Food for thought

For two blogs, who focus on helping you find higher interest rates, I’m suggesting you take a look at Mr. Banker who presents High Interest Money Market Accounts (MMA) posted at Best Interest Rate Banks and jim who presents » Top 5 Online Banks: Savings or Checking Accounts on Blueprint for Financial Prosperity posted at Blueprint for Financial Prosperity. It’s tough to find decent rates these days. Perhaps these resources will help.nickel also presents DollarSavingsDirect Review and Account Opening Process posted at fivecentnickel.com, saying, “If you’re making real money, you need a place to stash it! This is a review of one of the best online banking deals currently available.” Do check these resources out… after all every nickel helps.

Economics, Markets and Real Estate Tips

1. Ella Moss presents New Economy, or Buy American, Stupid! Zodiac Times posted at Zodiac Times, saying, “So, the new stimulus package is passed, hopes are up, markets are down, and recession deepens. Everyone is blaming the housing market, unscrupulous bankers and inept previous administration. But very few seem to understand the true roots of our woes, and how deep our economic problems go.”
2. Burak Bilgin presents The Simple Rule of the Economics Game posted at Distiller’s Corner, saying, “How does game theory apply to economics, and how can you can benefit from a simple rule derived from it?”
3. Roshawn Watson presents Is There Any Room For Economic Optimism? posted at Watson Inc, saying, “Fixing our current economic woes is a top priority for many Americans, so the fact that US economic hardships is getting tons of media attention is not wholly unexpected. However, a recent sobering and fear-inducing article by Forbes columnist Tom Riper might have pushed the limits with respect to responsible reporting.”
4. Adam presents Swing Trading Strategy: Touch and Go! posted at Pimp My Trade, saying, “This article outlines a winning swing trading strategy that I use over and over again to pull in money from the stock market.”
5. Heather presents Commodity ETFs: When Will the Trend Come Back? | ETF Trends posted at ETF Trends, saying, “In May 2008, commodities and their related exchange traded funds (ETFs) were booming. Oil and gold seemed unstoppable; food prices were causing people to hoard rice and it wasn’t unusual to see someone softly crying while they filled up their gas tank.”
6. NetBiz presents Understanding The Stock Market: How To Make Money Even In A Bear Market posted at Money Galaxy – Make Money | Save Money | Invest Money.
7. George L Smyth presents One Minute How-To – How To Invest In Real Estate While Having A Full Time Job posted at George L Smyth, saying, “Paul Hochanadel explains the basics of his successful method of purchasing real estate while maintaining the security of a full time job.”

Budgeting, Bartering, and Base Rates

• Relax presents The happy way to spend money posted at The Wise Curve, saying, “we are happier when we spend money to gain experience than buying material goods”
• Leaving The Folks presents Basics of car buying posted at Real World Advice, saying, “Going to take advantage of low interest rates and good deals to buy a car? Here are some tips.”
• MoneyNing presents Counter Intuitive Way of Lowering Your Spending posted at Money Ning, saying, “It might not make sense at first but it absolutely works! Curb your spending today.”
• KCLau presents How to Refinance your Home Loans Smartly posted at KCLau’s Money Tips, saying, “Lists several reasons why home owners would benefit from switching their loans to a new loan with lower interest rates”
• Buck Weber presents Offer Your Services for Barter or Cash posted at THE BUCK LIST, saying, “Offering basic services to neighbors, friends and family is a time honored form of making some side cash, bartering for something you might need or trading a skill for a skill.”
• Lauren Rose presents Never Use Copy Paste for Your Credit Card Number and Internet Explorer | No Debt Anymore .org posted at No Debt Anymore .org, saying, “Under certain circumstances, your clipboard contents from a copy and paste command can be stolen from the Internet. And that includes your credit card number!”
• PFCreditCards presents 8 Reasons Why You Hate Credit Cards posted at PF Credit Cards, saying, “Do you hate credit cards? Maybe this is why!”
• The Dough Roller presents The Balance Transfer Index™ | How Does Your Card Rank? posted at The Dough Roller, saying, “The balance transfer index shows the total cost of 0 APR credit card balance transfers.”

Online Riches

• Robert Hazlewood presents How To Get Started Finding Legit Survey For Money Websites posted at Ways to Survive Life, saying, “Article on getting started with making money online aking surveys”
• Greg Nemer presents How to Install and Design a Website in 5 Easy Steps posted at INTERNET MARKETING WITH PURPOSE, saying, “Here’s how to install your very own website, complete with web design and customization in 5 easy steps.”
• ListBuilderLee presents List Building – 3 Breakthrough Steps To A Responsive Subscriber List posted at Build Your List For Free!, saying, “List Building – 3 Breakthrough Steps To A Responsive Subscriber List I’ve always been impressed with those people who could build a list of 5,000 subscribers then give up their day job. All because their list was so responsive to any offer they made them. Then I figured out their secret and boiled it down into 3 easy to follow breakthrough steps.”
• Locke Dauch presents Ways to Make Money Online posted at Your Blog Is Money, saying, “This is an article about making real money.. It is advised that you turn away now if you’re not interested in making money…”
• Joshua Lee presents Make Money Online With HubPages: A Detailed Step-By-Step Guide posted at The Brainy Money Blog, saying, “What I hated most about trying to make money online was the number of people who tried to scam me constantly. I made this website to show people that there are truly legitimate methods to make money online. I want nothing from you and it won’t cost a penny, so give my blog a try.”
• Tiffany Colter presents Making money when the magazines aren’t buying posted at Writing Career Coach , saying, “How do you make money writing when magazines aren’t buying? This blog will tell you how.”

Last Thoughts for March

• MyMaria presents Taking a Day Off: Passive Income Proof posted at Residual Income Web, saying, “How about making REAL MONEY when you’re not even working? Read about how I earned $171 in residual income on a day I didn’t even turn on the computer.”

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.

Technorati tags: carnival of making real money, blog carnival.

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. Oh, 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. 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!

Stay healthy, stay wealthy

Kenneth from Carnival of Making REAL Money

There are articles by four great bloggers in the carnival.

• Jim from Blueprint for Financial Prosperity.
• KCLau from KCLau’s Money Tips
• MoneyNing from Money Ning
• nickel from fivecentnickel.com

These four bloggers have all had articles in previous editions of the Carnival and maintain excellent blogs. Do check out the blogs and don’t forget to subscribe to their feeds. There are also lots of extra articles in the “In The Biz”, “On The Web”, and “In The Market” sections of the carnival.

Check out the Carnival today

Best Wishes

Kenneth from Carnival of Making REAL Money

Just wanted to let you know that we’ve chosen carnival of making real money to be our featured carnival on Sunday, January 18th. You’ll see it splashed on our homepage all day.

We recently added featured carnivals to highlight and acknowledge carnivals we really like. Congratulations!

Regards,
Denise
blog Carnival

I’m now working on separating several sub-blogs on this blog to separate blogs in the near future. To that end, and to prevent further incessant spamming on this blog, all commenting has been turned off. The spamming of this blog is getting ridiculous. I don’t have adequate anti-spam tools in place at the moment, so it’s easier not to deal with the problem.

• blogging Travails has moved to its own blog @ eeeblogger.com.
• PF has moved to dollartraveler.com
• Carnivals and Top-20 has moved to makingrealmoneyblog.com (which is already PR1).
• Sticky Rice has been discontinued for the time being and merged with Obblogatory.com

InvestorBlogger Dot Com will remerge the existing posts from the sub-blogs into its primary thread. Then posting will continue as before. There is much to discuss and much to discover. Additionally, the ‘new’ blog will be converted to WordPress 2.7 and will be much easier to maintain as a result. WordPress MU was an interesting experiment, but not really worth the hassle and the limitations. WordPress original now makes file and plugin much easier than ever obviating the need for WordPress MU for those of us who maintain several or more blogs.

So, that’s it until 2009. Best Wishes, Keep Warm and have a happy holiday. Apologies for the break in posts in the meantime. But I hope it will be worth it.

So I decided to move them to their own domain.

You can now find both Top 20 Money Making Feeds and Blog Carnivals (Both DotCom and Making REAL Money) on their new (and permanent) home.

So visit them now. They’re pretty good. I’ll be moving several of my other blogs in a similar fashion over the next few weeks.

Recommended Reading

TheMoneyHawk presents Reality Check: The President Can’t Save Us, Nor Should He posted at The Money Hawk, saying, “Everyone in the country needs to read this article, period.”

Other Reading

1. Alex_Sysoef presents Allow Google Tell You What Search Results To Dominate posted at WordPress Web 2.0 How-To Spot-er, saying, “In this post I want to share a very simple tip that will help you not only determine what to write about but also show you how to allow Google to tell you what search result pages they WANT YOU to dominate! It is not a lesson in SEO, although it partially covers the point, but a strategy to help you get more targeted traffic to your blog. And if you are like me – you wouldn’t mind to get a few more visitors to your blog, would you?”
2. Carlos Sera presents A Positive Tale; Financial Tales posted at Financial Tales, saying, “This is a fun tale; it might be better suited for “In the Money,” – feel free to change categories if you believe it to be a better fit. Enjoy.”
3. ChristianPF presents How NOT to become rich posted at Money in the Bible | Christian Personal Finance blog, saying, “These are 10 things NOT to do if you want wealth”
4. Denis Dobrochasov presents Taken for a Ride posted at Chasov blog – Your World Insight, saying, “Chasov blog publishes professional and quality content discussing a wide variety of subjects and providing contrasting points of view on different subject matters. Some topics of interest include business creation, network marketing, life events, relationships, money, banking, news, television, movies, travel, education, biking, gardening, fitness and a variety of others.”
5. FMF presents Why I Sold My Mutual Funds posted at Free Money Finance, saying, “A benefit of the market downturn.”
6. Greg Nemer presents Having Purpose in Business will Change Your Lifestyle posted at INTERNET MARKETING WITH PURPOSE, saying, “Having purpose will determine your success in all areas of your life. Purpose in business will have it’s best foundation if you practice it in every area of your personal life.”
7. Jim presents Dave Ramsey Is Brilliant posted at Blueprint for Financial Prosperity as he examines the debt snowball idea presented by Ramsey.
8. Joe Manausa presents Dave McCormick On Restoring Global Stability posted at Tallahassee Real Estate blog, saying, “Under Secretary David H. McCormick made the following remarks about the current economic turmoil while speaking at Wharton’s Eleventh Annual Investment Management Conference. He identified how the chaos basically got started and acknowledged that we are now paying the price.”
9. Kevin Dawson presents The 10 Commandments of Direct Marketing #2 – Your USP posted at Kevin Dawson’s Copywriting & Traffic, saying, “Value of a USP”
10. One Family presents Frugal Living – Skiing Story posted at One Family’s blog, saying, “The post looks at how average American families can ski on a budget using frugal strategies.”
11. Ripe Trade presents 401k strategy Best seasonal period posted at Ripe Trade, saying, “I have noticed a couple of longer term signals that I believe are indicative of an important longer term buy signal. The 1st is the bullish seasonal I will describe here. And 2nd Is identifying bear market bottoms explained in the post below.”
12. sherin presents Economic Recession and Preparing for a Recession posted at Investment Internals, saying, “A study on the preparation for recession time. Focused on Savings, Portfolio and Job security. An educational article for ordinary person to help self to build a self defense against problems from economic slowdown i.e. recession”
13. The Shark Investor presents Alternative Income: Writing posted at The Shark Investor, saying, “Can you earn by writing? Sure, you can”
14. Zach Scheidt presents FCStone Group, Inc. (FCSX) – Risk Management?? posted at ZachStocks, saying, “FCStone Group, Inc. (FCSX) has some serious risk management issues despite the fact that the company specializes in helping clients manage their own risk. However, the stock is less than a quarter of its IPO price from last year and should rebound.”

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.

Technorati tags: carnival of making real money, blog carnival.

