Welcome to the June 1st issue of the Carnival of Making REAL Money! Sorry for it being late, but we’ve been working on improving our site and the quality of the hosting. You should notice an improvement in the stability of InvestorBlogger Dot Com.

Online Success

• Dorian Wales presents How Much is Your Blog Worth? A Valuation Approach posted at Personal Financier. This is a serious article that teaches you to value your blog, and indeed any business. Worth reading.
• Jack S. Keifer presents Finding The Magic Pill For Unlimited Income Online posted at Jack S. Keifer. Jack encourages us to believe there is no magic pill.
• Mindful One presents How to Start an Internet Business in Five Steps posted at Mindful Entrepreneur.
• Marcus Hochstadt presents I Made $13,692.59 In Profits Last Month, So What? posted at Marcus Hochstadt, saying, “Find out how Marcus Hochstadt makes thousands of dollars online.”
• The Shark Investor presents How To Find Domain Investing Deals posted at The Shark Investor, saying, “here are some tips on how to find promising internet domain names.”

• Barb A. Ryan presents 10 – Independent Investment Counselors and Financial Advisors posted at Pasadena Financial Planner. This is a solid introduction to the pitfalls of ‘tied’ financial advisors who really are just salespeople in disguise.
• Brice Hogan presents The Seventh Wonder of the World: Compounding Interest | Financialzip.com posted at Financialzip.com, saying, “Why compound interest is the engine to making real money in the stock market.”
• Chris presents 9 Surefire Strategies NOT to Retire Early posted at nomad4ever. This is a very interesting discussion that I would draw your attention to.
• Jed Norwood presents Winning Checklist | My Forex Checklist posted at Forex Strategy, in which Jed outlines his winning checklist for making money in the Forex market.
• Ken presents Stock Investment Resource: Stock Market Investing Tips – Growth vs. Value Investing posted at Stock Investing, describing the pros and cons of investing in growth vs value stocks.
• kozen presents Why you should go short in Oil – I do! posted at Market Thoughts for Profitable Investment. Would you? Is it possible to with Oil at $140+ per barrel?
• Sagar presents The Foreclosure Investor’s Cheat Sheet: 100 Useful Web Resources posted at International Listings Blog. With so many properties in default these days, savvy investors should find lots of opportunities for investing in this sector.
• TerryT2 presents Second Real Estate Financial Model – First Development posted at Actual Real Estate Profits, saying, “This post discusses a financial model used to determine whether to continue with a real estate investment or not.”

• Davexplorer presents Lakshmi Mittal posted at Millionaires Ladder. Davexplorer introduces us to different business heroes. Read regularly for maximum benefit!
• Liz presents Growing your business – when is it time to bring someone else onboard? posted at Nitro Marketing Blog, saying, “As a small business owner, how do you know when it’s time to bring in help?”
• Patrick Schwerdtfeger presents Expand the Frame posted at Tactical Execution, saying, “This is a great post to get business owners to think bigger about their businesses and show confidence on their websites.”
• Sarah Paine presents Is Risk Aversion Ruining Your Business? posted at Sarah Paine, saying, “Take a look at how your aversion to risk may ruin your chance of running a successful online business. Discover how to overcome this fear by acknowledging it.”

Personal Finance

• Fitz Villafuerte presents Top 8 Things You Can Sell Your Officemates For Extra Income posted at Ready To Be Rich, saying, “Simple and quick tips on how you can leverage your work and officemates for extra income by selling these very marketable items.”
• KCLau presents Don’t be stupid! Keep paying. posted at KCLau’s Money Tips, saying, “Why u shud pay premium for life insurance policy as long as it is one of the best form of saving you should have.”
• Mag Herrera presents What I like about Credit Cards posted at Life. Money. Development. , saying, “A balanced review of credit cards’ nature and usage.”
• Mike Leonard presents Generate a Second Income? You can’t be serious? posted at Until Debt Do Us Part, saying, “You have a job and you have a lot of debt. There is only so much budgeting and belt tightening that you can do. Your focus has now shifted from reducing outgoings to increasing incomings i.e. you want to generate a second income. You can take all the second income and ring fence it so that it goes directly against your debts. You will have your debt problem solved in no time. Unfortunately the reality is a lot different.”
• Tip Diva presents Top Ten Tips – Managing Your Personal Budget posted at Tip Diva, saying, “In uncertain economic times, it’s a smart idea to know where your financial status stands. If you’re looking to start cutting down on expenses, the best way to do so is creating a personal budget.”

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.

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Notes on Submitting Articles

I’m definitely looking for about 20-25 articles in each edition 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. So hurry… get your submissions in!

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. 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 or indeed any carnival.
• In short, submit ONE article from one blog once only.
• Spam: Articles must be unique, ideally hosted on a full-blog (not on a subdomain of blogspot, blogger, or other free blogging hosts, etc.). 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.
• Submissions that lack a comment by the submitter MAY be considered incomplete and rejected.
• Submissions that are made to multiple carnivals WILL be considered spam. This is easy to check.
• 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.

Best Wishes
Kenneth