I've been trying to have my 401k from my old employer transferred into a new tax-deferred "vehicle". I finally managed to get all of the paperwork handled, and sent it all away to be processed. Recently I received a notice that there was a certified letter to pick up at the post office.
Digressing into my first annoyance- I am home all day, pretty much every day, because I work from home. Please, Ms. Postwoman, knock on my door instead of filling out one of those stupid little pink cards and making me trek to the postoffice, which is way off yonder toward Yellow Springs, aka "nowhere". Anyway...
So today I picked up the certified letter, which was sent from my old employer. Inside is a check with a post-it note affixed to it: "Don't know why sent here." The check was the value of my emptied 401k: $146,061.96...
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Wow. The folks in this presentation are really naive in their perception of paid blogging. A major concern is that bloggers would take money to support a product that they might not otherwise say good things about. Or maybe they'd take money for advertising that would "junk up" their blogs. The weird thing is the double-standard they have about when you can take money.
If you're a small site with no traffic, whether it's because you haven't been discovered or haven't said anything that people want to read, it's apparently ok to advertise on your piece of crap blog. But as soon as you start getting noticed, you are supposed to have "integrity", and therefore you should be taking money for writing, not money for advertising.
Well, where the heck do they think the money comes from for those bigger sites? Sure, you can do sponsorship, but not everybody can, and aren't those bloggers beholden (in at least the same way the complainers would complain about) to their sponsors? Seems a bit hypocritical to me. But there's more to the seminar than this....
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