About a year ago, I had a dialogue with a fellow blogger about career advice. Somehow, it morphed into blogging, probably because there are parallels to developing one’s blog and one’s career. I am the old fart who already went through the ringer and he is the young gun wondering what lies ahead. We differed […]
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Recently, Marissa Mayer joined Yahoo as the CEO so naturally I blogged about that (as a Millionaire story – her networth is estimated at over $300 million). As I wrote her story, it struck me that she positioned herself to be in the path of new ideas and opportunities. Have you ever been in an environment […]
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Now that I’ve retired from my corporate job after 13 years, I’ve had more time to reflect on what has transpired over the past three years since I started blogging. Three years ago, the financial crisis was in full blown meltdown and I had just begun to feel the tug of doing something else after […]
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Has your blog been penalized by Google for whatever reason? Are you looking for another, more sustainable (and Google friendly) way to bump up your online income? Affiliate Marketing Has A So So Reputation You may want to consider affiliate marketing. Some think affiliate marketing sounds sleazy, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. […]
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Ever since the Google face slap in March, 2012, I’ve been working overdrive to ensure the survival of our species. If there’s one thing I’m good at, it’s pretending that I have nothing, and that each day is a challenge to put biscuits on the table. Every time there is an assault on my existence […]
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One of the most exciting things about the internet is that anybody can write about anything and people will listen. Freedom of speech is a powerful amendment right that we should all exercise freely and with pride. But, what if we have no idea what we are talking about before writing something? Worse yet, what […]
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Last year, I had to privilege of attending 1 1/2 conferences. The half was SXSW (South by Southwest), in which I did a Chevy sponsored road trip to the event, but unfortunately had to leave due to a few family emergencies. The second one, I feel, completely redeemed my earlier disappointment: the first annual Financial Blogger Conference. Neither […]
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Many of you know that I run several blogs as a business. Perhaps some of you don’t know that I spend a lot of money to maintain them. In aggregate, my operating costs per month is $4,000! My business model has been challenged by many bloggers as most of them think it’s ridiculous that I […]
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