Interview with Mr. Bishop

So on Tuesday Aubrey and I interviewed Mr. Bishop on the essentials to creating and managing your own blog. He was very knowledgeable and threw a lot of ideas at us that we could incorporate into our projects. One of the things that he stressed with us is that we keep a consistent schedule when posting and keep our posts of similar length. Mr. Bishop also reminded me that I would have to be more creative when writing my blog than Aubrey because my topic covers so much material and is harder to show visuals for. Mr. Bishop also accentuated the need to make our blogs interactive through polls, or questions that would allow readers to not only read our opinions but respond with their own opinions. With all this new information I feel confident that I will be able to finish my "Writing" Monday and "Speaking" next Friday. Will keep you updated as I go.

- Chris B

Project Update

This week I finished reading "Rich dad poor dad, I thought it was a good book. I learned a lot of things about investing, for example; you can be very smart but still not know how to handle money.  The author's real dad was a highly educated man who held  well-paying jobs all his life but never was able to build any wealth. His Rich dad who was not as educated but understood business and investing did become very wealthy. With this contrast the author shows the do's and don'ts of investing. I also spent more time this week on my advice column and have the written up but not posted yet. I feel like I am on schedule to complete the project on time. I have also continued to watch CNBC each day after dinner, which I find informative. I am interviewing Mr. Bishop tomorrow to assist me in improving my new blog. Will keep you updated as I go.

Sincerely,

Christopher Bernhardt

Advice Column

This week I started writing posts for my advice column that will be updated Monday through Friday up until the project deadline. I started writing my first post on Sunday and have subsequently written about Apple, Caterpillar, Bank of America, and Google stock. I haven't decided what stock to pick for Friday but It potential candidates include Pepsi, Proctor & Gamble, and ExxonMobil. At this point you might be saying "well where exactly can I find these quotes because I haven't seen them online and I want to check them out?" To answer that I am still in the process of either creating another blog that will link up to this one or finding another way to share my information but that should be decided at-least in part by the end of the day tomorrow. As of now the only one who has seen my posts is myself but hopefully that will change soon. Right now my posts mainly focus on the topic of wether you should Buy or Sell these stocks but in the future I might branch out into other topics if I have the time. I have also continued with my daily research on "Market Watch" and other websites as well as watching CNBC after dinner daily. Will keep you updated as I go.

Sincerely,

Chris Bernhardt