FinCon: Finance, Blogging, and New Media
A peer conference for financial bloggers. Learn to blog and discover the latest trends in the financial world.
Are you networking and making connections on a regular basis, but not gaining as many leads or opportunities as you would like? You might be wondering why, but don’t get discouraged. . . Your business card may be the CULPRIT. It doesn’t have to be that way. Here are tips to get more out of [...]
For bloggers just starting out, creating content often means figuring out what you want to write about when you sit down to the computer. While there are certainly some benefits to flying by the seat of your pants–namely, being able to quickly jump on new trends and react to topical information–many bloggers will quickly find [...]
This is a guest post from FinCon media sponsor and friend, Tom Drake. As a blogger, it can be too easy to see other bloggers as “the competition.” And, even though that’s true to a certain extent when it comes to vying for a reader’s interest or placing high in search engine rankings, other bloggers [...]
I personally came late to the Google Reader party. I didn’t set up my personal RSS feed until late 2011, after it became too much for me to manually check each of my favorite blogs and news sites every day. A day after I started on Google Reader, I wondered how I ever lived without [...]
Trying to balance blogging, home life, and work is a tough enough prospect. Add in the all-encompassing beast that is social media, and balance becomes even more difficult. Considering the fact that a social media presence is a necessity for bloggers who hope to reach a wider audience, it’s impossible to simply remove yourself from [...]
This write up is by Jackie Beck of The Debt Myth. I was lucky enough to receive a ticket from the awesome Philip Taylor to the NMX conference (formerly BlogWorld) in Vegas. I’d been to one other BlogWorld in the past (and of course to FinCon!) so while I wasn’t a completely newbie to blogging [...]
One of the unique challenges of blogging, particularly in the financial sphere, is determining just how much personal information to share. After all, it is much easier for readers to relate if you make it clear that you struggle with some of the same financial or medical or personal issues that they do. But letting [...]
This post is from FinCon Local leader Andrea Travillian. On December 18th, we held our 3rd DFW FinCon Local meetup. It has been a great way to find out what other bloggers in the area are doing on their blogs. This meeting was sponsored by PowerWallet, so a big Thank You to them! In case [...]
Working in a niche blogging industry means that we can sometimes get tunnel vision. It’s very easy to spend our days completely immersed in finance blogs and financial news sources, and miss out on some the wonderful other information the internet has to offer. But stepping outside of the financial blogosphere can really inspire and [...]
We all make mistakes–and just starting a blog is a great time to make mistakes that may end up being permanent headaches. I asked FinCon bloggers what mistakes they wish they’d known about way back when they started blogging. Maybe reading about their oopsies can help you avoid repeating the same mistakes: Jennie LeAnne wishes [...]
Who: Financial bloggers, financial professionals, columnist, authors, financial companies, new media types.
What: FinCon is a four day conference designed to bring together the best of the financial blogging community for networking and learning. Read more...
When: October 17-20, 2013
Where: Hyatt Regency St. Louis at The Arch [Book for $119/night]
