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Life Must be Pretty Bad

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!So about the time I start feeling a little like what direction to take the blog in, I get tied down in things that have really been challenging my discipline to post! I was thinking that the direction of […]

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Making Big Money With A Blog

Can you really make money, let alone big money, with a blog? I’ve recently ran across two eye opening stories I want to share with you that could get you thinking in new ways about blogging.
First, let me mention that there is a lot of ignorance in the world regarding blogs and blogging. I think […]

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Four Month Marker: Blog is Flailing

Flailing — not Failing! Flailing is a cool word and I think describes my blog at the four month mark. When something is said to be flailing, it is thought to be kind of moving, swinging, or beating in a wild manner. It’s movement that is less than productive, but the movement has intention. If […]

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I Don’t care about your blog — T-shirt

In the spirit of cooperation and good humor, I showed my support for my friends favor of the I Don’t care about your Blog t-shirt. I actually wore while hiking Camelback Mountain on Monday, Memorial Day.

I was anticipating some kind of response as there were hundreds of hikers on the trail. No one said a […]

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A Blog’s Advantage: Organic Traffic

The hippies I once knew (about — not personally of course) would love blogs because they (the blogs) are happening when it comes to building traffic naturally or what is called organically. Organic traffic is a blog’s forte. And traffic is what it is all about.
In researching bloggers, both successful and not so successful, those […]

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40 Days Ago

40 Day Challenge No. 1 Completed
Today, April 8th, marks the first 40 days of this blog. I began on February 29th, titled Day One. I made a goal to begin with the commitment to post at least one entry every day for the first 40 days. This became the first 40 Day Challenge. I almost […]

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Wise Words On Investing

I know there are a thousand opinions on what and where to invest, especially as one gets older and has more risk involved with time working against you. Listen to the words from Warren Buffett on investing:
Rule No. 1: Never lose money.
The great personal fortunes in this country weren’t built on a portfolio of fifty […]

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