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Welcome to the February 15, 2008 edition of carnival of making real money. This edition has more articles than previous issues, there are some interesting posts!

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And a new blog of the Week on Investing in Real Estate. Enjoy! And keep warm on a cold Sunday! Hope it’s sunny where you are. And do leave comments on these articles, they’re all open for comments!

blog of the Week

• Edith presents How to Get Started Investing in Real Estate posted at Stewart Hsu. Seems like the makings of a good blog there on real estate. He doesn’t post very often, but the blog is interesting.

Business Steals and Deals

• Successful Footsteps presents Do You Need a New Idea to be Successful? posted at Become Successful. Many new business or wanna-be business types stress out over the definition of ‘new’ forgetting that business creation is 99% evolution, 1% new.
• Hill Robertson presents Reasons to Build a Customer List posted at Hill Robertson, saying, “One of the most important things to be successful in any business is to have a customer list.”
• Woody Maxim presents Lessons Revealed from Day 1 posted at Woody Maxim. He provides three good points on maximizing your effectiveness in business.
• Jose DeJesus MD presents Checklists Can Improve Clinical and Business Processes posted at Physician Entrepreneur.
• James D. Brausch presents One Minute Marketing Research posted at Internet Business Blog. Good practical advice for the small entrepreneur or someone looking for a practical way to get started.
• Ryan Healy presents A Tale of One Client, Three Copywriters, and a Space Ad posted at Ryan M. Healy, saying, “How do you grow your business through advertising? Simple. Create a powerful ad and run it in the right publication. Unfortunately, this client hired three copywriters to write one ad… and then made a critical mistake.”
• American Entrepreneur presents Q & A: How to Keep Up With Small Business Growing Pains posted at American Small Business News. I don’t quite agree with some of the ideas, but it’s still worth reading.
• Joshua C. Karlin presents Powerful Yet Reasonable Goals posted at Marketing & Fundraising Ideas, and yet the example he provides in the essay suggests a different goal.
• Terry Dean presents How to Write a JV Email posted at Integrity Business Blog by Terry Dean.
• Warren Wong presents Why You Should Be Careful When Your Business Is Going Well posted at Personal Development for INTJs, saying, “Some reasons to be cautious when your business has been doing really well.” Some good advice especially about buying businesses!
• Derrick Markotter presents Long term vs short term goals posted at Online Business Blog. Derrick advises that business, especially online ones, don’t rely on just one primary source of income.

Investing

• Investing Angel presents How To Avoid A Stock Scam posted at Stock Tips, saying, “There are a lot of pundits out there that offer investing tips for a fee. While some of these investing services may be well worth the money, others are scams are certainly close to a scam.”
• FIRE Getters presents Investing – The Mistake Of Timing The Market posted at FIRE Finance, saying, “Have you ever wondered about the fact that even after a decade long relationship, sometimes it seems that we hardly know the other person! Sounds familiar isn’t it? If the behavior of a single human being can be so unpredictable then what is our take about the cumulative behavior of millions of investors all over the world? Our observation is that such behavior is utterly unpredictable and apparently irrational!”
• Jesse presents For the love of God, do not invest in forever stamps (top 5 reasons why not) posted at The Penny Saved, saying, “Advising against the investment in forever stamps”
• Babak presents Intermarket Analysis: Bonds Expensive, Stocks Cheap posted at Trader’s Narrative, saying, “Right now, the annual rate of change for 10 year bonds is very close to reaching the historic level that has marked a top for bonds (and a bottom for yields). Interestingly enough, each of those times was also a good time to not only sell (or sell short bonds) but also to be long stocks.”
• Ryan Healy presents Three Rules for Option Trading posted at A.J. Brown’s Options Trading Blog, saying, “There are very few “hard and fast” rules for trading options because the markets are so dynamic. But there are three rules that A.J. Brown follows religiously, and he shares them here.”
• Kenton Newby presents Focusing on Leverage posted at KentonNewby.com. He says that “…whole trading time for money thing is a bit ridiculous.”

Online Success

• Cocoy S. Rambuyon presents Non-Fiction Information Products Are Hot & Becoming Popular Choices Online posted at COCOY S. RAMBUYON. He’s a big booster of making information products.
• Ed Rivis presents Write Press Releases that Sizzle. posted at Ed Rivis. He suggests that using a press release for your business can successfully draw new visitors and customers.
• Frederic Patenaude presents How to Write eBooks in Your Spare Time posted at Frederic Patenaude Talks, saying, “If you have ever wanted to write your own ebook I suggest checking out this article that also has a free special report with it.”
• Kasumi Kitone presents How I Started To Make Money Online – Part 1 posted at Best Ways To Make Money Online, saying, “This is the story of my early online money making endeavors. Hopefully others can learn from my mistakes – or at least have a good laugh…”
• Praveen presents Minimalist Marketing posted at My Simple Trading System. Simply obvious: that’s all.
• Carol Bentley presents How appealing are you posted at Carol Bentley. Carol talks about ways to help your customer get what she wants.
• Mark Riffey presents Why, even now, your business should have a toll-free number posted at Business is Personal. It might be a good idea for your online business to invest in an 0800 number. Of course, that means you have to answer the phone, too.
• Jimmy Sansi presents Grow Your List Of Publishers posted at The Kaizen Business. Jimmy advises you to find as many publishers of quality as possible.

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Kenneth
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