Financial Samurai is the founder of the Yakezie Network. Through continuing education and hard work, Sam believes everyone is able to achieve financial independence and give back to the community with abundance. Together we'll slice through money's mysteries!
I am fascinated how one small event leads to a series of dominos that change your life. When I was an advisor, one client told me he loved having me there so he “had someone to kick.” You’d think that’s what drove me from the business, but it wasn’t. In fact, that one spurred me […]
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During the last week of September 2012, Google launched another algorithmic change to lower the power of Exact Match Domain (EMD) websites. For example, a website with the URL SanFranBest.com now ranks relatively less well in a “Best Of San Francisco” search than a site called BubbleRock.com, which talks about San Francisco and other great […]
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When I started blogging about personal finance in 2011, my financial life was in transition. My wife and I had been aggressively paying down a mountain of consumer, student loan and auto loan debt for a few years at that point, and we were about one year away from finally being debt free. But like […]
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I sometimes think that everyone agrees on a few key facts. Just the usual stuff, like: It’s OK to make fun of people who wear Ed Hardy or Affliction. There’s no such thing as a good tampon commercial. It’s a tie between Gabriel García Márquez and Margaret Atwood for the title of greatest living novelist. The best […]
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One of my favorite authors, Ralph Waldo Emerson, has the wisdom to cure most problems in our world — Common sense is as rare as genius, – is the basis of genius. I am not a genius, but I have lots of common sense. When I decided to launch a personal finance blog, I didn’t think […]
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There seems to be a tradition going of starting off a membership post with a statement of feeling overwhelmed by the company the poster is now keeping as a member of the Yakezie network. Well, far be it from me to buck tradition. When I first signed up for the challenge, I honestly thought I […]
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January 22, 2012 It was a cold, clear day; no leaves left on the tall sticks in our backyard that we used to refer to as trees. In January, the dead of winter here in the Midwest, the Sun sets before dinnertime. I’ve always found this time of year to be somewhat depressing because of […]
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I think that I’m one of the anomalies in blogging or at least our personal finance blogging community. I’ve been actually blogging for four years now, and I’ve lived the blogger dream of creating popular blogs and selling them only to later have seller’s remorse. After selling my original blog two years ago, I quickly […]
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Untemplater: Congrats on getting so many consecutive features on Google News! That’s phenomenal! Writing on...Untemplater: You nailed it. I also believe great marketing is very helpful in the beginning but it’s really...
Jamie: Awesome insights thanks! I’ve been a big fan of Sam’s for years. Really exciting that he’s...Untemplater: There are so many overpriced ecourses online it’s crazy. They use very aggressive marketing tactics to...
Andy: Thousand-dollar e-courses are a total scam. You can learn everything online for free. Shame on people who sell...Untemplater: There are a lot of bloggers out there who focus on small stuff like should you or should you not spend...
Derek: It’s fascinating how some bloggers continue to just mindlessly pump out affiliate content. It’s clear they are...Untemplater: Lots of valid points! So true that bloggers are a minority of overall readership, so blogging to much...
Bingo: You are spot on. Most of our bloggers are white people living on the coasts, where half the population of...
Financial Samurai: Hi Jim – Nice to hear from you. It was too much work running Yakezie. Too many people wanted...Personal Finance Lifestyle Writing Contest
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