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. Oh, 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. 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

1. Aussie Investor presents Stock Market Education For Beginners – Learning From Your Mistakes posted at Stock Market Investing For Beginners, saying, “We all make mistakes with our investments. This article describes how you can learn valuable lessons about investing by going back and analyzing your stock market losses.”
2. Contrarian Profits presents 4 Ways to Play the Coming Stock Market Rally posted at Contrarian Profits, saying, ““When chaos rules, invest in chaos” says The Sovereign Society’s investment director Eric Roseman. Eric’s chaos portfolio is thriving in the current market volatility. And he says anyone can make huge gains in the coming stock-market rally by applying a simple-to-follow strategy. Eric’s strategy is four-fold: 1) Hold plenty of cash in FDIC-guaranteed accounts; 2) Use it to buy up distressed assets at multi-year lows; 3) Sell into strength; 4) Invest at least 10% of your portfolio in gold.”
3. Investing Angel presents Is Trading For You? » Free Stock Market Investing Tips posted at Stock Tips, saying, “Find out if the life of a stock trader is for you.”
4. Joe Manausa presents Bailing Out The Banks? Actually Bailing Out America! posted at Tallahassee Real Estate Blog, saying, “While mainstream media refers to this as the “fat cat” bailout for Wall Street, you might be surprised who really needs this bailout to occur. What would happen to your job if the credit market stopped for even 1 week?”
5. KCLau presents The Malaysian Insurance Planning Guide by Meshio.com [REVIEW] posted at KCLau’s Money Tips, saying, “A review about an ebook on insurance planning. The book is specially written to guide Malaysians on their next insurance purchase.”
6. sherin presents How do you prepare for losing your job posted at Investment Internals, saying, “A strategy to build a financial shield to overcome all the financial problems that can affect your smooth life. It is a must article for those who fear about losing of job”
7. Silicon Valley blogger presents Make Money Blogging: Top Bloggers And How Much They Earn posted at The Digerati Life, saying, “I’m a problogger, and I make money blogging. Here’s an article I wrote about it too!”
8. Terence Gillespie presents How To Sell Your House Without Using A Realtor posted at Your Optimal Blog, saying, “This is the story of what I did to sell my own house; how it happened, what worked, and what didn’t. I’ll tell you what I would do differently the next time, problems that had to be solved and tips I would offer other sellers who want to sell their house without using a realtor.”
9. Wilfrid presents Making Money Online, Ten Things I Wish I Knew As A Beginner | Your Finish Rich Plan – A Personal Finance Blog posted at Your Finish Rich Plan, saying, “Had I had this information when I was starting out, it would have saved me a lot of time (and money)”

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.

Technorati tags: carnival of making real money, blog carnival.

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. 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

1. Jack S. Keifer presents Tweaking Your Inner Game for Internet Business posted at Jack S. Keifer.
2. Leorita Seneres-Velasquez presents Money-making Methods for Blogs (or Websites) posted at Money Matters.
3. Investing Angel presents Is Trading For You? » Free Stock Market Investing Tips posted at Stock Tips, saying, “Find out if the life of a stock trader is for you.”
4. KCLau presents How Fundsupermart will Revolutionize the Unit Trust Industry in Malaysia posted at KCLau’s Money Tips, saying, “About iFast Capital, the future of unit trust investing in Malaysia. As well as how the company would revolutionize the unit trust industry.”
5. Big Cajun Man presents Post Number 1000 posted at Canadian Personal Finance Blog, saying, “You need to make sure your posts are in front of readers so they can enjoy them, and with that in mind my 1000th post is effectively a list of my “pillar” posts on my web site.”
6. Card blogger presents The Best Chase Credit Card Offers posted at Credit Card Blog.
7. Alvaro Fernandez presents The Brain Fitness/ Training Market: An Executive Summary posted at SharpBrains: Your Window into the Brain Fitness Revolution, saying, “An overview of the growing brain training market.”
8. Cade Krueger presents Getting Started On eBay For Internet Home Business Opportunities posted at Write To Right.

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of dotcom carnival using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page. Do check out our submission requirements, before you submit!

• Ace Elliott presents Avoiding Mortgage Foreclosure posted at Care on Credit, saying, “As the home mortgage market sways find out what you can do to anchor yourself and weather the foreclosure storm.”
• drew presents How Does Your Blog’s Template Design Affect Your Blog’s Traffic and Appeal? posted at Templatize, saying, “We all know that a blog’s content is important in generating traffic to the blog, but what about its template design? How can it make or break the blog’s readership?”
• Jack S. Keifer presents Top 10 Internet Marketing Web Design Mistakes posted at Jack S. Keifer.
• 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”.
• Leorita Seneres-Velasquez presents Money-making Methods for Blogs (or Websites) posted at Money Matters.
• Online Dividends presents Passive Income as of 07/31/2008 posted at Track Monthly Passive Income, saying, “Here’s my monthly alternative income for July 2008 broken down by source.”
• Richard Adams presents How To Select The Best Freelancer On Elance posted at No More Compromise.
• Robert Phillips presents How to Fix Boring Copy posted at CYBERCA$HOLOGY.
• Samir Bharadwaj presents Blog Ads by PerfomancingAds posted at SamirBharadwaj.com, saying, “blog ads are the most lucrative way to monetise your blog. The new PerfomancingAds takes the effort out of selling advertising and managing inventory, so here’s a detailed guide to the whys, hows, pros, and cons of the service.”
• texasdave presents 5 Ways To Improve Your Adsense Earnings posted at Make Cash Online.
• The Shark Investor presents Alternative Income: Selling Illustrations, Photos or Videos posted at The Shark Investor.

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of dotcom carnival using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page. Do check out our submission requirements, before you submit!

Personal Finance

• KCLau presents How not to Spend that Money? posted at KCLau’s Money Tips, saying, “This article examines how to prevent spending unnecessary money and provides 3 methods on how to do so.” *Recommended Reading*.
• Ralph Jean-Paul presents 15 ways to save money during a recession posted at Bugs Munny, saying, “Investing money wisely should be a practice that you are taking part in whether the economy is good or slow. Here are some ways you can save some extra bucks so that you still have the opportunity to use your money to grow your wealth.”
• Nicholas Powiull presents How to Attract Money into Your Life & Get into the Mind-Set of Abundance (My Personal Experience): by Nicholas Powiull posted at Conscious Flex, saying, “This is the ultimate Millionaire Mind-Set to Abundance! A MUST READ!”

Stock, Property and Finance

1. The Stock Teacher presents Short Squeeze On The Horizon For Luby?s (LUB)? posted at Stock Investment, saying, “Could good quarterly earnings spark a short squeeze among Luby’s shares?” *Recommended Reading*.
2. MoneyNing presents Buy an Investment Property or Dividend Yielding Stocks posted at Money Ning, saying, “Should I buy an investment property or just own stocks?”
3. Greg Swann presents Introduction to “A consumer’s guide to the divorced real estate commission” – the eBook posted at BloodhoundBlog, saying, “By far the most significant “secret” issue in residential real estate is the way that buyer’s agent’s are compensated. The current system virtually assures the betrayal of both the buyer’s and the seller’s interests, with this fate being avoided only by accident.”

Online Revenue, Products and More

1. Brice Hogan presents Independent Profit Center The Review posted at My World | Independent Profit Center, saying, “This is a review of a great online business that was started by Dan Miller in which many people have been successful. Enjoy”
2. Serge presents Comparing 10 most essential microstocks posted at turcanu.net, saying, “Making money by selling photographs to microstock agencies. Top 10 most essential microstocks reviewed.” *Recommended Reading*.
3. Jimmy Adames presents Article Marketing Strategies – 4 Practical Steps To Success posted at Internet Business Building, saying, “Promoting your business on the Internet can be financially costly if you use paid advertising, but there is a great way to increase traffic to your website without the high costs by using article marketing strategies that work.”
4. Allison Nazarian presents Vermont Offers VAs Virtual Business Benefits posted at CopywritingForVAs, saying, “There’s news coming out of Vermont that suggests more opportunities for virtual entrepreneurs are on the horizon.”
5. Alex_Sysoef presents Extending Blog Into Info Product posted at WordPress Web 2.0 How-To Spot-er, saying, “As a blogger writing in a specific niche you might already have nearly everything you need to create your very own first product… an eBook, report or a guide in any other format. Successful info product does one of the two things (well, perhaps more but we concentrate on the 2): * Addresses a burning need by providing solution * Saves time”

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.

Technorati tags: carnival of making real money, blog carnival.

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

Welcome to the September 16, 2008 edition of carnival of making real money.We’ve presented ten interesting articles on money, making money and money management.

1. KCLau presents How not to Spend that Money? posted at KCLau’s Money Tips, saying, “Article on how to prevent spending unnecessary money. Also 3 methods on how to do so.”
2. Ralph Jean-Paul presents 15 ways to save money during a recession posted at Bugs Munny, saying, “Investing money wisely should be a practice that you are taking part in whether the economy is good or slow. Here are some ways you can save some extra bucks so that you still have the opportunity to use your money to grow your wealth.”
3. Serge presents Comparing 10 most essential microstocks posted at turcanu.net, saying, “Refers to making money by selling photographs to microstock agencies. Top 10 most essential microstocks reviewed.”
4. The Stock Teacher presents Short Squeeze On The Horizon For Luby?s (LUB)? posted at Stock Investment, saying, “Could good quarterly earnings spark a short squeeze among Luby’s shares?”
5. MoneyNing presents Buy an Investment Property or Dividend Yielding Stocks posted at Money Ning, saying, “Should I buy an investment property or just own stocks?”
6. Greg Swann presents Introduction to “A consumer’s guide to the divorced real estate commission” – the eBook posted at BloodhoundBlog, saying, “By far the most significant “secret” issue in residential real estate is the way that buyer’s agent’s are compensated. The current system virtually assures the betrayal of both the buyer’s and the seller’s interests, with this fate being avoided only by accident.”
7. The Shark Investor presents Investing In Yourself posted at The Shark Investor in which he advises that we all look for ways to invest in ourselves.
8. Allison Nazarian presents Vermont Offers VAs Virtual Business Benefits posted at CopywritingForVAs, saying, “There’s news coming out of Vermont that suggests more opportunities for virtual entrepreneurs are on the horizon.”
9. Nicholas Powiull presents How to Attract Money into Your Life & Get into the Mind-Set of Abundance (My Personal Experience): by Nicholas Powiull posted at Conscious Flex, saying, “This is the ultimate Millionaire Mind-Set to Abundance! A MUST READ!”

10. Sandy Naidu presents Top 5 Dirty Little Credit Card Tricks posted at Future Nest Egg saying “You should beware of the games credit card companies play on customers!”

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.

Technorati tags: carnival of making real money, blog carnival.

In blogging, the big news was the launch of Chrome from Google as a fairly polished and minimalist browser set to challenge both FF and IE.

In finance, we are pondering the next president’s economic policies and inviting debate on who will be better for the US and world economy. InvestorBlogger also reached its second birthday and we celebrated ‘a little’. Of course, with us nearly reaching a milestone in several ways, we posted the next story on the Dow Jones Series: Johnson and Johnson. The Dow has been on a wild ride this week: who knows how it will finish the week! We also looked at a simple tool for converting currencies.

InvestorBlogger finally created a static  home page for the main blog, linking to the feature articles. I’ve sitll go to work on the actual pages at the footer, but the new site is finally becoming a coherent whole with identifiable streams of content. It’s quite exciting!

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Enjoy your weekend.

Recommended Reading

• GrrlScientist presents High Wire: The Precarious Financial Lives of American Families posted at Living the Scientific Life, saying, “This is a book review of a nonfiction masterpiece that will keep you awake at night, planning how to safeguard your economic future — all on your own! It talks about the most important and long-term relationship in your life: your relationship with your work, and how that has changed substantially since the 1970s. It also discusses the myth that the average American can become a wise enough financial planner and investor to “beat the odds” and become at least more financially comfortable.”

