Comments on: Damn. Profiles are way harder than I thought (how you can help)

By: Millionaire Mommy Next Door

Millionaire Mommy Next Door — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 02:29:37 +0000

I am a woman; a mommy; and a self-made millionaire. At age 30 I decided I wanted financial freedom. Just ten years later, at age 40, I was completely debt-free and I had a million dollars in the bank.

I’m so excited to have stumbled on your women and money segment. I am passionate about empowering women to learn more about money, and in fact, I’m hoping to serve as a helpful role model or mentor. With this purpose in mind, I recently launched a personal finance blog targeting women and families.

Ramit, please take a peek at my blog (www.millionairemommynextdoor.blogspot.com). If you think my story might interest your readers, I’d be happy to accept an interview.

~Millionaire Mommy Next Door

By: Flint

Flint — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 00:50:42 +0000

Hey Ramit,

Here’s a link to a free e-book written by the Heinz Family Philanthropies to help women plan their financial futures. It was released recently and I think that it’s a good resource to pass along:

http://www.heinzfamily.org/programs/ebook.html

Cheers, Flint

By: Addy

Addy — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 04:29:05 +0000

Wanda’s comment on the last post led me to many great young womens’ financial blogs, which actually led me to start my own (Thank you Wanda!). In the course of my reading and thinking about starting up with my own writing, I noticed a few things that girls’ financial blogs seem to have in common that guys’ ones simply do not. The finances and ideas aren’t different, but the topics of discussion often are. Here are a few that I saw coming up again and again:
1. Girls focus more on personal stories.
2. Girls often talk about how their finances affect relationships – whether romantic, family, or just friendships.
3. Girls talk about their emotions with respect to money.
I thought you might be able to glean some material from that… one way would be to choose one of these topics that seems to be more often covered by women and offer the male perspective. I’m sure there are many other angles to take on this though. I’d be happy to share more of my ideas if you’re interested.

By: O

Mon, 02 Jul 2007 19:10:57 +0000

I agree with others, I found this site through the yahoo article and have been checking less and less… post something of substance already!

By: Golbguru

Golbguru — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 18:19:32 +0000

Just sent you an email with reference to a post on women and investing. I can send some more data along your way if you are interested in the subject .

By: InvestEveryMonth.com

InvestEveryMonth.com — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 17:50:15 +0000

I think women benefit the most from good quality investment content – no matter who it comes from. I think good content will lead to good comments – that we all can benefit from. Also, it would be interesting to know how many women visit investment sites. My investment sites are primarily male, but most of the newsletter sign-ups on my travel sites are mostly from women. It has been interesting to search my databases to find trends such as this.

By: S

Mon, 02 Jul 2007 17:16:54 +0000

QUOTE FROM Dan Meehan:
“I have a sneaking suspicion you’re just doing this to get women’s numbers.”

HA HA I was one who fell for it! At least I think the e-mail went through.

By: Luke

Luke — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 02:18:38 +0000

This was one of my first PF blogs I checked out and I don’t mean to sound like a jerk here, but when are you going to get posting useful tips?

It seems like the last few months have been about the future of what is coming, but when is it coming?

By: Sarah Hurst

Sarah Hurst — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 19:01:38 +0000

Hi Ramit, I’d love to help you with some of your profiles. I’m currently looking to expand my freelancing efforts, and this would fit the bill quite well. I graduated with a journalism degree in 2004 and have done a nice bit of freelance editing since then. I’ll happily fill in more details if you’re interested in having my assistance. Thanks!

By: Starving Artist

Starving Artist — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 16:08:00 +0000

i think the premise of your series invites controversy; meaning that you, as a man, are creating personal finance articles for woman. you can’t escape stepping on toes. i think you should continue forward, but you’ll get some ugly comments and maybe a bit of hate mail. ah, the price of fame! keep it as fair and ballanced as possible, don’t give in to stereotypes. good luck!