Nominated Best Money Post

Nominated for Best Money Post!

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Hello fellow readers! We are very excited to see that we have made it past round 1. Thanks for voting for us guys!!! We really appreciate it. Round 2 starts today, so please vote for us today!

For those who don’t know our post How We Increased Our Annual Income From $0 to $160K to $400K+ has been nominated for Best Money Post of 2017!

RockstarFinance selected the top 128 posts to battle it out for Best Money Post of 2017, and our post is one of the 128 that was selected. We are very honored and grateful! Having been blogging for only 4 months, this is a big accomplishment for us.

This is how the competition (dubbed the RockStar Finance Rumble) is set up:

• Personal Finance bloggers submitted their best 2017 post for consideration
• The best 128 posts were selected (Excited to see ours got selected)
• Rockstar Finance posts rounds which pit one post against another.
• Readers to vote for their favorite post.
• We got to go first and won the first round.  Thanks for voting for us guys!!! Round 2 starts today, make sure you vote for us. Voting is open today and tomorrow)
• There are now 68 posts left in the game
• The winners will advance in the bracket to play again the next round
• Ultimately, there will only be one post left — the champion for 2017

A little background of the post nominated for Best Money Post

At the request of a reader, we published the post How We Increased Our Annual Income From $0 to $160K to $400K+  and we gave actionable advice on how to increase/double your income every few years.

We have received good feedback and some readers have even started implementing the career advice, we gave in that post.

The post has been a hit and has been featured by multiple bloggers such as:

• MyMoneyWizard – Monthly-link-o-rama-viii
• SomeRandomGuyOnline – Friday Blog Round Up
• POF (Physician’OnFire) Sunday Best 
• ZenCents – Sunday Shorts

Soon after, another reader also asked us to talk about how we negotiate our salaries, and we gave detailed, actionable tips on how to negotiate salary like a pro.

We eventually even released samples of our resumes since a resume is the number # 1 tool to use especially if you are like us and don’t come from a well connected family, don’t have parents, uncles or aunts who can hook you up.

In case you are a new visitor to our blog, and don’t know our story, we came from humble beginnings as broke, new immigrants, who put ourselves through school, worked 2-3 jobs at the same time, barely had food to eat, lived in not so safe neighborhood surrounded by alcoholics, gang members, gamblers, prostitutes, drug dealers/users,…

But were able to overcome the challenges, graduate college, get good jobs and start successful side gigs that bring in the $400K+ and hope to double it again in the next 5 years in order to achieve financial independence fast.

Other topics we talk about

Of course, we don’t publish only career-related posts.  We also talk about other topics such as frugality, saving/investing, becoming debt free, achieving financial independence and/or early retirement, relationships, …

Here are the most popular posts we published in the 3 months we were blogging in 2017:

1. How We Increased Our Annual Income From $0 to $160K to $400K+
2. About us
3. How I make Six Figures Working Only 16 hours/week
4. 2nd Month Blog Report- Stats & Strategies (10,351 pageviews)
5. The Resumes That Bring In $400K+/Year (Samples Provided)
6. How Does Your Sankey Look Like?
7. What BS Are You On?
8. Money Can’t Buy You Happiness, BUT…
9. What do you do for a living?
10. How To Pay Off A Mortgage In 5 Years
11. How we live on 15% of our income
12. What Do Millionaires Know About Money That Most People Don’t?
13. How I Paid Off My $40K Student Loans Before Graduating Plus Other Kickass Stories
14. Joining the Million Dollar Club/Challenge and So Can You
15. Giving Thanks And The 6 Gifts That Keep On Giving
16. Our 6 Financial Mistakes and 15 Lessons Learned
17. Five Steps All Investors Need to Take
18. Our Biggest Money Fight and 9 Lessons Learned
19. How to Negotiate Your Salary Like a Pro
20. Blog Report for First Full Month (9,262 pageviews) and Our Strategies
21. Blog Report for First Half Month Plus 4 Rookie Mistakes
22. 15 Frugal Ways To Prepare For An Emergency
23. 9 Amazing Tips for Using Social Media to Save Money

We also publish motivating, inspiring and/or out-of-the-box guests posts such as these ones:

1. How I make Six Figures Working Only 16 hours/week
2. What do you do for a living?
3. What Do Millionaires Know About Money That Most People Don’t?
4. 9 Amazing Tips for Using Social Media to Save Money

Do you want to guest post for us? We will promote your post as much as we promote ours, and our rules are pretty simple and straight-forward:

• No plagiarism. The article must be original content and it must not have been posted anywhere else
• The article must be about money/finance/career/saving/investing/relationship/business/…
• Ideally it should include a personal story, so that our readers can relate to you.
• Ideally it should at least be 1,000-1,500 words
• Links are allowed but at least half of the links should be linking our articles/resources
• No drafts. Must be final version.
• You agree to reply to comments
• If you are a blogger, you agree to share the guest post on your social media platforms, and link to it on your blog.

Please stay tuned as we continue to bring you good content.

Thank you guys for support, we really appreciate it;  and thanks to RockstarFinance for giving us this awesome opportunity.  You guys rock!!!

Let’s discuss in the comments below.  If you are a reader did you vote? If you are a reader and a blogger, did you get nominated? What do you think are you chances of winning? Did you vote?

Thanks for reading.  Please don’t forget to vote today, comment, share and subscribe! We love ya and wanna get to know ya!

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Do you want to learn more about us? If so, you can also read these other posts:

1. About us
2. How We Increased Our Annual Income From $0 to $160K to $400K+
3. How we live on 15% of our income
4. Joining the Million Dollar Club/Challenge and So Can You
5. How To Pay Off A Mortgage In 5 Years
6. Our Biggest Money Fight and 9 Lessons Learned
7. Our 6 Financial Mistakes and 15 Lessons Learned
8. How I Paid Off My $40,000 Student Loans Before Graduating
9. The resumes that bring in $400,000+/year (Samples Provided)