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257						<h1 class="headers">Blogmaker</h1>
258						<p>All about Blogmaker: building, marketing, and lessons.</p>
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267												<a href="https://valsopi.com/the-incredible-march-2024" class="item-link image-yes">
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272																																									<strong>Blogmaker</strong>
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274								<h2 class="headers">The incredible March 2024 </h2>
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277								<p>March broke all records to date. This is a quick recap of what happened.</p>
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281																					<em>Val Sopi</em>																																										<em>&nbsp;•&nbsp;</em>																						<em>April 2nd, 2024</em>																			</div>
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295																																									<strong>Blogmaker</strong>
296																																																						<strong>Financial Freedom</strong>
297																					
298								<h2 class="headers">An update on how I share my open finances and a new self–imposed public challenge </h2>
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301								<p>House cleaning and some goal–setting.</p>
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305																					<em>Val Sopi</em>																																										<em>&nbsp;•&nbsp;</em>																						<em>November 1st, 2023</em>																			</div>
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319																																									<strong>Blogmaker</strong>
320																																																						<strong>Financial Freedom</strong>
321																																																						<strong>SaaS</strong>
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323								<h2 class="headers">One year since "setting sail" </h2>
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326								<p>A quick update on how the first year went by.</p>
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329									<div class="post-author">
330																					<em>Val Sopi</em>																																										<em>&nbsp;•&nbsp;</em>																						<em>September 1st, 2023</em>																			</div>
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344																																									<strong>Blogmaker</strong>
345																																																						<strong>Financial Freedom</strong>
346																																																						<strong>SaaS</strong>
347																					
348								<h2 class="headers">Where is blogstatic now? </h2>
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351								<p>Things are slow, but they're heading in the right direction.</p>
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355																					<em>Val Sopi</em>																																										<em>&nbsp;•&nbsp;</em>																						<em>May 25th, 2023</em>																			</div>
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369																																									<strong>Blogmaker</strong>
370																																																						<strong>Ideas</strong>
371																																																						<strong>SaaS</strong>
372																					
373								<h2 class="headers">The downsides of building in public </h2>
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376								<p>Occasionally, I experience the downsides of building and sharing in public, and then I realize why I keep doing it.</p>
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380																					<em>Val Sopi</em>																																										<em>&nbsp;•&nbsp;</em>																						<em>May 20th, 2023</em>																			</div>
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464			</div>
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