Subscriber Swap Saturday

What is Subscriber Swap Saturday?

Bottom line: there are a bunch of personal finance blogs out there. Too many to find ones you will really enjoy easily. As a blogger this is a difficult problem to get past. Bloggers write because (hopefully) they have a passion for the topic they are writing on. It’s also nice to have people read and comment on your writing.

With Subscriber Swap Saturday I plan to interview, and be interviewed by, another personal financial blogger each week. We’ll each post our interviews (on our own blogs) on Saturday mornings.

Here’s the catch: I want my readers to subscribe to the blog of the person I interview each week and vise versa. Just try out that blogger’s blog for one week. Put the RSS feed in your reader for a week and try it out. Surely in one week you’ll find something you think is worth coming back for. If not? Drop them after a week.

I don’t have any set in stone requirements, but some general rules of thumb:

• You can’t be a brand new blogger. This is supposed to be mutually beneficial so if you’ve written three posts total please wait until you’ve shown commitment to blogging.
• Since this is about subscribers, you should have some. Not one, not two… more than 350 would be preferable. This links back to the first rule of thumb — you’re somewhat established with that many subscribers. Then again I remember starting out and needing to get some exposure on bigger blogs. I’m willing to be flexible.
• I really, really, really prefer to work with people that have their own domain names. Just a personal pet peeve of mine — spend the $8 to get the domain name and stop using Blogspot.

Interested? Drop me an e-mail with your blog address and number of subscribers.

Past and Upcoming Subscriber Swappers:

• November 22, 2008 – Single Guy Money and his questions for me
• December 6, 2008 – Tough Money Love and his questions for me
• December 13, 2008 – Northern Cheapskate and her questions for me
• December 20, 2008 – Wide Open Wallet and her questions for me
• December 27, 2008 – Bible Money Matters and his questions for me
• January 3, 2009 – Money Ning and his questions for me
• January 10, 2009 – Brip Blap and his questions for me
• January 17, 2009 – Cash Money Life and his questions for me
• January 24, 2009 – Remodeling This Life and her questions for me
• February 7, 2009 – Master Your Card and her questions for me
• February 14, 2009 – Gather Little by Little and his questions for me
• February 21, 2009 – Living Almost Large and her questions for me
• February 28, 2009 – Budgets are Sexy and his questions for me
• March 7, 2009 – Little People Wealth and her questions for me
• March 14, 2009 – Engineering a Debt Free Life and her questions for me
• March 21, 2009 – Bargain Briana and her questions for me
• March 28, 2009 – Chief Family Officer and her questions for me
• April 4, 2009 – Good Financial Cents and his questions for me
• April 11, 2009 – Poorer Than You and her questions for me
• April 18, 2009 – PT Money and his questions for me
• April 25, 2009 – Man Vs. Debt and his questions for me
• May 9, 2009 – Choyster Cash and her questions for me
• May 16, 2009 – Free From Broke and his questions for me
• May 23, 2009 – Moolanomy and his questions for me
• May 30, 2009 – Green Panda Tree House and her questions for me
• June 13, 2009 – Weakonomics and his questions for me
• June 20, 2009 – Money Relationship and his questions for me
• July 11, 2009 – Saving to Invest
• July 18, 2009 and beyond — looking for more bloggers to work with!