End of 2010 Personal Finance Biz Review
Another relatively successful year for THE Canadian Personal Finance site, however, not nearly as successful as I think it should be to justify the amount of time I spend on writing and developing the business. Some of the highlights of my successes (to be optimistic): My Alexa ranking has gone from off the face of [...]
Blog Profit Camp
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I just read a new ebook by John Chow call The Ultimate Blog Profit Model and it’s awesome. I think you will really enjoying read it as well. Download the eBook here: http://www.blogprofitcamp.com/ListMachine2/?ref=ezrfnzq John Chow runs one of the biggest and most profitable blogs in the world. He makes over $40,000 a month just from [...]
iPhone and iPod Theme Added
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So I stumbled across a new plug in for WordPress which creates a Theme for iPhone, iPod and other handheld devices, and it seems pretty cute. WPTouch by Brave New Code is quite the plug in and I am testing it out on this site, with an eye towards putting it on Canadian Personal Finance [...]
Canadian Tire Added
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I got approached by yet another advertising firm to add Canadian Tire Mastercards to my financial web site, and I thought that might be a very good fit. I use Canadian Tire and their Mastercard does offer an attractive “loyalty” program, so I have added them to the site. We’ll see if we can make [...]
Book Review: Essential Blogging
I took this book out of the Ottawa Public library just to see what interesting tid bits I might pick up, as I usually find all books by O’Reilly and Associates very informative. The book itself is an excellent resource for beginner bloggers who want to start out and figure out how to set up [...]
Globe and Mail, Indeed!
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So the Globe and Mail has a poll on about the Best Financial Bloggers in Canada (or Top 5) list and I note that I am not mentioned, yet again. Canadian Financial Opinions may not be a classic financial blog, but at least it is not some “get rich quick” stock picking web site or [...]
War on SPAM Commenting
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So more and more I am getting SPAM comments being sent to my blogs, which is really annoying. What is funny is that the WordPress version of my financial blog, which really only got created as a mid-step for backing up my entire Blogspot account, is getting more and more of these SPAM comments from [...]
Have Good Content and You Will Succeed
This piece of advice was given out, by none other than Tucker Max who’s book “I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell“, a New York Times best seller came from his on line ramblings. “The most important thing is having good content,” Max said, during a panel session here. “All these people write to me [...]

