How I Will Be Rich

Archive for the ‘Blogging’ Category

I have started blogging over at my new site with an awesome URL. My new site is all about internet marketing. I am teaching step by step instructions on how to make money online. So far it’s been pretty popular. I’ve gone from 4 or 5 visitors per day to over 100 visitors per day in the last 9 days. People must like some of the stuff I’m writing about.

The site is at http://www.matthewwolfe.com

Here’s a sampling of some of the articles available over there:

How to make money with affiliate programs

How to create a WordPress Blog

How to Find and Keep a Mentor

The Best Plugins For Wordpress

18, Must Have, FREE tools for internet marketers and bloggers

I strongly suggest that you go check it out. You can really learn how to create an easy passive side income.

-M

I haven’t been posting a whole heck of a lot lately. I do think I have a good reason for that. I am getting married in about 30 days from now, I purchased a house about five months ago and I’m down to my final three classes in my pursuit of a bachelors degree in finance. I’m in the home stretch of a lot of things. The wedding planning is very time consuming and we’re meeting with various people and making arrangements constantly. It just seems to get more and more expensive as we feel like we want no one to be left out. My mom is one of fourteen kids and my dad is one of five kids. I think it goes without saying but I have a very large family. As for the house, we bought a total fixer upper. The price was right, the timing was right, and we were in love with the neighborhood. The main downside is that every free second that I get when I’m not working on wedding planning or studying for school, I’m spending on my various house projects. We’ve put a new roof on the house, put in new carpet, painted the whole inside, replaced the windows, began working on landscaping and so much more. While I love blogging, and I miss it so much, I’ve had a rough time keeping up with it.

To add to all of this drama in my personal life, Joe and I have formed a partnership and opened a bank account. We’ve decided we want to experiment and test the waters of affiliate marketing. We created a company called MBT Media and began studying the various ins and outs of the industry. It appears to be a very lucrative one to some people and we are hoping that sometime in the future, maybe we can join in and become profitable in this industry as well. Joe and I have started yet another blog to discuss the details of our affiliate marketing journey. If you have any interest at all in affiliate marketing or want to learn more about it, please check out our blog at mbtmedia.com.

I want to thank everyone who still subscribes to my rss feed and to all the people that are still on the mailing list. I know I haven’t been giving you guys much but I promise to get back in to this real soon. Things look to be calming down in my life. Once school is done, I am back full time.

I have not given up on my blog or my readers. I’ve been involved in multiple other online endeavors. One of them is another blogging project that has multiple writers. I am waiting until there is more content on the site before I unveil it but I really think everyone who has enjoyed this site in the past will really enjoy the new site. The other project that I am involved with is a social networking site. It is a big project that will probably take months and months before we really start beta testing it. We are currently in the planning and initial development stages. It is a huge endeavor and I really think it will benefit everyone who reads this site, as well as all of the fans of Be Healthy and Relax.

I’m still knee deep in school work and I’m really trying to use my time wisely. Once our other projects are unveiled, this site will probably act as more of a journal of the progress we are making. I am so thankful of all the readers and all of the people that have supported this website. This website, along with Be Healthy and Relax, has provided the finances needed to really get things moving on those other projects. Please stick around. You won’t want to miss what we have in store with these new projects!

December was a bad month for me as far as goals go. Work got really hectic coming in to Christmas, I got sick on Christmas and then I went out of town. I have lots of excuses. I will review the goals that I had set for myself anyway…

Personal Goals

• Complete all of my Christmas shopping within a budget of $500
  Success. I think I spent a total of $350. I’m not sure the exact number but it is in that range.
• Open up a separate bank account for my side business
  I failed here. I never got around to getting to the bank to set up an account.
  

Blogging Goals

• Post 5 blog posts per week
  I failed here too. I only posted 15 blogs posts for the entire month of December.
  
• Get to 200 subscribers
  Failed. I maxed out at 135 subscribers. This is probably due to my lack of posting for the month.
• At least 2 carnivals per week
  Failed. I think I participated in 4 carnivals all month.
  
• Break $150 total money made
  Success! This was actually the first month I started to see a little bit of blogging income. The blog made $75 for the month. That puts my total income as a blogger at $197.14 (Over a 6 month period).
  
