Personal Finance Advice

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 [...]

I have myself a part-time job. I was approached by the editors at the Seeking Alpha Network to take over as the writer / editor for the Sound Money Tips area. After talking it over with the editor (what would be expected and how it could benefit us both) and Nate (how would this affect [...]

I’d like to welcome Liz from Everyday Goddess as my first guest writer here. She has put together some excellent information about her experience of setting up and placing a Prosper.com loan request on auction (I also highly recommend her blog if you’re in need of getting away from personal finances for awhile). Enjoy: As [...]

Have some time to waste and a keen interest in housing prices in your area (or anywhere in the US)? You have to check out the site zillow.com, but be sure you have some time set aside to play. Whether you are looking to buy, sell or you already own a home, there is fun [...]

When I first read about this in the UK, I knew it was only a matter of time before something like it started here in the US. I stumbled across a new site that has started to do person to person lending in the US the other day. The site is called Prosper.com and it [...]

I’ve spent a lot of my years freelance writing. In the early years it was just the thrill of getting published that kept me going because the pay was literally nothing at times. As I got more pieces published I began to get paid more for my articles to where I could get several hundred [...]

The first month of the year has come to an end and it’s time to take a quick look at how I progressed toward the goals I set for this year. Increase unique visitors to the main site to 5,000 a day We had a large drop in the number of uniques to the site [...]

January was a better month than December overall for the satellite sites, but the average income from all fell once again (this is due to me counting the 4 new sites that are still receiving very little traffic). The average for all 19 sat sites that were up for the entire month came to $33.86. [...]

It’s the end of the month and I’m looking over my goals. I’ll have a list of how I’ve done against them after today is over and I can get this month’s numbers. I was also thinking about a fundamental switch that I’ve made with this journal during this month. I’m not sure if anyone [...]

If you enjoy reading a large variety of the personal finance writing out there but find signing up for everyone’s rss feed a pain, you might want to check out PFBlogs.com which is currently aggregating 81 different pfblogs. Or just use their rss feed to get everything in one feed rather than doing it 81 [...]

It was a tough month and the average for the 15 sat sites that were up for the entire month came to $39.09. That compares to the $54.09 average last month for the 10 sites that had been up an entire month. I knew that the average would fall to some degree due to adding [...]

I like it when I can dream a bit like this. While the numbers are taken completely out of context with our site being as small as it is compared to the biggies, I read the following at Money.com Based on recent high-profile Web content deals, the value of a unique monthly Web site visitor [...]

This is our latest in the series of sat sites we’re putting together: frugalgardening.com. Although this one isn’t completely done, I’m making it live because it will be built over a period of time. The sections have been broken down into months thus far with the first four finished (January – April. I actually wanted [...]

I mentioned a few days ago that I would need to do some financial juggling this month. With the half way mark here, the current income only confirms what I had talked about previously. Looking at the first half numbers, we’re going to come in about $500 below what we did last month – maybe [...]

After some long conversations with Nate, we have set a goal of earning $5,000 a month from the site network by the beginning of 2007. This is pretty ambitious considering where we are right now, but we came to the conclusion that we really needed another full year of working our tails off on the [...]

I finally finished the latest of the sat sites: Hybrid Car Tax Deduction. This is another one of those that is a big question mark on how it’s going to perform. I’m hoping that it gets a lot of traffic from January through April with people needed information in regard to the tax season that [...]

My latest sat site is driving me absolutely nuts! I should know better. I should stick with domain names that fit with material that I already know well and have written about. It is much easier for me to expand content than for me to research and create new content which has happened with this [...]

I’m not sure how many of you are familiar with del.icio.us, but they are a online bookmark site that was recently acquired by Yahoo. For anyone who uses more than one computer, it’s a convenient service since it allows you can access all your bookmarks in one place – even if you happen to be [...]

This post is not personal financial related except adding another site to our growing list, but for those of you who enjoy computer programming and such, it should be of double interest. While discussing with Nate about what new names we wanted for future sat sites, we began talking about getting him something to write [...]

I have the 4th of the 15 sites I want to get up about 80% done which is I-BondRate.com. This will be an interesting site since it’s in an area that definitely is not “niche” First, I don’t like domain names that use hyphens in the domain, so I wasn’t sure whether to get this [...]