I receive questions in my email and I attempt to respond to all of them. I tend to ignore questions that fall into the category of “looking of quick tips or opinion”. I do not mean to be rude to individuals to whom I do not respond. But I believe in being thoughtful, objective, and worthwhile in my response. If I cannot, then I just leave it as is.
Once in a while I like to sample out few questions that may be applicable to wider audience. Since the last Q and A, I received few interesting ones and I am discussing below.
Quality of the Content in Blogosphere: why is it that free content sucks! Why are bloggers repeating the same content. Do you have any blogging study reference material which has done research to show blogging quality and its ability to earn side income.
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TIP Guy
11 July 2009
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Today, I am pleased to announce that “The Income Portfolio” blog has moved to a new domain. When I started this blog in February 2009, I did not think about the importance of simplicity of blog domain. I went along with the topic and hence picked the domain name as www.theincomeportfolio.com. Since then I have received few sporadic messages highlighting the fact that it is very descriptive, long, and needs effort to type blog address. Normally, I would not make a change until I receive overwhelming feedback (or critics?). But then I decided to do a little experiment.
I picked three domain names and asked my dad, mom, wife, sister, brother, and three friends to vote on which is easiest (and simpler) to identify and type. The choices I gave them were (1) theincomeportfolio.com; (2) TIPBlog.in; and (3) NewCash.in. To my surprise, TIPBlog.in received 7 votes, NewCash.in received one vote, and theincomeportfolio.com received zero vote. That made me think there is some merit behind the feedback I received on my blog. So I decided to make a change to TIPBlog.in
I have selected tick mark as logo for this blog. Tick mark signifies correct. Even to make a tick mark, one needs bring it down first, and then go up. The tick mark logo and color combination demonstrates that in short term it may appear that dividend and value investing is negative (in red), but in long term it is always up (in green).
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TIP Guy
11 June 2009
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I have been focusing on writing about long term investments and attempting to show the virtue of patience, efficacy of well defined plan, and importance of following your own investment process. Most of the time I have focused only on dividend based investing at a fair value and I will continue doing that. I plan on adding few topics. During this next quarter, I am going to do following:
Publish Quarterly Progress Update
I have received quite a few messages that express fear factor about long term investing. Many individuals are not able to grasp 10+ investing horizon. Many cite example of Satyam and SENSEX tanking in 2008 to show that stock market is a gamble and it is just not right to think in 10+ years of time frame. For many of my readers, long term means 2 years. I find this very intriguing. In this context, I have decided to publish quarterly update of my portfolio. My objective in publishing this quarterly update will be to demonstrate to my readers, how I measure my progress, and how I manage the risk in my long term portfolio. I will be publishing my quarterly update only once. After that, I will be emailing it only to RSS subscribers of this blog. Continue reading rest of this article…
TIP Guy
10 June 2009
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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!
TIP Guy
16 May 2009
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In one my earlier post, I discussed about questions that I receive and try to answer each one of them with sincere efforts. I have discussed questions related to my time management. In today’s post, I will discuss about questions related to “Why I am blogging?” I have attempted to group them as much as possible.
What’s your interest in sharing all these information? I am asking because I want to know whether you will also ask for subscription after sometime.
As the slogan of my blog goes; it is my journey to build and sustain an income portfolio. I am using online blog method to document my journey. In the process, I hope (a) to continue my learning process; (b) to continue to monitor my progress; (c) to make friends who are interested in learning about long term investing; (d) to share our winners; and (e) to share our losing strategies so that we do not make similar mistakes.
I am in no way an expert in investing. However, I do believe that I am patience, analytical, and capable of taking my own investing decisions. I am willing to accept my mistakes. I am willing to learn from others.
We see that you have closed your “my portfolio” section. It is now password protection. Does this mean you are planning for subscription based service?
I had temporarily closed. It is now open. I have modified it to reduce exposure to my personal details. I do not have plans for subscriptions. It is free for readers of this blog. Continue reading rest of this article…
TIP Guy
28 March 2009
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It has been just over one month since I started actively posting on The Income Portfolio (TIP) Blog. It is a very short time frame, but it feels like I have been doing this for a long time.
So far…
I started slowly with about one post in a week. In the third week, I got hooked and started posting more frequently. I did not have much content on my blog spot and hence, there was practically no traffic and subscriber list was empty. Continue reading rest of this article…
TIP Guy
7 March 2009
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Being an avid proponent of do-it-yourself investing, whenever I read any financial or general economics book, I am continuously attempting to put the subject matter in the context of my personal investing process or personal investing decision making process. I am trying to figure out if it should have any influence in my investment process. Of the many books that I have read in recent past, there are two books that really made me think, what a lesson for individual investors. These two books are:
- “When Markets Collide – Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change” written by Mohammed El-Erian.
- “Unconventional Success – A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investments” written by David F. Swensen.
In next post and/or in near future post, I will be:
1. Summarizing the main themes of the book;
2. Presenting my interpretation from dividend-investing perspective; and
3. Discussing whether it has any influence on my investing process (if any).
So stay tuned!
How do I Manage My Time?
I receive questions and comments on my posts and many times in emails. I am actually surprised how often “Contact” on Menu Bar is being used. It receives third most popular clicks.
I try to respond to almost all of these questions and comments as honestly and as timely as possible. I also know that I may not be able to meet some the expected answers. If that’s the case, then it’s because of my misinterpretation or may be I did not communicate properly. The questions I receive can be classified into three distinct groups, viz., (1) questions related to my time management; (2) questions on my stock holding and my portfolio management; and (3) why am I blogging?
In today’s post, I will discuss about questions related to time management. There are subtle differences but in the end they all are related to how I manage my time. Continue reading rest of this article…