It’s Been a Remarkable Week for BFN
I wrote a post last week titled 45 Ways to Earn Some Extra Money. Later that evening I happened to be playing around with my new sitemeter account and noticed that it said that BFN had 515 visitors that day. Since the previous days I had 11 and then 30 visitors I thought this must be some kind of mistake. As it turned out, the post was Stumbled by a few people and all of the sudden a bunch of people were checking it out.
My first Stumbled post!
I had heard of this phenomenon but honestly had not expected anything like this to happen so I thought it was awesome! I expected the traffic to die down by the next evening but it has kept going strong. In fact, I had two days of greater than 2500 visitors and cumulatively I have now had over 16,000 visits and 27,600 page views! I know that’s nothing for some blogs out that but it is positively astounding for my little blog. It is finally starting to die down now but it is still no where near my previous levels.
It has been fun to see so many people come to my site to check out a post. Some people seem to be clicking on some of the links in the post, as well. Hopefully they are making a little extra money or, better yet, maybe some of the ideas spurred them to think of some even better ones for themselves.
Not many are sticking around though
My RSS subscriptions have gone up from 13 to almost 50 – so that is pretty sweet (except for the fact that only a minuscule percentage of all the visitors are finding the site "sticky.")
Here’s the 46th way to earn some extra money
I’ve already found the 46th way: Jury duty. I was finally called to my first jury duty appearance on Monday. I was somewhat dreading it at first, but by the time I got to the courthouse, I was actually looking forward to experiencing the process. I never got to find out if I’d be selected for the jury though. Just before we were to be taken down to the courtroom, the judge came in to the jury assembly room and told us the case had been settled at the last moment. Honestly, I admit that I was a little disappointed. Oh well, I still get my $30 for showing up. $30 for about 1.5 hours isn’t going to send me into retirement, but it’s not too shabby!
On to this week’s links
I’m finally getting my head above water and getting back to reading blogs like I used to before starting BFN. I have two new projects in the works, though, so we’ll see how well I can keep up with it.
Enough about me and my little blog, lets go to the good stuff…
- Dave Ramsey swears it works, many studies are bandied about, but people are still skeptical. Here’s a reference to a news story about a family that tried going cash only for a month . The results actually match up well with the studies I’ve heard about how people spend between 15% – 30% more when using a credit card. (@ Prime Time Money )
- Great title on this one and some amusing (and quite true) content, too: What the devil says about personal finance (@ capital couples finance )
- People like to get into arguments about which fancy technique is better for this or that. The debt snowball is a popular one to embrace fully or bash mercilessly. Here is a great common sense approach to the argument (@ wise money matters )
- Of course I would be remiss if I did not point out this post about why you should get out of debt (I mean, this blog is called "Borrow From None," right?) (@ Christian PF )
- Finally, as all the kids are heading back to school, here are two posts regarding the monumental task of paying for college. Both take a possibly controversial look at the issue and raise interesting points about whether or not it is a good thing to completely pay for your child’s college education (@ Bible Money Matters and @ One Caveman’s Financial Journey )
Have a great weekend and God bless…
This Week in the Blogosphere: Mini-Vacation Edition
We are off to a long weekend! We are traveling up to PA to visit friends and families and spend some time relaxing and having fun. We might be riding some roller coasters, too, but it’s more likely that we’ll be watching the kids not ride roller coasters.
This has been another hectic week. I spent a lot of time tweaking the blog and, of course, writing. Unfortunately, I still have a long list of items to add or upgrade. If you have any suggestions for plug-ins or widgets or processes, please let me know. The help I’ve gotten so far on this journey has been invaluable and it is much appreciated. Enough about me…here’s some weekend reading: Click here to continue reading…
This Week in the Blogosphere: Inaugural Edition
Today marks the end of the first week in the life of Borrow From None. I have had some fun setting it up and getting it all going. I hope that I will soon be past the initial setup phase and can focus more of my time on writing and less time playing with widgets, plugins, and feedburners.
It was also fun due to the week my kids had. Just this week, my 15 month-old has become so expressive. She is starting to talk (I’m sure that she said "hot dog" today) but is also getting so good at communicating with us. My oldest is gearing up to start first grade and is excited with buying school supplies and uniforms, etc. And my four year-old had his Upward soccer assessments last weekend and is fired up about it. This will be his second season of soccer and he just loves it – he basically keeps track of what day it is each week by asking "how many days until practice?" and then after practice "how many days until the big game?" Click here to continue reading…
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