Other Reading

1. KCLau presents What Do You Know About Bankruptcy? posted at KCLau’s Money Tips, saying, “Bankcruptcy is a word that immediately brings a negative vision to our minds. It happens everywhere in the world and is not partial to a certain country, race or nationality. An article on how bankruptcy happens and how to be discharged from bankruptcy.”
2. MoneyNing presents Stop Worrying About Your Finances posted at Money Ning, saying, “Stop worrying about your finance and just go do it already!”
3. Dorian Wales presents The Guardian: “Toxic Debt Can Damage Your Wealth” posted at The Personal Financier, saying, “The Guardian: “A panel of top Wall Street bankers has recommended cigarette-style health warnings on complex financial instruments and suggests that ill-considered bonus packages may be encouraging financiers to take excessive risks””
4. Dr. Joe Capista presents How a Vision Statement Can Influence Your Business Success posted at The Success Triangle, saying, “Many people tend to negate the value of a vision statement for a business. But a vision statement is important for success of a business as it provides a sense of direction on where you want your business to go. Without a vision, you are like a crewless boat; adrift with no destination in sight. Discover the importance of having a concise vision statement.”
5. Joe Manausa presents How To Dispute Your Property Taxes posted at Tallahassee Real Estate Blog, saying, “As long as the assessed value does not exceed the market value they will raise the assessed value, so it is important to know what your property is worth today!”
6. Kacper Wrzesniewski presents Why did I invest so little? posted at KacperWrzesniewski.com, saying, “It is very common that after successful picking a stock an investor is asking this question. This feeling that you could invest more and now enjoy much bigger earnings appears and it is difficult to free your mind

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.

Technorati tags: carnival of making real money, blog carnival.

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. 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

1. KCLau presents Average Monthly Household Income in 2007: Is it enough? posted at KCLau’s Money Tips, saying, “According to a survey done by the Statistic Department for the Economic Planning Unit, published in Personal Money Magazine June 2008 edition, a typical family in Malaysia earns only RM3686/month. How much this is worth and how much can be spent.”
2. Fred Black presents Why Do Smart People Sometimes Find Success So Difficult? posted at Fred Black: Internet Business Blog..
3. 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?”
4. Alvaro Fernandez presents Mind Games @ Venture Capital Journal posted at SharpBrains: Your Window into the Brain Fitness Revolution, saying, “The August issue of Venture Capital Journal brings a very good piece on the emerging brain fitness software (also called “neurosoftware”) category:”
5. Eric Holmlund presents 18 Ways to Make Money Online posted at Eric’s Tips, saying, “This is part of my lesson series. If you would prefer to link to one of my other lessons instead, that would be fine too.”
   
6. Fiona King presents 100 Free Security Tools That Will Save Your Online Privacy posted at Internet Service Deals.
7. Richard Adams presents 99% Of Success Online Is Selecting The Right Niche posted at No More Compromise.
8. Helen Anderson presents Protect Yourself When Shopping Online posted at Savings Accounts.
9. Raymond presents How To Chase High Interest Rates On Savings Accounts and Manage Them posted at Money Blue Book.
10. Kenton Newby presents Six More Upgrades to Supercharge Your WordPress Blog posted at KentonNewby.com.

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of dotcom carnival using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page. Do check out our submission requirements, before you submit!

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.

Technorati tags: carnival of making real money, blog carnival.

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

Personal Finance

• ChristianPF presents Money & Marriage: 7 lessons I have learned so far posted at Money in the Bible | Christian Personal Finance Blog, saying, “These are the lessons I have learned about money and marriage over the last 3 years”. And good suggestions they are, too!
• Yvette Stokes presents A Savings Account Plan for Anyone, Best Savings Plan Around posted at Yin Yang Data Report, saying, “In four easy steps you can be on your way to the best savings plan ever. This is a guaranteed way of saving money no matter how much you make.”
• Passive Income Investor presents Monthly Online Income Breaks $2,000 Barrier! posted at LIVING OFF DIVIDENDS & PASSIVE INCOME, saying, “I finally made $3K/month from Passive and Alternate Income Sources – yippeee!”

Online Earnings

• WM Media presents A Step-By-Step Approach To eBay Website Sale Business posted at Buy And Sell Websites, saying, “eBay website sale is a very popular method of making money online. Anyone can use this platform to make money.”
• Cindy King presents Where To Fit Your Marketing Pipeline Into Your International Lead Generation Plan posted at Get International Clients, saying, “Let us look at two different aspects of your international sales system. Your lead generation system in order to increase international business. You international marketing pipeline to feed your lead generation system.”
• Christopher Johnson presents 10 Ways To Earn Money In Your Spare Time posted at CoffeeBreakEarnings.com, saying, “10 Ways To Earn Money In Your Spare Time”
• Alex_Sysoef presents Blog Templates For WordPress Review posted at WordPress Web 2.0 How-To Spot-er, saying, “Web design for WordPress always comes down to evaluating which blog Templates (or what is commonly knows WordPress Themes) fit your needs the most! This review of available options for choosing best blog template for your WordPress will concentrate not only on their visual appeal (web design factor) but also functionality!”

Investing

• Value Seeker presents Stock Investment Resource: Stock Market Investing Tips – Don’t Overleverage posted at Stock Investing, saying, “Be careful with margin trading. If you take on too much leverage, you may risk a margin call.”
• KCLau presents How to Calculate Your Investment Portfolio Return? posted at KCLau’s Money Tips, saying, “Article on how to calculate investment returns portfolio”
• Joe Manausa presents Housing Prices Decline Slightly – A Clear Picture Is Forming posted at Tallahassee Real Estate Blog, saying, “While there have been many articles written on the declining real estate market, most are filled with facts and figures that are difficult for the lay-person to follow. This article is filled with easy-to-understand graphs that demonstrate the modest decline in home prices.”

CALL for Submissions

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, etc.. 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. It seems that a number of people don’t bother to follow the policy… 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 (ideally not on a subdomain of blogspot, blogger, etc.). If you are serious 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.
• Please, do include a comment about your article for your readers. Even if it’s just a few words, it will help me to know that your article is not a spam submission!
• 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. If you wish to know why I didn’t accept your original entry, please contact me via the contact form.

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. 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!

In short, thank you for taking the time to consider submitting ana rticle

Best Wishes

Kenneth from Carnival of Making REAL Money

• Alex_Sysoef presents Blog Templates For WordPress Review posted at WordPress Web 2.0 How-To Spot-er, saying, “Web design for WordPress always comes down to evaluating which blog Templates (or what is commonly knows WordPress Themes) fit your needs the most! This review of available options for choosing best blog template for your WordPress will concentrate not only on their visual appeal (web design factor) but also functionality!”
• Bizlike presents China Business Watch:Make Money with China Business Watch: Startups Are Afraid of Other’s Generosity? Maybe posted at China Business Watch:Make Money with China Business Watch. This introduces a controversial topic in the online business world: free vs. paid.
• Cindy King presents Sunday Book Review – Mastering Online Marketing posted at Cindy King, saying, “Mastering Online Marketing starts off with a few of the principles in The E-Myth. There is a Business Mindset Self-Assessment Test and a Marketing Mindset Self-Assessment Test. At the end of each of these chapters a check list helps you to clearly identify your action plan. Your action items are business focused.”
• Hendry Lee presents Building a Long-Term Blogging Business: How to Thrive in the Information Age (Part 1) posted at Blog Building University, saying, “If you think passion has nothing to do with business and making money, think again. This blog post will change your perspective.”
• Marcus Hochstadt presents Freebie Seekers posted at Marcus Hochstadt, saying, “Freebie seekers are everywhere. But did you know that they can literally destroy your Internet business success?”
• Prashant Shukla presents Deposit Articles – Read the the best and latest articles on the web. posted at Sherry Frewerd, saying, “Deposit Articles is a powerful article directory. Specially developed and categorized for the web masters and online community to read latest articles on diversified topics and to provide them all sort of contents for their websites as easy and convenient as possible.”
• R.Pettinger presents Full Time Income from Part Time Blogging? posted at Net Writing, saying, “My own story of making money online”
• Scott Allen presents James D. Brausch, Glyphius and Shilling posted at About.com Entrepreneur’s Guide, saying, “Be careful about the gurus you choose. Some of them engage in “black hat” marketing practices, which may bring short-term results, but eventually backfire.”
• Steve Faber presents The Steps to Starting an Internet Business posted at Home Based Business Success, saying, “The proper steps to take when starting your online business. One key to financial freedom is to have multiple streams of income. You online business is another one of those income streams. Don’t make a misstep when starting it. Here’s what to do.”

Please check the latest carnival submissions if you wish to submit. That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of dotcom carnival using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

Technorati tags: dotcom carnival, blog carnival.

Recommended Reading

• Contrarian Profits presents Why This Bear Market Is Good News for Smart Investors posted at Contrarian Profits, saying, “There’s been a lot of talk lately about US stocks entering a bear market. The Dow had it’s worst June since the Great Depression. Down 20% from last October’s high of 14,165, the index is now officially in bear territory. But is this necessarily bad news for investors? Money Morning’s Investment Director Keith Fitz-Gerald doesn’t think so. In fact, he says bear-market investing “offers a direct pathway to the biggest profit opportunities most investors will ever see.””

Investing News

• Lauren Rose presents Complete Guide to Online Forex Trading Systems – Part 1 posted at Stock Markets Investment, saying, “A Complete 5 part Guide to Online Forex Trading Systems also referred to as the Spot or Cash market.”
• Value Seeker presents TD Ameritrade Review posted at Stock Investing, saying, “A review of one of the most popular brokerages,” and one that I’m quite familiar with.
• Tom Lydon presents An ETF Trend-Following Plan For All Seasons posted at ETF Trends, saying, “Successful and smart investors know that just because one segment of the market is down, it doesn’t mean that everything is. They know how to spot trends and be in the areas that are moving, while staying out of the not-so-hot spots. Learn how to make following trends a part of your strategy!”

Online Money Making

• ChristianPF presents How to sell stuff on ebay posted at Money in the Bible | Christian Personal Finance Blog, saying, “A beginners guide to selling and making money on Ebay.
• Marcus Hochstadt presents Freebie Seekers posted at Marcus Hochstadt, saying, “Freebie seekers are everywhere. But did you know that they can literally destroy your Internet business success?”
• KCLau presents Do you have the assets to pay for your liabilities? posted at KCLau’s Money Tips, saying, “An article that examines whether you have enough assets to pay off liabilities and how to create assets.”

Inspirational Stuff

• Anand presents How to Master Money & Wealth | 25 Ways to Create More Value posted at Anand Dhillon . com, saying, “This article explains 25 different ways to create value for others. That value can then be leveraged to increase your income. Win-win thinking at its best!”
• Kenton Newby presents What Would You Do If You Weren’t Afraid? posted at KentonNewby.com. This is an inspirational article that actually helps you to take that fear-inspiring first step!
• Woman Tribune presents Mind Your Own Business Girls: Business Coaching, Education & Empowerment for Woman Entrepreneurs posted at Woman Tribune, saying, “Earn a six figure income working just a few hours a week. Join Mind Your Own Business Girls for business coaching, education & empowerment for woman entrepreneurs.”

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.

Technorati tags: carnival of making real money, blog carnival.

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

This is the 20th 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

• Contrarian Profits presents Why This Bear Market Is Good News for Smart Investors posted at Contrarian Profits, saying, “There’s been a lot of talk lately about US stocks entering a bear market. The Dow had it’s worst June since the Great Depression. Down 20% from last October’s high of 14,165, the index is now officially in bear territory. But is this necessarily bad news for investors? Money Morning’s Investment Director Keith Fitz-Gerald doesn’t think so. In fact, he says bear-market investing “offers a direct pathway to the biggest profit opportunities most investors will ever see.””

Investing News

• Lauren Rose presents Complete Guide to Online Forex Trading Systems – Part 1 posted at Stock Markets Investment, saying, “A Complete 5 part Guide to Online Forex Trading Systems also referred to as the Spot or Cash market.”
• Value Seeker presents TD Ameritrade Review posted at Stock Investing, saying, “A review of one of the most popular brokerages,” and one that I’m quite familiar with.
• Tom Lydon presents An ETF Trend-Following Plan For All Seasons posted at ETF Trends, saying, “Successful and smart investors know that just because one segment of the market is down, it doesn’t mean that everything is. They know how to spot trends and be in the areas that are moving, while staying out of the not-so-hot spots. Learn how to make following trends a part of your strategy!”

Online Money Making

• ChristianPF presents How to sell stuff on ebay posted at Money in the Bible | Christian Personal Finance Blog, saying, “A beginners guide to selling and making money on Ebay.
• Marcus Hochstadt presents Freebie Seekers posted at Marcus Hochstadt, saying, “Freebie seekers are everywhere. But did you know that they can literally destroy your Internet business success?”
• KCLau presents Do you have the assets to pay for your liabilities? posted at KCLau’s Money Tips, saying, “An article that examines whether you have enough assets to pay off liabilities and how to create assets.”

