22nd Carnival of Making REAL Money – August 18th 2008

This is the 22nd edition of the Carnival of Making Money Online. I’m proud to offer this limited list of top quality articles that are vetted from the original list of submissions. It’s always a pleasure to read through these submissions.

Recommended Reading

• Erica Douglass presents Entrepreneurs: Is Extreme Frugality A Waste of Time?, saying, “Are frugal activities like making your own laundry detergent worth it for entrepreneurs? Includes a formula to help you figure out which frugal activities make the most sense!”
• See also KCLau presents Frugal living doesn’t mean cheap posted at KCLau’s Money Tips, saying, “List of benefits of being frugal and what frugality is about”

Other Reading

• Decision Care presents 5 Essential Habits to Avoid Financial Disasters posted at DecisionCare, saying, “An important article about using simple tips to prepare for financial crises. Thanks for reading!”
• Jon Beebe presents The Secret To Successful Blogging and How To Apply It, saying, “An article that details the biggest pitfalls of bloggers and online entrepreneurs, and how to avoid them. Advice that nobody aiming to make real money online should avoid.”
• Liz presents 7 Reasons Your Online Business Will Fail posted at Nitro Marketing Blog, saying, “Are you making these 7 common mistakes with your internet business?”
• MoneyNing presents Blog Income – July 2008, saying, “Hope to provide inspiration to all!” And it surely does! Thanks, MoneyNing!
• hank presents Net Worth Update July 16, 2008 [$102,416.87(-9.57%) posted at My Investing Blog. This is a relatively new blog on the block, but the writer is highly motivated. Read his personal story.
• Michael miles presents The idiots guide to saving posted at Effortless Wealth and Abundance.

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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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 don’t bother to follow the policy. Well, that’s a pity because I left out some great articles this time around! 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, ideally 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