Clever Dude founded CleverDude.com in June 2006 while working as a technical analyst in the Washington, D.C. area. A Penn State graduate, he built the site as a side project alongside a white-collar career that included earning a master’s degree and multiple promotions.
In five years he wrote nearly 1,300 articles on personal finance and life lessons drawn from his own experience. The blog grew from a hobby into a recognized early voice in the personal-finance community and generated meaningful revenue. He sold the site in 2010, continued as a guest contributor through 2015, and returned in 2023 after further career advances, paying off his home, and extensive travel.
I'd like to announce that we'll have a random guest blogger here at Clever Dude. I was thinking of calling him Clumsy Dude or Accident Prone Dude (he wanted Cleverer Dude), but we'll just stick with Shawn for now. Shawn has been my bestest friend … [Read more...] about Announcing Random Guest Blogger: Shawn
It took almost 9 weeks, but I finally earned the 25,000 extra points from the American Express Business Gold Rewards Card. This can convert into $250 worth of gift cards, a plane ticket, or a $125 statement credit: … [Read more...] about I earned 25,000 bonus points from AmEx
Sometimes I ask myself if I've run out of stuff to say. However, I always come up with something. I might only have roundups or statistics for a few days, but then I come out with a great article or series. However, writing is hard! So why do I do … [Read more...] about How has writing at Clever Dude helped me?
only $48,129 left to go! That's our chart from the No Credit Needed Network (thanks NCN!). The "Paid" numbers are a bit off since I began the chart well into our debt repayment period. Yeah, that's a lot of debt, but here's the thing. Now … [Read more...] about $64,761 of debt down and…
WAAAAY back in August (uh, 2 weeks ago), the Frugal Law Student tagged me to give up 8 random things about me. You can see the first 8 here, and the second 8 here. Usually, when I write personal things about myself, I'll add it to my About … [Read more...] about Yet another 8 random things about me
I couldn't fall asleep Friday night, so I decided to look at our budget a little more closely. I had postponed the final payment for our credit card debt until early October because we have some other bills this month. However, I realized that I had … [Read more...] about Guess what…We don’t have credit card debt anymore!
Right now, I have about 120 personal finance blogs on my Google Reader list. I read hundreds of articles per day (well, skim mostly) and comment on quite a few. I also see that I have around 900 subscribers right now. I'd like to make a connection … [Read more...] about Subscriber Poll: Are you a personal finance blogger too?
I've been wanting to write this article for some time, but I figured everyone was so excited about me talking about how I want to get out of debt, so I didn't post it. Well, here's the sequel to my popular post "10 Easy Ways to Look Unprofessional". … [Read more...] about 10 More Easy Ways to Look Unprofessional
