll then cover the four stages of business funding and real-world examples of entrepreneurs that have used the new model to create and drive their small business ideas. Each chapter includes detail on one of the four funding sources as well as how to get the best deals. You'll get a comprehensive look at the advantages and limits of each stage and how to use each one successively to grow your business. You'll be able to set realistic goals for each stage of business funding as well as how to leverage your progress into the next stage. As an investment analyst for a venture capital firm, I've seen exactly what it takes to build a business from the ground up and what you need to get funded. I've helped entrepreneurs detail their business plan to uncover the source of their competitive advantage and how to present their case for startup funding. As an entrepreneur myself, I've used this same process to raise money and get my own small business ideas off the ground.
©2016 Joseph Hogue (P)2016 Joseph Hogue
The Passive Income Myth
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Cut through the scams and false promises in income strategies and investing books! You've seen the investing book titles. They start with, "How to Make Money" and end with some ridiculous promise of a six-figure income or the words, "from home". Search for "How to make money with passive income" in Google and you're blasted by more than seven million results. You can practically hear the swindlers screaming out at you from the screen. Making money on your investments is a powerful draw and ripe for all kinds of scams, scoundrels, and shysters. But in the fiction, there's a little truth to be found. The truth that more than a few people have built massive success stories through the four most popular investing strategies. The truth that many of the strategies can be started in your spare time and require little cash to get started. This book is about that truth. How to Make Money from Four Income Strategies The Passive Income Myth is your opportunity to cut through the BS and scams to see how to make money in four passive income strategies. Over more than two decades as an investor and an investment analyst, I have made money in each of the four investing strategies. Knowing what I have picked up over the last 20 years will save you years of time and will keep you from making the biggest mistakes in passive income investments. Each income strategy can be listened to separately or as a part of a complete wealth management system to make money and put together true passive investing income potential.
©2016 Joseph Hogue (P)2016 Joseph Hogue
Google SEO for Bloggers
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I determined to learn everything I could about Google SEO and getting on the first page of the world's largest search engine. I read all the SEO books and everything I could find about link building and website marketing. I put together an SEO process for every post I wrote and the results were astounding. I tripled my Google search traffic over the next year and doubled my monthly blogging income. Best yet, using it frequently means I've perfected the process and now it takes very little time to rank a post on Google. While other bloggers waste their time with social media and begging their friends, I use this SEO strategy and link building process for instant Google love every time. This isn't a collection of SEO tricks but a detailed strategy from easy steps that draw visitors to the tactics that will rank your site. Laid out so even the beginner can easily understand. This isn't just a blogging book. I've shared this SEO process with friends that use it for ecommerce sites and consulting businesses. Learning how to rank your website on Google is the best website marketing you'll ever do. It's free and will continue to bring you search traffic for as long as you own the website.
©2017 Joseph Hogue (P)2017 Joseph Hogue
Self-Publishing for Passive Income
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Don't just self-publish a book on Amazon, learn how to make it passive income! After self-publishing 11 books on Kindle and making over $69,000 in a few years, I've learned one undeniable truth about Amazon publishing, writing a book is the easy part. Anyone can write a book in just a few months and have it published on the world's largest ecommerce site. Hugely more difficult is keeping your book ranked on Amazon to keep making money every month! Against more than four million other books, you need to know how to launch a book and how to get enough sales that keep it ranked in the top ten. You need to know how to pick categories and how to write a book that sells itself. That's what this audiobook is all about. Get more than just how to write a book I'll start by showing you how to make writing a book easy. I'll show you how to plan, research and write your book within a month. Then I'll go beyond to reveal how to launch a self-published book to an Amazon best-seller status and keep it ranked so you make passive income every single month. You won't find this in any other book about self-publishing on Amazon. These are the secrets that will set you apart from millions of other authors. Amazon self-publishing is my business Too many books about "How to Self-Publish a Book" here on Amazon are by people with no idea what it takes to be successful on the platform. Even of the ones that have written a few books, few have the experience or insight in keeping a book ranked on Kindle to make it passive income. This will be my 12th self-published book on Amazon and the 11 before it all reached best-seller rank in at least one category, some becoming a top pick in multiple categories. More than just that launch though, I've learned how to get enough monthly sales to keep the books ranked and make over $2,000 every month without doing anything at all. I've created an Amazon self-publishing business that runs itself and I want to share what I've learned with you.
©2019 Joseph Hogue (P)2020 Joseph Hogue