I’m bullish on blogging as a form of mass communication for the following three reasons: 1) Trend from offline to online: More readers are opting to consume information through their computers and mobile devices rather than by print. The structural shift has decimated traditional print and any organization who fails to adopt an online model. Newsweek […]
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Since day one, the Yakezie Network has upheld the motto of helping others first. With this motto, we built a positive culture of always looking out for one another. If someone loses a job, we rally around that Member to provide freelance work or drive opportunities their way. If a Member needs some help with […]
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For the past couple of years, I’ve been a Dedicated Server customer of Inmotion Hosting for Yakezie.com and FinancialSamurai.com. Previously, I was with MediaTemple for a year and a half with a Virtual Private Server until I got fed up with the number of downtimes and lack of service. MediaTemple definitely has its positives. I […]
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When I first got the email that I had been accepted as a member into the Yakezie network, I was tickled purple. I had been a challenger for an entire year and didn’t apply the first time around, finally…my time had come. Then after the excitement wound down, I realized that I had to come […]
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I am fascinated how one small event leads to a series of dominos that change your life. When I was an advisor, one client told me he loved having me there so he “had someone to kick.” You’d think that’s what drove me from the business, but it wasn’t. In fact, that one spurred me […]
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During the last week of September 2012, Google launched another algorithmic change to lower the power of Exact Match Domain (EMD) websites. For example, a website with the URL SanFranBest.com now ranks relatively less well in a “Best Of San Francisco” search than a site called BubbleRock.com, which talks about San Francisco and other great […]
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When I started blogging about personal finance in 2011, my financial life was in transition. My wife and I had been aggressively paying down a mountain of consumer, student loan and auto loan debt for a few years at that point, and we were about one year away from finally being debt free. But like […]
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I sometimes think that everyone agrees on a few key facts. Just the usual stuff, like: It’s OK to make fun of people who wear Ed Hardy or Affliction. There’s no such thing as a good tampon commercial. It’s a tie between Gabriel García Márquez and Margaret Atwood for the title of greatest living novelist. The best […]
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Untemplater: Congrats on getting so many consecutive features on Google News! That’s phenomenal! Writing on...Untemplater: You nailed it. I also believe great marketing is very helpful in the beginning but it’s really...
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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