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Welcome to all the new challengers – great way to start out the new year! I'm really enjoying checking out your sites, there is some seriously great info out there – hopefully more and more people will become personal finance nerds like everyone here and we can turn this economic situation around! :)

We joined the challenge at 1.8M and already down by 400k! 

Hello all -

I'm already following a few of you on twitter – and your blogs!

That being said, it's only now that I join the daunting Yakezie Challenge :)

Just installed the alexa toolbar and as of today (1/7/2012) my alexa scores are:

2,886,115 (global)

292,714 (US)

Boy it sure looks like a challenge to me!

I look forward to conencting with many of you and post comments on each other's blogs!

Thanks!

Thomas

(vaerdi.com/penge-snak)  

Hello all -

I'm already following a few of you on twitter – and your blogs!

That being said, it's only now that I join the daunting Yakezie Challenge :)

Just installed the alexa toolbar and as of today (1/7/2012) my alexa scores are:

2,886,115 (global)

292,714 (US)

Boy it sure looks like a challenge to me!

I look forward to conencting with many of you and post comments on each other's blogs!

Thanks!

Thomas

(vaerdi.com/penge-snak)  

Welcome Nick. Creative blog name, and I can easily relate. Have fun with the Challenge.

Welcome to all the challengers I may have missed…this thread continues to grow.

Thanks Hunter and AmericanDebtProject (and everyone else).  Will definitely follow everyone on twitter, etc., and looking forward to getting to know you all! 

Hi! I'm somewhat new to this forum — my first post here was to get some feelers on selling my site. That was a big fail, on actually selling it. But, some good came from it. I found this forum, networked with some new-to-me PF bloggers, and have a renewed interest in growing and developing my site.

I'm Kacie and I've been blogging at sensetosave.com since Sept. 2007. I've had a steady readership, but it hasn't grown. In fact, last year when I started blogging about 529 plans I lost a big chunk of subscribers. I was really discouraged, to say the least.

My 2011 blog income was my best year yet though, right around the $10k mark. My ad model is almost exclusively sidebar text links.

For 2012 and on, I want to:

- Take my Alexa ranking from 462,006 today (1/14/12) and break in the top 200k so I can be an official member here

- Diversify my income streams. Keep the text links going, and improve affiliate and Adsense

- Expand my readership.

- Make the best use of my blogging time. I want to get a lot of bang for my buck without spending gobs of time on the computer. I'm a SAHM and I need to make sure my kids don't remember their little years with me glued to the computer all the time.

My readership isn't nearly as engaged in my site as they once were. I used to get lots of comments on posts (30-50+!), and now I have to really beg for discussion.

I don't know if my PF goals have changed, and that's now a turn-off to my current readers or what the deal is. Still trying to figure that out. When I started, I was big on frugality and saving money. Now I'm out of non-mortgage debt and I'm looking to improve my investments and grow my net worth.

I'm participating in the #SITS31DBBB challenge, where a bunch of bloggers are working their way through ProBloggers 31 days to a better blog ebook. This launches on Monday.

I'm also privately working through a few ebooks on ways to tweak and improve my site.

SO. All this to say, my six months starts today and will be up on July 14. I added the button to my site and I'll announce my participation inside my next post. Looking forward to learning from you all!

- Kacie

sensetosave said:

Hi! I'm somewhat new to this forum — my first post here was to get some feelers on selling my site. That was a big fail, on actually selling it. But, some good came from it. I found this forum, networked with some new-to-me PF bloggers, and have a renewed interest in growing and developing my site.

I'm Kacie and I've been blogging at sensetosave.com since Sept. 2007. I've had a steady readership, but it hasn't grown. In fact, last year when I started blogging about 529 plans I lost a big chunk of subscribers. I was really discouraged, to say the least.

My 2011 blog income was my best year yet though, right around the $10k mark. My ad model is almost exclusively sidebar text links.

For 2012 and on, I want to:

- Take my Alexa ranking from 462,006 today (1/14/12) and break in the top 200k so I can be an official member here

- Diversify my income streams. Keep the text links going, and improve affiliate and Adsense

- Expand my readership.

- Make the best use of my blogging time. I want to get a lot of bang for my buck without spending gobs of time on the computer. I'm a SAHM and I need to make sure my kids don't remember their little years with me glued to the computer all the time.

My readership isn't nearly as engaged in my site as they once were. I used to get lots of comments on posts (30-50+!), and now I have to really beg for discussion.

I don't know if my PF goals have changed, and that's now a turn-off to my current readers or what the deal is. Still trying to figure that out. When I started, I was big on frugality and saving money. Now I'm out of non-mortgage debt and I'm looking to improve my investments and grow my net worth.

I'm participating in the #SITS31DBBB challenge, where a bunch of bloggers are working their way through ProBloggers 31 days to a better blog ebook. This launches on Monday.

I'm also privately working through a few ebooks on ways to tweak and improve my site.

SO. All this to say, my six months starts today and will be up on July 14. I added the button to my site and I'll announce my participation inside my next post. Looking forward to learning from you all!

- Kacie

Hi Kacie, welcome!