Aug 6 2010

Twitter as a Readership Building Tool?

So I have been doing a bit of experimenting with Canadian Personal Finance a bit more, attempting to drive more traffic, interest and possibly more income using some Social Media Sites. Readership has been going up slowly, with occasional spikes, like when I was mentioned in the Globe & Mail’s Personal Finance Blog contest, but [...]

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Jul 4 2010

Lots of Stuff to Try

I have been trying out some new ideas, just to see if I can break out of the earning shell I seem to be in. While my readership is up, it still is not as high as I’d like, and my income level seems quite stagnant as well, so with that I have tried a [...]

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Feb 25 2010

Advertising Income Not Great

Income Better But Not Great This seems to be a continuing complaint by me, that the income for Canadian Financial Opinions is really not what I was hoping it might be after 5 years of writing, but I continue to try new ideas to see if that might help push income to a less slave level [...]

Feb 24 2010

Long Time No Post

It’s been a long time since I have posted here and sometimes I forget that I do have this blog to do experiments and just bluster about life in general. This post is allegedly testing the Postie Plug-in for allowing folks to post an entry from an e-mail account. We shall see where this might [...]

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Apr 29 2009

Carnival Whining an Epilogue

After the fiasco that was my attempt at hosting the Carnival of Personal Finance (although that post is one of the most popular I have ever had), I ran into yet another interesting whine from one of the many posters who I included in the overly long post (this was found in Stumbleupon): Host left [...]