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moneysense.ca, 19/11/06
Two Years and Counting…
This week will mark the second anniversary of launching this humble blog. The blog has come a long way since its launch: more than 500 posts, nearly 1800 comments, over 88,000 visitors and a few mentions in the national press.
I would like to sincerely thank my readers for their comments, kind words via email and for just stopping by. Shameless plug alert! If you wouldn’t mind, I would appreciate it if you would tell your friends to stop by. Thanks for your support.
In appreciation, I am giving away two hardcover copies of the excellent book, A Random Walk Down Wall Street. In my opinion, it is one the best books on investing and would be a nice addition to your bookshelf. To enter, just leave a comment to this post and don’t forget to include your email address (not displayed). There are just a few simple rules:
- Deadline for entries is 8 p.m. EDT on Thursday, November 23, 2006.
- One entry per person.
- Canadian mailing addresses only.
- Your privacy is very important to me and your email address will be used for the sole purpose of contacting you if you happen to win.
- I’ll pick two names at random and announce the winner after the deadline.
Thanks once again and good luck!
moneysense.ca, 19/11/06
I’ve already told a few colleagues at work about your blog! It’s always a pleasure to read you …
This is a great blog. It is so refreshing to find Canadian topics and opinions from Canadians. I have only been a reader for about 2 months so far and I think its great. I have told many people about this site. Keep up the great work.
Cheers
Dan
Congratulations on your blog anniversary. This is an excellent site, full of great information. One of the very few websites that I visit on a regular basis.
CC,
Congratulations on a major milestone. And may there be many more!
Congradulations on the blog coming so far.
J
Congrats on your 2nd anniversary. Keep up the good work!
AWESOME site!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have sent on to many others (eg. new Canadians for them to learn about RRSPs, RESPs etc)
Great blog, congrats on two years. I look forward to reading it for at least another two!
I have a list of about 10 web sites on the top of my brower’s bookmarks that I check every day. Your blog makes that exclusive list!
Best of luck for continued success. Cheers!
Congratulations!
Sean
I like the fact that you seem to read our comments and respond when appropriate. Congrats – Keep on going!
Congrats on the milestone…
After stumbling onto this blog, I find myself coming back for the quick updates and posts that relate well.
Keep it up!
Congrats! The site is excellent. Keep up with the frequent posts!
Good job! Long life to this blog!
Congratulations on 2 years of publishing!
I’ve benefited alot from your site. Thank you.
I have leared a lot from your posts and the discussions in the comments. Thanks for your efforts.
(and count me in on the book draw
)
Keep up the great work I check your feed daily and enjoy the real world information the is very timely and appropriate.
And I enjoy the book give aways
Fantastic site! Keep it up!
Congrats on two years of sound discussions!
–C8j
Great blog. Congratulations on reaching your two year mark!
happy anniversary – you have a great site here – please keep it up
I check out this site pretty regularly, I hope it stays up for another 2 years!
Hello! Congrats and keep up the great work!! I starting reading your blog on a daily basis at the office and everybody here seems to read it too!!
Excellent site! Congratulations and keep up the great work . . .
Did somebody say “free stuff”?
Congratulations and thank you for all the great information. wishing you many more years of blogging
great site
Congratulations! Keep up the good work.
Josc
Hey CC,
congrats on the milestone. Great blog. Keep up the good work.
Congradulations!
I am really enjoy reading your posts!
Linda
Has it only been two years? I could have sworn I’ve been reading your blog faithfully for a lot longer than that
Congratulations on the milestone, and thanks again for being such a great resource!
Steve.
CC,
Congrats!!!
I find your blog informative and read it daily… keep up the good work!
Brock
Congratulations!
Your blog is always an enjoyable read. I like that you discuss things with a Canadian perspective.
Congratulations! Keep up the good work.
I enjoy reading your blog everyday.
