Bible Money Matters

Christian personal finance

Menu
    • About
    • Archives
    • Contact
    • Close
  • Making Money
      • Popular Articles

        • 50 Ways To Make Money: Maximizing, Creating And Increasing Your Income
        • 10 Weird And Unconventional Ways To Make Money
        • Making Money With A Blog (e-Book)
        • 10 Places To Sell Or Trade Your Unused (Or Broken) Electronics
        • Ways To Make Extra Money Series: 20 More Income Generating Ideas From Our Readers
        • Making Side Income Can Help Blunt The Impact Of Becoming A One Income Family
        • Earn Cash Back With Discover it® Credit Card
      • Recent Articles – Making Money

        • Best Sites Like Fiverr To Make Money As A Freelancer
        • 13 Of The Best Independent Contractor Jobs
        • 25 Of The Best Gig Economy Jobs
        • How To Make Money Blogging: Turn A Blog Into A Business
      • Categories

        • Making Money
        • Investing
        • Retirement
        • Jobs & Work LIfe
        • Money
        • Income
    • Close
  • Saving Money
      • Popular Articles

        • 50 Easy Ways To Save Money Every Month
        • 10 Weird And Unconventional Ways To Save Money
        • 10 Practical Ways To Save Money And Increase Your Net Worth
        • How To Save Money On Just About All Of Your Regular Monthly Bills
        • Ways To Watch TV Without Paying An Arm And A Leg For Cable TV
        • Save Money On Your Hospital Bill - Just By Asking
      • Recent Articles – Saving Money

        • How To Save $100k In 7 Practical Steps
        • Stairs App Review: Save And Invest To Earn 4-6% Interest
        • Honey Review: Save Money Automatically When You Shop Online
        • 9 Convincing Reasons Why You Need An Emergency Fund
      • Categories

        • Saving Money
        • Frugality
        • Planning
        • Finance
        • Saving For Retirement
        • Savings Accounts
    • Close
  • Banking
      • Best Rates For 2019

        • Best Credit Cards
        • Best Savings Accounts
        • Best Mortgage Rates
        • Best CD Rates
        • Best Brokerages
        • Free Credit Scores
      • Recent Reviews

        • TradeStation Review: Commission Free Stock And ETF Trades
        • Firstrade Review: Commission Free Trades on Stocks, Crypto, And Options
        • Cadre Real Estate Investing Review: Commercial Real Estate Investing
        • Axos Self Directed Trading Review: Invest, Trade Stocks For Free
      • Categories

        • Bank & Software Reviews
        • Investing
        • Credit
        • Banking
        • Mortgage
        • Insurance
        • Family Budget
    • Close
  • Recommended
  • Video
    • Close

Top 5 Lessons I Learned At FinCon

By Peter Anderson 1 Comment - The content of this website often contains affiliate links and I may be compensated if you buy through those links (at no cost to you!). Learn more about how we make money. Last edited September 14, 2015.

Share16
Pin4
Tweet23
Share5
48 Shares

A couple of weeks ago I had the great fortune to be a guest on the first edition of the Money and Media Podcast, brought to you by FinCon.

The FinCon Expo is a conference where all the brightest and best of financial media and blogging worlds come together to learn, and to network with others who have similar interests. It’s a great time every year, and if you’re interested you can check out my recap of last year’s FinCon here.

The Money & Media Podcast Brought To You By FinCon

money-media-podcastI received an email from Joe Saul-Sehy of the Stacking Benjamins blog who also creates one of my favorite financial podcasts. He is working with PT, founder of FinCon, to create a series of FinCon podcasts leading up to FinCon14 in New Orleans this year.

He asked me to appear on that first episode of the podcast to do a roundtable discussion with another talented blogger, Lauren Bowling of Financial Best Life, around the topic of the top 5 lessons we learned at FinCon.  Also on the podcast is featured guest Farnoosh Torabi, as well as Phil Taylor.

I was happy to take part, and even though I was nervous doing my first real podcast, Joe is a podcasting pro and put us both at ease.

Let’s take a look at my top 5 things I learned at FinCon. Click on the link below to download the podcast and follow along!

Money & Media Podcast Episode 1

Top 5 Lessons I Learned At FinCon 2013

There were quite a few things I learned at FinCon13 in St. Louis, Missouri.  Here are my top 5 that I shared on the podcast. (You’ll have to listen to the podcast to get Lauren’s top 5!)

lessons-learned-fincon

5. I Learned The Importance Of Making  A Good First Impression

Falling down on stage can leave a good first impression. No, really.

