Best of Million Dollar Journey: Jan 2008

Written by FrugalTrader on Feb 1, 2008 filed under Best of MDJ

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:

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:

Special thanks to our banner/button sponsors this month: Stock Analyst, Price Canada, and Prosper.

Stock Analyst is our first exclusive banner advertiser. They specialize in recommending stock trading books along with writing fundamental/technical stock analysis articles.

7 Comments, Comment or Ping

1. Four Pillars

Thanks for the link! (and for providing me with an interesting place to comment)

Mike

Feb 1st, 2008 @ 8:35 am
2. thickenmywallet

Thanks for the mention. A mulligan is a Canadian invention after all…

Feb 1st, 2008 @ 11:13 am
3. Oils

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

Feb 1st, 2008 @ 12:48 pm
4. Frank Conradie

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.

Feb 1st, 2008 @ 2:59 pm
5. George

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…

Feb 6th, 2008 @ 2:08 am
6. FrugalTrader

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.

Feb 6th, 2008 @ 7:39 am
7. Karl

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)

Feb 6th, 2008 @ 10:50 pm