Guest post: Five frugal team spirit tips
I have a guest post up today at the MoneyAisle Blog. It’s called Five frugal team spirit tips for football season. I think Monroe on a Budget readers will remember the story I told a few weeks ago...
View ArticleWhat’s a reasonable grocery budget?
Monroe on a Budget has a guest post today at Bargains to Bounty, which is one of the most popular grocery blogs in the metro Detroit area. Joyln, the B2B hostess, is on maternity leave and her fans...
View ArticleI didn’t get my page views and rankings with guest bloggers
Monroe on a Budget is currently the runaway hit on the BlogsMonroe network hosted by The Monroe Evening News / Monroe Publishing Co. But it wasn’t always that way. It took several months of blogging...
View ArticleTight on cash? Maybe you have something to barter instead
My guest post policy insists on Michigan and Ohio voices for pieces on Monroe on a Budget. But there is one exception I make for a guest author from across the country. She is a long-time reader and...
View ArticleI am not that stupid (aka “Who are you?”)
I got skunked by the first guest post that I allowed on this blog in November 2009. When a reader pointed out that she thought the author’s back story was a little odd, I put the post on private and...
View ArticleWhen is picnic food on sale? Late May!
The following guest post is by Maxine Sullivan from The Frugalista Files. I deliberately scheduled this article after as many of the grocery ads as possible for the week of May 16 would be available to...
View ArticleAnd she claims to be a journalism graduate?
My email box is flooded with pitches from people who want to write a guest post for Monroe on a Budget. Most of them just want a way to embed their commercial links for free on the RSS feed of a...
View ArticleA parent’s perspective to study abroad
I’ve written few times about international student exchange opportunities at Monroe on a Budget, specifically on how to pay for the trip, handling everyday finances when someone is overseas, and...
View ArticleGreenPath Debt Solutions’ 2011 Clients of the Year share their student loan...
A note from your blogger: When I posted a reader call out for stories and information on my student debt project for The Monroe Evening News, one of the queries I made was to the press contact at...
View ArticleDonna Bruck Hwang: Let’s hear it for parents who taught us the value of hard...
A note from your blogger: When I put out the call for people to talk to for the student debt project, Donna Bruck Hwang of Monroe sent me an essay she had just written. “It’s my view. May be quite...
View ArticleWhen would-be guest posters ruin the game for everyone else
If you read a social media or blogging tip site, the suggestions for marketing your blog most likely includes sending pitches for guest posts to other blogs. While you won’t get paid for doing it, the...
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