Your Favourite Posts of 2009

Welcome to 2010. Let's start the year by looking back at what you read here on Riscario Insider in 2009.

Overall

The trends look great once again. Your visits more than doubled (increased by 2.4 times for the second year in a row) and 82.2% of you were new. You stayed 18.3% longer per visit and viewed an average of 1.5 pages each time.

The Top 10 Posts

Here's what you read

1. PersonalBrain 5: data to information to wisdom (a surprise)
2. Quotes related to Stephen Covey's Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People (a must-read book)
3. Does Warren Buffett "Buy Term and Invest The Difference"? (#1 in 2008)
4. Six Basic Fears From 70 Years Ago [Napoleon Hill]
   
5. Secret 7: The Best Tax Sheltering in Canada
6. Does billionaire Seymour Schulich help you "Get Smarter"?
7. How advisors fool you (and what you can do)
8. Surviving an audit: two lies and three tips
9. Should you switch to an actuarial career?
10. Three reasons why financial literacy eludes us

Worth A Peek

These 2009 posts didn't make the most read list but might suit you

• Your life expectancy exceeds one billion seconds
• Warren Buffett's tough career choice: actuary or billionaire?
• Faster: how to deal with the rat race
• Tips to bulletproof your job
• The three major obstacles to growth according to Brian Tracy
• The effects of banks selling you insurance online
• Is an executive physical worth the bother?
• The least prestigious professions
• Why you can't (and don't) buy on price
• Three steps to keeping financially solvent
• Why is financial planning ignored?
• The gift of networking
• Three ways to make money (without winning a lottery)

If you prefer, you can listen to the podcasts. Here are the top five:

1. "The Snowball" rolls into Warren Buffett
2. PersonalBrain 5: Data to Information to Wisdom
3. Me an actuary? Seven question from a student
4. Outliers: Mastery plus Opportunity trumps Talent (book from Malcolm Gladwell)
5. Warren Buffett's tough career choice

Other statistics follow.

The Top 5 Countries

You read from 139 countries (up from 99). Here are the top five.

1. Canada: Toronto, Ottawa (was #3) Vancouver (was #2), Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Montreal
2. United States: California, New York, Texas, Florida (was #5), Illinois (was #4)
   (by city: New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Houston, Atlanta)
3. United Kingdom
4. Australia (was #5)
5. India (was #4)

Source of Traffic

1. Search Engines: 46% (down from 61%) (94.0% from Google, 2.3% from Yahoo, 1.8% from Bing)
2. Referring Sites: 40% (TheBrain, Canadian Capitalist, Canadian Personal Finance Blog, StumbleUpon, Thicken My Wallet, The Globe & Mail)
3. Direct: 14%

Keywords

Here are the key words typed into search engines to get here.

1. seymour schulich
2. 7 habits of highly effective people quotes
3. personalbrain 5 review
   
4. dwayne daku
5. six basic fears

Browser used

• Internet Explorer: 48% (down from 59%)
• Firefox: 34% (unchanged)
• Safari: 8% (up from 4%)
• Chrome: 7% (up from 2%)

Operating System

• Windows: 85% (down from 91%)
• Macintosh: 12% (up from 7%)
• Linux: 2% (up from 1%)

Some visits came from portables such as iPhone, iPod, Blackberry and Palm devices.

Screen Resolution

• 1024 x 768: 23% (down from 35%)
• 1280 x 800: 20% (up from 18%)
• 1280 x 1024: 15% (up from 12%)
• 1440 x 900: 11% (up from 9%)
• 1680 x 1050: 9% (unchanged)

How's that for detail? Thanks for reading.

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Links

• Your favourite posts of 2008
• Your favourite posts of 2009 for entrepreneurs (Marketing Actuary blog)
• image courtesy of Ana Silos (Mexico)

Podcast Episode 49 (7:10)

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