fwisp Blogger of the Month
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February 2010: Rabbit Funds
Tells us a bit about yourself and your life.
I am happily married to a beautiful woman and we have two little girls that have the ability to either completely frustrate me and forget every care in the world only moments later. I was born and raised in Utah, though I have spent time in Milwaukie, Baltimore, and two years in Mexico City. So I fluently speak and write Spanish. I graduated from the Marriott School of Business with a degree in Financial Planning.
How did you get into blogging?
Passion. I have a passion for financial planning that I gained while going to school. I spent a lot of time studying good financial planning practices and wanted to help others know what I know. I also have a passion for communicating (many teachers have told me that I talk to much) and teaching. So blogging seemed like a natural and direct way to put good information in front of as many people as I can. Thus the birth of RabbitFunds.com.
How did blogging change your life?
Blogging has been a great avenue for me to develop a lot of skills. I'm a better writer, better marketer, better designer, better financial planner because I have to be in order to stay relevant and authentic to my audience. For example, I am much more concise in what I write than before.
Where do you see yourself and your blog in the future?
I have specific plans for the direction of my blog and the benefits for readers. I have no intention of being just another financial planning blog. One example is a set of tools that help in making financial decisions. I have been unable to find comparable tools to what I am developing anywhere else on the Internet. Also, I have identified key areas on the Internet that offer fairly untapped opportunities to spread the financial planning gospel. In short, I intend to be a financial evangelist.
What advice would you give to new bloggers?
Don't give up. Honestly, the first six months are the hardest. You have very little content and so you aren't found very often by search engines and others in the community don't know you yet. But don't give up. Also, pick a niche topic. I have a fairly broad topic set and I think that hurts me in some ways.
What else would you like to share?
Thank you to the online community for the opportunity to participate in your discussions. I hope that as a group, we find better, more engaging solutions to creating solid financial households and spreading that knowledge to others. To find more information, stop by www.RabbitFunds.com. Oh, and I also love long romantic walks on the beach in the sunset...
You can visit Rabbit Funds at http://www.rabbitfunds.com/
January 2010: Dividents4Life
Tells us a bit about yourself and your life.
My entire career has been spent in industry within the finance and accounting realm. My career started in 1985 and has included exposure to implementing SFASs; business and financial analysis; mergers and acquisitions; designing and implementing financial systems; and regulatory reporting. Currently, I am in charge of the corporate finance and statutory reporting function for a public U.S. corporation. Born in 1962, I was in the last group of baby boomers. I am married to a wonderful lady and we have two children. In addition to investing in dividend stocks, my other passion is Alabama Crimson Tide football.
How did you get into blogging?
In August 2007 I was surfing the web researching some dividend stocks, and low and behold a site called The Dividend Guy Blog turned up in a search. Being a little older than the average blogger (mid-40’s), I always assumed that blogs were for teenagers and 20-somethings to discuss irrelevant topics. Was I ever wrong! I have found more good investing information and intelligent conversations on blogs like The Dividend Guy than in all the main-stream media combined. As time passed, I wondered how difficult it would be to set up a blog. I discovered Blogger, set up a quick dirty blog and here is the entire contents of my first post:
Like many that came before me, I am on a journey to construct a portfolio that will provide me…
Dividends 4 Life
How did blogging change your life?
With the recent success of my blogs it has certainty more time than I ever anticipated.
Where do you see yourself and your blog in the future?
That's a tough question. I would have never imigined that my blogs would have come so far in such a short time. I went from a handful of visitors in late 2007 to over 100,000 page views in 2 years. It is something I will keep doing as long as I enjoy it.
What advice would you give to new bloggers?
Pick a topic you enjoy and are passionate about. If you do it for the money, you will burn out and quit before the money comes. My first year's earnings would likely to have been measured in pennies per hour, but I loved what I was doing.
What else would you like to share?
My main site Dividends Value (http://dividendsvalue.com/) is about investing and taking charge of your future. In June 2008, I wrote Life is a Choice. It was about a family I know that has lived life on the financial edge. As they aged, life finally caught up with them and now it is too late to correct a lifetime of poor choices. The future is coming whether you are ready for it or not. I have chose to be prepared. How about you?
You can vis Dividends Value at http://dividendsvalue.com/
December 2009: Steadfast Finances
Tells us a bit about yourself and your life.
I'm a former process scientist and regulatory consultant from Big Pharma turned equities trader. I don't encourage anyone to make the switch into finance unless they find reading 500 stock charts per day mentally stimulating or can no longer get their jollies playing online poker.
Contrary to pop culture, being a trader is a fairly boring and monotonous way to spend your time accompanied by a few brief moments of spine tingling fear.
How did you get into blogging?
Most of my friends and family know I'm into personal finance and investing in a major way, so I would always be their first contact when a question came up. After answering the same questions over and over, I thought I would start a blog and I could send them a URL address the next time the same question arose from a different person.
As it turns out, many other people seem to have similar questions, and it's rather fulfilling to know I helped a relative stranger.
How did blogging change your life?
Blogging hasn't changed my life all that much. I'm more web savvy and a better anti-consumer, but other than that, it really hasn't changed me all that much.
I'm still fairly new at this blogging thing (16 months at present), so there is lots of time left for change to happen.
Where do you see yourself and your blog in the future?
I see myself doing basically the same thing. I tend to alter my career path every few years to keep myself well balanced, but I'm not sure I can give up trading 100%. Once you learn how to pick a few winners out of a basket full of losers, the financial side of your brain tends to nag at you to do it again.
I see the Steadfast Finances blog moving along the same course. The first hundred subscribers were much harder to get than the second hundred, so who knows how far it can grow. Should be a fun journey.
What advice would you give to new bloggers?
Persistence and consistently posting above average content are both paramount to having a successful blog. Find that one topic that you love, or have an obsessive compulsion for, and write about it. Frequently!
It may seem contrary to what quick hitter marketers will tell you, but becoming a successful blogger isn't easy. Plus, the blogosphere is getting fairly crowded these days, so you'll really have to want it bad to become a Top 100 blog within your chosen niche.
What else would you like to share?
I'm a foodie and wannabe chef, so you will consistently see a few of my favorite video recipes make their way onto the SF blog or from my tweets.
Since cooking is nothing more than following a written protocol, it translates well to my former profession of making vaccines or building 25,000 liter bioreactors. Only difference is the end product is edible... well... usually!
You can visit Steadfast Finances at http://steadfastfinances.com/blog/
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