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!
A bunch of us just got back from Denver where the second annual Financial Blogger’s Conference was held. The event was a homerun and I encourage everyone to attend in 2013! Phil from PT Money and his team did a wonderful job putting the entire event together. I’ve probably attended around 20 conferences so far […]
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You would think that nine months of challenge would be enough to think about, practice and prepare for writing my Yakezie membership post, right? So did I but we would both bewrong! I have been agonising over it for three day now, writing and re-writing. Why? Because I really want to integrate in the Yakezie […]
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An Imperfect Mold While I didn’t grow up in the projects of St. Louis, burglaries were common and it’s wasn’t unusual to hear the “pop, pop, pop” sound of a gun not too far in the distance. After years of growing up in a rough neighborhood, I was fortunate to be accepted to one of […]
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Hey there! My name is Michelle and I blog at Making Sense of Cents. Before last summer, I NEVER saw or imagined myself blogging. I never put more than a second of thought into it. However, starting last summer, I became a habitual blog lurker. I would read blogs, but never leave comments or let […]
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Self Sufficient Roots I guess like anyone it began in my youth. My parents were pretty frugal partly out of necessity, I have six brothers and sisters, but also from their experience growing up in Boston during the 1930s. Some of my earliest memories are of the summer trips to Boston, all 9 of us […]
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Four years ago, the world was coming to an end. Bear Sterns blew up in the Spring of 2008 and on September 15, 2008, Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy. I vividly remember the Dow Jones closing down 500 points or -4.4% on September 15 after the news to around 8,100. But things got much worse […]
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The combined pageviews of the roughly 115 Yakezie Members hovers around four to five million a month. The four to five million pageviews a month consists of roughly three million unique visitors. By any measure, several million unique visitors a month is a very powerful and attractive metric to have! Bloggers are the wave of […]
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Receiving comments is one of the most rewarding aspects of blogging. Comments show that someone out there is listening and interested in participating in the topic at hand. In fact, comments were a large part of what kept me going in the first year of blogging. When you first start out, blogging can get lonely. […]
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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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