Giving Away $50 Software and Best of the Week

Great week all around for the blog we had our biggest single week ever with Traffic, began our first RSS Signup contest, had more comments then ever, AND read some truly great posts out there this week.

First on the RSS signup contest, there were some questions emailed to me. The contest will run for the next four weeks. On each Saturday night during the contest I will run a list randomizer to pick a winner from my Email RSS list. Unfortunately there is no way for me to pull the regular RSS list as well, so if you are a standard RSS reader, just sign up for the email version to enter yourself in the contest! Second there is NO cost to enter, just sign-up! And last NO you don't need to enter every week, just once and you are in for every drawing. So enter early, to be entered into all of them!

Next it is time for my Best of the Web:

• ShoeMoney - A great Post/Video this morning. A Rap about SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Great starter course in the shape of a Rap tune...pretty original, and catchy!
• Collecting My Cash - This post shows really well that good people are hard to find, but you better do whatever you can to keep your Great people, which Wealthy! is...of course!
• Catherine Lawson - A Total favorite blog (and person!) had a neat article talking about Bands blogs. Being a musician at heart, if not at practice, this had great points for all bloggers!
• Ian Denny/ Phoenix From the Ashes - Every time I read his blog it feels like I am reading the beginning chapter about a future king of the business world! This lesson is about Cash Flow. It is written in the Business Sense but it plays the same for all of us.
• John Chow - John is one of the most successful bloggers out there. In this post he explains why you should set up your business separate from yourself.

The Most Popular Blog Article of the week according to Feedburner:

• My New E*Trade Account Sucks - STILL all messed up by the way! This is tomorrow's lunch time fun!

Milestones:

• Over 8000 Page Views
• Over 2800 Visitors (more than 500 over the week!)
• 120 posts!
• First RSS Contest!

That's it. There are some really links to check out to help budgeting, money management and your finances!

Best of the Week, in Review...

Great Week out there in PFLand. Congress got their act together. Yahoo said, "Thanks, but no thanks!" and we hit some milestones here!

First off I would like to name my Top 5 favorite posts this week:

• Banker Girl - She ran a neat post about how to "Negotiate Anything with these Four Tips" Great practical experience on how to apprach a subject that many aren't comfortable doing. She runs such a great blog. I really wish I was as together as she is already in her life and with her finances. Always a must-read!
• Dawn from Iowa Hippie Chick - She wrote a great piece on her two dogs which showed the cost of caring for a pet, but also the benefits! Dawn is one of my favorites. Her writing style is so personal, that you feel like you are having some tea and having a good talk!
• Madame X at My Open Wallet- She has been running a neat series about NYC stories. People who are making it in the big city. The latest is Rachelle. It gives you hope that those just starting out might really be in better shape then us!
• SVB at The Digerati Life- A great piece about being aware of computer viruses on products out of China. Never even though about it, but it makes to much sense! Great advice from one of the biggest and Best PF Blogs out there.
• Simplicity in Kansas - A truly wonderful piece about the Depression from him interviewing his Mother. Wow is all I can say..>

Now for my favorite post over this last week, from this blog by an author that needs no introduction...well...me! :)

• I think that it can be easy for us to think "wow, that person is really lucky." I personally think, for the most part, we make our own luck, often just from having perseverance. Abe Lincoln is a great example of that, and seeing how many times he failed and got back up is pretty darn amazing. Hope you enjoy it.

Milestones

• We hit over 7000 page views
• Over 2300 visitors
• Over 100 posts!
• Over 25 RSS readers - This is a great FREE Feature. Get all of the articles delivered right to you, either via a reader or e-mail. Just click HERE!

That's it. There are some really great articles out there to help budgeting, money management and your finances!