Personal Finance, Writing, and Blogging
Posted in 31 Days to a Better Blog, Blogging on May 15th, 2008
Time for Day 4 of my quest to build a better blog thanks to ProBlogger’s Guide. Yesterday was Day 3 and I did a Searched for and Joined a New Forum.
Today it’s all about Interlinking Archived Posts. What this means is that, when I write about something I’ve already covered before (say, alternative income), I […]
Posted in 31 Days to a Better Blog, Blogging on May 14th, 2008
Welcome to Day 3 of my quest to build a better blog by following ProBlogger’s Guide. Yesterday was Day 2 and I did a First Time Reader audit. It was incredibly helpful and I’ve already started making changes based on that experience.
Today’s tip is to Search For and Join a forum on my blog’s topic. […]
Posted in 31 Days to a Better Blog, Blogging on May 11th, 2008
One of the first links I bookmarked that is still in my Favorites toolbar when I began blogging was Problogger’s page titled 31 Days to Building a Better Blog. I remember reading it in a frenzy, trying to absorb as much knowledge as I could. Some of the tips I had seen in other places […]
Posted in Blogging, Happiness, Motivation, Writing on Apr 23rd, 2008
On Monday I admitted to the world that I’m a really nostalgic person and began a brief (or maybe not so brief since this is part 2) look back at how far I’ve come over the past few years. I left off in October 2006 after having worked out every for a month and then […]
Posted in Blogging on Feb 6th, 2008
I heard back from my work today and they told me it’s totally cool to continue writing on my blog despite it being kind of similar to what I’ll be doing for them.
But it’s great news, as I thought I would have to abandon something I’ve really grown attached to and am really excited about.
The […]
Posted in Blogging on Feb 5th, 2008
After discussing the idea with some other, more established bloggers, last week I decided to make a conscious effort to write fewer posts of “higher quality,” whatever that means. In practice, this meant writing just one post per day, as opposed to the usual two or sometimes three posts per day I was writing before.
Believe […]
Posted in Blogging, Happiness, Jobs, Motivation on Jan 23rd, 2008
Last week I wrote about the five ways blogging about personal finance has helped me, and it got me thinking about why I blog. Is it because I may make some money out of it? Get a job out of it?
Sure, all of those are reasons that have kept me motivated to keep working on […]
Posted in Blogging, Finance, Money and Relationships, Writing on Jan 18th, 2008
This is a notion I picked up in grad school when I was getting my Masters in Writing: For a lot of writers it helps to keep a certain reader in mind as they sit down to write.
Will X like this part? X will think this is funny, right?
It really helps materialize an otherwise ethereal […]
The other day I noticed one particular post I wrote was getting a crazy amount of hits and after looking at the numbers I realized it was because it was getting linked to from the Wall Street Journal.
I was like, huh? Turns out a guy over there wrote an article (which was on their home […]
Take a look at this USA Today article, it’s about seniors using the internet to make money.
I think it’s really interesting and great that older people are getting into computers and spending their time doing something they really enjoy. That they are making some money off it is also fantastic.
But the article is severely flawed. […]
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