Comments on: Monevator: Blogging in 2010

By: Monevator

Monevator — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 23:29:17 +0000

@fatherb – Thanks for the comments and thoughts. I’ve now added some of those buttons via a graphic.

I was doing it via a Feedburner service before, in theory, but it seemed to be very unreliable and possibly being tampered with by the caching.

Now my only worry is people won’t know what the buttons are for!

By: fatherb

fatherb — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 15:29:58 +0000

just thought i’d comment and say thanks for writing your blog. i really enjoy it. Was amazed that the blog is now contributing 5% of your income. That is huge.

couple of things.
-make sure you always tweet about new blog posts.
-maybe you could add some sharing tools to the bottom of each post so -we can twitter them out or whatever.
-you could have some guest posts from other UK based bloggers / writers.
-i’d echo the call for a search function.
-i’d like to know a bit more about you – some sort of bio would be nice on the site.
-what about doing some interviews with some of the city gurus (or even your colleagues) that you work with? for us normal folk who aren’t in the city, it all seems like a fairy land of fast cars, big yachts and bonuses. I’m sure you can paint a different picture of the reality.

By: Financial Samurai

Financial Samurai — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 01:05:19 +0000

Indeed. Stretch like a gymnast right before a floor exercise.

By: The Investor

The Investor — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:43:24 +0000

Hey Sam, you send me a Twitter DM, but not a comment. I take your point, certainly: I’m going to try to mix up big and short posts for a bit to see what happens, but you may well prove to be right. Hopefully readers can pick and mix the posts they want to read, like at the old Woolworth’s sweet counter.

I’m most comfortable writing about investment but it’s good to stretch a bit, eh?

By: Financial Samurai

Financial Samurai — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:21:16 +0000

Howdy mate, I coulda swore I commented here, but maybe not!

Anyways, good work keeping up the consistency. Just don’t start posting so much that it feels like work. 5 days a week, + 1 on weekend is A LOT! Think about it this way, do you have time to read every single post from even just 5 blogs out there?

Short posts are easier done than said. Just plop one out there!

Best, Sam

By: The Investor

The Investor — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:59:15 +0000

Thanks for your thoughts David, and not only because they were such generous ones. It’s great to see long-time readers like yourself are still out there.

By: David de Souza

David de Souza — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 11:55:13 +0000

Thank you for sharing the blogs progress, I find these posts very interesting and refreshing, though I also do love your regular posts.

I can only reiterate Ermine’s comments, and thank you for an excellent blog. If I could only read 3 blogs, yours would be one of them. I was worried at one point that you had stopped.

If anyone should be buying anyone a drink at the pub, it should be us readers buying you one.

All the best for 2010

By: The Investor

The Investor — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:30:31 +0000

@Jonathan – Many thanks for the support. I’m going to add some sort of blogroll to Monevator in the next couple of weeks, and you’ll be one of the first names on it. I’ve wondered before about following the lead of your blog and recounting my net worth and personal journey in more specific terms, but I think I’m just too British and reserved! Best of luck for your own efforts – both financially, and with your already hugely successful blog – in 2010.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:31:13 +0000

Congrats on the growth and for sticking with it. There are plenty of readers that just read and never comment. I’m revisiting all my RSS subscriptions again in 2010 and have added you to my blogroll and followed you on Twitter. Blogs must be a labor of love at least in the beginning, that is often why many stop after realizing it won’t necessarily become an instant money machine.

By: Rob Bennett

Rob Bennett — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:13:51 +0000

If you’d like me to post it on the other relevant thread for you as requested, let me know.

I explained in the deleted comment why I do not think that’s appropriate,
Investor.

Rob

By: The Investor

The Investor — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:11:28 +0000

Rob, I’ve deleted your follow up comment. If you’d like me to post it on the other relevant thread for you as requested, let me know.

By: The Investor

The Investor — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:27:54 +0000

@Rob - Cheers for your thoughts, I'll consider doing something. As I thought we'd established though, I'm not dogmatically about buy-and-hold - I just dispute that there are obvious valuation-based or other metrics that the average person can easily and consistently use to invest better over the long-term. Because of that, I think for most people averaging over the ups and downs of the market is far likely to prove more profitable than misguided timing attempts (which unlike Mike, say, I do practice to an extent, against my own better judgement!) Anyway, as I've said before I don't want many threads to become about this debate and will take steps to prevent that, so if you'd like to reply I'd be grateful if you could put it onto our previous discussion, where I'll reply if I'm able. Have a good 2010!