Welcome back to The VIP Club, our weekly roundup of all things awesome in the personal finance blogosphere.
A few months ago, Holly and I got the harebrained idea and started this personal finance blog. We started it for two reasons: 1) We felt like we had something that we could add to the conversation and 2) We wanted a way to help keep ourselves accountable for our financial actions. Well, over the past few months, our blog has grown faster than we could have ever imagined thanks to all of the people who have helped us along the way. In order to say thanks to our blogging friends who have really helped us get our site off the ground, we eventually developed the VIP Club.
Over the past few weeks, we’ve been thinking a lot about the VIP Club and how we felt like it needed to evolve into something a bit different. What that was, we didn’t really know. It occurred to us that we didn’t want being a financial VIP to just mean that we were building links with other bloggers. While that is certainly important on the blogging side of things, we wanted the VIP Club to line up more with the goals of this website. We wanted it to be more inclusive. How we were going to get there, we still didn’t know.
So, after a few weeks of thinking, planning, and discussing we are proud to announce the new and improved Club Thrifty VIP Club. It is open to all, readers and bloggers alike, complete with its own newly designed website badge. If you want to learn more about how to become an official member of our new VIP Club, please click on the provided links to visit our new page. Once you’ve signed up and posted the badge, please comment on the page so that we can add your website or name to the list of official VIP Club members.
Blogger friends, don’t fear. We will still be doing our VIP Club Roundups, although we are debating some changes to the day and frequency of those posts.
Thanks again to everybody for the awesome support! We really do appreciate it! Please drop by our VIP Club page, post the badge, and become a member today!
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Congrats on the growth Greg! Good reminder that I need to submit myself to some more carnivals today
Savvy Scot recently posted..Too Rich to Care
Thanks Savvy Scot! We are very excited.
Hope you’ll join our club;)
I also am re-evaluating my weekend reading post on Saturday. It probably comes off as too much link-building and I think I can find more creative ways to integrate links – maybe linking within articles I write? I’m not sure, but there definitely is a time and a place for building links and a time and a place for moving on.
DC @ Young Adult Money recently posted..Why Musicians Hate Spotify…and Why They Shouldn’t
I think we are also thinking about doing more links within articles. However, we are going to continue the roundups for at least a while longer. If nothing else, just to say thank you for all of the support.
Thanks again DC! Hope you’ll join the club as well:)
I’d agree with DC. I’ve been thinking of this as well for my roundups. Good to see different methods to help stir my creativity.
John S @ Frugal Rules recently posted..Frugal Friday: Posts That Ruled This Week
Thanks John! You’re doing a great job with your site. Hope you’ll sign up to join our club as well:)
I’m liking your idea, pretty savvy.
Thanks again for including me this week, and hope you guys have a great long weekend.
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Thanks Eddie! Finance Fox rocks! Hope you have a great weekend as well!
This is a great idea! As others said, I’m trying to think of something else for my roundups.
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Thanks Michelle! We appreciate your support. For those who don’t know (and are bothering to read the comments section) Making Sense of Cents was one of the first blogs to link to our site. Thank you again Michelle…and we hope you’ll join our new club;)
Great idea Greg and congratulations on growing so fast. I’ve been thinking about my Friday Links as well and cutting them back to the posts I feel relevant to the week and bloggers that are active with my blog and Twitter as they seem to recognize the efforts more than others at CBB… Cheers Mr.CBB (thanks for the mention)
Canadianbudgetbinder recently posted..September 2012 Net Worth Update Canadian Budget Binder
Thanks Mr. CBB! And a special uber thanks for becoming the first official member of the new VIP Club!
Hey.. no problem, it looks great and it’s all about sharing. Happy Thanksgiving mate…
Canadianbudgetbinder recently posted..September 2012 Net Worth Update Canadian Budget Binder
Pretty awesome idea. You forgot that I mentioned you in my round-up last weekend
Arrrgh! Thanks for pointing that out. I will fix it right now! Sorry:( I try to catch everybody but the pingback must have slipped through. My bad…and thank you very much for the mention!!!!
Oh, and don’t forget to become a VIP Club member now;)
That’s a pretty awesome idea to do the badge. I hope it catches on for you! Enjoy your weekends.
Jason recently posted..Is Your Monthly Grocery Budget Too High? 6 Ways to Save Money on Groceries
Thanks Jason! I had been thinking about trying one for a while, then got an email from Jeremy at Modest Money who also suggested it…so, that made me think it might actually work. We’ll see if it does.
BTW – A VIP Club badge would look super awesome at Work Save Live;)
I like it. I agree, weekly round ups are most least read and commented posts. I’m going to switch it up in the future, but I don’t mind it too much at this point.
Also, I really like your “badge of accountability!” At least, that’s what I call it
Jacob @ iheartbudgets recently posted..5 Ways Being a Stay At Home Parent Saves You Money
Greg, Holly you had some really great conversations going this week with the beautiful writing. You never seem to run out of creative ideas for your topics and that’s something I need to learn still. Have a wonderful weekend!
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Awww. Thanks Veronica! We really appreciate that!
I see the Canadians on here wishing you a happy long weekend and I get a little jealous of them. Think I’m busy moving north this weekend.
AverageJoe recently posted..Five Money-Saving Tasks That’ll Help You Cha-Ching! in the 4th Quarter
Ha! Me too:) I guess it is Columbus Day for us though.