The College Investor Fall 2011 Update

Wow, I can’t believe that next week is Thanksgiving already.  Well, I’m going to give some early thanks today to everyone that has made The College Investor a success this far.  I appreciate every reader and commenter who has made this site a success, as well The Yakezie Network, that really helped me figure out what blogging was all about.

 

Where Did The Weekly Market Update Go?

If you’re wondering where my College Investor Weekly Market Update went, I’m changing the format to a monthly update.  I was feeling 1) overwhelmed trying to come up with new relevant content each week, when we are in the same old doldrums of volatile markets, and 2) I was regurgitating the same stuff almost weekly.  Now, with updating monthly, hopefully I can report and hypothesize on some different stuff!

Onto the goals!

 

Goals for 2011:

• Alexa Ranking: When I last checked in on my Alexa ranking in June, I was at about 99,000.  I’m currently a little lower at 94,000, but I reached an awesome 72,000 in between.  I don’t really know what accounted for the drop and the rise back up, but I hope to continue making steady progress downward throughout the rest of the year. Considering a little over a year ago I was at 14,000,000+ and my goal was to break 200,000, I’m pretty happy!
  
• Feedburner Subscribers: My goal to start 2011 was to have over 100 Feedburner Subscribers.  When I last checked in, I had 75, and upon checking today, I have 161 on average.  Its cool to have doubled subscribers in the last 4 months!  It’s also great to have made my goal for the year.  This is an area that I’m going to pay less attention to going forward, as I continue to build my email list.
• Twitter:  I saw HUGE gains in both Twitter and Facebook over the past several months!  I think I got over 400 fans and Twitter followers in one day after being mentioned on a couple of big sites.  Right now, I’m hovering around 1,500 Twitter followers, which is great considering I had only about 250 four months ago.  It also seems that the more followers I’ve gotten, the more follow everyday – like a snowball!  I hope it continues! 
  
• Facebook Fans:  Facebook was very similar.  Right now I’m at around 1,146 fans, which is another huge win!  I was barely past 100 just a few months back, and now I have over 1,000!  I’ve also seen much more interaction on Facebook, which is fun!  Thank you for being an awesome community!

 

Other Honorable Mentions:

Here are some other fun successes this past few months:

• I was mentioned in several mainstream sites, such as USA Today and The Franklin Prosperity Report.
• I launched my Weekly College Investor Update.  If you haven’t signed up yet, please check it out on the sidebar.  I won’t spam you, and you will get a great weekly update and some fun stuff every now and then!

During my last update, I mentioned I was working to finish my eBook.  Well, almost all of the content is done, and now it is just formatting it and getting it ready to publish online.  I’m very excited and I think it will be a great resource for many of my visitors.  More to come on this next month!

 

Thank you everyone for your support this year!  Have a great Thanksgiving!

Robert