Inspirational Stuff

• Anand presents How to Master Money & Wealth | 25 Ways to Create More Value posted at Anand Dhillon . com, saying, “This article explains 25 different ways to create value for others. That value can then be leveraged to increase your income. Win-win thinking at its best!”
• Kenton Newby presents What Would You Do If You Weren’t Afraid? posted at KentonNewby.com. This is an inspirational article that actually helps you to take that fear-inspiring first step!
• Woman Tribune presents Mind Your Own Business Girls: Business Coaching, Education & Empowerment for Woman Entrepreneurs posted at Woman Tribune, saying, “Earn a six figure income working just a few hours a week. Join Mind Your Own Business Girls for business coaching, education & empowerment for woman entrepreneurs.”

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.

Technorati tags: carnival of making real money, blog carnival.

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

• Brian Terry presents Become a Listbuilding Genius! posted at Big Selling Website Design.
• Brice Hogan presents How to Save $100 a Month posted at Financialzip.com.
• Cindy King presents Book Review – Letting Go Of The Words – Writing Web Content That Works By Janice Redish posted at Cindy King, saying, “Letting Go Of The Words is a must read for anyone involved with a website or blog. This is not about the tools you need or anything technical. This book is about web content and information strategies. It’s about “planning, selecting, organizing, writing, illustrating, reviewing, and testing content”…that gives readers a successful and satisfying web experience.”
• Don Morrison presents Create A 100% Steady Online Income? Produce & Market A Quick e-Book Daily! posted at dondmorrison.com, saying, “Always have a permanent link back by using the tool at http://blogsearch.google.com Download 300+ new, free, and original eBooks at http://dondmorrison.com”
• Ken presents Stock Investment Resource: Stock Market Investing Tips – Growth vs. Value Investing posted at Stock Investing, saying, “The pros and cons of investing in growth vs value stocks.”
• Herrera presents The Quest for Making Money Online posted at Life. Money. Development., saying, “Personal opinion and views about the rush for making money online”
• Marcus Hochstadt presents I Made $13,692.59 In Profits Last Month, So What? posted at Marcus Hochstadt, saying, “Find out how Marcus Hochstadt makes thousands of dollars online.”
• Martin Russell presents They’re Going To Go Broke… posted at Word of Mouth Marketing.
• Robert Phillips presents What Happens When You Don?t Study posted at CYBERCA$HOLOGY.
• WM Media presents How to Build a Website If You Don?t Know HTML posted at Buy And Sell Websites, saying, “Even if you don’t know HTML, you can still build a very nice website.”

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of dotcom carnival using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page. Do please read carefully the submission policy, it’s pretty strict.

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.

Technorati tags: carnival of making real money, blog carnival.

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

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.

Technorati tags: carnival of making real money, blog carnival.

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

Welcome to the May edition of the Dot Com Carnival. I’m delighted to host these fine articles on Dot Com Carnival.

1. Aaron Brandon presents What To Blog About posted at Aaron Brandon. Aaron ponders the ever present question about what we can blog in our blogs! I know sometimes I’m stuck for ideas!
2. Andy Havens presents Need a New Sales Page? Do This First? posted at Copy Tactics. Andy makes some good suggestions on how to improve your sales pages.
3. blogging Trutyhs presents All About Blogs Blogging Blog History Common Blog Terminlogies posted at Making Money Online, saying, “A weblog (the word was coined by Jorn Barger in 1997) is a log or record or collection of stuffs like personal opinions, links to different websites, and written advice.”
4. BlogMeTheMoney presents Powering Up Your Blog With These 26 Power Lists/Rankings posted at Blog Me The Money.
5. Brian Terry presents 17 essential “big selling” website strategies posted at Big Selling Website Design.
6. Dave Marrow presents $15,691 Month No Experience Case Study posted at Home Based Businesses, saying, “Read this interview of Abhishek Agarwal, a guy with no experience in building websites who made $15,691 just last month with AdSense revenue.”
7. hank@myinvestingblog.com presents A personal financers review of SubvertAndProfit.com | My Investing Blog posted at My Investing Blog, saying, “this is a place to stay AWAY from if you’re looking to make big $$$.”
8. InvestorBlogger presents Four solid reasons to start a blog: audience, content, skill and a feel for business posted at InvestorBlogger, in which he outlines some good reasons to put that blog together!”
9. Joshua C. Karlin presents Powerful Yet Reasonable Goals posted at Marketing & Fundraising Ideas.
10. Life. Money. Development. presents The 7 Attributes of Leadership posted at Life. Money. Development., saying, “An excellent presentation of the attributes every leader should have.”
11. LIVING OFF DIVIDENDS presents Supplement Your Adsense Revenue! posted at LIVING OFF DIVIDENDS, saying, “Make an extra $1000/year!”
12. Mark Riffey presents Marketing opportunities: As perishable as lettuce. posted at Business is Personal.
13. Pamela Baggarley presents How to Create High Profit Margin Products posted at Big Selling Website Design .
14. Praveen presents Internet Marketing Success – Sell Physical Products posted at My Simple Trading System.
15. Sabrina Jefferson presents How To Create Your Own DVD posted at Sabrina Jefferson.
16. Steve Faber presents - 4 Things That Can Make You Free (Financially and Otherwise) posted at DebtBlog.
17. The Shark Investor presents How To Make Good Money By Drop Ship Business | High Yield Weekly Digest posted at High Yield Weekly Digest, saying, “making money with dropshipping – on ebay or with a website”

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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As a courtesy to our authors, please visit their websites and leave a comment or question on their articles.

On submitting

The editor of this Carnival is always delighted to welcome articles for submission. However, submitters would do well to read the current carnival policy. While some of those who submitted to this Carnival may wonder what happened to the other 110 articles, unfortunately, a large number of submissions simply failed to meet the requirements of the carnival or BlogCarnival itself, that is:

• articles must be UNIQUE and APPROPRIATE, all articles WILL be searched for;
• comments must be OPEN without registration – so that this blog Carnival can be fully participatory;
• only one article per blog per person may be submitted – if you submitted more than two articles, ALL were removed from consideration;
• articles must be available for inspection at the time of creation of the Carnival, otherwise they will be removed from consideration.

Recommended Articles

I’ve chosen two recommended articles this time. They’re well worth reading and commenting on.

• Hank presents So you’ve got an invention idea that will change the world and make you big money? | My Investing Blog posted at My Investing Blog, saying, “Thought this one may be relevant because it IS about making $; just need the right mindset I reckon.”
• Hill Robertson presents I Want to Pay More Taxes posted at Hill Robertson, saying, “I want to pay more taxes every year to the government. It may sound crazy, but it is true. Read more to find out why.”

Video Submission

We don’t usually do video submissions, but this time we’re featuring our first!

• Dwayne Tucker presents Updates and Organization Tip – DwayneTucker.com Cast 004! posted at Dwayne Tucker – PhotoShop Blog / Tutorials, saying, “Honestly if you want wealth you must have good organization and you must give you self a mind set that you can control”.

Business World

• Jose DeJesus MD presents Business Loans – How to Get Funding for Your Business posted at Physician Entrepreneur . Jose presents some solid tips on getting that initial financing for your business.
• Richard Lee presents Why Business Systems Are The Key To Freedom posted at Richard Lee. Richard explains why systems are very important. That’s something h reckons he found out by experience.
• LIVING OFF DIVIDENDS presents How I Made $2,667 In Passive Income In March ’08 posted at LIVING OFF DIVIDENDS, saying, “Passive income is the best kind of income! See how I made over $2,600 last month from various different online sources and investments.”
• TerryT2 presents How You Make Money With Investment Real Estate posted at Actual Real Estate Profits, saying, “Post describes the four ways of making money with investment real estate.”
• mmhabits presents How to Save a Million Dollars posted at Millionaire Money Habits, saying, “Often people spend too much time trying to find “the best way” to make more money and reach their financial goals. Quit looking and get started. Read this article to find out how.”
• James Lee presents The Seduction Game… of Marketing posted at Online Business Freedom. In the article he examines the similarities of seduction and marketing!

Online Success

• Bryan presents How to Beat the Google Slap with 5 Simple Steps… posted at The Capitalist Guide Blog. He describes what happened to his advertising campaign and how he fought back.
• Don Morrison presents Selling Online Domains? The Big Picture posted at dondmorrison.com, in which Don describes his approach to selling domains. It’s quite a revealing read.
• Praveen presents Internet Marketing Success – Sell Physical Products posted at My Simple Trading System. Praveen advises that selling real products vs. e-products will generate better returns.
• John Tan presents 5 Tips On How You Can Complete Your Business Task posted at Make Money Online. John encourages us to use our time wisely so that we can focus on our business, not our busy-ness.
• Kenton Newby presents Physical Info Product Creation: Using Multiple Formats to Multiply Profits posted at KentonNewby.com. Kenton encourages you to consider broadening your product offerings by using a wide range of formats.

Motivation In The Money

• Chad Hershey presents Clearing Your Money Issues posted at Passive Income Blog, saying, “Whether you realize it or not, you have a relationship with money that YOU are constantly molding. Money is a neutral resource to which you give power.”
• Larry Russell presents Objective Personal Finance Answers Are Hard to Find posted at THE SKILLED INVESTOR Blog. Larry outlines the shortcomings of the current personal finance and wealth management community.
• Fred Black presents Get These Three Keys Right and Your Success is Almost Guaranteed! posted at Fred Black: Internet Business Blog. Fred looks at three keys to success in business that he feels are embodied in one particular store: Consistency, Contact, and Care.
• Marcus Hochstadt presents Why Your Belief System Determines Your Success posted at Marcus Hochstadt. Marcus encourages readers to examine their core values and their connection with success and failure in business.
• Life. Money. Development. presents The 7 Attributes of Leadership posted at Life. Money.Development, saying, “An excellent presentation of the attributes every leader should have.”

That’s it for the 19th Carnival of Making REAL Money. 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. Until next time.

Online Advertising and Marketing

• Bill Mcintosh presents Google AdWords VS Webmasters: Google Slap Round 4 posted at Bill McIntosh. It seems Google is not just hitting Search results, PR rankings, but now it’s AdWords. Can it be any wonder their stock price is falling by so much?
• Raymond Le Blanc presents Beyond Split Testing posted at Internet Business. How split testing can drive results and more.
• Jimmy Sansi presents Memo To Entrecard Users: Get A Clue posted at The Kaizen Business.
• Carol Bentley presents Landing or floundering page. . . posted at Carol Bentley.
• Mark White presents SEO for a New Website or Blog posted at SEO DAILY Tips & Tricks, saying, “For all those individuals who are looking for help on bringing there websites up in search engines or have created a blog and not sure how to drive traffic. Do visit my blog where I am sharing some good tip every single day.”

blogging

• Rickey Henderson presents Marvel as Rickey Tells You How To Blog! posted at Riding with Rickey, saying, “Rickey’s fool proof guide to being a noteworthy blogger. Enjoy.”
• Don D. Morrison presents Sharing Some Online Marketing Blog Traffic? The Blog Trafficking Pick-Me-Up! posted at dondmorrison.com. Some good advice ideal for beginners in this biz.
• Marcus Hochstadt presents Why Some Should Change The Permalink Structure posted at Marcus Hochstadt.
• miraclestudios presents How do disabled interact with internet posted at M.BLOG (Web Design Company’s Information Blog).
• Mark Riffey presents Be the Google of your market niche posted at Business is Personal.

Making It BIG

• Terry Dean presents 7 Make Money Online Myths posted at Integrity Business Blog by Terry Dean.
• Steve Oliphant presents Discover how to accept all major credit cards on your website with these simple steps. posted at Steve Oliphant’s Musings.
• The Shark Investor presents How To Profit From Domains posted at The Shark Investor, saying, “Four ways to profit from domain name investing”
• Edith presents Are You Backable? posted at Edith Yeung.Com: Dream. Think. Act..
• Woody Maxim presents The Fear of Loss posted at Woody Maxim.

