Personal Finance Advice

Overall it was a good month for Nate and I. The satellite sites had both some quite positive numbers as well as some numbers that were a bit disappointing. It was our first full month with site managers and it worked out fairly well although all the sites lost money compared to March when the [...]

This month seemed to fly by. I didn’t spend near as much time as I had the previous few months addressing these specific goals as I was doing a lot of work on other areas of our network that Nate and I deemed important. It showed in the numbers for this month: Increase unique visitors [...]

For one of the recent daily financial tips I wrote about making a to-do list as a way to save money. I received an email that asked, “What is the best way to make a to-do list?” Now, I receive emails with strange questions from time to time about finances, but how do you answer [...]

Okay, I admit it. When it comes to Internet domain names, I make impulse purchases. Every time I do, I can see Nate rolling his eyes as I try to explain why I thought the name was going to be a good purchase. MacInteltoshes is one of those impulse purchases. I was reading an article [...]

We have our newest satellite site up which is focused on the basics of investing at Investing Page. In addition to being a new sat site, it’s also our first sat site where we are starting out from day one with a manager for the site. Roger Sorensen, who has been writing on personal finance [...]

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We finally have a new look for the satellite sites. It will be interesting to see the effect that the new design has as we have added more advertising than we had before. Hopefully this in addition to adding the managers, we’ll see an increase in both traffic and profits from the sites. You can [...]

Looking at the numbers for March we knew that we needed to make some adjustments to our building of additional sites. While a few of the sites are quite performing well, the majority of them are not. What we’d ultimately like to have is 50 sites each earning a minimum of $50 and while we [...]

A quarter of 2006 is now gone and it’s time again to take a look at the goals I had and how I have been progressing toward them, but before we get into that, April was the big decision day. At the end of last year Nate and I made the decision to have me [...]

As I have mentioned before, one of the big problems with setting up so many of the satellite sites is that I don’t have time to promote them and basic promotion goes a long way to bringing in traffic and ultimately income. So we needed to come up with a new way to promote the [...]

I have the latest satellite site in our growing collection up at Inexpensive Lawyer. The site will focus on ways to save money or reduce the costs associated with an attorney. It’s pretty basic information on how to keep costs down or what to do if you don’t have the money for a lawyer. I [...]

You’ll be able to get a lot more information on the Google Finance from other sources – it seems geared toward companies and investing rather than personal finances, but there is one nice feature that I wanted to point out for those tracking their individual stocks. If you have a Gmail account (if you don’t, [...]

Our satellite site Timeshare Trap received some good media coverage. I was quoted in an article by Gregory Karp in the Chicago Tribune titled Unloading Time Share Likely A No-Win Deal. It was nice to see a mainstream media outlet highlight this problem. The question of how to get rid of a timeshare is a [...]

Over a year ago when Nate and I first began to talk about whether we were going to quit (after losing the content to our site a couple of times) or to continue on, we came up with the idea of satellite sites. After making the decision that we were going to try and make [...]

Our latest satellite site is now up and is called Reduce College Costs. While I’m not sure if any of you will be able to notice, this one is a bit different from the others we’ve created. I won’t go into the details right now because I’m curious if anyone can guess (if anyone even [...]

The latest of our satellite sites is TaxPressRelease.com. It will be interesting to see how this site develops. I decided to build this one for a couple of reasons. First, when the IRS makes changes, they sometimes rewrite or delete old press releases which has often frustrated me when trying to write articles. I therefore [...]

February failed to generate as much money as January did overall for the satellite sites with the average income falling once again — from $33.86 per site to $32.25 per site. Part of this is due to the shorter month which meant three less days of income in January. Also one of the sites was [...]

I can’t believe it’s already March. This past month just flew by – I felt like I was doing this monthly review just a few days a go for January. I guess it’s time to take a look at how February went: The first month of the year has come to an end and it’s [...]

This is how I spend a Saturday – claiming about 50 gmail accounts that I’ll probably never use, but couldn’t resist getting (now you can see why I need to get a life). This is how my mind works – If you happened to miss the news, Google launched a Web Page Creator which was [...]

When I started to add satellite sites, I thought that National Condom Week would be one of the big winners in the group. I had a tie in with credit card condoms and it was just quirky enough that I thought it would catch one. I fell into the trap that I thought it would [...]