Comments on: What is So Wrong With Making Money?

By: Darrell

Darrell — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 02:14:37 +0000

Its service to people that the blogger provides. You work in a bank, so you are sharing your knowledge of money physics to us. And its entertaining. Learning money is entertaining.

I hope to starta blog soon about investing in stocks soon, once I get my thoughts together.

By: Doctor Stock

Doctor Stock — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 01:38:11 +0000

Thanks so much… I may do so soon!

By: The Financial Blogger

The Financial Blogger — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:27:40 +0000

@Doctor Stock,
It depends on what you want to do with your site. For your site, I would go with Adsense and INO, they should be good seller

if you have more specific questions, drop me an email a thefinancialblogger(at)gmail

By: Doctor Stock

Doctor Stock — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 23:20:34 +0000

Very interesting… I’m considering this very thing… like who to advertise, why, etc. I’m trying to remain completely independent at this time, but I see the benefit of promoting things I believe in and to receive a little help would be nice (for my time). We’ll see… any recommendations of who’s easy to work with, etc.?

Cheers!

By: Financial Cents

Financial Cents — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:57:42 +0000

Well said. Congrats to Ram for “making it big”. He’s certainly an inspiration to me, a very small-time blogger. Very true, blogging does take time and even more to be well-written, knowledgable and credible. Nothing wrong with earning some money from your hobby or passion for that matter. Congrats again Canadian Capitalist…which reminds me, I need to read your blog today! Cheers!

By: The Financial Blogger

The Financial Blogger — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:20:27 +0000

@ CC,
thx for the clarificaiton, I’ve just updated my article to reflect the partnership, not the merger!

By: Bad Credit Saint

Bad Credit Saint — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:17:51 +0000

Its just their silly sense of entitlement. They think that they read the blog and somehow they are the kings/queens that have to be satisfied. Little to they know that it is the blogger himself that has the right to do whatever he wants, whenever he wants.

By: Canadian Capitalist

Canadian Capitalist — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:14:49 +0000

I want to clarify that I have a partnership with MS, not a merger. I continue to own the blog and all its contents.

Re: the issues that Brian has raised:

1. Potential Bias: If anything I have less bias than before. If I never ran ads before, you have a point with bias. But I used to run ads and as any blogger will tell you, you get requests to write about certain topics. My response always has been: “no”. It’s exactly the same now except that I don’t even know who the advertisers will be. The advertisers deal with MS, not with me. And I retain complete freedom to write what I want in the same manner that I did before.

In the blogging world, all I have is the reputation I’ve painstakingly built over the years and do you really think, I’ll be risking that by claiming something that I can’t deliver on?

2. Ads and Design: Yes, the design has changed. Yes, there are valid complaints and yes, I’ll be working on fixing as many as possible. You should already see improvements and RSS and email subscribers won’t even see any change.

By: The Financial Blogger

The Financial Blogger — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:32:31 +0000

I understand that some readers may be worried to read more “sponsored posts” or see biased opinion. However, I think it was a premature reaction since nothing changed so far (besides the layout).

Speaking of which, it doesn’t hurt to see a few colors on this theme

By: Arjun @ InvestingThesis.com

Arjun @ InvestingThesis.com — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 05:02:02 +0000

My take on this is that when people who are used to one thing, get surprised with another, they take one of 2 sides: for or against. Personally, I don’t think its about the money at all. Perhaps, some of the commenters felt such a close connection with the Canadian Capitalist that the news of the partnership with MoneySense took them by surprise and maybe they felt a little left out not knowing about it in advance? I think, much like Ram’s comment above, that people will eventually get used to seeing (or maybe even tune out) Canadian Capitalist as one of the MoneySense blogs and this will be a non-issue going forward. Just my two cents….