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…
Back to School Tips For Starting the School Year - College Edition
It’s that time of the year again! Everyone is gearing up to go back to school. It’s a very exciting year for most people - kids starting kindergarten, high school, college (and especially parents of teenagers, I think).
In honor of this special time, I’ve tried to collect some tips - especially for you students going back to college. Let’s start it off with some of my personal tips: Click here to continue reading…
Personal Finance Basics Part 2 – Enhancing Your Basic Plan
In this series, I’m discussing the main ingredients of a personal financial plan – this will be a high level introduction to the topics that most people should consider when they first get started thinking about personal finances. This is the second post in the series.
The previous post discussed the very basic necessities for a financial plan. Today I am discussing the next steps to consider. To review, here are the basics:
- Earn some money
- Give some of it away
- Spend less than you earn
- Protect yourself
- Create an Emergency Fund
After taking care of the first 5 steps, I would recommend the following:
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