Best of Million Dollar Journey: Jan 2008
Before I get into the top articles of MDJ for January, I would like to announce the winner of the "Retire Rich from Real Estate" book giveaway.
All entries were entered into a spreadsheet and a random number was generated.
The winner is… Aaron!
Congrats Aaron and thanks to all who participated.
Looking for a second shot at winning this book? Head over to the Thicken My Wallet blog, he has a book giveaway post up today.
Here are the Top 5 most viewed MDJ articles of January 2008:
- Building a Home Gym
- Questrade USD RRSP and Referral Promotion
- Shopping for a Newborn – The List
- Leveraged Dividend Investing for Cash Flow
- Prepaid Wireless Plan Comparison
Special thanks to the commentators and contributors of MDJ. The sense of community really keeps me motivated to blog.
Top 3 Commentators for January 2008:
- cebolao
- FourPillars
- Ed Rempel
Special Thanks to our Banner Sponsors:
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Thanks for the link! (and for providing me with an interesting place to comment)
Mike
Thanks for the mention. A mulligan is a Canadian invention after all…
I would really like to read about your experiences with the Smith Maneuver. I am also considering implementing the Smith Maneuver when my mortgage comes up in Jan 09. Its a brave thing to do right now (and therefore probably the most profitable to to do it) with all of this R-word talk that is floating around out there.
BTW – I just discovered your site a few weeks ago and I am a big fan.
Cheers..Oils
Oils, now would actually be a great time to start the SM, as interest rates are low and probably going lower, and lots of solid dividend growth stocks (my preferred investment) are on sale.
I started our SM about 6 months ago, and so far it has been pretty easy to implement, and we’re making good progress on converting our “bad” debt into “good” debt.
I bought quite a lot of our shares on August 16 last year, when there was a mini collapse, and am now looking to buy more as stocks I’m watching drop below my buy levels.
While I understand the need to get income from the site, the ads from the StockAnalyst101 are pretty, um, annoying… It’s always a tough thing trying to balance the revenue with the annoy-the-readers factor…
George, thanks for the feedback. Yes, it is a very difficult balancing act between ads and user experience. What I try to do is to keep the ads out of the above the fold “content” which are actually the highest paying ads but also the most annoying.
What I suggest to readers is that if you don’t like to see ads on a site but like to read the articles, subscribe to the RSS feed. A feed is basically the articles in text with minimal ads if any.
Although ads can be annoying, I generally don’t notice them anymore. I guess I’m just too interested in the content.
You can always use the ad-block add-on for Firefox if you want to get rid of them. I have it turned on, but I unblock sites that I want to support because the author clearly deserves some compensation for all their hard work (don’t worry FT, ads are coming through loud and clear when I check your site, just keep up the great writing :D)