14th Carnival of Making REAL Money: February 24th, 2008

Welcome to the February 24, 2008 edition of carnival of making real money. Well, this is the 14th carnival and I’ve presented the most interesting and most challenging of the entries this time: stuff to make you think. I’ve pared the original 62 articles to just 15 articles as I’ve removed duplicate submissions, resubmissions, blogs that don’t permit comments, republished articles, and junk to leave you with what I feel are the gems of the week. Remember: this carnival focuses on the knowledge, experience and skills to make REAL money; but we also apply our own critical values to examine what we read, and some of the articles are in that vein.

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Blog of the Week

• Pat B. Doyle presents How To Make Money with Affiliate Programs posted at Pat B. Doyle. Pat has some interesting takes on common ‘wisdom’, it’s worth checking out her blog. Seriously. The article is well-written and there’s more good stuff with interesting references, too.

Inspirational Stuff

• Hill Robertson presents Work Smart So You Can Smell the Roses posted at Hill Robertson, saying, “It can be easy to get so caught up with being busy that we overlook the important things that are often right in front of our nose.”

Hitting you in the wallet!

• KCLau presents How Recession Happens? 8 Tips to Prepare for it! posted at KCLau’s Money Tips, saying, “Article discussing how one can salvage himself during times of a recession.”
• Graham Bradlington presents Why You Shouldn’t Fall For The Freebies While Remortgaging posted at Quickly Finance News. Graham advises sensibly: “exercise a bit more self control and concentrate on finding the truth about the offered freebie deals”
• Shamelle presents Thinking About Money The Rich Dad, Poor Dad Way posted at Enhance Life. This is a usable summary of the main ideas, and will help you decide whether to buy the book or not.
• Mark Riffey presents Marketing opportunities: As perishable as lettuce. posted at Business is Personal. He examines how you can find opportunity when it seems there is none.

Investing

• LIVING OFF DIVIDENDS presents 10 Reasons Why Gold Should Break $1000 This Year posted at LIVING OFF DIVIDENDS, saying, “10 Reasons Why Gold Should Break $1000 This Year”
• The Investor presents How to buy and own pure gold with Bullion Vault posted at Monevator.com, saying, “Plenty of people are making money (or protecting their existing assets) by buying gold right now, but there’s a lot of choice in how to do it. This article makes a case for directly buying and owning small portions of allocated gold, rather than using ETFs.”
• Bobby Handzhiev presents The Basics of Domain Investing posted at The Shark Investor, saying, “General how-to make money with domains”

Online Success

• Rebecca Suzanne Dean presents Remember Your Emotions for Increased Sales Letter Pull posted at Rebecca Dean. She offers some advice on which emotions you need to include in your sales letters.
• Carol Bentley presents Yesterday?s blog-post was completely off-track posted at Carol Bentley in which she encourages us to “Getting the Right Appeal”.
• Robert Phillips presents Are You Walking Over the Dollars to Get to the Dimes? posted at CYBERCA$HOLOGY. Robert presents a very interesting insight into AdSense, and a whole lot more.
• American Entrepreneur presents Managing Time to Build a Successful Home Based Business posted at American Entrepreneurship. The writer comments “…by putting the same effort into working a business as they spend searching for an opportunity to get rich without having to work, these individuals would likely become very successful.”
• Brian Terry presents 17 essential big selling website strategies posted at Big Selling Website Design. He offers some great tips on strategies, DESPITE a very annoying Pop-Up, I’m still adding this.

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of carnival of making real money using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

Update: In an effort to create something more useful, I’m reducing the number of articles in each issue by providing as much variety of content. With so many articles on “making money online blogs”, sales and letter writing, I’m now reducing the number presented to balance the other content. So make sure your writing is sharp and to the point if you want to submit!

Additional Notes on Submitting Articles

It seems that a number of people just don’t bother to read the policy. Well, it doesn’t matter. The policy is still enforced. If you have any questions, just see the most recent Carnival for what’s accepted. So hurry… get your submissions in! Check the Carnival of Making Real Money for current and complete guidelines.

• Your article must be original and previously unpublished in this carnival. One article per person/blog only. I like to maintain a variety of sources and topics. Additional articles may be resubmitted in the next edition. Multiple submissions to the same blog will be deleted, possibly including the first instance. So submit ONE article from one blog once only.
• No spam or articles that are pitching something for sale. This is not an advertising carnival.
• Please make sure that you aren’t posting irrelevant articles! Or if you think it’s relevant, or off-beat, highlight its relevance to this carnival.
• I’m definitely looking for articles that are readable, inspiring, and well-written for readers who may or may not have much investing or financial knowledge.
• Comments MUST be enabled on any post submitted to the carnival and registration must NOT be required: I’m hoping that we generate interest in the submissions and that traffic generates comments. Let’s not frustrate our readers.
• Additional reasons for not inclusion: popup windows, URLs that time-out, missing articles or moved pages, articles that make NO sense, any music/tracks/voice-overs that auto-play, etc.
• No particular topic will contain more than two or three entries in any one carnival.
• All editorial decisions are final. I will not answer questions about why a particular article was or was not included. If you didn’t get in, submit again for the next issue.

It would be nice if you acknowledge the blog carnival somewhere on your website… Anywhere, it doesn’t matter: in a post, in the post you submitted, in the blogroll, … etc.. or you can do a separate post when the post is published. This helps to drive traffic to the carnival, where people can find your posts!

Best Wishes
Kenneth from Carnival of Making REAL Money