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In 1991 Billy and Akaisha Kaderli retired at the age of 38. Now, into their 3rd decade of this financially independent lifestyle, they invite you to take advantage of their wisdom and experience.

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Kim Komando, Digital Goddess

Kim Komando

She’s a Digital Goddess.

Physically gorgeous, mentally brilliant, I have been a fan of Kim Komando for decades. She’s the “Go-to” Gal for digital expertise and technical information, and I subscribe to her newsletter.

This last letter offered an opportunity to speak with The Great One on her show, so I filled out the form and emailed it in.

I got selected!

I mentioned to the call screener that I wasn’t born in the digital age, and sometimes I feel like I’m chasing a rabbit just keeping up with it. I wanted to ask Kim for two tips to take our site to the next level.

 

 

 

 

So I called into the show at the prescribed time, and waited on my cell phone while I listened to her monologue. Then I heard my lead-in.

Giving me a quick moment to tell her our brief history and the purpose of my call, she mentioned she had the chance to look at our site.

Because she's from New Jersey, she asked if I had ever met someone from there. I said I had - and braced myself for what I was about to hear. Kim said that people from New Jersey can sometimes be abrasive and went on to say our site looked like something out of the 90’s, the disco era!

Ouch, Kim. I’m a sensitive guy and that hurt.

“Tell me you don’t have on disco clothes… what kind of shoes are you wearing?” She quipped.

“I have on flip-flops, Kim. I'm in Mexico. We can wear whatever we want here.”

Laughing, I went on to say that I have a respectable rating with Google, but I wanted to move up in the page rankings and wondered why I hadn’t.

As if she hadn’t inflicted enough pain already, she declared “That’s because your website’s crappy.”

Come again?

 

 

 

 

She proceeded to give me a couple of online website editors that I could use to revamp our site. And she complimented me on several good things we had going on. That was nice, this lady from New Jersey...

It’s a hot radio show, so our chat ended shortly after that to make room for the next caller. I was left with a mixture of exuberance for having finally spoken to my Digital Goddess and some puzzlement and bruised feelings from her comment over our site.

Sure, I get it. Move into the future!

But to me, all those newish websites look the same: White background, black or blue lettering, interchangeable module boxes… I feel like I’m in a hospital looking at a menu of surgical procedures. Where’s the color? The LIFE?

For better or worse, we like our Vintage Site and we're still here!

Ok, so I’m the guy with mustard on his tie and behind tech times. But you know what? I can help you become financially independent, and I’m proud of that.

This reminds me of when we asked Financial Planners thirty years ago if our FIRE strategy would work and they all said NO. But here we are! In smiling defiance of their advice.

So let me say this.

We’re a content-based site. And we hope that it’s the content, the humor, and the humanity that brings you back. We appeal to a different kind of person - the person who prizes their independence, values their time, and who doesn't want to mindlessly follow the crowd.

So why would I want to follow the crowd now? THAT would be new…

Then I said to myself “Hey, I’ve been retired for almost 3 decades and she’s still working!

Probably chasing THAT rabbit down the hole.”

 

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About the Authors

 
Billy and Akaisha Kaderli are recognized retirement experts and internationally published authors on topics of finance, medical tourism and world travel. With the wealth of information they share on their award winning website RetireEarlyLifestyle.com, they have been helping people achieve their own retirement dreams since 1991. They wrote the popular books, The Adventurer’s Guide to Early Retirement and Your Retirement Dream IS Possible available on their website bookstore or on Amazon.com.

 

 

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