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Hi!  I read somewhere that we are supposed to do an intro post, but I'm not sure where/what to do.  I'm such a horrible NOOB with this stuff so please forgive me if I'm wrong.

Let's see, about me. My name is Sandy.  I'm 32, have a very long term boyfriend, and live in New York.   I started my blog (yesiamcheap.com) after closing a business that pretty much wiped out my finances in the great recession. In fact, I'm paying those debts now.  I've been trying to drag myself up by the bootstraps, learning how to blog, trying to make some money on eBay and a website, oh and a full-time job all at once.  It's all overwhelming sometimes, and I wonder why I continue to do it.

Lately I've been feeling very discouraged and not posting the bare minimum of every other day that I promised myself.  It's tough to bare your life and I often feel as if I'm speaking to a wall, wondering if anyone else out there has my kind of crazy struggles.  Because of this my Alexa rank has tanked like nothing else.  It's horrific at 790,725.  That's 50% worse than my best rank.

My blog doesn't make me any money, and I really don't expect it to.  It was really started as a way for me to make myself accountable.  I've had an offer from a bigger blog to purchase my blog and keep me as a a pay-per-post writer, but after some consideration I turned it down.  It wasn't going to pay off any of my bills, so it wasn't worth it.

What else can I say but that I hope to make some friends in the financial blogging world and get out of debt.  I want to look back at this time and remember just what it is taking to get to a debt-free life so that I don't make a horrible mistake and "relapse".

If we've already made it under 200K (Thanks for the help, everyone!), what are the next steps? I'm working towards getting under 100K now, but is there something more I should be doing?

I haven't had as much time for guest posting recently, but I'm still retweeting, stumbling & visiting your sites.

Ha, ha! Thanks, Eric. I'm definitely working on it!

I'm not seeing an advertising section? Is that here in the forums somewhere?

I guess I don't have access to that. So, I get to ask another dumb question – where do I signuup for it??

That is great motivation to know that you started at 1.7 million and have dropped so far so fast. Talk about motivation. You have my super excited! I hope you don't mind if I borrow that idea of doing a weekly round up of fellow Yakezie member blogs (will start with yours), but that is a great idea for content on the site and ways to link to other members and help them out as well.

Thank you for the insight. I should have been in this group months ago. A friend of mine told me about, but you know how it is when you think you know everything….you usually don't. LOL

Anyway, looking forward to growing and building with each of you!

KNS Financial said:

Hello Sandy,

Please don't be discouraged, we all have to start from somewhere! I started this challenge at the end of July and my ranking was 1,704,000, and today it is a little under 126,000. What Forest and Realm of Prosperity said is 100% correct. Just visit other Yakezie blogs and add intelligent comments, interact with people here and on Twitter and people will begin to regularly visit your site. 

One thing that has helped me connect with people is that I post my favorite articles of the week every Monday – the authors have been so grateful and supportive! As far as the $, I'm still working on that – but the Yakezie has given me hope about that as well!

I will follow you on Twitter and subscribe to your RSS feed, and I'm sure others will as well. 

See you around!

The challenge mentioned an Intro post so here I am.

It is great encouragement reading all your posts.  Going from 1.7 million to under 200k seems impossible to me right now.

I am at about that 1.6 million and was considering just not doing this.

But I am going to work it and try to get to under 200k in 6months from today October 7, 2010.

Let's rock-n-roll!