Exciting Be Clever With Your Cash news! – Be Clever With Your Cash

I’ve some actually large information to share, which I’m very enthusiastic about. Be Intelligent With Your Money has now formally joined forces with Sensible Cash Folks.

Sensible Cash Folks is the UK’s devoted monetary companies evaluation web site and has collected over 1.2 million buyer opinions. It additionally runs the British Financial institution Awards which you’ll have just lately voted in.

I don’t assume there’s one other enterprise I might companion with – Be Intelligent With Your Money and Sensible Cash Folks actually are two very like-minded companies (and the names are a fairly good match too!).

We each have a ardour for all issues monetary companies. We’re united in our goal to assist folks such as you make higher selections about the way you spend and save your cash. 

However most necessary of all, we’re each dedicated to unbiased and impartial evaluation and opinions. 

We’ll now be capable to enhance and develop the positioning and this yr I’ll start to construct a staff to assist me do that (learn a job description right here). In the end it means extra information, evaluation and offers that can assist you take advantage of out of your cash.

I’ll additionally be capable to embody the collective knowledge of Sensible Cash Folks’s customers that can assist you make higher selections. No matter you’re shopping for, from bank cards to insurance coverage, loans and past, accessing this information and perception goes to be massively helpful.

So we’ll nonetheless be working in a lot the identical manner – offering you with unique movies, podcasts and articles. However greater and higher!

I’m positive you’ve loads of questions, so this Q&A has extra element about what this implies for me, Be Intelligent With Your Money, the Money Chats podcast and the YouTube channel.

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Q&A

Will Be Intelligent With Your Money keep impartial?

Be Intelligent With Your Money (and all my different channels) has by no means taken sponsored content material or allowed any interference from exterior manufacturers or sources to affect what I write about or my opinions on these subjects. And that received’t be altering.

Sensible Cash Folks have the identical ethos – they supply a platform for purchasers to share sincere and impartial opinions of economic merchandise. 

We’ll be discovering methods to deliver these buyer opinions and information into Be Intelligent With Your Money’s content material to assist present further perception while you’re deciding on issues like the perfect present accounts or bank cards.

So if something you’ll have much more spin-free and real data to information your selections.

As well as we’ve printed an editorial code that each one Be Intelligent With Your Money content material will adhere to. It’s based mostly on how I’ve all the time labored, however now it’s formalised and agreed between each myself and Sensible Cash Folks.

It’s price noting too that Sensible Cash Folks doesn’t truly promote any monetary or shopper merchandise to the general public, so there’s no manner for a battle of curiosity to influence my views.

Who’s Sensible Cash Folks?

Sensible Cash Folks is the UK’s devoted monetary companies evaluation web site, dedicated to bettering monetary requirements for everybody via belief, data, accountability, and the facility of group.

Launched in 2014, Sensible Cash Folks has collected over 1.2m opinions on services from monetary firms together with banks, constructing societies, insurers and credit score suppliers. These insights, feedback, and experiences not solely inform extra folks but in addition assist monetary companies firms present a greater service and merchandise to their prospects. 

Every year Sensible Cash Folks additionally runs the British Financial institution Awards, Insurance coverage Selection Awards and Client Credit score Awards.

Why are you becoming a member of up with Sensible Cash Folks?

I’ve beloved the final 9 years of doing my very own factor alone phrases, and the positioning has grown greater and larger yearly. Not simply when it comes to visitors, but in addition within the quantity and breadth of content material produced. 

Because of this it’s changing into a lot more durable to cowl all the things I’d prefer to, to not point out the “behind the scenes” work that comes with operating my very own enterprise and web site.

So issues had reached a degree the place I’d both must cut back, herald a handful of additional folks myself, or turn into a part of one thing greater. 

The cope with Sensible Cash Folks happened after a fortuitous dialog at Sensible Cash Folks’s British Financial institution Awards final yr. I wasn’t actively in search of an funding but it surely was clear that we had been aligned in our mission to assist folks make higher monetary selections.

Not solely are there similarities in ethos and the way we wish to assist shoppers, we even have shared targets for the expansion and way forward for each companies. The deal additionally locations quite a lot of significance on the editorial freedom of Be Intelligent With Your Money, which is important to what I do and can proceed to do. 

I’ll be recruiting a writing staff throughout 2023, and have entry to shared experience and specialists inside Sensible Cash Folks to enhance and assist sides of the enterprise resembling social media, search engine optimisation, web site administration and enterprise administration.

Plus, with over 1.2 million buyer opinions, Sensible Cash Folks additionally has an unlimited set of information on merchandise and buyer expertise that I’ll be capable to use inside my content material. I’m excited in regards to the capacity so as to add this further layer of element to my content material, to indicate what different folks similar to you consider the services out there.

In the end this implies the positioning can develop, I’m capable of focus extra on content material, and collectively we will attain and assist much more folks. 

Will Andy’s position change?

My new job title inside Sensible Cash Folks is Editor-in-Chief and I’m now Managing Director for Be Intelligent With Your Money. I’ll even be a member of the Sensible Cash Folks Board.

What this implies daily is I’ll stay in control of the editorial throughout Be Intelligent With Your Money, Money Chats and the Andy Intelligent Money YouTube channel.

In truth, for many of this yr it’ll in all probability imply I’m nonetheless doing most of what I already do. Over time although I’ll be capable to share the workload and hand over some operational duties. That can release time for me to guide Be Intelligent With Your Money strategically. 

However producing content material is and can stay why I really like doing what I do, so that is actually about permitting us to provide extra helpful and interesting content material to assist as many individuals as potential.

Will the content material change?

No, the positioning remains to be devoted to serving to you profit from your cash. 

As I construct the staff it’s going to imply you’ll see a few new faces throughout all of the channels, and I’m excited to have the ability to deliver you much more content material.

In time we could look to refresh the web site so you possibly can simply see the hyperlink between Be Intelligent With Your Money and Sensible Cash Folks, however not one of the content material will change.