The Income Portfolio Blog (TIP Blog) has completed a little over three months. I posted few articles in last week of February 2009, but actively, I started posting from March 2009 onwards. In today’s post, I will be discussing the present status of the blog and next upcoming post tomorrow present my future direction for this blog.
It has been quite a learning experience. I feel the biggest gain from writing on this blog has been the friends I have made. This blog has allowed me to interface with individuals who share similar thought process. I have made friends with fellow bloggers and reader alike.
I would like to take this opportunity to express my thanks to all my readers and fellow bloggers for your camaraderie; I thank you for your patience ears. I thoroughly enjoy the discussion in the comments section.
In all, I have published 58 posts. The monthly break of number of post can be seen on the side bar under Archives. My posting frequency has been about 15 posts per month. In one of my earlier post, I have discussed the traffic statistics on TIP blog, so I will not repeat it again. Summary is, it does not come close to A-list bloggers, but it is a start. TIP blog had 2361 visitors and 8553 page views from April 1 to May 31, 2009.
Overall, I am happy that I started this blog. I believe I am now settled into the routine of posting regularly and selecting the topic for my posts. I am planning to make few changes. In tomorrow’s upcoming post I will discuss few points about what is my future direction for this blog.
Once again, thanks for stopping by!
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Across many other blogs, I am observing that entrepreneurism is being associated with (or related) to the personal risk and/or risk of invested money. There is a fundamental flaw in the chain of thinking. And this fundamental flaw comes from our misunderstanding of the true meaning. We take the literal meaning of the definition and fail to put entrepreneurship in proper context.
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