Fighting Forclosure: One Woman’s Goal to Avoid Forclosure

December 11, 2008 · Filed Under Do-It-Yourself, FuelClinic, Fuelishness!

I use Google Alerts to help monitor the web to find new websites and blog postings for the search term “FuelClinic” in an effort to understand how marketing and other promotional efforts are going. It’s a useful tool that will email you once or twice a day if Google spots any new pages matching your search term. (It’s a good way to keep an eye on the competition also!)

Usually the Alerts tell me something I already knew – like this new blog post will probably show up later today or tomorrow as an Alert in my email. It’s nice to know that Google notices my hard work.

But my favorite Alerts are those that are not expected, like this one from earlier this week from “Fighting Forclosure” – a blog by Dawn who journals her monthly fight to save (or as she says “find”) an extra $900 each month in order to cover her mortgage payment after a recent divorce left her with the house.

Google Alerts found Dawn’s recent post when she wrote about using FuelClinic for the past six months, and says it’s helped her understand her fuel usage better. This makes me very happy to hear, and helps inspire me to continue to struggle to build the rest of FuelClinic so that it may be even more useful to her and others.

At a time where many people are in a similar struggle with their mortgage, Dawn’s honesty, ingenuity, and advice is very inspiring. If you are in a similar situation, I recommend you read her blog. While you are there, you can click on an advertisement or two as well.