Venturing Out

• Steve Faber presents - Small Business Website Design – Mistakes that Can Kill Your Home Business posted at Home Based Business Success.
• Rob Moshe presents 8 Steps To Success In Network Marketing. posted at Rob Moshe.
• Cindy King presents You Might Have More Options To Develop Your Business Internationally Than You Realize posted at Get International Clients.
• Erica Douglass presents Three Business Ideas That Will Help You Thrive During A Recession posted at erica.biz – Erica Douglass challenges you to change your life! What is holding you back from your dreams?, saying, “Tired of hearing doom and gloom articles about how the upcoming recession will cause lost jobs and lower wages? Here are three businesses you can start in your spare time to make MORE money during a recession!”
• Sarah Paine presents Products for Dummies posted at Sarah Paine. This is something that I have considered before now – it’s really worth doing!
• Brian Terry presents How To Find Hungry Markets With Money To Spend posted at Big Selling Website Design.
  

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

Last week our carnival was featured on the frontpage of the Carnival website. It didn’t bring much traffic but it was a great accolade. In this edition, we’ve whittled away at over 53 submissions and we’ve got that down to a much more manageable 15 submissions!

Inspiration

• Aaron Brandon presents Just Start A Business? posted at Aaron Brandon.
• James D. Brausch presents How To Learn posted at Internet Business Blog. In all aspects of business, it’s important that we know how to learn, especially from our mistakes.
• Lee McIntyre presents Do What You Love Not What You Hate posted at Lee McIntyre’s Honest Marketing Blog. Obvious?
• Marc and Angel Hack Life presents 11 Practical Ways to Spend Your Money posted at Marc and Angel, saying, “Here are 11 practical ways to spend your money on something useful.”

Finances

• Don D. Morrison presents Do You Have True Personal & Financial Freedom? posted at dondmorrison.com.
• The Investor presents Four quick sanity checks to stop the credit crisis killing your finances posted at Monevator.com, saying, “The economic news does not look good. But rather than putting on The Smiths, pouring myself a large gin and tonic, and turning to Sylvia Plath, I thought it’d be more useful to assemble a checklist for anyone looking to survive the credit crunch.”
• Steve Faber presents - How to Become a Millionaire posted at DebtBlog, saying, “Just how do you become a millionaire, anyway? On this day after the Forbes list of the world’s richest people came out, it seems appropriate to discuss just how you could become one of them.”

Online

• Brian Terry presents What are the top 17 sources of affiliate traffic? posted at Big Selling Affiliates Blog.
• Bill Mcintosh presents Google Penalizing Slow Websites posted at Bill McIntosh.
• Jack S. Keifer presents Trash Your Internet Business in 7 Easy Steps posted at Jack S. Keifer.
• Fred Black presents Search Engine Optimization – A Reader Asks My Opinion of Rasof posted at Fred Black: Internet Business Blog..
• Matthew Paulson presents Get Paid to Blog (And it Doesn’t Involve Adsense) posted at American Consumer News.
• Raymond Le Blanc presents 5 Great Reasons to Start a Blog posted at Internet Business.

In Business

• Steve Oliphant presents Discover how to accept all major credit cards on your website with these simple steps. posted at Steve Oliphant’s Musings. This is quite useful as most purchases online these days involve credit cards. Even offline, most larger purchases are now credit card based transactions.
• Amy S Quinn presents CRM for Freelancers: 26 Tips a One-Man-shop Can Use to Make More Money posted at Bootstrapper. Some useful ideas!
• Hill Robertson presents Business is All About People and Attitude posted at Hill Robertson, saying, “Business is all about people and attitude. Without people you have no business. Without a positive attitude you have no business.”
• WBL presents 10 Tips On How To Negotiate posted at Wealth Building Lessons, saying, “Save your money by learning how to negotiate.”

Investing

• Aussie Investor presents Dividend Yield Investing For Beginners posted at Stock Market Investing For Beginners, saying, “If you’re a stock market beginner looking to make a start on investing, dividend yield is an important concept to come to terms with. This article describes what a dividend yield is, how to calculate it, how to use it and what the pitfalls can be in applying it.”
• Heather Johnson presents 10 Tips for Staying Positive in a Negative Market posted at Investing Blog. I think this is some advice we could all use!

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, 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

Thanks to the writers for the best articles! Well done. And I was notified earlier this week that we are going to be featured on the front page of blog Carnival, so that’s great news! I’ll include a screenshot when I see it! With markets in turmoil, concerns about valuations, and darkening economic clouds in much of the Western world, it’s Asia that is beginning to pick up the slack. The next edition will feature an Asian slant with articles about Asia’s development being featured.

Recommended

• Mark Butler presents Interview with a Millionaire: M.R., a Furniture Store Owner posted at The Butler Project, saying, "This is the first in a two part series featuring our interview with a multi-millionaire. In it he outlines his strategies for financial success and entrepreneurship."

Asset Classes

• Cindy King presents International Business Case Study - Internet Success For An Isolated Brick and Mortar Store posted at Cindy King.
• Bobby Handzhiev presents Real Estate Investing With Pennies posted at The Shark Investor, saying, "You don't have to be rich to invest in real estate".
• LIVING OFF DIVIDENDS presents Gold Breaks $1000/Oz: Investing For A Recession posted at LIVING OFF DIVIDENDS, saying, "Why did gold break $1000/oz and what does it mean for the future of our investments?"

Investing

• Babak presents The Hidden Power Of Back To Back Extreme Up Days posted at Trader's Narrative. Babak seems to think that we're reaching a bottom in the short-term.
• Dorian Wales presents 10 Sure Ways to lose 50% of your investment posted at Personal Financier. I've already committed most of them.
• KCLau presents Top 39 Essential Rules of Investing posted at KCLau's Money Tips, saying, "39 useful tips on how to make your money work hard for you. These are tips that would allow you to grow your wealth safely and soundly."
• The Investor presents Who's your Star Wars money hero? posted at Monevator.com, saying, "Can Star Wars could teach us something about personal finance? Well, read on discover what the classic trilogy's major characters know about money."
• Charles H. Green presents Review of Rules to Break and Laws to Follow by Peppers and Rogers posted at Trust Matters, saying, "All earnings in a company aren't created equal, some are much better than others, and as a result the company's stock is a much better investment even with an identical balance sheet."

Inspirations

• Hill Robertson presents Are You Working for the Weekend? posted at Hill Robertson, saying, "Do not focus on working for the weekend. Focus on working for freedom."
• James D. Brausch presents Teaching What You Don't Know Is Fraud posted at Internet Business Blog. This is a salutary reminder, but one not retained in the Make Money Online blog Market.
• Woody Maxim presents The Fear of Loss posted at Woody Maxim. Actually, the fear is the biggest thing.
• Taylor Coburn presents Law Of Attraction posted at Internet Business at ProcessToProfits, saying, "Success is a mindset. And our mind attract events, circumstances and things into our life. What is your single biggest question about the law of attraction?"
• Kenton Newby presents Excuse #12: I Need to Learn a Little Bit More Before I Get Started posted at KentonNewby.com. Kenton advises us not to wait.

Online Aspirations

• Bill Mcintosh presents Google AdManager: The First Product From Buying DoubleClick posted at Bill McIntosh. Bill tests out the new Google AdManager.
• Tim Gary presents Expectations and Measurable Results posted at Internet Success Bites. It's very important to track your results if only to help plan your direction.
• Terry Dean presents 8 Steps to Create Your Internet Business posted at Integrity Business Blog by Terry Dean. Terry offers us some advice on getting started online.
• Robert Phillips presents The Wright Brothers PPC Success Model posted at CYBERCA$HOLOGY. Robert provides a challenging question for your website: can yours pass?
• Kasumi Kitone presents How I Started To Make Money Online - Part 2 posted at Best Ways To Make Money Online, saying, "How much money do you really make with your blog? Come on, be honest. This is the second of 2 articles which describe how I finally started to make money online. It's a work in progress..."

Personal Finance Tips

• InvestorBlogger presents Is your bank book your financial statement? posted at InvestorBlogger, saying, "Useful Tip on how you view your bankbook."
• William Blake presents How To Earn A "Hall Of Fame" Interest Rate On Your Money posted at Becoming Debt Free. That article makes you think about buying your next expensive gadget...
• Rick MacGuidwin presents 15 Sources for Secondary Income posted at Increase Revenue, Decrease Cost, saying, "Creating secondary income is essential to building net worth. I have compiled ideas to build a list of 15 secondary income sources."
• mmhabits presents The Money Spectrum posted at Millionaire Money Habits, saying, "Where are you on the money spectrum, and what will it take to get to the next stage and increase your wealth?"

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, 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

Getting Out of Debt

• John Crenshaw presents Paying Off Your Mortgage – Will It Save You Money? posted at Truthful Lending dot Com, saying, “There’s been quite a bit of debate lately over whether or not you should pay off your mortgage or invest any extra money. This article explores the different mortgage payoff methods and will help you decide which, if any, are right for you.”
• NAOMI presents BRITAIN CREDIT CAPITAL OF EUROPE posted at Diary From England.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.”
• Lauren Rose presents 7 Common Sense Tips to Eliminate Credit Card Debt posted at No Debt Anymore .org, saying, “Here are 7 common sense guidelines to eliminate credit card debt.”
• Jeremy presents Prepare Now For Baby Tomorrow by Getting Rid of Your Debt posted at Debt Consolidation Blog.
• Rio Rivas presents Eliminate Debt | Get Financially Fit! posted at Get Financially Fit! , saying, “reveals easy and practical steps to eliminate debt”
• Jason presents Do You Want Cash Back? Are You Sure? posted at The Frugal Dad.

Advice and Help

• Spider5 presents Why does Revolution Money require my social security number? posted at Prosper Lending Review, saying, “Revolution Money Exchange (a new PayPal competitor) is aggressively seeking new members with a $25 bonus. Their personal information collection and privacy policy, however, worry some. It is believed that RME is seeking new members as a bait and switch to offer them their new type of credit card. The Revolution Money brand includes a new type of credit card that does not have your name printed on it. You use it with a PIN. Is this safer?”
• William Blake presents Are You Balancing Your Bank Statements Every Month? posted at Becoming Debt Free.

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

Technorati tags: creditcardcarnival, blog carnival.

Five Tips for a successful carnival

#1. Your article must be unique (no articles from online article directories) and also must be previously unpublished in this carnival. All articles will be checked for originality.

I did this because I was getting numerous submissions from people who were just using articles from article directories. The result was that many of the submissions were already published in numerous places on the internet and wouldn’t add any value to this new carnival. Conceivably, it was also possible to get the SAME submission from different people – how would you choose?

#2. No spam or articles that are pitching something for sale. This is not an advertising carnival. Your article MAY, however, include advertising and affiliates as you wish…

I also received a lot of articles that were either blatantly or in some way disguised advertising software or whatnot. Since the article wasn’t useful to those who didn’t know the product (it was pitched at insiders), I simply hit the delete button. Spam.

#3. 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.

Another trick was to submit articles that were on irrelevant topics, but worse the writer failed to tailor the submission to the particular carnival in the comments section. Sorry! You may borrow, beg and steal articles, and possibly get away with it, but submitting irrelevant articles is just dumb. The other greatest offender was the in-group post: it would refer to people, information, and blogs in passing, but the information was such that you had to be an insider to know what the hell they were talking about.

#4. No more than one submission will be accepted from an individual in one edition. One article per person/blog only. I like to maintain 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.

When I started out doing carnivals at the end of 2007, I was happy to entertain several submissions from one writer, but I quickly got tired of dealing with those writers who were click happy. In fact, I had one writer submit six articles to my carnival last time. Of course, I nixed all of them without second thought. Why? Because if a writer can’t be bothered to check my carnival policy, then I couldn’t be bothered to check their submissions.

#5. Comments MUST be enabled on any post submitted to the carnival: I’m hoping that we generate interest in the submissions and that traffic generates comments. Let’s not frustrate our readers.

While others are free to run the carnival in their own way, I felt strongly that it was a blog carnival, hence those who didn’t permit comments on articles (for whatever reason) were abusing the notion of a blog carnival. Later on I tightened it to include blogs that also required registering to comment. There is no reason for that step nowadays. A blog post is designed to elicit comments, why should you stop people from commenting?

