May 2008

RSS readership correlation with Blog Revenue

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Curt from Penny Jobs left an interesting comment on a recent post about increasing my passive income to $300 p/month. His comment related to my target of growing my blogging (passive) income to $50 p/month by year end and was: Here is a calculation for blogging income. JD of the ‘Get Rich Slowly’ blog posted [...]

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Playing the Agriculture & Solar boom in one safe stock – Du Point (DD)

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The spike in food and commodity prices has meant we are all feeling the pain of higher bills every time we go to the grocery store. However, some companies are actually benefiting from higher food prices and the rise in demand of all things related to food production. These are the stocks of agricultural chemical [...]

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A New Goal : $300 Monthly Passive Income

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Over the weekend I had an interesting talk with a family friend regarding this blog and some of the personal finance and investing topics posted here. After a long discussion and based on his experiences I started looking at some of my financial goals a bit differently. This resulted in a new personal finance goal, which [...]

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The Meaning of Work – Finding Meaning From Your Job

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Finding meaning from your job is something, like a lot of people, I struggle with. One of the most common complaints by people working is “the money may be good but where is the meaning? How can I make a difference?”. There are two things that give work meaning. First is the satisfaction that comes [...]

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So you think Gas is expensive in America. Check Out Prices Around the World

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>“Gas (& Oil) prices rise to new records”. Seems like this headline appears in the news media every day. Oil and gas prices seem to be a topic everyone is discussing and complaining about nowadays. As national average gas prices approach $4 (I am already paying more than that where I live), we should count [...]

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Blog Stats Addiction

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I have a confession to make – “I have become addicted to checking my blog statistics every 10 minutes or so!”. This has been exasperated by the recent purchase of my iPhone which allows me to check my stats anywhere I have a signal. When I started this blog a few months it was one [...]

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Embrace Fear For Financial Freedom

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FEAR is one of the most powerful forces in investing, as it is in life. One of the biggest universal fears is that of losing money, particularly when it can be so tough to earn in the first place. Yet those who fail to embrace fear run the risk of never being financially free. Fear [...]

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Why Online High Yield Savings Accounts are Poor Investments

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One of my underlying financial philosophies for wealth building is to effectively combine saving and investing activities (hence the name of this blog) to create a viable source of passive income thereby enabling financial freedom. Your savings must work for you to provide passive income and this can be only be done via investing. Over [...]

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Investment Portfolio Monthly Update – Up by 7%

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Since the last update my portfolio has gone up in value by about 7%. This handily beat the 3% rise in the Dow Jones and S&P 500 Index, which means I would classify this as a good month. Details of my portfolio and move are shown below: The gain would have been more if it [...]

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Tipping Philosophy – When and When Not To Tip

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Are you a generous tipper or do you give the minimum tip possible? Do you tip extra for good service or not at all for bad service? Well, everyone has their own tipping philosophy and it does vary by where you live, your background and expectations. Mrs Micah’s, Finance for a Freelance life had a [...]

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