15th Carnival of Making REAL Money: March 3rd 2008

Welcome to the March 3, 2008 edition of carnival of making real money. This edition of the carnival has some great articles in it as usual. Kudos to those bloggers who wrote them. I was sad to leave out a number of great articles that didn’t correspond with the conditions of this carnival. I do have another carnival with easier TOS, but unfortunately, the first edition got screwed up seriously. However, if you bear with me, I’ll fix that for the 2nd edition of Dot Com Carnival (coming soon!).

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Post of the week

• Hill Robertson presents So Many Choices – Just Pick One posted at Hill Robertson, saying, “The number of ways you can make money online is unlimited. Be sure not to get distracted. Pick one and run with it.”

The Business World

• American Entrepreneur presents Expert Q&A: Expectations for a Small Business Board of Directors posted at American Entrepreneurship.
• Woody Maxim presents The Answer posted at Woody Maxim. For recurring sales, you have to really provide clients with a benefit that is both here’n’now and in the future.
• Ed Rivis presents Planning for Catastrophic Failure. posted at Ed Rivis. Some solid advice, and a warning for all business owners. And not just online, too.
• Martin Russell presents 5 Keys To Word of Mouth Marketing posted at Word of Mouth Marketing. And WOMM is perhaps the reason for the ongoing success of my own business.
• Aaron Brandon presents Product Creation Worry posted at Aaron Brandon. The best way is just to get it done! Then worry later!

Investing

• Aussie Investor presents How To Start Investing In The Stock Market posted at Stock Market Investing For Beginners, saying, “This article is aimed at beginners starting out in stock market investing. It lists some things for would be investors to consider before starting out for the first time.”
• Jose DeJesus MD presents Improve Investment and Financial Results – Simplify and Conquer posted at Physician Entrepreneur. He advises that having too many funds (like stocks) will weaken the performance over time.

Personal Money Matters

• Carol Bentley presents Things do not always go to plan. . . posted at Carol Bentley. So be prepared: have a contingency plan in place.
• KCLau presents Credit Cards: From Foes to Friends posted at KCLau’s Money Tips, saying, “Article discussing what a credit card is all about and how one can avoid credit card debts. It also touches on how one can actually make money from his credit cards.”
• Dorian Wales presents Understanding Important Hidden Psychological Aspects of Rent vs. Buy Comparisons posted at Personal Financier.

Online Action Plans

• Sabrina Jefferson presents Internet Marketing Newbie Action Plan posted at Sabrina Jefferson. Some good commonsense advice from a beginner.
• Rebecca Suzanne Dean presents Stop Thinking. Begin Testing! posted at Rebecca Dean. Of course, you should also test and implement the results, too!
• John Lenaghan presents Affiliate Summit Day 1 – Calacanis Keynote Part 3 (aka Long Term Thinking) posted at Internet Marketing Chaos in which he analyzes the Get Rich Quick Mentality.
• Kevin Fleming presents How to Fully Utilize Your Paypal Merchant Account posted at FOS Commerce Blog. Kevin introduces some features I was not even aware of.
• Jimmy Sansi presents Guaranteed Traffic Today Using These 7 Simple Methods posted at The Kaizen Business. Some really useful tools, here.
• Thomas D. Brownsword presents Current Projects, Part 1 posted at Business Action Steps. Let’s wish him luck on his projects.
• Raymond Le Blanc presents Creating Wealth posted at Cranendonck Coaching.

Words of Inspiration

• Mark Riffey presents If Michael Jordan is ok with failing, isn’t it ok for you? posted at Business is Personal. It’s amazing how many times MJ failed… but look at his success!
• Brian Cosper presents How to Contact Your Cold Market in MLM posted at MLM Wealth and Prosperity.

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