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This blog is sold part II

Wednesday, August 24th, 2005

I want to thank Jeremy and Mike for the smooth transaction.
Yes I bought a blog! Why on earth would somebody buy a blog?
The answer is simple: it’s called a return on investment. Where better to prove this then here ?
Many of you now will think: what’s next.?
My plan is to keep the Wealthy [...]

Improving Your Credit

Tuesday, July 26th, 2005

Devin Reams, over at BusinessBits, writes a nice little piece on improving your credit.

A number of people have their own ideas on what works for establishing credit… this is what’s worked for me. Get a credit card as soon as you can. Start paying off those bills (in full), too. It’s been less than a [...]

Post Number 100!

Wednesday, July 13th, 2005

This is the 100th post here at Wealthy Blogger, so I thought I would start with a thank you for all the readers who have been coming and commenting. As everyone is probably painfully aware, Jeremy and I are not financial professionals, but I hope there was some information in these last 100 posts that [...]

Carnival of Personal Finance - Week 4 is Up

Monday, July 11th, 2005

The fourth week of the Carnival of Personal Finance is up at http://smartmoneydaily.com/PersonalFinance/Carnival-of-Personal-Finance-Week-4.aspx, and is worth a look. I have been away from the computer for the last while thanks to my vacation, but Jon at Smart Money Daily managed to link to us in spite of my not submitting an article.

Welcome BusinessWeek Readers

Friday, July 1st, 2005

I was perusing our site statistics when I discovered that:

OK, that was a little scary, but it reflects the sheer maniacal joy at discovering were were linked by BusinessWeek magazine (At least online).

So, BusinessWeek readers, welcome. One of my favorite resources is our Financial Blog Aggregator, which collects posts from various personal finance related blogs [...]

Stock Competition Winners

Friday, July 1st, 2005

Well, the first ever Wealthy Blogger stock competition was a lot of fun. I hadn’t done stock market investing in quite some time, and I had a LOT of fun. Thank you to everyone who participated.
Here are the final rankings.
Rank Username Net Worth % Return # Trans
1 Winnerinwashington17 $948,291.90 89.66 % 18
2 pfblueprint $935,429.97 87.09 [...]

Ask the Wealthy Bloggers

Tuesday, June 28th, 2005

A reader recently contacted me and asked if we could do some kind of ‘Ask the Wealthy Bloggers’ posts. I thought it was a good idea so here is how we’ll operate: post a question in the comments of this post. Jeremy and/or I will pick questions and write our answers in follow-up posts.
Of [...]

No More Forums

Friday, June 17th, 2005

Well folks, the silence has spoken. I’ve removed the link to the forums due to overwhelming lack of interest.

Cleaning Up The Aggregator

Monday, June 13th, 2005

I’ve done some cleanup in the aggregator, deleting a couple of inactive blogs.
If there is a blog you read that would would like to have in the aggregator, let me know!

Three Months at The Wealthy Blogger

Monday, June 13th, 2005

Well, I actually missed the three month mark: The Wealthy Blogger turned three months old on the seventh. In that time we have had 78 posts and 288 comments. We’re seeing around 2000 page hits a day, and technorati reports 40 links from 25 sources.
Response has been good, with many of the incoming links being [...]