The blog Carnival Process: From submission to publication – in brief

To process the carnival submissions, I take a number of steps and it usually whittles down the 65 submissions considerably.

• 1. Copy entire list of submissions to Excel, then rank them by name. Duplicates and multiple submissions are immediately weeded out. (20% gone).
• 2. The remaining number are then uploaded as an unpublished post, and checked one by one.
• 3. Out go those that are completely irrelevant. Out also go those that aren’t blogs (or don’t permit comments). (35%).
• 4. Of the remaining, I then vet those for being articles from directories. Out go those that are discovered to be so. (10%)
• 5. Usually by this stage, only about 35% of the articles are remaining. I’ve nixed most of the weaker articles, and those that break the guidelines.
• 6. It’s at this point that I really read the remaining candidates, and approve or remove those that are dull, too insular, uinformative or poorly written. I don’t mind if the writers don’t include comments, so I’ll add those. (10%)
• 7. I also visit the blogs and leave comments on each accepted article.
• 8. Then I tidy up the submissions, by categorizing them, adding my own commentary where I need to, and choosing the best or recommended articles.

This process usually works quite well, but I’m always sad at having to leave out more than a couple of good articles or posts for various silly reasons. While I don’t have the same policy across all my carnivals, the bigger ones are usually much more strict. And it works.

The last carnival had only 17 published submissions, and in future I may only publish 10 or 12 submissions, because I want to create a quality carnival, or at least, one that doesn’t waste readers’ time.

You can visit my carnivals at:

Carnival of Making REAL Money blog and Dot Com Carnival. You can also find out much more at BlogCarnival itself.

Here are some of my top stories over the past few days, do check them out!

• Business Start-Up Killers or How to close your business in five steps!
• Not your typical Costco – or is it?
• Saturday’s News: Payperpost Campaigns, FaceBook, Forbes and NT$
• Advertising Your Blog: My First Campaign On Payperpost
• PayDay Loans: Should you use or avoid them?
• February, 2008: Financial Results – a quiet month

Carnivals Published

Dot Com Carnival and Carnival of Making REAL Money were both published recently. I enjoyed doing the carnivals a lot. I’ve begun to be a lot more picky about the kinds of articles that I link to in the Carnivals, so you can be sure there’s a lot of good reading. In fact, for the Making REAL Money Carnival, I chopped 66 submissions down to a mere 16! But there are some good articles, especially the feature article.

Asus Eee PC 900 Series

I have no idea how I missed this story… but it seems that in the summer ASUS will release a new version of their portable Linux-based system. Now that’s going to be quite a system. Here’s the basic news, some of which was suggested earlier by fans of the first Eee PC:

ASUS has made several innovative improvements with the next generation of the Eee PC – dubbed the Eee PC 900. These new technologies will bring about a brand new concept for Internet access with 1G of memory, larger storage of up to 12GB, and wider 8.9-inch screens. These new Eee PCs will cost 399 Euros each, and will be available in summer this year – to select countries on the first wave of launch. All of these new models will be Windows ready, and will provide users with a chance to enjoy a brand new PC experience while on the go.

Payperpost: A good source for publicity

Well, after running my first campaign on Payperpost, I ran a second campaign as well. The total views for the articles written are 1477 with the second campaign scoring slightly more. There have been 19 clickthroughs as well from those posts totalling 1.3% as a conversion rate. Since the campaign didn’t demand that readers actually do anything, the clickthrough rate is comparable with Adsense (before the changes). At $4.08 per click, though, the price is quite high. The campaigns will continue for quite a while effectively reducing the per click price and perhaps increasing the conversion rate.

The first two campaigns were effectively free for me as I was using a Payperpost Coupon; I tried out different ways to word the post offer. The second campaign was more effective, but still I need to make some changes, esp. to the issue of titling the posts. I was surprised how many (six, in fact) posts simply mentioned the blog name as the post title. Disappointing.

Suggestions for running a PayPerPost Campaign are attached after the sample campaign.

Check out the blog. Write a buzz type post about InvestorBlogger.
Create a link to one post in the archives (you can search the archives and find something worth commenting on) as well as a link to the main page.
www.investorblogger.com/archives
Feel free to disclose this post as you wish. PR is not required, but your blog must be listed in Technorati (must have the Technorati badge).
I will review all submissions and vote your tack rating accordingly!
So enjoy the writing the post, check out the archives and good luck!

Next time I will word the task more specifically than this time. Also, “adding the ‘vote your tack’ rating accordingly” was very helpful as the quality of submissions was much better the second time. Also, increasing the minimum tack rating and adding a RealRank of 2 helped to ensure the quality of the posting much more. So in opportunity #3, I’ll be promoting my own OPML download for the top bloggers.

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

• Michel Fortin presents Busy Working In The Virtual Kitchen posted at The Michel Fortin Blog.
• Kenton Newby presents Simple Solutions For the Content Creation Roadblock Nearly All Online Business Owners Face posted at KentonNewby.com.
• Mark Riffey presents Have you lost a customer today? posted at Business is Personal.
• Don D. Morrison presents Discover All The Online Company Marketing Links & Stats Worth Knowing! posted at dondmorrison.com.
• Sarah Paine presents Post Dating Blog Entries posted at Sarah Paine.
• Successful Footsteps presents Success is about Building Trust posted at Become Successful.
• Successful Footsteps presents Patience – Your First Step Towards Success posted at Become Successful.
• KCLau presents Knowing your enemy – Inflation! posted at KCLau’s Money Tips, saying, “Article on what inflation is, what causes inflation and how we as consumers can outstrip inflation.”
• Steve Oliphant presents Stop Gambling with Your Future and Start Making Money posted at Steve Oliphant’s Musings.
• Don D. Morrison presents Discover Immediate Online Blog Traffic? Or Maybe Overnight! posted at dondmorrison.com.
• Sabrina Jefferson presents Internet Marketing Newbie Action Plan posted at Sabrina Jefferson.
• Sarah Paine presents Are You Losing Out On Subscribers? posted at Sarah Paine.
• Jeff Walker presents How To Launch Your Product Even If You Only Have A Tiny List posted at Product Launch Formula 2.0 , saying, “Free non-guru product launch video case study shows you how.”
• Carol Bentley presents Yesterday?s blog-post was completely off-track posted at Carol Bentley.
• Taylor Coburn presents Create 100% Perfect Products Or Services posted at Internet Business at ProcessToProfits, saying, “Creating and selling your own products can be very profitable…”
• Stephen Dean presents 3 Quick Ways To Judge Your New Product Idea posted at Stephen Dean’s Copywriting And Internet Advertising Blog – Copywriter.
• John Lenaghan presents Should You Buy The Latest Internet Marketing Related Product? posted at Internet Marketing Chaos.
• Terry Dean presents 8 Steps to Create Your Internet Business posted at Integrity Business Blog by Terry Dean.
• Stephen Pierce presents A Powerful Profit Pattern You Can Use Right Now posted at DTAlpha TalkBack with Stephen Pierce.

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

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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

Welcome to the March 3, 2008 edition of dotcom carnival. This new carnival starts off with a bumper edition, the first edition. As opposed to the first couple of carnivals I’ve run, so far this is a bit of a free for all. It’s much more like a supermarket version!

• Jose DeJesus MD presents Improve Investment and Financial Results – Simplify and Conquer posted at Physician Entrepreneur.
• James D. Brausch presents 24 Hour Special: New Copywriting Procedure posted at Internet Business Blog.
• Carol Bentley presents Things do not always go to plan. . . posted at Carol Bentley.
• Stephen Dean presents Using Amazon.com For Market Research posted at Stephen Dean’s Copywriting And Internet Advertising Blog – Copywriter.
• InvestorBlogger presents Four solid reasons to start a blog: audience, content, skill and a feel for business posted at InvestorBlogger.
• James D. Brausch presents It’s You Too posted at Internet Business Blog.
• 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.”
• Tiffany Colter presents Writing Career Coach: A Pleasant surprise and How I got here Part 2 posted at Writing Career Coach, saying, “This blog discusses a pleasant surprise on how to have success beginning from the first day of this New Year!”
• Jack S. Keifer presents Writing Killer Headlines posted at Jack S. Keifer.
• James D. Brausch presents Failure? The Doorway to Success posted at Internet Business Blog.
• Bobby Handzhiev presents How To Make Good Money By Drop Ship Business | High Yield Weekly Digest posted at High Yield Weekly Digest, saying, “making money with dropshipping – on ebay or with a website”
• Alex M presents Products to Sell on the Internet: What to Choose? posted at We talk on making money on the Internet.
• Jimmy Sansi presents Grow Your List Of Publishers posted at The Kaizen Business.
• James D. Brausch presents Cruise For Success? posted at Internet Business Blog.
• Rebecca Suzanne Dean presents Stop Thinking. Begin Testing! posted at Rebecca Dean.
• Don D. Morrison presents It Isn’t Human Relations Anymore? Its Out Sourcing! posted at dondmorrison.com.
• Sabrina Jefferson presents How To Create Your Own DVD posted at Sabrina Jefferson.
• Tiffany Colter presents Writing Career Coach: How I got here: Part 3 posted at Writing Career Coach, saying, “This blog discusses expecting success and how to know when you get there!”
• Joshua C. Karlin presents Powerful Yet Reasonable Goals posted at Marketing & Fundraising Ideas.
• Kenton Newby presents Focusing on Leverage posted at KentonNewby.com.
• Mark Riffey presents Marketing opportunities: As perishable as lettuce. posted at Business is Personal.
• Jimmy Sansi presents Tools Worth Using posted at The Kaizen Business.
• Sabrina Jefferson presents Internet Marketing Newbie Action Plan posted at Sabrina Jefferson.
• Stephen Dean presents A Simple Solution To Increase Sales posted at Stephen Dean’s Copywriting And Internet Advertising Blog – Copywriter.
• Brian Terry presents Why you MUST become fanatical at testing and tracking posted at Big Selling Website Design.
• 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.”
• Aaron Brandon presents Product Creation Worry posted at Aaron Brandon.
• Woody Maxim presents The quickest way to more money is through testing posted at Woody Maxim.
• Rebecca Suzanne Dean presents Remember Your Emotions for Increased Sales Letter Pull posted at Rebecca Dean.
• Woody Maxim presents Lessons Revealed from Day 1 posted at Woody Maxim.
• Rebecca Suzanne Dean presents There’s No Need To Admit You’re Telling The Truth?Unless You’re A Liar! posted at Rebecca Dean.
• Michel Fortin presents Busy Working In The Virtual Kitchen posted at The Michel Fortin Blog.
• Kenton Newby presents Simple Solutions For the Content Creation Roadblock Nearly All Online Business Owners Face posted at KentonNewby.com.
• Mark Riffey presents Wedding and a funeral create a customer service mashup posted at Business is Personal.
• Brad Trnavsky presents Are YOU Linkedin? posted at Sales Management 2.0 – Featured Blog Posts, saying, “This is a short but powerful article on social networking, how to use it EFFECTIVELY, and why it is important.”
• LIVING OFF DIVIDENDS presents Supplement Your Adsense Revenue! posted at LIVING OFF DIVIDENDS, saying, “Make an extra $1000/year!”
• andyar85 presents Click you way into money posted at PC Hardware issues.
• Carol Bentley presents How appealing are you posted at Carol Bentley.
• andyar85 presents Unique opportunity posted at PC Hardware issues.
• Woody Maxim presents My review of Blog Farm Generator posted at Woody Maxim.
• Bobby Handzhiev presents The Basics of Domain Investing posted at The Shark Investor, saying, “Making money by investing and trading domains”
• Brian Terry presents 17 essential ‘big selling’ website strategies posted at Big Selling Website Design.
• Michel Fortin presents Give Your Joint-Venture Offer An Extra Punch posted at The Michel Fortin Blog.
• Dave Marrow presents $15,691 Month No Experience Case Study posted at Home Based Businesses, saying, “Read this interview of Abhishek Agarwal, a guy with no experience in building websites who made $15,691 just last month with AdSense revenue.”
• FIRE Getters presents $25 Signup Bonus from Revolution Money Exchange! posted at FIRE Finance.
• Joseph presents Irrelevant ads or PSAs posted at Make Money Blogging.
• Thomas D. Brownsword presents Work: A Mixed Blessing posted at Business Action Steps.
• Terry Dean presents Why Believing in Yourself Will Change Your Life posted at Integrity Business Blog by Terry Dean.
• kendickson98 presents A Man With A Plan: Ways to create additional income posted at InvestorBlogger, saying, “thanks.”
• John Lenaghan presents Affiliate Summit Day 1 – Calacanis Keynote Part 3 (aka Long Term Thinking) posted at Internet Marketing Chaos.
• Sarah Paine presents The Power Is In The Ping posted at Sarah Paine.
• Andy Havens presents Need a New Sales Page? Do This First? posted at Copy Tactics.
• Jimmy Sansi presents Guaranteed Traffic Today Using These 7 Simple Methods posted at The Kaizen Business.
• Don D. Morrison presents Discover 18 Common ?Link Baiting? Methods (Or Getting More Online Back Links)? The Prime Directive! posted at dondmorrison.com.
• Aaron Brandon presents What To Blog About posted at Aaron Brandon.

