Last Saturday I attended a mixer for personal finance bloggers in the Bay Area hosted by. I met quite a few highly intelligent and interesting folks and here is a quick summary of what I learned from them.

The people I met included The Silicon Valley Blogger of , Lazy Man of , DC from , Mr. Credit Card of , Barbara from , and Jake from . Additionally, the lovely ladies of Gobankingrates.com Danielle, Claire, Casey, and Erica were hosting the event. I’ve been reading The Digerati Life and Lazy Man for literally years so it was interesting to meet them in person. Lazy Man seemed a little shy, and his wife is quite pretty. SVB is sort of what I expected her to be, very talkative and engaging. Of this group, Lazy Man, SVB, and Mr. Credit Card are all doing their online business full time.

buy cialis online in usabuy cialis online in usa – I think one major lesson I learned from this even is that networking is important especially when you are trying to work on your own business full time. When you are working on something in solitary confinement you can only get so far. You have to make real connections with people beyond the internet to stand out. Since a lot of web publishing income is from advertising, it is nice to know who your potential clients are.

buy cialis online in usa – Mr. Credit Card is actually a super funny guy, and he talked for a while about how many large online publishers are unprofitable. For example, CreditCard.com was going to go public and revealed their earnings. Apparently it had $40 million in revenue and was still unprofitable. Mr. Credit Card said he was incredulous because he is just one guy and his site is profitable probably because he doesn’t have a CFO making a crapton of money. This is something my friend Jerry also wrote. Jerry just recently quit his job at a large company to do his iPhone app business fulltime. I encourage you to read his blog, too.

buy cialis online in usa – Many of these fulltime bloggers do outsource a lot of work. You can find cheap labor in many places on the internet, and I have done some of this in a small scale. Now I have more websites under my management I may outsource more content creation.

buy cialis online in usa – One recurring theme echoed by several bloggers is that thoughtful and well written content do not get the attention they deserve. Instead, dumb stuff usually get a lot of eyeballs. DC of PFStock said that all his posts that he spent tons of time on do not get a lot readers, but posts where he hides Coke Rewards points get tons of view. I think this is just true of the world in general. I mean, just look at crap like Jersey Shore and the millions of fans it has and you’ll see that most people are just drawn to stupid stuff and if you want to have a successful business you need to take their money. I have known this for a while and that’s why I have mostly separated out the stupid content and genuinely good content I have. This blog is where I write my more personal and real thoughts, but I do have other much less intelligent sites that are profitable. Sadly, I don’t believe that writing great content is the path to fame and fortune. When you run your websites like a business, you really have to know what makes a profit.

I am happy to say that I found the meetup to be very fun and educational. It was nice to meet a lot of like minded people. Both SVB & DC are also Berkeley grads so we had a little Cal group there. Hopefully I will attend one again and hopefully one day I will also be just running my business fulltime.