• At least 2 guest posts on other (more popular) blogs
  Failed. I only managed one guest post this month. You can read it over at Lazy Man and Money.

January Goals:
For January I’m going to tone down my goals a little as far as blogging goes. I start back to school on Monday and I have a feeling that it’s going to consume a whole lot of my time. Blogging is very important to me because I love sharing my goals and being held accountable when I fail (kind of like this month). I do think pursuing my degree in finance will fuel my blog; I just know that my free time is going to be harder to come by. With that being said…

Personal Goals

• Complete my first month of school (without going insane)
  Work is hectic enough. I’m starting back to school on an accelerated program. I will be completing one class per month for the next seventeen months. I will attend class three times a week for four hours per session. It is going to be intense.
• Open up a separate bank account for my side business
  I’m going to try to squeeze it in somewhere this month.

Blogging Goals

• Post at least 4 blog posts per week
  I’m going to shoot for five posts per week but I’m being realistic. Four is probably much more obtainable.

That’s about it. I’m not setting too many goals for myself until I see what my new life is going to be like. Next month, once I have a better feel for how hectic my school schedule is really going to be, I’ll set some more ambitious goals. For now, I’m just hoping to make it through my first class.

Thank Yous
I’ve never really had the StumpleUpon effect before December. For some reason, my site got stumpled like crazy though. That was the number one source of traffic for this month. Here are the blogs that sent me the most traffic in December.

1. Lazy Man and Money
2. Get Rich Slowly
3. Cash Money Life
4. Brip Blap
5. Plonkee Money
6. Consumerism Commentary
7. Stock Trading To Go
8. Moolanomy
9. I’ve Paid For This Twice Already
10. Be Healthy and Relax

Thanks so much to everyone who reads my blog and to all the other bloggers who support and help my blog. I appreciate it so much.

As you’ve probably noticed, my posts have been sort of random lately. I’ve discussed going back to school and what’s going on at work and in my personal life. Life gets hectic around the holidays and I’ve sort of been using the blog to blow off some steam and get things off my chest. I’m really hoping that people don’t mind if I do that every once in a while. It may give you some insight in to where I am going with some of my future posts and some of the things I’ve gone through in life. I’m hoping that one day, a couple years down the road, I’ll look back through my archives and really see the progress that my life has made.

This blog is now about six months old. It literally feels like I’ve been doing this for just a few weeks. I wanted to take an opportunity to link to some of the posts I’ve written in the past that I feel are pretty strong posts. A lot of these, people have never read because they are getting old and buried in my archives.

• No Reason Not To Have A Roth IRA (August ‘07)
  
• The New or Used Car Decision (August ‘07)
• ETFs Vs Mutual Funds (August ‘07)
• Buying a Home Vs. Renting (August ‘07)
• Stress is Never Worth It (September ‘07)
• My 8 Step Process To Being Rich (September ‘07)
• 78 Blogs to Make You Healthy, Wealthy and Happy (September ‘07)
• Starting a Business – All You Need is Momentum (September ‘07)
• How and Why to Write a Business Plan (September ‘07)
• A Business Introduction Letter (October ‘07)
• Enthusiasm is the Way to Success (October ‘07)
• When Should I Start Saving For Retirement? (October ‘07)
• Make Money and Save the Environment (October ‘07)
• The One Investment You Absolutely Must Make (October ‘07)
• Make People Feel Important (October ‘07)
• How To Get Insider Pricing (November ‘07)
• My Thoughts on Robert Kiyosaki (November ‘07)
• Make More Money at Your Day Job (November ‘07)
• Writer’s Block – My Solution (November ‘07)
• How to Make Up For the Rising Price of Gas (November ‘07)
• Promote Frugality Through Gift Giving (November ‘07)
• An Alternative to Gift Cards for Christmas (November ‘07)

Digging through the archives, those are some of the posts that I found to be some of my favorites and some of my early reader’s favorites. If you especially enjoy the few posts written by Joe Fier, check out our other site, Be Healthy and Relax. Joe primarily writes over there now.

Check out some of those older posts and feel free to leave comments and continue old discussions. I love any and all feedback.