Pat Flynn Fincon KeynotePat Flynn of Smart Passive Income gave the first keynote address at FinCon13.  He came into the auditorium to loud, fast paced music. Think along the lines of “Eye of the Tiger“.  He ran down the aisle pumping his fists and leaped onto the stage only to trip and fall down flat on his face.

The room went silent and I heard several people gasp. Pat got up off the ground and paused. He looked around the room and asked if he could start over. He explained, “I don’t feel like I made a good first impression”. The sound guys then reversed the music and he ran backwards down the aisle and started from the top. This time he made it to the stage in one piece, and the crowd cheered.  (Nice stage fall, Pat. You’d have a good second career as a stuntman!)

In his speech he talked about how important making that good first impression is. He said:

It’s extremely important to make sure that when people visit your website for the first time, whether it’s through search engine traffic, through a link from someone elses’s site or a recommendation from a friend – that your site feels very welcoming.

He stressed how important it is to

  • Introduce people to who you are, and personalize your site.
  • Make it easy to read your content and navigate your site.
  • Don’t overload your site with un-necessary distractions. Keep it simple.
  • Give people a reason to come back – share your personality, your story. Make them want to come back that first visit.

4. I Learned That Being A Perfectionist Can Mean You Never Get Anything Done

Jesse MechamJesse Mecham of  You Need A Budget had a session where he lamented how the “perfect can become the enemy of the good”.

He talked about how he took a simple budget spreadsheet and built it into a multi-million dollar software business. He examined why his perfectionism often kept him from releasing a good product because he thought it wasn’t yet perfect.

Jesse went on to explore how many of us will worry about how our product or content may not be good enough. In the end, he posits that it’s more important to just get a good product together and release it despite any small flaws.

Don’t be afraid to release an imperfect product.

Yes, you want to release something good, but you should constantly be iterating anyway – improving your product for your readers or customer, building upon what you’ve already been able to do. So if you release a product that isn’t 100% perfect, that’s OK because you can continue to improve on that product and release updates, iterations and improvements.

3. I Learned About Leveraging The Assets You Already Have To Build Traffic & Income

steve chouSteve Chou of My Wife Quit Her Job talked about how we all spend so much time creating great content, but a lot of the time we don’t use the content we’ve already created to it’s utmost.  He also talked about how we often don’t have a goal for our content and a focus for what we want it to achieve.

He suggested leveraging already created content by creating autoresponders that can be sent out to email lists, sending people to money making articles through your email lists, and by improving existing articles that already get traffic and leveraging that success to make more money.

Sometimes we think we have to just churn out content, when in reality we ignore some of our best money making assets – our already created content.

2. I Learned The Importance Of Diversifying

Jeff RoseI learned the importance of diversifying your content offerings to find traffic wherever the people are.

Jeff Rose of Good Financial Cents talked about how his site had suffered in the Google Panda and Penguin updates, and how he was struggling to rebuild his traffic. His strategy was to diversify his traffic and go to different sources than just the search engines for traffic.

He called upon Pat Flynn’s motto, “Be everywhere“.  In other words, be where the people are consuming content, not just on your blog. Write, do video, do a podcast, do partnerships with big brands.  Essentially, get your name out and find new readers in as many avenues as you can.

Jeff went on to rebuild his site by doing podcasts, creating video content, writing a book, launching an email newsletter, setting up blog movements with bigger brands as sponsors and more.

Be everywhere and you’ll see results in traffic, as well as in getting noticed by bigger brands.

1. I Learned The Importance Of Creating Strategic Partnerships With Brands Bigger Than Your Own

stacy-johnsonStacy Johnson of Money Talks News talked about how he was able to create partnerships with sites and companies larger than his own, and how he leveraged those relationships in order to build his own brand and credibility.

Stacy took things that he did well, like creating video content, and created strategic partnerships with bigger media sites to provide content for their video sections. That allowed him to take his own brand to the next level by appearing on bigger sites where he could link to his own site.

Whether it’s through creating video, writing articles, or producing other media, you’ll see people capitalizing on the names of bigger brands all the time. They do that by writing or partnering with those sites so that they can get links back to their own sites, so they can add the “as seen in” tagline to their about pages, or by using the connections it brings them that can help further their own projects.

If you don’t have credibility – borrow some from someone bigger!  Just make sure that you’re truly providing value for the other party as well, otherwise they won’t keep asking you back.

The Things I Learned At FinCon

Some of the key takeaways I had at FinCon were.

