This page describes how articles on The Biz Mom are researched, written and corrected. It is here so you can judge the work rather than take it on trust.
Everything here is original
This site does not curate. You will not find posts that exist to relay other people’s articles — no “this blogger recommends X” round-ups, no republished content, no syndicated filler. Every article is written for this site.
Two kinds of article, and we tell you which is which
Researched articles. Most of what you read here is built from published sources: manufacturers’ own pricing pages, government and regulator pages, published research, and the terms companies publish themselves.
Sourced reporting. Some articles are built from what large numbers of people report publicly — forum threads, long comment discussions, community posts. Reading several hundred accounts of what a thing actually cost someone is a legitimate way to find the pattern, and it is what consumer publications have always done.
Any article built that way carries a line near the top saying so, in plain words. If you do not see that line, the article is not claiming personal experience.
The rules those articles follow
- No invented first person. An article never says “we tried”, “we cancelled” or “I tested” unless that is literally true. Where a headline once implied an experiment that did not happen, the headline was changed.
- No named individuals and no lifted quotes. When reporting what people say, we report the pattern, not the person — “a recurring complaint in budgeting forums”, never someone’s words copied out of a thread. Private people did not write their posts to be quoted here.
- Figures come from published sources. A price comes from the company’s own page. A rule comes from the official page. A statistic comes from the study. Discussions tell us what to look into; they are never the source of a number.
- Sources are linked. Where a claim rests on something checkable, the article links to it so you can check it yourself.
What this site does not publish
- Income or outcome promises. No guaranteed earnings, no “replace your salary”. Articles about earning money state the hours involved, the startup cost, the difficulty and an honest range — including when the answer is that it is not worth it.
- Parenting, medical, psychological or nutritional advice. No pregnancy, babies, sleep training, discipline or child development. The parent is the audience; the household is the subject.
- Professional advice. Nothing here is financial, legal, tax or medical advice. For decisions that matter, talk to someone qualified and regulated.
Money never buys a verdict
This site earns from advertising and from affiliate links, and neither has any influence on what an article concludes. Advertisers do not see articles before publication, do not choose topics, and cannot have a verdict changed. No payment has ever bought a positive review, and none ever will — see the Affiliate Disclosure.
Where an article recommends against buying something we would earn a commission on, it says so anyway. That is the whole point.
Artificial intelligence
AI tools are used in producing this site, in the same way a spell-checker or a research assistant is used: drafting, editing, summarising sources and checking consistency. Every article is reviewed by a person before it is published, and the editorial judgments — what is true, what is worth recommending, what to leave out — are human ones. AI is never used to invent an experience, a quotation or a figure.
Corrections
Things change — prices especially. If something here is wrong or out of date, write to [email protected] and it will be fixed.
When an article is changed in a way that alters its meaning or its numbers, the change is made in the article itself rather than quietly, and the article notes that it was updated. Corrections are not something to be embarrassed about; pretending an article was always right is.