Just over 5 months ago Financial Samurai proposed a challenge on his blog called Creating Powerful Friends: Samurai’s Alexa Ranking Challenge. The challenge was to see how much a blogger could improve their Alexa ranking. I won’t go into a lot of detail about it here, let’s just say a huge crew of bloggers have joined together to help promote personal finance around the World Wide Web. As you know, personal finance is a HUGE niche and there MANY great blogs dedicated to helping people improve their finances.
What’s a Yakezie (Ya-Key-Z)?
The Yakezie is a group of personal finance bloggers who work together to provide great content for their readers, while exposing them to many other resources around the web. The main focus areas of the group include; Budgeting, Frugality, Debt, Retirement, Lifestyle, Investing, Saving, College, Cars, Motivation, Wealth Building and just about anything else you can think of relating to Personal Finance.
Understanding the List
Listed below you will see 96 different blog names. Next to each name is the Alexa ranking of the blog taken on June 3, 2010. The ranking varies from day to day. Most of the blogs are also listed in the Wisebread Top 100+ Personal Finance Blogs so you’ll see that rank included as well. Below each blog’s name is a post containing a money saving tip. There are over 600 money saving tips included in the 96 blog posts. You are sure to find at least 10 tips that you can use to improve your financial position.
Example: #16 DeliverAwayDebt (86,977 Alexa – #63 Wisebread) 16 is my ranking in the Yakezie Challenge, 86,977 is my Alexa ranking and DeliverAwayDebt is ranked 63 on theWisebread list.
The Mega Money Tip List
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#96 Wealth Informatics (3,493,097 Alexa)
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#95 Sustainable Life Blog (2,100,299 Alexa)
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#94 Parenting Family Money (1,123,708 Alexa)
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#93 The Wealth Artisan (1,049,172 Alexa)
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#92 Retirement Investing Today (1,006,613 Alexa)
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#91 Conquering PF (869,133 Alexa)
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#90 Digging Out From Our Mess (798,288 Alexa)
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#89 More Style Than Cash (798,905 Alexa)
7 Great (Semi) Inexpensive Things That Every Stylish Woman Should Own
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#88 Financially Digital (724,410 Alexa)
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#87 Invest it Wisely (720,995 Alexa)
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#86 Financially Poor (639,622 Alexa)
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#85 Chasing Prosperity (627,803 Alexa)
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#84 Frugal Confessions (574,659 Alexa)
The 7 Deadly Purchase Sins: You’ll Never Get Rich if you Practice These
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#83 Budgets Are The New Black (550,734 Alexa)
I made my own homemade laundry detergent! (and dishwasher detergent, too!)
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#82 Single Mom, Rich Mom (536,238 Alexa)
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#81 Smarter Spend (493,990 Alexa – #238 Wisebread)
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#80 Car Negotiation Coach (493,793 Alexa)
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#79 Narrow Bridge (460,262 Alexa – #234 Wisebread)
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#78 Miss Thrifty (458,050 Alexa)
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#77 Dividend Monk (446,402 Alexa)
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#76 Smart On Money (405,076 Alexa)
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#75 The Saved Qurter (352,453 Alexa)
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#74 Learn Save Invest (349,499 Alexa)
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#73 The Debt Hawk (347,471 Alexa)
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#72 Downturn Living (339,216 Alexa)
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#71 Barbara Friedberg Personal Finance (335,472 Alexa)
Elite Budget Tips From Well Regarded Peronal Finance Bloggers
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#70 Family Balance Sheet ( 322,400 Alexa – #196 Wisebread)
Front Yard Landscaping: 15 Tips to Help You Design Your Landscape and Save Money
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#69 Watson Inc (318,350 Alexa)
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#68 Peak Personal Finance (299,049 Alexa – #183 Wisebread)
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#67 Bible Debt (287,499 Alexa)
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#66 Single Guy Money (255,658 Alexa – #173 Wisebread)
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#65 Money Crush (252,494 Alexa – #172 Wisebread)
How to Make an iPhone App When You Don’t Know How to Program
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#64 Eventual Millionaire (245,316 Alexa)
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#63 My Money Minute (245,014 Alexa – #167 Wisebread)
There’s An App For That: 35 Ways To Slash Your Household Budget!
