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drroad said:

Jaymus (RealizedReturns) said:

welcome drroad (p.s. I get a spyware warning when I go to your blog).

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Uh oh…what does that mean?  Could it be my statcounter that does that? 
 

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I am not sure, here's the message I get:

Part of this page has been blocked due to the following reason: Spyware Behavior Detected! The requested file or page contains Spyware.
The Spyware name is Coupons Inc

Wow!! Thank you everyone for such a warm welcome!  I have also subscribed to most of your RSS, FB and followed on Twitter.  Looking forward to a great challenge with you guys! :)

Hi everyone! My name is Mike. I own Oh, Crap, I'm Broke! I'm very excited about the challenge. My traffic is pretty low, so I'm looking forward to increased traffic and increased readership!

My rank is currently 1,850,822. 6 months from today, June 7, 2011, I will be below 200,000. This is my goal.

Looking forward to working with all of you!

 

Mike

KNS Financial said:

Welcome drroad, I am following you on FB, twitter and RSS!

Crystal, you have to get going on CC Thoughts' twitter account! Oh, you have 29 likes on your BITFS FB page, now go to http://www.facebook.com/username to get a good looking URL.

Mark, I'm already a fan of your fb page – you need 1 more in order to clean up your URL. And how did you get so many twitter followers that fast?!?

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Thanks for being my first Twitter follower for CCT!!!  I saved the notification email for memory's sake.  :-)  I haven't been pushing CCT since I was only getting serious about it this year.  I will get more followers, promise.  I also need RSS subscribers now that the feed is no longer broken, lol.  Miss T tried to subscribe, but it took her to BFS instead.  For anybody who is interested, you can subscribe to Crystal Clear Thoughts here or follow CCT on Twitter here.  :-)

Thanks for giving me a heads up on BFS's facebook page!  I will take care if that when I have access tonight or tomorrow!  I'll also start a fan page for Crystal Clear Thoughts.

I cannot say thanks enough for keeping me on the social media track.  Between you and Kris, I'm finally building all the right things to succeed.  :-)

Welcome Mike!

Budgeting in the Fun Stuff said:

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Thanks for being my first Twitter follower for CCT!!!  I saved the notification email for memory's sake.  :-)  I haven't been pushing CCT since I was only getting serious about it this year.  I will get more followers, promise.  I also need RSS subscribers now that the feed is no longer broken, lol.  Miss T tried to subscribe, but it took her to BFS instead.  For anybody who is interested, you can subscribe to Crystal Clear Thoughts here or follow CCT on Twitter here.  :-)

Thanks for giving me a heads up on BFS's facebook page!  I will take care if that when I have access tonight or tomorrow!  I'll also start a fan page for Crystal Clear Thoughts.

I cannot say thanks enough for keeping me on the social media track.  Between you and Kris, I'm finally building all the right things to succeed.  :-)

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Hahaha, I'm glad that I will always be archived in your email!

I have to do all of this stuff for my new site…I just hope I remember everything!

Post edited 4:48 pm – January 14, 2011 by ericlowery

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Accidently put this post in the general readers section so I'm reposting it here where it's more appropriate.

 

My name is Eric Lowery and I went from making $20,000/month in real estate sales during the big boom to $2,000/month as a cop (a job I thoroughly enjoy).  My big money led me to big debt and in late 2009 I filed Chapter 7.  The day after my discharge I landed in the hospital for nearly a week and walked out with a $70,000 medical bill.  Luckily I had good insurance so I didn't have to pay the full amount, but having to work light duty and take off what seemed like a million unpaid government holidays, it really put the pinch on my wallet.

 

Today, I'm finally starting to rebuild my financial life and I'm creating a chronicle of my story on my personal website http://www.ericlowery.com.  I just set out to start this Yakezie Challenge thing, and I'd be honored if any of you in this network would share their thoughts with me by commenting on my posts from time to time.

 

For now, I just want to say hello and thank you!  I'm looking forward to reading all of your wonderful posts!

 

Eric Lowery – "Thrifty, Wealthy and Wise"

http://www.ericlowery.com

Twitter

Facebook

Welcome again, Eric. I'm now following you on Twitter and subscribed to your feed.

ericlowery said:

Thanks KNS, I appreciate it!  I'm still trying to figure out how I want to run the feed, and who I want to use for email subscriptions.  I've used Aweber in the past, but I don't want to pay for their service at the moment.  I've also used Feedburner, but I'm hesitant to set up something that's difficult to switch to a better platform later on. 

Anyone have any suggestions on how they manage their RSS and email subscriptions?

 

Eric Lowery – "Thrifty, Wealthy and Wise"

http://www.ericlowery.com

Twitter

Facebook

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I actually went from Subscribe2 to Feedburner, and now to Aweber. I think there are others like Mail Chimp (?) and Constant Contact, which may be cheaper alternatives to Aweber.

But if you think you will ultimately end up using Aweber once you grow, I would suggest starting off with it. That way you don't have to worry about getting your email subscribers to subscribe and confirm all over again.