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

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

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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

Welcome to the February 27, 2008 edition of creditcardcarnival. This is the first edition, and I’ve provided links to some great submissions! Thanks for submitting your article, and keep posting some good stuff!

• John Crenshaw presents The Biggest Scam Your Bank Gets Away With Everyday posted at Truthful Lending dot Com, saying, “This little known scam accounts for a huge portion of fees paid to banks every year and is going on right under your nose. The worst part is, it’s completely legal.”
• Jeremy Zongker presents 7 Reasons Your Small Business Needs a Credit Card posted at Creditor Web.
• Andrew Erickson presents Merchant Processing 101 posted at WebSite Werx, saying, “accepting credit cards to grow your business”
• Raymond presents My Favorite Reward Credit Cards and Promotions | Money Blue Book posted at Money Blue Book.
• Personal Finance Claims presents How You Might Soon End Up With A Blocked Credit Card posted at Personal Finance Claims.
• Madeleine Begun Kane presents Charge! posted at Mad Kane’s Humor Blog.
• Steve Faber presents - Credit Score Ranges – Getting to the Next One Up Could Pay Off Big Time posted at DebtBlog.
• Casey Markee presents 5 Consumer Credit Card Mistakes and How to Avoid Them posted at CAPC Debt Management Blog, saying, “Credit cards are often equated with bad money management, but they can also do a lot for your credit score and your overall financial picture if you use them wisely. This article addresses 5 common problems consumers face with credit cards and how to avoid them.”
• Nigel Swaby presents Credit Card Companies Place Squeeze on Good Customers posted at Salt Lake Real Estate Blog.
• William Blake presents Entrepreneurs Using Plastic Financing posted at Becoming Debt Free.

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of creditcardcarnival using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page. Also, do check out our Submissions Policy.

Technorati tags: creditcardcarnival, blog carnival.

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

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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

I’m so glad that you have been enjoying the carnival. Do take a look at the 12th Carnival which was published last week. Sign up for our feed, too. You can hit our feed now, to do so.

And a new blog of the Week on Investing in Real Estate. Enjoy! And keep warm on a cold Sunday! Hope it’s sunny where you are. And do leave comments on these articles, they’re all open for comments!

blog of the Week

• Edith presents How to Get Started Investing in Real Estate posted at Stewart Hsu. Seems like the makings of a good blog there on real estate. He doesn’t post very often, but the blog is interesting.

Business Steals and Deals

• Successful Footsteps presents Do You Need a New Idea to be Successful? posted at Become Successful. Many new business or wanna-be business types stress out over the definition of ‘new’ forgetting that business creation is 99% evolution, 1% new.
• Hill Robertson presents Reasons to Build a Customer List posted at Hill Robertson, saying, “One of the most important things to be successful in any business is to have a customer list.”
• Woody Maxim presents Lessons Revealed from Day 1 posted at Woody Maxim. He provides three good points on maximizing your effectiveness in business.
• Jose DeJesus MD presents Checklists Can Improve Clinical and Business Processes posted at Physician Entrepreneur.
• James D. Brausch presents One Minute Marketing Research posted at Internet Business Blog. Good practical advice for the small entrepreneur or someone looking for a practical way to get started.
• Ryan Healy presents A Tale of One Client, Three Copywriters, and a Space Ad posted at Ryan M. Healy, saying, “How do you grow your business through advertising? Simple. Create a powerful ad and run it in the right publication. Unfortunately, this client hired three copywriters to write one ad… and then made a critical mistake.”
• American Entrepreneur presents Q & A: How to Keep Up With Small Business Growing Pains posted at American Small Business News. I don’t quite agree with some of the ideas, but it’s still worth reading.
• Joshua C. Karlin presents Powerful Yet Reasonable Goals posted at Marketing & Fundraising Ideas, and yet the example he provides in the essay suggests a different goal.
• Terry Dean presents How to Write a JV Email posted at Integrity Business Blog by Terry Dean.
• Warren Wong presents Why You Should Be Careful When Your Business Is Going Well posted at Personal Development for INTJs, saying, “Some reasons to be cautious when your business has been doing really well.” Some good advice especially about buying businesses!
• Derrick Markotter presents Long term vs short term goals posted at Online Business Blog. Derrick advises that business, especially online ones, don’t rely on just one primary source of income.

Investing

• Investing Angel presents How To Avoid A Stock Scam posted at Stock Tips, saying, “There are a lot of pundits out there that offer investing tips for a fee. While some of these investing services may be well worth the money, others are scams are certainly close to a scam.”
• FIRE Getters presents Investing – The Mistake Of Timing The Market posted at FIRE Finance, saying, “Have you ever wondered about the fact that even after a decade long relationship, sometimes it seems that we hardly know the other person! Sounds familiar isn’t it? If the behavior of a single human being can be so unpredictable then what is our take about the cumulative behavior of millions of investors all over the world? Our observation is that such behavior is utterly unpredictable and apparently irrational!”
• Jesse presents For the love of God, do not invest in forever stamps (top 5 reasons why not) posted at The Penny Saved, saying, “Advising against the investment in forever stamps”
• Babak presents Intermarket Analysis: Bonds Expensive, Stocks Cheap posted at Trader’s Narrative, saying, “Right now, the annual rate of change for 10 year bonds is very close to reaching the historic level that has marked a top for bonds (and a bottom for yields). Interestingly enough, each of those times was also a good time to not only sell (or sell short bonds) but also to be long stocks.”
• Ryan Healy presents Three Rules for Option Trading posted at A.J. Brown’s Options Trading Blog, saying, “There are very few “hard and fast” rules for trading options because the markets are so dynamic. But there are three rules that A.J. Brown follows religiously, and he shares them here.”
• Kenton Newby presents Focusing on Leverage posted at KentonNewby.com. He says that “…whole trading time for money thing is a bit ridiculous.”

Online Success

• Cocoy S. Rambuyon presents Non-Fiction Information Products Are Hot & Becoming Popular Choices Online posted at COCOY S. RAMBUYON. He’s a big booster of making information products.
• Ed Rivis presents Write Press Releases that Sizzle. posted at Ed Rivis. He suggests that using a press release for your business can successfully draw new visitors and customers.
• Frederic Patenaude presents How to Write eBooks in Your Spare Time posted at Frederic Patenaude Talks, saying, “If you have ever wanted to write your own ebook I suggest checking out this article that also has a free special report with it.”
• Kasumi Kitone presents How I Started To Make Money Online – Part 1 posted at Best Ways To Make Money Online, saying, “This is the story of my early online money making endeavors. Hopefully others can learn from my mistakes – or at least have a good laugh…”
• Praveen presents Minimalist Marketing posted at My Simple Trading System. Simply obvious: that’s all.
• Carol Bentley presents How appealing are you posted at Carol Bentley. Carol talks about ways to help your customer get what she wants.
• Mark Riffey presents Why, even now, your business should have a toll-free number posted at Business is Personal. It might be a good idea for your online business to invest in an 0800 number. Of course, that means you have to answer the phone, too.
• Jimmy Sansi presents Grow Your List Of Publishers posted at The Kaizen Business. Jimmy advises you to find as many publishers of quality as possible.

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.

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.
• 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
Carnival of Making REAL Money

I’m so glad that you have been enjoying the carnival. Do take a look at the 12th Carnival which was published last week. Sign up for our feed, too. You can hit our feed now, to do so.

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And a new blog of the Week on Investing in Real Estate. Enjoy! And keep warm on a cold Sunday! Hope it’s sunny where you are. And do leave comments on these articles, they’re all open for comments!

blog of the Week

• Edith presents How to Get Started Investing in Real Estate posted at Stewart Hsu. Seems like the makings of a good blog there on real estate. He doesn’t post very often, but the blog is interesting.

Business Steals and Deals

• Successful Footsteps presents Do You Need a New Idea to be Successful? posted at Become Successful. Many new business or wanna-be business types stress out over the definition of ‘new’ forgetting that business creation is 99% evolution, 1% new.
• Hill Robertson presents Reasons to Build a Customer List posted at Hill Robertson, saying, “One of the most important things to be successful in any business is to have a customer list.”
• Woody Maxim presents Lessons Revealed from Day 1 posted at Woody Maxim. He provides three good points on maximizing your effectiveness in business.
• Jose DeJesus MD presents Checklists Can Improve Clinical and Business Processes posted at Physician Entrepreneur.
• James D. Brausch presents One Minute Marketing Research posted at Internet Business Blog. Good practical advice for the small entrepreneur or someone looking for a practical way to get started.
• Ryan Healy presents A Tale of One Client, Three Copywriters, and a Space Ad posted at Ryan M. Healy, saying, “How do you grow your business through advertising? Simple. Create a powerful ad and run it in the right publication. Unfortunately, this client hired three copywriters to write one ad… and then made a critical mistake.”
• American Entrepreneur presents Q & A: How to Keep Up With Small Business Growing Pains posted at American Small Business News. I don’t quite agree with some of the ideas, but it’s still worth reading.
• Joshua C. Karlin presents Powerful Yet Reasonable Goals posted at Marketing & Fundraising Ideas, and yet the example he provides in the essay suggests a different goal.
• Terry Dean presents How to Write a JV Email posted at Integrity Business Blog by Terry Dean.
• Warren Wong presents Why You Should Be Careful When Your Business Is Going Well posted at Personal Development for INTJs, saying, “Some reasons to be cautious when your business has been doing really well.” Some good advice especially about buying businesses!
• Derrick Markotter presents Long term vs short term goals posted at Online Business Blog. Derrick advises that business, especially online ones, don’t rely on just one primary source of income.

Investing

• Investing Angel presents How To Avoid A Stock Scam posted at Stock Tips, saying, “There are a lot of pundits out there that offer investing tips for a fee. While some of these investing services may be well worth the money, others are scams are certainly close to a scam.”
• FIRE Getters presents Investing – The Mistake Of Timing The Market posted at FIRE Finance, saying, “Have you ever wondered about the fact that even after a decade long relationship, sometimes it seems that we hardly know the other person! Sounds familiar isn’t it? If the behavior of a single human being can be so unpredictable then what is our take about the cumulative behavior of millions of investors all over the world? Our observation is that such behavior is utterly unpredictable and apparently irrational!”
• Jesse presents For the love of God, do not invest in forever stamps (top 5 reasons why not) posted at The Penny Saved, saying, “Advising against the investment in forever stamps”
• Babak presents Intermarket Analysis: Bonds Expensive, Stocks Cheap posted at Trader’s Narrative, saying, “Right now, the annual rate of change for 10 year bonds is very close to reaching the historic level that has marked a top for bonds (and a bottom for yields). Interestingly enough, each of those times was also a good time to not only sell (or sell short bonds) but also to be long stocks.”
• Ryan Healy presents Three Rules for Option Trading posted at A.J. Brown’s Options Trading Blog, saying, “There are very few “hard and fast” rules for trading options because the markets are so dynamic. But there are three rules that A.J. Brown follows religiously, and he shares them here.”
• Kenton Newby presents Focusing on Leverage posted at KentonNewby.com. He says that “…whole trading time for money thing is a bit ridiculous.”