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#62 How To Manage Money Tips (233,850 Alexa)
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#61 Stay at Home Mom CFO (232,413 Alexa – #161 Wisebread)
You pay YOUR bills on time, right? You still may be invited to a “BLOCK PARTY”
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#60 Money Beagle (219,434 Alexa – #153 Wisebread)
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#59 Christian Common Cents (212,978 Alexa – #149 Wisebread)
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#58 Clarifinancial (209,394 Alexa)
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#57 Personal Finance Journey (208,380 Alexa – #146 Wisebread)
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#56 Funny About Money (206,504 Alexa)
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#55 Girl with the Red Ballon (205,212 Alexa)
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#54 PF Firewall (202,145 Alexa – #144 Wisebread)
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#53 Zordane (200,454 Alexa)
Using Microsoft Excel’s Goal Seek Feature to Restructure Your Debts
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#52 Ending The Rat Race (200,210 Alexa – #143 Wisebread)
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#51 151 Days Off (185,473 Alexa – #136 Wisebread)
Day 11: Designing Your Life with Savings Snowball AWESOME POST
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#50 The Millionaire Nurse (183,706 Alexa – #134 Wisebread)
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#49 My Financial Objectives (179,567 Alexa)
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#48 College for 10K (175,891 Alexa – #129 Wisebread)
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#47 Budgeting in the Fun Stuff (167,812 Alexa)
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#46 Simple Life in France (164,995 Alexa)
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#45 Money Help For Christians (159,559 Alexa – #121 Wisebread)
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#44 Redeeming Riches (152,148 Alexa – #117 Wisebread)
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#43 Young And Thrifty (151,814 Alexa – #116 Wisebread)
Step-by-step Guide on How to Save Money on Your Cell Phone Contract
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#42 The Amateur Financier (150,873 Alexa – #115 Wisebread)
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#41 Beating Broke (149,158 Alexa – #113 Wisebread)
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#40 Inexpensively (148,727 Alexa – #114 Wisebread)
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#39 Engineer Your Finances (145,227 Alexa – #108 Wisebread)
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#38 CJ Bowker (144,604 Alexa)
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#37 Bucksome Boomer (137,716 Alexa – #107 Wisebread)
5 Easy Tips on Creating Healthy Lifestyle without Breaking Your Wallet
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#36 Evolution of Wealth (133,679 Alexa – #105 Wisebread)
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#35 Cool to Be Frugal (133,536 Alexa – #104 Wisebread)
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#34 Personal finance by the Book (128,260 Alexa – #98 Wisebread)
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#33 CoupleMoney (125,652 Alexa – #96 Wisebread)
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#32 Little House in the Valley (123,914 Alexa)
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#31 20′s Money (120,782 Alexa – #91 Wisebread)
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#30 Saving Money Today (120,517 Alexa – #90 Wisebread)
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#29 Out of Debt Again (120,004 Alexa – #89 Wisebread)
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#28 The Centsible Life (119,519 Alexa – #88 Wisebread)
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#27 Joe Taxpayer (118,086 Alexa – #87 Wisebread)
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#26 Well Heeled Blog (117,278 Alexa – #86 Wisebread)
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#25 Fiscal Fizzle (108,213 Alexa – #80 Wisebread)
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#24 Frugal Zeitgeist (107,089 Alexa – #79 Wisebread)
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#23 Consumer Boomer (105,873 Alexa – #76 Wisebread)
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#22 One Money Design (105,113 Alexa – #74 Wisebread)
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#21 Darwin’s Finance (102,287 Alexa – #69 Wisebread)
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#20 Money Reasons (101,358 Alexa – #70 Wisebread)
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#19 Not Made Of Money (100,772 Alexa – #68 Wisebread)
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#18 Rainy-Day Saver (98,970 Alexa – #66 Wisebread)
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#17 Punch Debt in the Face (91,628 Alexa – #63 Wisebread)
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#16 DeliverAwayDebt (86,977 Alexa – #58 Wisebread)
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#15 Monevator (81,827 Alexa – #54 Wisebread)
Seven surprising things you may not know about Warren Buffett
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#14 My Journey To Millions (79,701 Alexa – #53 Wisebread)
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#13 Ultimate Money Blog (78,619 Alexa – #51 Wisebread)
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#12 Money Funk (77,132 Alexa – #49 Wisebread)
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#11 Sweating The Big Stuff (71,272 Alexa – #46 Wisebread)
Why Squeezing Every Last Penny Out of Savings Accounts Isn’t Worth It
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#10 Wealth Pilgrim (71,019 Alexa – #45 Wisebread)
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#9 Len Penzo (68,990 Alexa – #44 Wisebread)
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#8 Early Retirement Extreme (65,495 Alexa – #41 Wisebread)
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#7 Canadian Finance Blog (62,217 Alexa – #40 Wisebread)
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#6 Free From Broke (57,724 Alexa – #29 Wisebread)
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#5 Eliminate the Muda (54,033 Alexa – #28 Wisebread)
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#4 Planting Dollars (52,029 Alexa – #26 Wisebread)
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#3 Credit Card Chaser (48,679 Alexa – #23 Wisebread)
What’s the difference between a 12.9% interest rate and a 239,238.9% interest rate? Nothing.
