Welcome Yakezie Gamma Class!

Yakezie Delta Class Challenge Window Is Also Open

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in Featured on Jul 11th, 2011
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Dear Yakezie Gamma Class Challengers,

The Yakezie Gamma Class sign-up page is now live!  I hope all of you have had a wonderful time getting to know your fellow Challengers and Members, while pushing yourselves to write consistent content on your respective blogs.  The official Gamma Class window was from Dec 1, 2010 to March 1, 2011.  However, it usually takes about 2 months or longer, depending on the class size and editorial calendar to publish all Member posts.  Hence, those who’ve joined in April are also welcome to the Gamma Class.  Everybody must go through a 6 month Challenge period to make everything equal.

It’s been great getting to know many of you during this time period and I’m sure you folks feel the same way.  All of you have seen your blogs grow quickly thanks to your consistent posting schedule and selfless support of others.  Our philosophy has always been that it is better to give than to receive and it is our culture that makes us who we are. 

THE NEXT STEPS Read More

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Announcing The CarInsuranceCompanies.com Yakezie Writing Contest Winners!

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in Writing Contest on Jul 8th, 2011
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The Yakezie Writing Contest Committee is pleased to announce the winners of The CarInsuranceCompanies.com Yakezie Writing Contest!  All together, we had a total of roughly 50 applicants of which 9 finalists were selected to be featured on Yakezie.com’s Writing Contest vertical.

Each finalist told us a story, many of which were quite personal in nature.  It takes guts to admit mistakes and revisit dark places, but that’s exactly what many of the candidates did.  The best essays are always ones which made the reader feel the way you felt.  It’s the connection that compels us to vote five stars.

Without further ado, may we announce the winners of The CarInsuranceCompanies.com Yakezie Writing Contest! Read More

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I Can’t Help You Budget If You Can’t Help Yourself

Personal Responsibility and Loved Ones

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in Personal Finance on Jul 6th, 2011
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I thought I’d share some situations involving loved ones and money where I just finally gave up. Maybe you can relate to some of these stories; you may have some of your own.

The main takeaway is that success in personal finance is due to work. Not necessarily hard financial work with calculators and miles of spreadsheets, but actually having a plan and executing it yourself.

“Can You Help Me With A Budget?”

I like helping people. I like spreadsheets (yes- I really do), so when people asked me to help them out by creating a budget, I was excited. I took time to create something that would work for them, not just a standard template.

My new policy now with budgets? I just don’t do it anymore. I’ll send you a template or a link to Dave Ramsey’s Gazelle Lite tool. It’s not worth the hassle and most of the time (9/10) it’s just pointless as I noticed the same people keep coming back.

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How to Avoid “Financial Multiple Personality Disorder”

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in Lifestyle on Jul 4th, 2011
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By Kristoph Matthews from SmashingEntrepreneur.com – A young entrepreneur’s guide to harnessing passion, ideas and business to live an epic lifestyle.  Kristoph is new Yakezie Challenger.

I remember when I first started my quest for wealth. It was all about money, without much discretion to the method of its attainment. “How do I get from point A (living off my parents’ income while in college) to point B (generating $1 mm per year in passive income)?” I knew that just managing my finances well wasn’t enough. I needed some sort of “vehicle” to get me from point A to point B.

I quickly learned about several of such vehicles and tried to “ride” one after another. I initially became drawn to stock and commodities trading, and then selling in B auctions, and finally start-ups. Until I engaged in start-ups, I had developed a sort of “financial multiple personality disorder,” chasing all sorts of opportunities. Instead of focusing on and mastering a single method of gaining wealth, I dabbled in several, and consequently spread myself thin. Read More

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Google Updates PageRank And The Yakezie Rises

The Growth of Yakezie Around The World

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in Featured on Jun 29th, 2011
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At last.  Sometime in the latter half of June 2011, Google finally updated their PageRank system to the delight of many of us here at the Yakezie.  It’s been a long road for many of you who have been stuck with a 0 PageRank for months.  But, never one to lay down and roll over, we as a group collectively managed to elevate the importance of mozRank in the website ranking ecosystem.  Not only did we implement mozRank as a key metric for the Yakezie Blog Network list, we wrote posts describing the merits of the system which updates much more frequently, and have also convinced advertisers to use the metric as well.

I am extremely proud of all of you who stuck it through and got bumped up.  Instead of giving up, you kept on producing good content, linking out to each other, and sharing each others words.  A few of you have seen a loss of a PR point which doesn’t make sense.  Meanwhile, some of the less active bloggers achieved a PR of 5 or 6, which is excellent, but also quite curious as well.  Often times, there is no rhyme or reason to Google’s blackbox Pagerank system, but it is what it is.  Collectively, the entire Network wins, and if the Network wins, each individual Member wins as well given the increased authority and confluence of proposals that come our way.

Just looking at the Yakezie Blog Network list now, I am absolutely blown away by how excellent all of our sites are.  It’s one thing to have a list of personal finance bloggers, but it’s another thing to have a list of extremely impactful bloggers that know each other and collaborate!

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Was The “Lost Decade” Really Lost For Investors?

The Reality Of Investment Returns

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in Personal Finance on Jun 27th, 2011
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A topic that is commonly discussed these days in the personal finance community is something called, “The Lost Decade.” In fact, while I was recently reading several financial magazines, I found out that many would-be experts would have us believe that the past 10 years were completely useless for investors. Quite a bold statement if you ask me!

After reading these statements, I began to wonder, “What facts do the actual numbers dictate to us?” This analysis will be the topic of today’s post.

What Is The Lost Decade? Read More

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Real Estate Mistakes I Made And How To Avoid Them

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in Personal Finance on Jun 23rd, 2011
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The following is a guest post from MD of Studenomics. Today he’s releasing a new eBook for 20-somethings that are trying to decide if they should buy or rent a home right now. This quick read will help you save thousands of dollars by making the right choice when it comes to this very important decision.

I find these days that most people on the internet aren’t modest at all with their accomplishments. Everyone is quick to brag about something. I don’t get that. Today I wanted to share some of my mistakes with you guys in hopes that you can learn from them. I wanted to share real estate investing mistakes that I made. These are mistakes that I don’t want anyone else out there to repeat. Read More

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Dividend Investing – How to Build a Never Ending Cash Distributor

Investing For The Long Term

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in Personal Finance on Jun 20th, 2011
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As many of you know already, I have recently launched my first eBook: Dividend Investing – How to Build a Never Ending Cash Distributor. This is a free resource for the one who would like to know how to start investing and earning passive income. I wanted to talk a little bit more about the book and the impact it had on my business 7 days after the official launch.

About Dividend Investing

Instead of blindly opening a brokerage account and chasing the next Apple stock, I suggest getting realistic.  You can start by reading this book. In this eBook you will learn just how easy it is to build your own dividend portfolio without taking on too much risk. The goal here is not to make you rich quickly.  It is to make you understand how to make money with dividend investing.

I favor dividend investing for 3 reasons Read More

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