Dollars and Roses

How To Un-Pandify and Penguin Proof Your Site

May 30, 2012

December 2010: Good Financial Cents gets over 100,000 unique visitors for the month for the first time. My traffic keeps growing. I’m a rock star. December 30, 2011: I see record numbers approaching year end. I had 8,421 amount of visitors come to the site on this day alone. Justin Bieber ain’t got nothing [...]

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April 2012 Income Report

May 21, 2012

It’s time for last months income report: April 2012. As a reminder, this is why we do the income reports: Accountability. These will allow us to finally keep track of our total online revenue – something that I’ve been horrible at. Progress. Now that we have it documented, we’ll be be able to chart our [...]

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How To Replace Your 9 To 5 Income From Blogging In Nine Months

May 7, 2012

Have you ever thought about quitting your day job so that you could blog full time? Did you have that thought for about a millisecond and then think you were crazy for thinking that you could make REAL money from blogging? If you have ever wondered HOW people claim that they “blog” for a living [...]

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How to Land Guest Posts Like it’s Your Job

April 18, 2012

I think we can all agree that we would like more readers. No? Maybe it’s just me, but I know when I look at my google analytics, I get really excited when I see the number of unique visitors coming to my site each month rising. I want to share with you one strategy that [...]

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March 2012 Income Report

April 12, 2012

Three months into 2012 and here we are sharing some numbers. On to the income report….. As a reminder, this is why we do the income reports: Accountability. These will allow us to finally keep track of our total online revenue – something that I’ve been horrible at. Progress. Now that we have it documented, [...]

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{iMovie Tutorial} The Basics

April 2, 2012

I quit my full time job nearly 4 months ago to work for my husband. One of the things that my hubby needed help with immediately when I started…editing videos for his websites. I remember opening up iMovie and staring blankly at the screen thinking, “Where the heck do I even begin???” According to the [...]

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A Movement – Roth IRA Style

March 27, 2012

It has been a busy few weeks here at Dollars and Roses. Mostly because Mr. Husband…decided that he wanted to start a movement. A Roth IRA Movement to be exact. After speaking to a class of soon-to-be graduating college seniors and realizing that NOT ONE SINGLE PERSON in the room had any idea what a [...]

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Affiliate Marketing: FlexOffers

March 22, 2012

Ok, ok Jeff and Mandy, enough about how to start a blog already. Start showing us how you are making over $3,000 a month from your websites. If you have looked at our income reports for January and February then you know that we don’t just have ONE avenue of income. We have multiple sources. [...]

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The Biggest Mistake I Made When I First Started Blogging and How You Can Avoid It

March 14, 2012

When I first started Good Financial Cents in 2008, it didn’t take long for me to see some immediate results. It’s not because I knew what I was doing, but I had some other blogging friends that showed me the ropes. There’s nothing like having some good mentors to help you along the way. I [...]

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