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#2 Consumerism Commentary (45,032 Alexa – #20 Wisebread)
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#1 Financial Samurai (35,519 Alexa – #14 Wisebread)
Still Here??
AWESOME! I truly hope that you have found some tips that will help you improve your own personal finance. If you would like to help me and everyone else on this list please install the Alexa Tool Bar. Using the tool bar gives us credit for your visits and helps us to improve our Alexa ranking. You’ll also get to see how other websites rank as you visit them, and you’ll be improving your favorite sites rankings with each visit. Thank you in advance.
Thanks again for stopping by and checking out all the money saving tips, I’m sure I’ll see you again soon.
Jeff Kosola (Pizza Driver/Engineer/Blogger)
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Interesting idea, will be interesting to see which blogs jump the most in Alexa and what additional measures they took to get there.
Thomas Craig Consulting´s last blog ..10 Excellent Sites for Finding Free Fonts
Holy mackerel! That is ONE ambitious list! Thanks for going to all the work to compile it, and thanks for including Funny.
Funny about Money´s last blog ..Return Policies: It pays to shop where they’re generous
Great list and very nice of you to put together. Yakezie has been extremely helpful, although I have been offline much lately due to work and our vacation, I am hoping to rock this last month of the challenge.
Thanks Yakezie!!
Wow, great work. Thank you so much for doing this.
Kevin´s last blog ..Should I Buy This Book? Review: Student Entrepreneurs
Awesome list! Thanks for putting this together!
Good job, love the list!
Tom @ Canadian Finance Blog´s last blog ..The Pros and Cons of a Local Credit Union
Jeff, that is one killer list! Thanks for putting it all together.
Mike – Saving Money Today´s last blog ..Would You Buy A House Without Seeing It First?
Wow, that’s a great list. As you said yesterday, it must have taken forever. But kudos to you for running with a good idea (that you probably didnt think would take that long)
Jeff @ sustainablelifeblog´s last blog ..Saving Money with Alternative Fuels
What a list! Thanks for putting it together. These tips will surely help many people “Deliver Away Debt”!
Thanks for including me in the mega list! Great job in putting it together..
Money Smarts´s last blog ..How Much Money Are You Saving In Your Emergency Fund? Have You Ever Had To Use It?
You really did look through the archives, awesome!
I’m going to spend one entire day going through these posts.
Thanks for doing the wrap!
Best,
Sam
Financial Samurai´s last blog ..East Coast Living – Is It Really That Bad?
OMG, that had to have been a HUGE amount of work! Thanks so much for putting this together!
Single Mom Rich Mom´s last blog ..PF catfight update! – 1 week down 3 to go (and 3 competitors to beat too!)
Thank you so much for including me in this great list of bloggers! I can’t wait to check out some of the other blogs.
Red´s last blog ..A summer for movies
You rock man! That is a great list, and well organized. Fhew..that’s gonna take some time, but they are such good tips I’ll juts HAVE to go through each and every one..
thanks for doing this!
