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Personal Finance Bloggers I Admire
Today I’m sharing with you a list of bloggers that I admire. They are all successful in a variety of ways – namely, that they have defined for themselves some major goal and are well on their way to achieving it. While all the goals are different, I imagine that their success gives them the flexibility to pursue what’s important to them – the motivation behind the money management. I hope you will check out … Read entire article »
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Blog Statistics Update December 2012 – January 2013
This month Kyle really got engaged with working on the back end of the blog! We added some new advertisements and I bought How I Make Money Blogging so we can try to implement some of those strategies. This month EPF was added to the Wisebread Top 1000. I applied to get on it quite a while ago and am looking forward to improving our rank. EPF was also featured as the site of the month … Read entire article »
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Blog Statistics Update November – December 2012
I guess the biggest news around here is that Kyle and I have discovered that working on EPF is a great tool for procrastinating the real work we should be doing for our PhDs! We finally have ads on the site to test out the placements we like before we try negotiating for private ads. Plus Kyle updated our social media and sharing buttons high on the right sidebar – please subscribe/follow/fan/share! Our traffic really picked … Read entire article »
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Blog Statistics Update October – November 2012
Becoming a finalist for The Blogging Scholarship (vote for Emily!) has really motivated me to get my act together around here regarding attracting more readers, generating higher quality content, and making some money. My goal is to have some ads and other changes up and running by Jan 1. Just yesterday I had lunch with a fellow grad student and we stumbled upon a question that I’m sure many grad students do regarding taxes and residency. … Read entire article »
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The Blogging Scholarship Application Essay
This is my application essay for a $10,000 blogging scholarship from collegescholarships.org. As I was writing it I realize how much this blog has changed my life over the past year and I wanted to share those observations with you. I find out today whether or not I am a finalist for the scholarship. You can vote for the finalists once per day over at the website. UPDATE: I have been selected as a finalist! Please vote … Read entire article »
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Blog Statistics Update September – October 2012
This is my one-month update on how EPF is doing based on our September 16 – October 15 data. We’ve been feeling rather aimless about the blog recently so I think we’re going to set up some monthly goals in terms of things to learn about and implement to grow it. Believe it or not, we are coming up on our 1 year anniversary of the blog! I should think about having a giveaway, I … Read entire article »
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Blog Statistics Update August to September 2012
This is my one-month update on how EPF is doing based on our August 16 – September 15 data. Not much commentary from me in this post. I’m feeling a little down about the stats but I know at least a few steps I need to undertake to improve them so I just need to get on those actions. People who listen to us as of September 16, 2012 RSS subscribers: 88 (-3) Twitter followers: 92 (+17) Facebook fans: 21 … Read entire article »
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Future Directions for EPF
The primary niche within the personal finance blogosphere in which I see EPF living is one for graduate students. I only have about two years left as a PhD student and while I hope that the blog will outlive my pursuit of the degree, its niche can evolve (hence the name) at that time. During these last two years I’d like to target a higher percentage of our content toward how personal finance topics and … Read entire article »
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Blog Statistics Update July – August 2012
This is my one-month update on how EPF is doing based on our July 16 – August 15 data. People who listen to us, as of August 15, 2012 RSS subscribers: 91 (+22) Twitter followers: 75 (+16) Facebook fans: 18 (+2) Still looking for more FB fans! I really want to get to the 30 mark so that I can see some analysis. J Rankings Alexa: 156,559 (+22,048) Google PR: 2 (no change) MozRank: 4.82 (+0.97) Again my Alexa ranking increased, but I don’t care as … Read entire article »
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Blog Statistics Update June – July 2012
This is my one-month update on how EPF is doing based on our June 16 – July 15 data. Statistics People who listen to us, as of July 15, 2012: RSS subscribers: 69 (+3) Twitter followers: 57 (+6) Facebook fans: 16 (+3) Pretty minimal progress this month! I actually saw our RSS subscriptions as high as 84 at one point – I’m not sure why that number is so volatile. I don’t subscribe to and unsubscribe from other blogs so capriciously; … Read entire article »
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