Canadian Finance Blog

Posted: 13 Feb 2011 02:00 AM PST

Finally had a weekend with a bit of spare time, so I’ve been using it to take care of some online projects I’ve been working on. From creating websites for other people, starting up some Amazon niche sites and working on some link building for Canadian Finance Blog, it’s been a pretty productive weekend!

Business

Jim at Advisor Think Box presents Is Traditional Media really old news?, saying “Marketing is one of the absolute keys to success for any business, especially a financial advisor practice. You can be a great advisor with lots of strong technical skills but if no one knows you exist, what good is that skill and technical strength?”

Career

Neal Frankle at Wealth Pilgrim presents The Start Being Self Employed Now Guide, saying “You're reading this because you want to work for yourself. I don't need to convince you. I do want to congratulate you though. Working for yourself is a wonderful way to live. I absolutely love it and I recommend it to everyone I care about.”

Philip Taylor at PT Money presents How to Make Extra Money in College, saying “Rather than give you a list of ideas how to make extra money, PT Money gives you strategies for the best use of your time to make money in college and prepare for your career after college.”

Group Benefits Guy at Group Benefits Online presents Is lack of money creating stress among employees?, saying “Although employers are not responsible for the financial health of their employees, leading employers recognize that there is a link between financial stress and work.”

Debt and Credit

Mike at Green Panda Treehouse presents How-to Avoid Student Loans, saying “How you can ensure that you’re not stuck owing thousands.”

Economy

Big Cajun Man at THE Canadian Personal Finance Blog presents Employment and Unemployment Up?, saying “Another confusing set of stats from Stats Canada with Employment and Unemployment both up.”

Investing

Jim Yih at Retire Happy Blog presents TFSA or RRSP: Why not do both?, saying “One of the problems with the outcome of the debate is it seems like people have to make the choice between one or the other which really is not the case. Both the TFSA and the RRSP have merits so which is better?”

Mike at Do Not Wait presents 7 Ways to Invest Your Retirement Savings, saying “What you can do with your retirement savings today.”

IS at Intelligent Speculator presents Why AOL Will Succeed, saying “A quick analysis of why AOL will perform well.”

Craig Brokowski at Free From Broke presents What Are Dividends?, saying “Ever wonder what these “dividends” are that everyone is talking about? See what they are, why companies offer them, and why you would want to invest in them.”

Mike at The Dividend Guy Blog presents What Happened In the Dividend World in 2010 and What is Coming In 2011, saying “We bring you up to speed on the world of dividends.”

Jessica at MomVesting presents Stock Analysis: Fundamental vs Technical, saying “Learning about how to analyze and value stocks is a lesson that pays off tremendously over the course of an investing life.”

Mike at Experiglot presents How To Trade ETFs Using A Moving Average, saying “Join us as we attempt to simplify this concept.”

Darwin at Darwin’s Money presents Arbitrage Investment Theory, saying “Interested in how arbitrage works? Here are a few real-life examples, including how this regular retail investor profits from arbitrage investment theory.”

Online Income

Mike at The Financial Blogger presents TFB Monthly Income Report, saying “I share the truth about my monthly income.”

Craig Ford at Money Help For Christians presents A Chronicle of My Odesk Experiences | The Great, The Good, The Horrible, saying “A chronicle of the authors experiences with Odesk.”

Taxes

Jaymus at RealizedReturns presents Comparison of Canadian tax software options for filing electronically, saying “A brief look at what software options are available for Canadians to use to do their taxes this year.”

Echo at Boomer & Echo presents It’s Tax Time!, saying “It's that time of year again. Throughout the first couple of months of the New Year, T-slips and other tax documents start arriving in the mail.”

Other

Sustainable PF at Sustainable Personal Finance presents How to Stop Smoking Cigarettes, saying “After crunching the financial numbers (without even considering long term health costs) if I have never smoked and instead invested cigarette money at an 8% return I would have had over $300,000 at age 58. “