Welcome to PFI and the weekly updates – The Happy Birthday Edition. I am happy to announce that PFI celebrated it’s one year anniversary yesterday! While I have a long way to go to where I want to be with this site, overall it has been a productive year as well as a learning curve on the world of blogging and personal finance. I wanted to thank all of my long time subscribers for supporting this site as well as any newcomers. I look forward to another successful year of growth!
Here are a few highlights from the past twelve months -
- Subscribers – 212
- Total Page Views – 41,460
- Average Page Views per Month – 3,455
- Average Page Views per Day – 114
Top five posts from the past twelve months -
- Preparing for a Financial Crisis – 3,060 page views
- Turn Frugal Behaviors into a Game – 996 page views
- Combining High Dividend Yields with Covered Call Options – 794 page views
- Is it Frugal or is it Stealing? – 629 page views
- My Coke Rewards – 607 page views
Personal Finance Blog of the Week
As part of my effort to meet my personal finance goals for 2009, I plan to visit other personal finance blogs and help promote the good ones anyway I can. Each week I will write a short review of a site that I believe is worthwhile checking out.
- Success Factors – The Success Factors site has a main focus on personal development specializing in success tips and strategies, with a side of personal finance thrown in. Anyone who is working to build new passive income opportunities needs some motivation along the way to keep plugging away. Success Factors is one site that can help provide that motivator for you. Steve, the author of the site, is also a newcomer to eHow and has been submitting some great articles that are worth checking out. I also wanted to thank Steve for all of his participation on PFI and I look forward to continuing to read great content from his site!
Carnivals
I participated in the following carnivals over the past week. Please check out some of the great reads from these carnivals!
- Carnival of Personal Finance #202 – The Lao Tzu Edition – (Apr. 27, 2009) 10 Earth Week Activities that will Save you Money – hosted by FIRE Finance.
- Carnival of Pecuniary Delights #4: Living Green & Saving Green Edition – (Apr. 22, 2009) Be Aware of Extra Charges – hosted by Living Well on Less.
- Money Hacks Blog Carnival – Earth Day Edition – (Apr. 22, 2009) 3 Personal Motivation Tips to Build Passive Income – hosted by The Personal Finance Playbook.
Articles I liked
Here are a couple articles I enjoyed over the past week.
1 – The Almost Millionaire gives us a list of tips for new bloggers. I wish I had this list when I first started out!
2 – MoneyEnergy writes an interesting piece on starting not one but four emergency funds.
3 – Suburban Dollar gives us 5 useful tips to save money on groceries.
4 – Passive Income breaks down issues going on over at the Today Blog. I think this is a great post to read to remind anyone that generating income from sites you don’t own can go away at any time. While I really think sites like eHow offer great opportunities to make money, I understand that they can go away at any time. That is why my long term goals involve creating content on my own sites.
Have an wonderful week!
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PFI,
Thanks for the link love! Nothing better than knowing that someone enjoyed your stuff enough to share it with their friends. Your stats are looking great. I would love to have over 200 subscribers. I’m getting great site traffic, but really need to work on subscribers. I’ve only got 32. I’m thinking about running a cash contest to gather subscribers. We will see!
Peace,
TAM
Brandon’s last blog post..Tips for New Bloggers
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passivefamilyincome Reply:
May 5th, 2009 at 12:06 am
@TAM – Let me know how that cash contest works out. Do you submit to any carnivals? That is a helpful way to get some new subscribers for free.
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PFI,
I totally agree that one should create their own site and build it up, as opposed to building someone else’s site with content for pennies on the dollar. Bill Gates didn’t get rich by working for IBM, no he became rich working for himself!
Blogging Banks’s last blog post..Special Dividends Unlock Hidden Value in Stocks
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passivefamilyincome Reply:
May 5th, 2009 at 12:07 am
@Blogging Banks – Nice analogy. I like to use sites like eHow to build some income now while slowly working to create it on my own sites. Long term, I am not worried about sites that I don’t own or control.
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Hey thanks very much for the mention – its not often I get linked to for the quality of my post and I appreciate it. Yes I think bloggers need to be aware the difference of renting and owning your “home” on the Internet – hey at least you don’t need a mortgage to build your own blog! Lis
Passive Income’s last blog post..Is Today Blog a Scam?
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passivefamilyincome Reply:
May 5th, 2009 at 12:08 am
@Passive Income – Anytime. I enjoyed the post. I actually got my Today account suspended just after I wrote this article.
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Great job! I can only hope that someday my blog does as well as yours is!
Darla’s last blog post..How I learned to Manage Money & stay on a Budget
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passivefamilyincome Reply:
May 5th, 2009 at 12:08 am
@Darla – Well thank you very much! I will come over and visit your site.
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PFI, thanks so much for the recommendation! I have truly enjoyed reading your blog on a regular basis, and I’m proud to have you featured on my blogroll. I just hope to get to your status in time
Steve’s last blog post..Have You Stopped Beating Yourself With That 2 by 4?!
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passivefamilyincome Reply:
May 5th, 2009 at 12:09 am
@Steve – Anytime my friend. I am enjoying watching your site grow as well as your passive income streams. Keep up the good work.
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wow, thanks for the great recommendation on my emergency funds piece! What Steve said above: hopefully I’ll do as well with the blog as you have with yours, or at least get to a good fraction of that success! I love what you write so I’m always eager to read more of it – I need to get to those popular pages of yours now. Congrats!
MoneyEnergy’s last blog post..Here’s Why You Should Ideally Have Four Emergency Funds
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passivefamilyincome Reply:
May 5th, 2009 at 12:10 am
@MoneyEnergy – No problem. I thought it was a great article and topic.
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