Mint is one of the best websites out there for helping you keep track of your money. Whether you want to increase your retirement savings, or just get a better idea of where your money goes every month, this site can help. Mint allows you to simultaneously track every bank account, every credit card and every investment account and every loan.

Tracking your spending habits in real time since every account updates every 24 hours. This makes understanding exactly how you’re spending your money easier than ever. Your expenditures can even be automatically categorized to make it really simple to see how your spending breaks down.

Use Mint to set financial goals and track your progress toward reaching them. It will give you advice on places where you need to cut spending or increase savings based on those goals. Mint can also help you find ways to save by offering deals on lower rate credit cards, banks, and more. You can even set up alerts that can help you avoid unnecessary fees and charges. You can receive a low balance notification on your bank accounts, a due date notification on your credit cards and a large purchase notification to help you prevent fraudulent use of your accounts.

Mint is free to use and the site is encrypted for security. In addition, there is a mobile application that is available for the iPhone and the Android.

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Twitter is a great way to keep up with all the activities of your friends. But, what you may not know is that it can be used to help you improve your investments, too.

StockTwits is a great little Twitter “by-product” that is far less well known than its grandfather site. StockTwits is like a ticker on stocks. However, instead of giving you the ups and downs of the prices, StockTwits consolidates the Twitter chatter surrounding stocks, and gives it to you in a quick and easy format.

To use the site, simply find someone whose investment advice you trust and add them to your watch list. Then, you’ll get quick and easy access to all they have to say about what they’re buying and selling, without having to sort through all their Tweets in order to get the good stuff.

With StockTwits, you can have an entirely different group of friends than your actual friends. Here, you connect with others whose investment style, risk level and strategy match up with yours. That way, you can share information that helps both of you reach your investment goals. The community is global, so there’s plenty of opportunity for you to share information with someone who can help you reach your investment goals.

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