  • The importance of making a good first impression on your online presence. It can be hard, or impossible to get readers back if that first impression isn’t a good one.
  • You need to be willing to realize you’re not perfect, and that it’s OK to release a product that’s just “good” and not “perfect”.
  • You should make sure to set clear goals for your site, and then make sure you capitalize on the content and other assets you have already created that are doing well.
  • Like in investing, it’s good to diversify.  Diversify your content offerings and find an audience wherever they are.  Do blog posts for readers, video for watchers, podcasts for commuters, and so on.
  • Make strategic partnerships with brands bigger than your own that can help you take your presence to the next level. Provide value to them.

If you attended FinCon, what were some of the takeaways you had?

Related Posts

  • My Blog Just Crashed. Lessons Learned From A Recent Experience

    Sometimes being the owner, operator, writer and editor of a blog isn’t easy.  Most of us are writing about personal finance because we have a…

  • 7 Lessons I've Learned While Paying Down Our Debt

    Here are seven lessons we've learned while we've been paying down debt over the past couple of years.

  • Lessons From Warren Buffett

    The Berkshire Hathaway 2010 shareholder letter was recently published and can be found, along with the last 34 years of letters here.  I would venture…

Share16
Pin4
Tweet23
Share5
48 Shares
Last Edited: 14th September 2015 The content of biblemoneymatters.com is for general information purposes only and does not constitute professional advice. Visitors to biblemoneymatters.com should not act upon the content or information without first seeking appropriate professional advice. In accordance with the latest FTC guidelines, we declare that we have a financial relationship with every company mentioned on this site.

This article is about: Blogging

About Peter Anderson

Peter Anderson is a Christian, husband to his beautiful wife Maria, and father to his 2 children. He loves reading and writing about personal finance, and also enjoys a good board game every now and again. You can find out more about him on the about page. Don't forget to say hi on Pinterest, Twitter or Facebook!

Comments

    Share Your Thoughts: Cancel reply

  1. John @ Sprout Wealth says

    Great takeaways Peter! Last year was my first time at FinCon, so I was just trying to soak it all in. That said, I had some of the same takeaways – especially with regards to the making a good first impression and diversifying. I knew the importance of those already, but learning how to implement those online was invaluable. It’s hard to believe the next one is less than six months away – I’m still working on things I learned from going last year. :)

    Reply
Previous Post: My Top 5 Favorite Banks And Brokerages
Next Post: FeeX Review: Are Fees Killing Your Investment Returns?
Discover Investment Platforms

Popular Posts

  • 21 Easy Ways To Earn Free Amazon Gift Cards
  • 10 Best Free Tax Filing Services And Software Online
  • 21 Apps That Pay You Real Money Fast
  • 17 TV Apps And Live TV Streaming Services To Watch TV Free
  • 30 Legit Online Jobs That Pay Well
  • 37 Easy Ways To Get Free Gift Cards
  • How To Get Free Stock
  • 40 Easy Ways To Get Free Money Fast
  • 21 Places To Read Free Books Online
  • 24 Legit Online Jobs
  • 17 Best Work From Home Jobs: A List Of Legit Online Jobs That Pay Well

Recent Posts

  • How To Save $100k In 7 Practical Steps
  • How to Save Money When Remodeling A Home
  • How To Hire A Contractor For Your Remodeling Project
  • Remembering 9/11 Years Later: Where Were You On That Fateful Day?
  • TradeStation Review: Commission Free Stock And ETF Trades
  • Firstrade Review: Commission Free Trades on Stocks, Crypto, And Options
  • Cadre Real Estate Investing Review: Commercial Real Estate Investing
  • Best Sites Like Fiverr To Make Money As A Freelancer
  • Axos Self Directed Trading Review: Invest, Trade Stocks For Free
  • 30 Quotes About Easter And Resurrection: He Is Risen!

Disclaimer

The information contained in BibleMoneyMatters.com is for general information or entertainment purposes only and does not constitute professional financial advice. Please contact an independent financial professional for advice regarding your specific situation.

In accordance with FTC guidelines, we state that we have a financial relationship with some of the companies mentioned in this website. This may include receiving access to free products and services for product and service reviews and giveaways.

Any references to third party products, rates, or websites are subject to change without notice. We do our best to maintain current information, but due to the rapidly changing environment, some information may have changed since it was published. Please do the appropriate research before participating in any third party offers.

Amazon and the Amazon logo are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates.

We respect your privacy: Privacy Policy.

Thanks for visiting!

Bible Money Matters - Seen On These Sites and more..
Bible Money Matters is a personal finance, entrepreneurship and investing community. Give more, save more and live more.

Copyright © 2023 · Bible Money Matters | Sitemap | Advertise | Privacy Policy