Friday Blog Highlights and Some Free Stuff

First of all, the highlights:

Have you thought about blogging about your finances? Flexo from Consumerism Commentary has started mypfblogs.com. You can sign up over there and have your very own free blog.

City Girl talks about how no one is really ever satisfied with their income. I can relate to this. My husband and I thought that $40,000 would be the perfect income for us. We made $48,000 last year and now we think we need $50,000 a year to live comfortably. When we reach $50,000 – will that be enough?

Makingourway has started and posted a brand new carnival, the 30s and 40s Personal Finances: Wealth Accumulation Carnival. I didn’t participate, because I still have one more month of being in my twenties Still, it is nice to start thinking about the next stage in our lives…the one after debt.

Free Stuff

Free Oil Change on Your Birthday (South East Michigan only)

Mighty Dog Can of Dogfood (register for the free can – bottom right hand side of site)

Enjoy!

Posted by Tricia on February 9, 2007 at 9:12 AM in Blogging Buddies, Free Stuff | 3 Comments »
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Anonforeverything responded:
Posted: February 9th, 2007 at 1:34 pm
Hi there I saw that you had commented on my blog. I really like your site. You have TONS of useful information here. Do you have any tips for me since I am just starting out? I am wondering what you think is the single most important thing to do with your blog in order to make money off of it (aside from updating it regularly). Is it best to first find readers? Submit to directories? Put things like “Digg” and “Technorati” on it? I am so confused. Maybe you can write a blog entry on it? I am going to be adding your site to my list of links, and probably spending a lot of time reading it!
MOMM responded:
Posted: February 10th, 2007 at 2:36 am
Thanks for the link to City Girl. My husband and I figured we are now making “enough” but I wonder when that will change? I suppose now is the true test of staying on track – which is bot exciting and very scary!
Tricia responded:
Posted: February 11th, 2007 at 12:05 pm
Anonforeverything – the best piece of advice that I can give anyone who is thinking of making money with a blog is to REALLY think about it. I do make money with advertisements, but if you take all of the hours that I have spent on my blog and put the income received on a per hour basis, I am making less than $1/hr. That isn’t a very effective use of my time.

The greatest value I have received from my blog is the focus it has given me. Without this blog, I may not have been able to pay off as much debt as I have. My readers have been invaluable in terms of support and since debt isn’t discussed that much – it’s always nice to know that we aren’t alone.

So, if you are starting a blog for making money, really think about it first. If it wasn’t for the fact that my blog is keeping me focused, I should have quit blogging a long time ago and still should quit. As of right now I make around $3-4/hr.