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Nov 23 2007

Million Dollor Journey

Published by POM under Blog Review

MillionDollarJourney is a blog maintained by a 27 year old man who is born and bred in Eastern Canada. His blog revolves around his personal goal of growing his net worth to at least $1,000,000.00 by the time he is 35, hence the name of the blog.Despite his professional qualification as an engineer he has an avid interest in the world of finance, and first discovered it when he invested in mutual funds at the tender age of 16. Once he graduated from university at the age of 23, he began getting more serious with stock market and real estate investing, and there was no holding him back.

He has established his blog with the sole intention of sharing his experiences along the way to achieving his million dollar goal, through personal finance and investing. His blog has since become an interactive platform for him and his readers to share their thoughts and to learn from each other’s experiences.

It will be the successful completion of his blog’s first year in existence in the cyber world next month, and he has had a full year writing blog posts almost every day in the past year. At the end of each month, he posts a monthly net worth update, and it has been growing at a very encouraging rate. His blog posts are written under the pseudonym of Frugal Trader and it is reflective of his financial views.The clarity with which his posts are written, make for interesting and intellectually stimulating discussions amongst his readers, and often, the comments are just as insightful. This is evidenced by the relatively high number of subscribers he has garnered in just 11 months, with the tally at just over a thousand readers at the time of writing.

While the topic of his blog is not how to make money from Internet marketing, he has monetized his blog in a neat and non-intrusive manner. Google AdSense advertisements are shown on the left sidebar, and blend in well with the theme of the website. However, it is clear to the readers that this section contains advertisements and he does not try to fool his readers into thinking it is part of the content of his website. This is no doubt appreciated and his readers will want to give the advertisements a cursory look, thereby increasing his advertisement revenue.His posts are divided into many different categories and include General Finance, Net Worth Updates, Saving Strategies, Tax Minimization, Stock Investing, Deals and Bargains, Financial Goals, Interesting Links, Book Reviews, Online Income, Real Estate, Retirement, RESP, Reader Mail, Contests, Charity, Interviews, Smith Maneuver, Ed Rempel, Portfolio, Estate Planning, Ask the Readers, Credit Cards, Building a House and Passive Income Updates.

His blog entry “The Smith Maneuver – A Wealth Strategy (Part II) is by far the most popular post and has received 171 comments at the time of writing. This goes to show how relevant and pertinent the content on his blog is which is well received by his readers and encourages intellectual discourse.

For tips and strategies on personal finance, or simply to learn from Frugal Trader’s experiences, head over to milliondollarjourney, or subscribe to his RSS feed for the latest updates.

Million Dollor Journey

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