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Welcome to the March 10, 2008 edition of carnival of making real money. Some how out of 66 submissions, I was able to find only 16 that I thought were appropriate for this carnival. So without further ado, I present these in the carnival… Thanks to the writers for the best articles! Well done.

Recommended

• Mark Butler presents What Does a Millionaire Sound Like? posted at The Butler Project, saying, "Millionaires have a lot in common - including their tone of voice."

Inspirational

• Hill Robertson presents Time for Money - Moving in Reverse posted at Hill Robertson, saying, "If you are just trading your time for money, you are going backward financially when you take into account the increases in other expenses. Read further to see what you can do about it."
• Successful Footsteps presents You must be Persistent to be Successful posted at Become Successful. While not failproof, SF encourages us to keep trying! Without persistence, success will not come.
• Robert Phillips presents The Fifth Ingredient posted at CYBERCA$HOLOGY. He notes that passion for excellence is often the missing ingredient in many businesses. Does your business have it?

Online Commerce

• Andrew Erickson presents Email Marketing for Ecommerce - Part I: What Is It? Why Do It? posted at WebSite Werx. Andrew advises us to look at converting our visitors with email marketing.
• Woody Maxim presents The quickest way to more money is through testing posted at Woody Maxim. Woody encourages us to increase our conversion rate.
• Dave presents 200,914 ezine subscribers you can advertise to for free posted at Big Selling Affiliates Blog. Should help all business owners find new customers! I'm planning to add this to my arsenal.

Investing like Croesus

• Oscar DaGrouch presents An argument against reinvesting dividends posted at Make me money. Oscar looks at an alternative to Dripping your way to investing.
• Praveen presents American Century Ultra Fund: The Folly of Not Following Your Trading Plan posted at My Simple Trading System.
• Michael Bass presents The Economics of Gold Investments posted at Debt Prison, saying, "The real question is can a discretionary paper currency managed by Central Bankers perform as well a gold standard?"
• Brent Diggs presents What The Promised Recession Means To You As An American posted at The Ominous Comma, saying, "Urgent Economic Humor, read at once."

Doing the biz

• Stephen Dean presents 3 Quick Ways To Judge Your New Product Idea posted at Stephen Dean's Copywriting And Internet Advertising Blog - Copywriter. I like these rough and ready ways to test new ideas.
• Mark Riffey presents Have you lost a customer today? posted at Business is Personal. He looks at a promotional campaign to retain customers and makes some great suggestions on how to retain older customers.
• John W. Furst presents 10 Reasons Why Your Business Needs To Grow Continuously posted at E-Biz Booster Blog , saying, "You probably have heard it before A business that doesn't grow, dies'.
• LIVING OFF DIVIDENDS presents Monthly Passive Income Crosses $2,000 Mark! posted at LIVING OFF DIVIDENDS, saying, "I finally broke the $2,000/month last month and exceeded it by nearly 20%!".

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! Articles on how to blog, how to sales copy, etc. are best suited for other carnivals.

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!

• 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. Articles will cover making money in the real world, as well as online; being in business; making investments; making money through smart decisions; and aspects of personal finance. It is NOT about dieting, surveys, drugs, selling things, what you ate last night or any of a myriad of irrelevant topics. If you are not sure what is accepted, read the previous carnivals.

As such, ...

• Your article must be original and previously unpublished in this carnival. I like to maintain a variety of sources and topics, I will only accept one article per person per blog. -- If you submit MORE THAN TWO articles to any edition of this carnival, ALL your submissions will be eliminated without hesitation. Repeated multiple submissions to this carnival will mean that your articles and/or your behavior are spam-enough to blacklist your blog from this carnival.
• In short, submit ONE article from one blog once only.
• Spam: Articles must be unique, hosted on a full-blog (not on a subdomain of blogspot, blogger, etc.), and cannot have been published in more than two other carnivals. If you are serious enough about your blog, then find a real blog host on a real domain.
• 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/popover/popunder windows, URLs that time-out, missing articles or moved pages, articles that make NO sense, any music/tracks/voice-overs that auto-play, articles that REQUIRE registration before reading and/or commenting.
• 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. Articles that are rejected twice will be excluded.

In short, I run this blog carnival in my free time, I receive no money for this activity, so I'd appreciate as much consideration as possible. My patience is running a little thin with certain submissions, and if I keep getting these I will publish a blacklist of bloggers who are not permitted to publish here.

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