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Blogger Interview: Marie at Family Money Values

July 20, 2011 by Eric Rosenberg

Today we have the pleasure of an interview with Marie at Family Money Values, a site with an eerily appropriate name. Be sure to stop by and read about how personal finances impact a family and how, even if you have kids, you can still focus on your family's wealth.

1)      How did you get started in personal finance blogging? What was your inspiration?

I had (and have) a message I felt was important – money brings it's own problems.  I didn't feel that message was being conveyed anywhere and that a certain segment of our population would need to hear and be interested in hearing all about it.

2)      What changed in your financial life as your family grew that was a surprise? If you can instill one financial value in your children in the future, what would it be?

What changed and was a surprise:  Kids raised in the same household, by the same parents learned very different financial lessons.

One financial value:  Money is just a tool – the work you do to earn it is the real reward – providing you with honor, respect and the self-satisfaction of making a contribution to society.

3)  You discuss the possible downsides of wealth for families. What is the biggest downside and the best way to negate that problem?

I think the biggest downside differs depending on where you are in life and what you want out of life.  In general though, I believe that being unprepared for the effects of wealth affects most people at some point in their wealth cycle.  I'm hoping that FamilyMoneyValues can help educate  and inform folks that they do need to prepare, as well as, on how to get prepared.

4)      What is the biggest personal finance lesson you learned the hard way?

Bailing someone out of their financial mistakes by throwing money at them is not the way to solve the problem.  If you really want to help, you somehow have to effect behavior changes.  Sometimes that means letting the someone fail miserably.

5)      Outside of blogging, what has been the biggest change you made to your financial life that made a difference? (i.e. making more money, frugal changes, budgeting, investing)

In our case, the biggest change happened when I chose a new career and worked hard to succeed in it.  It immediately helped our bottom line.  It provided bonuses, stock options and other opportunities for added income and it provided our children with a great example of a lucrative career path (which they both chose on their own to pursue).

Filed Under: Budgeting, Career, Community Tagged With: Blog, Finance, Home, Money, Money Management, Option (finance), Personal Finance, Wealth

Completing The Yakezie Challenge

May 24, 2011 by Eric Rosenberg

Some of you may remember a post a long time ago about my joining the Yakezie Challenge. Since that time, you have seen many Yakezie related posts and guest posts. Today I broke the 200,000 Alexa ranking benchmark and “officially” completed the challenge. Here is a note I sent to my friends in the Yakezie. I thought I would share it here with you as well.

On October 7, 2008, I started a new project called Narrow Bridge Adventures. At that time, it was hosted at Blogger and I knew enough about blogs to start them but not to grow them.

On March 8, 2010, I joined the Yakezie Challenge. Inspired by Well Heeled, I joined the “wolf pack” (think Hangover) and posted my Alexa ranking of 1,297,451. (I was the 53rd comment on Sam's ‘Alexa Ranking Challenge' post)

As the Yakezie evolved, I was grandfathered in because of my old school involvement, though I never quite broke the 200,000 mark. My PageRank was growing faster than my Alexa ranking was falling, so I was happy. But I knew I was not really part of the wolf pack.

My ranking continued to drop and never took any major steps backward. Over the last fifteen months in the Yakezie, I have built friendships and relationships that have had offline and online interactions. But I still never quite broke 200,000.

I never really cared that much until I got an encouraging e-mail from Sam one day a few months back encouraging me to make an extra effort to hop over the hurdle (I was sitting around 250,000). That was around the time I ran the Yakezie March Madness and started the Yakezie blog swap. My ranking was sitting around 210,000 at that point.

So I kept plugging away, commenting, networking, doing what I know works but seemed to work very slowly for me. About a month ago, I had the opportunity to meet Sam in person and got a few ideas to cross the last 10,000 mark and officially “beat the challenge.”

I am proud to say that today my Alexa ranking is 197,535.

While my path to get here was long and unorthodox for Yakezie standards, I made it. Thanks to all of the friends I have made along the way. Thanks to all of the links, roundups, support, referrals, guest posts, blog swaps, Tweets, Stumbles, Tip'ds, shares, e-mails, Diggs, and virtual high fives.

You are all an amazing group of people. I am proud to be apart of it. And now I can confidently say that I belong with this group of amazing bloggers. As always, if you ever need help with anything, you will get it unconditionally from me.

-Eric

I don't have a big goal to lower my Alexa Rank to 100,000, but if it were to happen I wouldn't complain. As always, my goal has been to write useful, original content to help you in your personal finance endeavors. We will see what happens in the future. Thanks for reading and supporting the site.

Filed Under: Community Tagged With: Alexa Internet, Blog, Blogger, PageRank, Personal Finance, Yakezie

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