Dear Yakezie Community, What a year! From Google making heavy changes to their algorithms in the Spring to several more Yakezie Members taking a leap of faith to go full-time online, we’ve been through a lot! Despite all the uncontrollable changes we face, we can control our own efforts in the quantity and quality of […]
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Over the past two weeks, I’ve been busy spending time with my parents who are visiting over the holidays. From the three hour round-trip pickup at Oakland Airport during rush hour traffic to the 4:45am drop off in order for my mother to catch a 6am flight to see her friends in between visits, I’ve […]
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I hope all of you are having a nice holiday spending time with family and friends. This year is rapidly coming to a close and it’s a time when we’re all reflecting on our accomplishments, failures, and starting to put together our goals for 2013. I feel like this year started off pretty slow, but […]
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Although you’ll see me commenting around the personal finance blogosphere, I actually comment even more across the lifestyle and more recently, the SEO space due to all the changes with Google. The reasons are several fold: 1) Variety is entertaining 2) It’s always good to learn something from those who spend most of their time […]
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If there is one generalization about young adults that has been true more often than not, it is that they (we) lack motivation. Whether that is motivation to pay off our debts, ask a girl for their number, or get a better job. This last situation was the case for me until very recently. It’s […]
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First, a brief introduction. My name is Matthew Allen. Some of you may remember me from about a year ago when I was a Yakezie challenger with my former blog, RamblingFever Money. At the time, I was brand new to blogging. I stubbornly left my site on the free-hosted Blogger platform, despite all the advice […]
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Imagine selling your site for $200,000. Wouldn’t that be incredible? It depends actually. What if the site took you four years to build? Each week you spent over 70 hours writing content and getting the word out. Furthermore, this was your only job during this time period. You’re 29 now and flush with $150,000 in […]
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For the first two and a half years of blogging, I don’t think I had a single affiliate post. Reading other blogger’s affiliate posts sometimes made me cringe because it was evident most did not use the products they were pitching. Over the years, I’ve seen plenty of blogger’s completely lose their audiences and quit […]
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Jamie: Awesome insights thanks! I’ve been a big fan of Sam’s for years. Really exciting that he’s...Untemplater: There are so many overpriced ecourses online it’s crazy. They use very aggressive marketing tactics to...
Andy: Thousand-dollar e-courses are a total scam. You can learn everything online for free. Shame on people who sell...Untemplater: There are a lot of bloggers out there who focus on small stuff like should you or should you not spend...
Derek: It’s fascinating how some bloggers continue to just mindlessly pump out affiliate content. It’s clear they are...Untemplater: Lots of valid points! So true that bloggers are a minority of overall readership, so blogging to much...
Bingo: You are spot on. Most of our bloggers are white people living on the coasts, where half the population of...
Financial Samurai: Hi Jim – Nice to hear from you. It was too much work running Yakezie. Too many people wanted...Personal Finance Lifestyle Writing Contest
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