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 8:29 pm April 19, 2012 
 |   Lena Gott
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Post edited 8:30 pm – April 19, 2012 by Lena Gott
  
 I've been thinking for a week about which one of my sites I'd like to submit to the challenge, and I've decided to enter Taxes and Stuff.   
  
I think I did everything – I installed the Alexa toolbar, added the badge to my site, placed my blog info on the challenger spreadsheet, and announced my intent on my blog.  Did I miss anything? 
  
So glad to be here!  Oh, and my current stats: 
Alexa rank: 4,202,788 
Google page rank: 3 
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 10:28 pm April 19, 2012 
 |   Van Beek
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Welcome, especially if all the stuff is about how to pay as little taxes as possible.  
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 10:22 am April 20, 2012 
 |   Khaleef @ KNS Financial
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Welcome to the challenge. There are a number of us who frequently write about taxes, so you should fit right in! 
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 10:47 am April 20, 2012 
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Your blog looks great Lena! I've subscribed and will follow you on Twitter. Good luck! 
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 11:07 am April 20, 2012 
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Congrats on joining. I will be by to send some Jai stuff your way.  
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 3:00 pm April 20, 2012 
 |   Lena Gott
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Thanks, guys!   
  
@Van – I'll try to throw some tax-saving strategies in the mix.  :) 
@Khaleef – I love the premise of your site.  I've considered offering remote tax prep services before, but never took the plunge.  Very interesting to see that this is actually a thing! 
@Kurt – You have the second site I've seen today based on an eye-catching Elegant Theme.  I just might have to try out that platform for my next site. 
@Jai – Had a good laugh at your recent potty training post…I don't envy you cuz we had a hard time training our oldest, too.  I commented with some stuff that worked for us.  
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 5:07 am April 22, 2012 
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Lena- Site looks great. Best of luck with the challenge and the pregnancy/ 
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 12:12 pm April 22, 2012 
 |   Hank Coleman
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Welcome to the challenge. 
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 12:38 pm April 22, 2012 
 |   Lena Gott
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Thanks, guys.  Have to say I'm a little discouraged right now…the day I announced joining the Yakezie Challenge on my blog, I lost 22 out of 28 subscribers!!  Needless to say, I'm am completely clueless as to who is subscribing to my blog and what makes them tick.   
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 9:07 pm April 22, 2012 
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Great site and welcome to the challenge.  Your site is taxes and stuff and mine is this and that    
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 7:34 am April 24, 2012 
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Great addition to the challenge.  Congrats on joining and welcome. 
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 8:24 pm May 6, 2012 
 |   Forest Parks
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sorry about the subscribers. If it was feedburner subscribers then these do go up and down and it could just be a bug. 
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 7:39 am May 7, 2012 
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 4:46 pm May 7, 2012 
 |   Lance at Money Life and More
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Welcome! Good luck to you! 
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 5:32 pm May 7, 2012 
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 11:48 am May 12, 2012 
 |   Lena Gott
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OneCentAtatime said:  
Taxes and what stuff? 
 
LOL – ALL other stuff.  No, really, it's just my way of being tongue-in-cheek about a boring topic.  I'm not a typical CPA and wanted to keep the tone of the site light.  Hence, "stuff."    
 
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 11:51 am May 12, 2012 
 |   Lena Gott
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Thanks for all the recent welcomes…I joined the challenge in April, then took a short sabbatical from blogging to have my third child.     Now that he's 9 days old, I'm ready to get back on the horse!   
  
@Forest – Yes, it was Feedburner subscribers.  I have been wondering – can spambots (or human spammers) subscribe that way?  That could explain a huge jump then equivalent decrease.  Never heard anything about this, but I figure if I can get spam comments, then why can't I get spam subscribers?    
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 8:30 pm May 12, 2012 
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Feedburner numbers always go up and down so just don't worry about them. They'll equalise as time goes on. 
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 11:30 pm May 12, 2012 
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Welcome to the challenge Lena! Best of luck to you! And congrats on the new bundle of joy   
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 2:03 pm May 17, 2012 
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Welcome to the Challenge Lena! Wishing you much success   
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