Jesse´s last blog ..Review and Giveaway: That Thing Rich People Do
Great initiative! Thanks for taking the time to do this, and thanks for the mention!
Kevin@InvestItWisely´s last blog ..Your First Home: a Condo, or a House?
Holy Mackerel Batman! That’s a crazy ass long list you’ve put together! {And I am #12? How cool is that}. Love the Yakezie. And its members who do crazy stuff like this. The Yakezie has definitely helped to pull all of us up in the blogging world. It’s awesome.
Now I am off to read all this good stuff!
Christine | Money Funk´s last blog ..Early Retirement Extreme 21-Day Makeover
I can only imagine how much work it must have taken to compile this list. Thanks so much. I’m so honored to be a part of your list. I’m lovin me some #yakezie. Regards,
Shawn
Roshawn @ Watson Inc´s last blog ..Yakezie Round Up & Uncommon Money News (Vol. 97)
That is feaking impressive!!! Thanks so much for getting that together and for the uber link love!
Budgeting in the Fun Stuff´s last blog ..My Personal Goals Update
A great collection of links. Thanks for including Consumerism Commentary!
Flexo´s last blog ..How to Avoid Estate Taxes: It’s Easy This Year
Wow!! Thats a lot of work and thanks a lot for taking the time to compile this awesome list! I am going to go through every one of them! Great collection of links! Thanks a million!
Awesome roundup! Thanks for mentioning my post.
Little House´s last blog ..Tuesday Tips, Week 13
Look at all the tweets! Whoo hoo!!
Financial Samurai´s last blog ..East Coast Living – Is It Really That Bad?
I’m glad everyone liked the list. It did take a long time to put together but I think it was worth it. The best part about writing the list was digging through everyone’s archieves, there are some GREAT posts out there…
Thank you everyone
Jeff
WOW, great job! check out all those tips!!!
It still amazes me to see all the Yakezie members in list form! WOW!!!
I think I’ll bookmark this page and go thru the list over a week’s span!!!
Money Reasons´s last blog ..Red Box Review
Thanks for your hard work — it’s a great compilation.
Rainy-Day Saver´s last blog ..Stocking Up Your Pantry: Yea or Nay?
Awesome list Jeff…. I am planning something similar for my Carnival time
…. We have a great group of bloggers now…. Now my challenge is to visit and comment on EVERY one of these posts, just to say thanks to everyone 
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Forest´s last blog ..Is Minimalism a worthwhile form of activism?
Fabulous! That is a masterpiece, Jeff.
Best,
Len
Len Penzo dot Com
Len Penzo´s last blog ..My Store-Brand vs. Name-Brand Blind Taste-Test Experiment #3
Wow, really impressive list Jeff! I am so proud to be number 49!!! haha… I have loved using the Yakezie challenge these past couple of months! I have found so many great blogs via the Yakezie.
Side note, I have dropped an additional 11,000 places in the Alexa ranking system in just three days! Hard, HARD work pays off!!!
Jeff,
AMAZING. Thanks for putting this together.
Craig Ford´s last blog ..I’m Back Home: Roundup
I DID IT!!! Just finished reading and commenting on EVERY post in this list (A few did not allow commenting).
Thanks Jeff, I hope my visits helped a few out
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Forest´s last blog ..Is Minimalism a worthwhile form of activism?
I already said it was a great list, but I wanted to also say thank you since I used it to update my own Yakezie list. Thanks!
Budgeting in the Fun Stuff´s last blog ..Crappy Banks
I agree 100% with Budgeting in the Fun Stuff!! Thanks so much for making me a part of this list and it helps me update my Yakezie list too. I loved how eclectic every single entry’s voice was. I’m not through them all yet but you can trust that I will make my way through each of those posts. MyFinancialObjectives kind of summed it up too – being apart of the Yakezie creates connections and a support system that I didn’t think I would ever find. I’m proud to be a part of it! Big thanks and a prideful smile from Financially Digital!
Nunzio Bruno´s last blog ..Want to make more money, give it away!
AWESOME list! I know what I’m reading tonight!
Since you posted this, my rating has gone down to 274,000. I may just break the 200,000 mark by July 4 – from a starting place in April of almost 2,000,000! Yakezie has been amazing for my blog!