Once again, another celebrity has died with an out of date estate plan.  This week’s article helps you understand why a set of form documents aren’t the best bet for your family, just like they weren’t for Heath Ledger’s family.

In addition, you are going to start to see a change here at the Family Wealth Secrets online magazine - notably, all the future articles will be focused specifically on building your Family Wealth and passing it on after you are gone.

That’s right, no more articles about personal development, what’s going on in my life, or my experiences as an entrepreneur.

I’ve launched a new blog - The Intrepid Entrepreneur - for those of you who want more of that.  And, it’s a real deal blog, not an e-zine, not an online magazine, not an e-newsletter.

What’s the difference, you ask?

Well, I’ve been spending lots of time thinking about that myself because while I blog, I don’t feel like a real blogger because I don’t believe very many people come to any of my sites looking for updates, I’ve got very few people subscribed to my blog feeds and hardly anyone ever comments.

There are thousands of people signed up to receive my online magazines, but that’s me sending an email out to your inbox saying here’s some information - eat it up.  If you look at the blogs of two of my favorite bloggers - Penelope Trunk & Tim Ferriss - you’ll see that they’ve got a whole conversation going on their blogs. They post, people comment, they respond - it’s a community.

As a blogger, I imagine people will keep coming back to my blog to get fed instead of me spoon feeding the message (force-feeding?) into your inbox.  You’ll be reading past posts, laughing, crying, and most excitedly, leaving comments so it will become more of a community, more of a conversation.

Plus, it will give me an outlet for writing about everything happening in my life. I’ve been sneaking some of it into my Family Wealth Secrets and Law Business Secrets online magazines, but it’s really not the right forum for it.

So, I’ve decided I’m going to write about just Family Wealth stuff on the Family Wealth Secrets and just Law Business stuff at Law Business Secrets and I might even invite guest hosts to write articles on those sites, but if you want to get the real nitty gritty on what’s going on in my life, with my businesses and how one woman raises two kids, builds three businesses, writes a NY Times bestseller, becomes the next Suze Orman and realizes every other dream she’s ever had, you’ll just have to subscribe to the RSS feed at my blog, The Intrepid Entrepreneur - because now I’m a real deal blogger.

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If you are a lawyer blogger, make sure to check out blawg.com and claim your blog.

I’ve spent a bit of time this weekend diving into the blogosphere. Wow, I’ve got a lot to figure out.

If you love the mission of the Family Wealth Planning Institute to teach you how to pass on not only your financial wealth, but your whole Family Wealth, so you can leave the world a better place and you are a social networking/blogging expert, please email alexis at familywealthmatters dot com and let me know if you can help me figure this out.

I’m particularly interested in learning about trackbacks, technorati, blogrolls and anything else you think I need to know.

I’m starting by posting this link on my site so I could get listed on Technorati. My site is currently 1,212,405. I’ve got a long way to go.

Can you help me on this journey?

Namaste,
Alexis

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