Five years ago I sold the manuscript of "The Military Guide To Financial Independence and Retirement" to Impact Publications. This month is also the fifth anniversary of starting the blog. After I sold the draft to the publisher, my marketing plan had me building a bigger audience while the publisher was ...
I'm a retired submariner, and submariners live by checklists. We used a huge checklist for starting up the nuclear reactor, and another huge checklist for shutting it down. We used more checklists for operating the submarine: diving, surfacing, coming to periscope depth, or snorkeling. We used checklists for ...
For the next few months, I'm cutting back my posts to every other week. In terms of financial independence we could call this "unpaid leave" or a "working vacation". As some of you long-term readers may remember, a couple of years ago I sold the blog. The sale terms included a three-year earnout, and I've just ...
Over 18 million WordPress blogs were created in 2014, and today there may be 500 million blogs around the world.* (I'm not even counting Facebook, Linkedin, or Twitter writers.) Blogs are ubiquitous because they're so easy to start (less than five minutes) and WordPress will host them for free. If you're hustling for ...
This update took a few extra months to put together. It's even more outdated than usual. When I talk about book sales with my writing friends, I get confused looks and pitying smiles. Most of them have self-published their manuscripts as eBooks, or used a service like Amazon's CreateSpace for both ...
Spoiler alert for financial advisors, personal-finance bloggers, and entrepreneurs: Yes! It'll boost your financial independence. FinCon15 is the fifth of the series, and it promises to be better than ever. It's grown from its first gathering of 150 personal-finance bloggers to over 500 bloggers, ...
We're military veterans, not financial advisors. We're trying to share what we've learned and to pay it forward – but you have to make your own decisions.
What worked for us will probably work for you, but unfortunately, we can’t guarantee it. Let us know if something’s not working for you, and we’ll try to figure out a better way... Continue Reading...
Doug Nordman