Congratulations on the Anniversary! I wish this blog many more years !! I stop by every other day, I like your different categories of subject and all for Canadians, that’s rare! Thanks again and keep up the excellent quality work
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Two years of posts. No wonder it took me a while to read most of your old ones! *grin*
Keep up the great work! I enjoy reading your insights into the world of money.
CD
Good job, keep it going.
Congratulations on achieving this milestone!
I have been a reader of your blog for the past 9 months now, and have found it to be a great resource.
Its nice to have a Canadian perspective on financial issues. Keep up the great work!
always insightful reading your blog… keep it up!
Love the site – check it everyday. Thanks…
congrats on 2 years! i’ve only been reading for a few months but i’ve gone back quite a bit and read the older posts
keep it up!
This is one of my favoriate sites that I visit daily. A wealth of financial Knowledge.
Thank you.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience with those of us who are not as financially savvy. Congratulations on two years.
Great Blog! I read you daily.
I’ve been viewing the site a relatively short amount of time. I’m new to investing and was searching for advise online where to start when I stumbled on the CC. It made a great impression and I’ve been visiting daily ever since.
Started reading recently when I googled ING interest rates. I’ll definitely pick up the book you mentioned in the future. Would you mind posting a list of other resources you found useful?
congrats!
Congrats on the anniversary. Keep the great posts coming!
Wow, the comments sure increase when free stuff is involved. Thanks for taking the time for this blog and congrats on the anniversary.
Congratulations! I’ve been reading (lurking) for quite a while now…
Hey!
Just found your site today from a Google search for Canadian personal finance blogs! Great site!
Joe
http://www.StingyFinance.com
I have just discovered this site, and have spent the better part of the last couple days digging into the info.
It’s great and I ahve a few more hours of reading/researh ahead of me
great work on the blog, I read everyday.
This blog is part of my daily routine. Please keep up the good work and congratulations on two fine years.
I love the frequent posts…keeps me coming back daily. Keep it up!
Congratulations!
JF
Thank YOU for carrying on the blog!
Congrats on the milestone, here’s to another 2 years!
I find you site very informative and visit it regularily.
Keep up the good work.
Great site,very informative.
I check it every day.
Keep up the great work
A daily and informative read.
Keep blogging, because we are reading.
great site
Great work and good, reliable and practical advice. In particular, your advice on the couch potato portfolio is excellent. It fits well with the comments made by John Bogle, of Vanguard Funds, when he did the introduction to a recent republishing of the original text of the “Intelligent Investor” by Ben Graham. Bogle noted that everyone remembers how Graham spoke of how to pick stocks and of his approach in terms of finding value and a margin of safety etc. What no-one remembers is that he said most investors shouldn’t even try! He (Grahem) made the point that to achieve average returns is much easier than one thinks, and to exceed average returns is much harder than one thinks. To achieve average (and good) return one need only buy a solid diversified basket of stocks – like an index. Yet to try to reach for an homerun by moving out of the indexing concept means high risk and for the average small individual investor, high potential for sub-par returns. His book, the “Intelligent Investor” which spoke of two kinds of investors, and what he called defensive ones, who should just get some advice and pick an index-like spread of stocks, almost never speaks to this point. So your emphasis on use of ETFs to save on fees and create a diversified portfolio, is solid advice. Well done.
As a stock picker who likes to add some fun to the portfolio with a little ‘explore’ added to the ‘core’ through a few individual equities, your blog serves to help keep me reminded of Graham’s good advice!
Well after stumbling across here a while back, I must say it has been an honour to read another ‘geers trials and tribulations on the road to financial success
Congrats on the time here, and I wish you many more posts
Regards
Ashley
Excellent Site! Congrats on 2 Years!
Great blog!
Congrats on two years! It’s so refreshing to find Canadian content in a financial website. As a graduate student and relatively new to taking control of my personal finances, every bit of information I can find and implement is a boon.
Congratulations!
I’ll throw my name in the mix. Though I know what the book is about and have skimmed through it in bookstores. It’d be nice to win something.
