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A Little Financial Sunshine Maybe

There may yet be a few rays of sunshine peaking
out from behind my own personal black cloud. In my New Years Goals and Resolutions post, I mentioned that I was going to do loan signings again. I bit the bullet and got my satellite internet reinstalled. While the $60 a month seems [...]

5 Questions You Need To Ask if You Are Considering Bankruptcy

After being advised to speak with an attorney about bankruptcy, I have been doing some research into it. I am afraid that I have more questions than answers at this point. I have contacted an attorney who sent me a very thick envelope full of forms to fill out and a link to [...]

Financial Advice that I Did Not Want to Hear

Last week my financial advisor recommended that I consider and look into declaring bankruptcy. They don’t think that I will be able to climb out of this hole unless I do. It makes me sad to think about it. I feel like I am giving up and that doesn’t come easy for [...]

Capital One Threatens: The Phone Calls Will Continue

If you miss a payment on your Capital One credit cards, you get this nice note that says, Please give us a call. Our customer service agents are standing by and will be happy to work with you on some resolution for your account. Now in all honesty, I should have called when [...]

Results from Brainstorm

After sending out and posting newsletters last week, I have been swamped with phone calls for appointments. Most of these are old customers that cancelled their appointments in December and the newsletter reminded them that they needed to reschedule but there are a few new customers in the mix as well.
The result is that [...]

Lessons in Frugality

I have always thought of myself as a fairly frugal person. I don’t spend hours shopping for clothes or furnishings, I don’t spend hundreds of dollars purchasing them either. I buy used when I can and have been fairly lucky in my used purchases. I buy my books from either the [...]

What is Alexa Ranking, Part 2

Last week, I posted about what Alexa ranking is and does. I wanted to take a little bit deeper look at why a blogger would care about it. The first and most obvious is that like subscribers or page views, it shows how popular a blog is. The lower the number, the [...]

Actions from Brainstorm

Last week I had a reckoning with Quickbooks as you can see from my post here. After brainstorming with a few fellow bloggers, a few fellow groomers and a couple of good friends, I decided that the first immediate step I would take would be to do a mailing to past customers who had [...]

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What is Alexa Ranking and Why Do I care?

I was reading about an Alexa experiment on Connected Internet He is trying to see if he can increase his blog’s Alexa ranking. It made me wonder what Alexa Page Ranking was and whether I even cared what mine is.
In doing a little research, Alexa says:

“About the Alexa Traffic Rankings
A listing of all sites [...]

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