Yakezie Member Post – Free From Broke

The Story Behind Personal Fiannce Blog Free From Broke.

by in Personal Finance on Aug 30th, 2010

Hi.  I’m Craig and I’m a husband, father, and the publisher of Free From Broke. Let me tell you a bit about myself and my personal finance blog…

Some years ago I realized that my finances were not anywhere that they needed to be. I was in credit card debt and renting a tiny apartment.  At the time I had very little in savings and basically nothing set aside for retirement.  I needed to change.  I started doing research online.  One of the first sites I found was the Motley Fool.  At the time they were full of so many great articles that I’d sit there reading one after the other.  I was starting to see that I could take control of my finances and slowly I was learning how to do it. Read More

Introducing The Yakezie Forums!

by in Personal Finance on Aug 29th, 2010

Over the past several weeks, we have been working hard to get all of the features that we want for Yakezie.com. Today, we are happy to announce the launch of one of the most important components, the Yakezie Forums!  The Yakezie Forums will replace our Google Groups entirely, and is designed as a way for our readers, members, and authors to communicate with each other behind the scenes on anything and everything. Read More

Yakezie Member Post – Consumerism Commentary

by in Personal Finance on Aug 26th, 2010

Arigato gozaimasu to Financial Samurai for his hard work organizing Yakezie and creating a strong, positive force in the blogging community. I’m honored to be involved in any way I can. My first encounter with Sam was during a time I was looking for a staff writer for Consumerism Commentary. In organizing all the responses, I regrettably didn’t respond to Sam’s email, and he rightfully called me out for my negligence. I’ve been working at improving my communication habits, but I know I have a long way to go.

That was my primary reason for joining the Yakezie. Although the goal of this network is focused on Alexa ranking, my motivation for including Consumerism Commentary within the network is to work more closely with a group of financial bloggers. Here’s a little of my history.

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The Millionaire Nurse Blog: AKA Dr Dean’s Baby!

by in Personal Finance on Aug 24th, 2010

The Birth of The Millionaire Nurse

The Spark in his eye:

I have always been interested in business. It fascinates me how men and women, from a germ of an idea, or wish, or hope, grow that idea into an organization that produces an outcome, a product or a service. Hopefully, if the stars are aligned, at a profit.

So how does someone interested in business, become a Doc, and how does a Doc, then become a writer/blogger/speaker about personal finance?

Maybe Sigmund Freud has that answer, I certainly do not. Read More

Weekend Plans: Announcements, Book Reviews & Promos

by in Writing Contest on Aug 21st, 2010

Over the next couple of months, Yakezie.com will be featuring Member Posts Monday through Friday.  Originally we had estimated that only about 30 or so would sign up out of 100 and we would use the days in between to post updates and other miscellaneous things.  However, it looks like we have over 50 Member Posts in the queue already with ever more continuing to sign up!  Hence, it looks like the only time we can fit different type of posts in are during the weekends. Read More

Yakezie Member Post Instructions

A how-to guide for contributors to Yakezie

by in Personal Finance on Aug 20th, 2010

Hello everyone!  Thank you for making the Yakezie launch so successful.  We have been making continual updates to the site’s core code and adding new functionality daily.  I hope you like what we have done.

It is almost time for the first round of member posts and I want to explain to everyone how this is going to be done.  I am sorry for the length here, but if you follow all the instructions I promise we’ll be OK!  If you need further help, see the bottom of this post. Read More

Yakezie Badges, Belts, Forums, and Leaders

Thanks everyone for their input after Monday’s launch!  We’ve been actively testing out various functions and squashing bugs as they come thanks to your feedback.  Per your suggestions, we are in the process of adding Commentluv (or something similar that is compatible with our custom theme).  We’ve added threading to comments four threads deep to engender banter.  Finally, we’ve also added the “Subscribe to Comments” plug-in to keep you guys in the loop while you are away.

Hopefully everybody can get a Gravatar so we can see your pretty symbol or face.  It takes less than 3 minutes to do.  Some have expressed our pictures are curiously large, but don’t worry, the picture is still 1/30th the size of your own face!  Besides, you guys are much better looking than I could have ever imagined! As the saying goes, “it’s always good to put a name to a face“!

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Yakezie Writing Contest

by in Writing Contest on Aug 14th, 2010

The Yakezie Writing Contest vertical is our most important vertical because it is our opportunity to give back to the community.  The Yakezie Network consists of bloggers with backgrounds from all over who are willing to share their advice with you on a one on one basis.  Chances are high we will be able to answer your questions as we have likely all been there before. Read More

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