Here’s to many more years here at CC!
You offer a tremendous resource for Canadian investors, ranging from newbies to experienced. I visit this site frequently – here’s to the next two years and beyond!
Congratulations !
You’re my finance reference since about a year. I’m glad I’ve found your site.
You’re offering some great advice that pseudo-investors like me really appreciate.
Continue your great work !
Marc
Congratulations on the 2nd Anniversary! Love the advice and now have to finish reading the achives.
Thanks for all your hard work. A visit to your blog has become a near-daily ritual for me.
Congratulations on your blog anniversary. I have saved your blog address in the favorites and visit regularly. Very informative and has lots of information about almost everything investing, insurance, Resp, spending etc. Keep up the good work.
Yep, you know how to get some comments! Everyone is a sucker for something for “free”. Unlike many other offers, this is a genuine free offer.
Congrats on 2 years. I’ve only been reading for the last few months, but you are at a similar stage in life (small children) and you are Canadian which makes almost all of your posts relevant.
Cheers!
I’ve only come across your blog in the last couple of months but I thoroughly enjoy it. Keep it up.
Congratulations on hanging in there for two years in the Canadian Financial Blogosphere
I’ve mentioned your contest on my site.
Congratulations!
Started reading your blog after the G&M article and have stayed with it ever since – the best concise coverage of Canadian financial matters I’ve come across.
PS. Have you seen the new E*rade cash account? At 4.15%, no fee (that I see), it’s even better than the 4% PC account.
Congrats & Thank you. I hope you can continue to produce this informative and entertaining financial blog .. Its part of my daily readings .. thanks again!
Denny,
Cool site….this is what we need more of! I visit often and always learn something new.
Thanks for creating this site. I have it bookmarked as an RSS feed and keep checking daily for new updates and sage advice!
keep up the good work!
I’ve never commented before on here, but I check this site every day, and I’ve learned a lot! Thanks!
Congrats on year 2. I have just recently started visiting but it’s a great read so far. Keep it up!
Excellent work so far; I learn something new (almost) every day.
Love the blog. Great Canadian perspective on personal finance.
Goes without saying really, but love the blog, CC.
To a guy just starting out like me, you’ve been an invaluable resource for information on all sorts of personal finance topics.
Your reputation as one of the best Canadian investing blogs is well deserved.
Congratulations and thank you for taking your time to provide us with so much information. I hope you can continue to produce this informative and entertaining financial blog .. Its part of my daily readings .. thanks again and keep up the good work!
Writing a blog is lonely work — unless you get feedback. Thank you for sharing your insights.
I am enjoying reading your blog. Keep up the good work.
Congratulations on your 2-year journey. I wish I had started reading your blogs as early as then. For me, it’s only been about a 1/2 year & I have enjoyed everyone of them.
I receive them in my email every morning and it is the first one I read for the day. You give such good, and practical advice: the idea to check the credit bureaus, the advice for etrade and TDWaterhouse discount brokerages, the new child tax credit…..I could go on. I have saved a number for future reference and sent many on to family & friends.
I really hope that you will continue providing these blogs. They are true-value added. No matter how much we know about finances and monetary issues, it’s hard to stay on top of everything. You point out what’s important to know on a timely basis!
Keep up the great work!
Deb
Great finance information especially for investment dummies like me. It is always a delight to check out what’s new on your blog everyday! Keep up the good work!
great blog, I read it every week.
regards,
adrian
Stumble upon your blog recently and have been reading it ever since.
Thank you
Great blog, I am trying to read it every day.
Congrats. Great blog – I never miss an entry…
Excellent blog!
Thank you for all your kind comments and thanks for entering the giveaway.
The two winners picked by random.org are Alex (comment #69) and Anjo (comment #49). Congratulations! I will contact you for your shipping address.
Alex, Anjo: I just received your books today. They will be in the mail in the next day or two.
Alex, Anjo: I have mailed your books today. Thanks everyone for participating.