Best of the Week; End of an Era

Our Final winner in our RSS Contest had been notified and I hope to name and get a quote from them for my mid-day update. I would like to personally thank everyone that signed up for my RSS feed during the contest. We doubled our readership from 27 to over 54! It has been really fun to be a part of this contest, none of which would have been available without the fine folks at FruitfulTime and their great TaskManager Software! Thank you all very much.

Crazy week here, but without further suspense - The Best of the Week on the Web:

• Fiscal Musings - A great piece on some hidden tax savings that could save you big money as these are easy to forget. This blog is just a must read if you like to her from someone starting out in life with their priorities set and headed in a great direction!
• The Digerati Life - Featured a great article on helping to protect yourself from identity theft! Great practical advice!
• BankerGirl - A neat piece on blogging for the love of it or for profit...or both!
• Get Rich Slowly - JD has been on a tear lately with some really great post. Included is this piece on why we buy things!
• Simplicity In Kansas - A really interesting piece on his "experiment" trying to stay healthy this winter. Impressive results...not a shock as most things things he attempts are pretty successful!

My Most Read Post of the Week:

• Save 50% When You Dine Out - Not even close. This was the post that the Consumerist picked up....still going wild and it proves that you just never know!

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Money Milestones:

• 3,804 Visitors in one Day! - Nearly 10x my previous High!
• Over 19,000 Page Views
• Over 10,800 Total Visitors
• Over 56 Subscribers!
• Coverage by The Consumerist has delivered 5,500 visitors. Thank You all very much!

Crazy week. Records fell. Computer broke.

Thanks all for tuning in. Next week I am traveling so I will be using Blogger in Draft to schedule some posts out, but I will answer your comments as soon as I can!

Best of the Week, Winners and Milestones

Just Picked and Notified our third winner in the RSS Sign-up Contest. Hope to give a link and a quote during the mid-day update. Remember all you have to do is sign-up for the RSS feed HERE or on the main page, verify the email...and that's it! You are entered. If you are already on the list you are entered in to next weeks final drawing as well!

Great week for Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Money as we hit new milestones, increased readership and had great traffic. It was a great week for some of my favorite blogs as well. so without any further ado...

The Best Of the Web for the Week:

• Brightside of Debt - This one is me trying to rally folk to go there and comment on the linked post! - Brightside is considering stopping her blogg as her Hubby found out about itand she's feeling guilty. I know so many of my readers read her blog. Go to this post and let her know how great her blog is and how you want her to stay!!!
• Iowa Hippie Chick -This is about her Financial Epiphany, but really it is about much more. One of the best written, most touching posts I have read in a long time. She is a favorite of mine for a reason!
• Finwikian - This new Personal Finance Wiki (pfWiki) was pulled together by Mrs Micah and could become a great repository for some great collected Finance knowledge!
• Hustler Money Blog - More then one single post Hustler does an amazing job compiling all of the current Credit card deals. I personally would rather chop them up, but if you are gonna have one, get the best deal!
• Plonkee - A great post and mini-Carnival that goes into great depth and explanation of Dave Ramsey's Baby' Steps. Great stuff...as usual!

My Most Read Post of the Week:

• LifeLock = Life Crock? - A look at the successful program. Is is really a good Value? Detective X takes a look! :)

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Money Milestones:

• 369 Visitors in one Day! - Biggest day ever by far (Feb 28th), due to msn MoneyBlog story
• Over 11,500 Page Views
• Over 4700 Total Visitors
• Over 50 Subscribers!
• Achieved PageRank with Google! PR2...bigger and better to come!

Thanks to all for being great supporters! I hope to be worthy!

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!

New Carnivals Featuring Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Money

For me it is a real honor when someone recognizes your work and includes your submission in a Financial Carnival. It really means a lot to me personally, and to the blog as well, because everyone likes to be heard!

Being Frugal is a favorite blog of mine and right now it is running a Carnival about 2008 Financial Goals. They have included my 2008 Top 10 Goals in their listing and it is always really interesting for me to see what others are working on as well.

Dividends4Life is running their weekly Carnival of favorite posts as well and was kind enough to include us. They picked our article on "Very Wealth People's Characteristics", which has seemed to be a favorite of my recent posts.

In other quick news; Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Money just passed two important milestones (at least to me). We just had our 500th visitor and 2000th page view! I know a lot of Blog get that in a day, but for someone who though no one would ever find us, it is a pleasant shock!

I can't thank everyone enough for visiting and commenting and cross linking the way you have. It is very much appreciated...