Online Success

• Cocoy S. Rambuyon presents Non-Fiction Information Products Are Hot & Becoming Popular Choices Online posted at COCOY S. RAMBUYON. He’s a big booster of making information products.
• Ed Rivis presents Write Press Releases that Sizzle. posted at Ed Rivis. He suggests that using a press release for your business can successfully draw new visitors and customers.
• Frederic Patenaude presents How to Write eBooks in Your Spare Time posted at Frederic Patenaude Talks, saying, “If you have ever wanted to write your own ebook I suggest checking out this article that also has a free special report with it.”
• Kasumi Kitone presents How I Started To Make Money Online – Part 1 posted at Best Ways To Make Money Online, saying, “This is the story of my early online money making endeavors. Hopefully others can learn from my mistakes – or at least have a good laugh…”
• Praveen presents Minimalist Marketing posted at My Simple Trading System. Simply obvious: that’s all.
• Carol Bentley presents How appealing are you posted at Carol Bentley. Carol talks about ways to help your customer get what she wants.
• Mark Riffey presents Why, even now, your business should have a toll-free number posted at Business is Personal. It might be a good idea for your online business to invest in an 0800 number. Of course, that means you have to answer the phone, too.
• Jimmy Sansi presents Grow Your List Of Publishers posted at The Kaizen Business. Jimmy advises you to find as many publishers of quality as possible.

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.

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.
• 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
Carnival of Making REAL Money

Recommended

• Ed Rivis presents More Content = More Sales. posted at Ed Rivis. He comments on how websites tend to focus on the companies themselves rather than their customers. Websites that are only about the company tend to be very ego-centric, regarding customers almost as an inconvenience. Read it.
• Phillip Lyon presents Want to Make Real Money Investing With Play Money? posted at Intelligent Speculator, saying, “How would you like to make real money investing with play money? You can at UpDown.com. You get one million dollars in play money and you make real money by beating the return of the S&P 500.” This is a great way to learn about the markets and play with other people’s money!

The Plan

• InvestorBlogger presents A Man With A Plan: Ways to create additional income posted at InvestorBlogger , saying, “Everyone needs a plan: I have written ten different ways I’m planning to explore to create additional income.”
• Wenchypoo presents Do-It-Yourself Fair Tax Plan (Super L-O-N-G) posted at Wisdom From Wenchypoo’s Mental Wastebasket. This post explains why the rationale for a DIY fair tax is so compelling and so impossible.

In Business

• Colleen Palat presents Starting Your Own Online Tutoring Business Can Be Simple |Colleen Palat, saying, “Learn how to start your own online tutoring business while using online technology to help students succeed in school.”
• Mark Riffey presents Righting a wrong: How business owners show they give a rip.Business is Personal .
• Michel Fortin presents Give Your Joint-Venture Offer An Extra Punch posted at The Michel Fortin Blog. Michel points out some top-notch advice for those interested in JV partnerships.
• DotLobby presents What is a Recession? 4 Signs and Symptoms posted at DotMakeMoney, saying, “Of course, you probably could have looked that up yourself, so let’s look at the subject in a more “How does this affect me?” way…”

Investing

• LIVING OFF DIVIDENDS presents How Not To Bid On Prosper posted at LIVING OFF DIVIDENDS, saying, “Here are some obvious tips” and amusing ones at that!
• Ryan Healy presents Option Trading: Textbook Breakout Example posted at A.J. Brown’s Options Trading Blog, saying, “Recently, we witnessed the perfect breakout. One member confided that she had invested ~$15K and was walking away from the trade with over $60K+. This video explains what happened.”
• Investing Angel presents Understanding Margin Trading posted at Stock Tips, saying, “Almost all stock brokers offer margin trading, which is essentially borrowing money from them to purchase more stocks. Investors do not understand margin trading or whether or not it is good for them. Deciding whether or not to borrow on margin is a business decision like any other.”
• Ryan presents Catch a Falling Knife – Buying the Housing Slump posted at Building Millionaire Money Habits, saying, “Thanks for hosting the carnival. Here’s a summary of my post: For someone who has some extra cash they are anxious to invest, it’s tough to find a safe place to invest as the stock and real estate markets are taking a beating. Here’s a look at what the better investment is – stocks or real estate.”
• Jed Norwood presents Forex Tips and Market Strategies posted at Forex Strategy Secrets , saying, “Developing a sense for the forex market can only come with dedicated practice and time set apart for learning.”
• The Investor presents How to harvest wheat and mine gold using ETCs posted at Monevator.com, saying, “By buying commodities you can diversify your portfolio over the long-term so it’s less dependent on the returns from shares. You might also hope to trade commodities, if you think you can buy when they’re priced low and sell when they’re high. (Far easier said then done, and plenty of boys in braces will hire you if you manage it regularly).”
• KCLau presents Withdraw EPF Money for Home Loan Installment: How it affects your Retirement Fund posted at KCLau’s Money Tips, saying, “An article on using EPF money for financing a home loan in Malaysia.”
• Jonny99 presents a last minute addition called How to Buy Foreclosed Homes: A Quick Guide To Home Foreclosures posted at Smart Money Daily. He adds the following: “The reality is, because of the current housing slump and credit crisis, many more foreclosed and could soon be foreclosed houses are being sold at steeply discounted prices. And someone is going to buy them. If you are considering purchasing a foreclosed home there are some things that you should know.”

Online Success

• Ruchir presents Monetizing Your Blog: 9 Proven Money Makers posted at TechnoMoney. He finds nine ways that bloggers can and do make good money.
• Marcus Hochstadt presents 5 Key Steps To Internet Business Success posted at Marcus Hochstadt, saying, “So you want to be a successful Internet business entrepreneur? Do you know the steps to take in order to achieve your goals and success? Marcus Hochstadt has listed 5 key steps everyone should take when wanting to achieve Internet business success.”
• Dave Origano presents The Growth Stages Of My Online Business posted at Online Marketing & Exponential Business Growth Blog.
• Simonne presents AdSense Channels Tracking And Reporting: Case Study posted at EzMoneyOn.Net, saying, “Online success has a very important component: testing. You’ll see how tracking can increase your AdSense earnings for the same amount of traffic.”
• American Entrepreneur presents How to Start Your Own Freelance Writing BusinessAmerican Small Business News. This is a very practical way to get started, hone your craft and find out how to run this business.
• Stephen Dean presents B.S. Excuses For Not Using Scarcity In Your Sales Copy posted at Stephen Dean’s Copywriting And Internet Advertising Blog – Copywriter. Stephen suggests some good and bad ideas for implementing scarcity.

Good luck to…

• Derrick Markotter presents Time For A Change posted at Online Business Blog. I’m wishing him luck on his new adventure! He quit his job!

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.

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 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.
• 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

Carnival of Making REAL Money

blog of the Week – Worldwide Success

David presents Millionaire Secrets posted at Worldwide Success. David presents some good ideas about how to think big and act big. He takes a negative view of negativity and negative people.

Recommended

• Hill Robertson presents You Must Spend Your Money and Time Wisely posted at Hill Robertson. He looks at whether outsourcing is a waste of money or not. Very valuable perspective.
• InvestorBlogger presents NetWork Solutions: How YOU can gouge your customers in 10 steps or less – a case study posted at InvestorBlogger dot com. This post looks at how upselling can turn customers away because of sticker shock.

In Business

• Carol Bentley presents Saying thanks. . . posted at Carol Bentley. Carol writes of the importance of saying ‘thank you’ not just to friends, but also those whom you deal with in your business.
• Mark Riffey presents Marketing with dusty bottles posted at Business is Personal. Mark posts his experience of how cleaning dusty bottles was in fact quite important to a business.
• Robert Phillips presents The Law of 250 posted at CYBERCA$HOLOGY and suggests how it can be a positive or a negative force in your business!
• James D. Brausch presents What’s wrong with Monster.com? posted at Internet Business Blog and suggests how the smaller business person shouldn’t think small at all!
• Tim Gary presents Are Your Customers Just Fresh Meat? posted at Internet Success Bites. A challenging post that highlights how good customer service can pay big dividends.
• InvestorBlogger presents NetWork Solutions: How YOU can gouge your customers in 10 steps or less – a case study posted at InvestorBlogger dot com. This post looks at how upselling can turn customers away because of sticker shock.
• Joshua C. Karlin presents Reason Why Sales & Marketing – The Power of Because? posted at Marketing & Fundraising Ideas.
• Andrew Erickson presents Taking the Long View – Are You In Business? posted at WebSite Werx. It’s a challenging question in a world that expects the short term.

Investing

• LIVING OFF DIVIDENDS presents Global Markets Crash: All Non-Correlated Markets Converge In A Downturn posted at LIVING OFF DIVIDENDS, saying, “Living Off Dividends explains why global markets converge during a down cycle in the economy.” Good solid advice for times when the ‘r’-word is being bandied about.
• Aussie Investor presents How To Invest In Gold posted at Australian Investing, saying, “Find out more about how to invest in gold.” Aussie Investor presents some alternatives to buying the bullion.
• Jose DeJesus MD presents The Market Crash America Missed posted at Physician Entrepreneur in which he advises “Panic selling is not a great strategy.” And I agree.
• KCLau presents Why Financial Planner will be the Hottest Job in 2008 posted at KCLau’s Money Tips , saying, “An article on why financial planning will be a hot job this year. Also the introduction of financial planning into various domains in life, eg. education”.

Online Success

• Sutocu presents Forum Marketing posted at Your Website Profit, saying, “Many go about forum marketing the wrong way. It is highly important to avoid spamming and only add relevant comments.”
• Matt OConnor presents Must Have Internet Marketing Ebooks posted at Adventures In Internet Marketing. He recommends some more reading though some pages for the books he recommends don’t load properly.
• Charles Eglinton presents eBay Power Seller posted at AuctionIncome.com – eBay Bidding Tips & Selling Tips, saying, “Is it Worth it to Be an eBay Power-Seller? It is worth it to become the kind of person who can be a Power-Seller”
• HL Grove presents Three Steps To Make Sure You Do Not “Over Monetize” Your Blog posted at MoneyWeb24. HL advises us clearly on how to avoid this trap. Sensible.
• Dave presents Can I Make Money From Online Surveys? posted at Cheapo Groovo. He advises us sensibly not to waste our time!
• And a warning from Ian Richardson presents WordPress Blogs can be HACKED so make sure you are protected. posted at Make Everything EzyAs123.

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.

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 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.
• 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.
• 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 @ InvestorBlogger
Carnival of Making REAL Money

Ads on your blog that never amount to anywhere near the $100 minimum to get paid out – you won’t here about schemes like that! Though you might read about websites that succeed using them. So out goes Bidvertisers, PayU2Blog, “I made millions, now you can, too” schemes, … and dozens of other schemes.

Well, on this blog, we’ll be looking at Making REAL Money, not just pennies or cents or pfennigs or rubles or yen or whatever! We’ll be writing about tips, advice, methods, role models, examples, and real success stories, too. Our weekly feature is our newsletter or Carnival of Making Real Money that is published on a weekly basis. Posting frequency will be three or four times a week. So you can subscribe to our feed and relax.

There were over 60 submissions but I have whittled away the spam, the articles from article sites, multiple submissions and am left with some 20 juicy gems. Enjoy! Now on with the Carnival.

blog of the Week – Living Off Dividends

• LIVING OFF DIVIDENDS presents How I made $1921.11 In Passive Income Last Month posted at LIVING OFF DIVIDENDS. You can read about the various streams of income and how they accumulated to make $1920 last month. Makes interesting reading.

Recommended

• Hill Robertsonpresents All You Have to do is Make a Profit?. posted at Hill Robertson, saying, “Just make a profit and then lather, rinse, repeat.” Hill explains the secret of finding a formula that works, refining it and making a million dollars. Of course, there’s a lot of sweat and toil! But it works.

Inspiration

• Tim Gary presents How to Make Time Out of Thin Air posted at How to Make Time Out of Thin Air. He explores the issue of procrastination. Something I’m sure we’re all familiar with.
• Ron Ruiz presents 22-Year-Old Trash into Successful Business posted at The Business Ideas-Making Money Blog. This is an inspiring story albeit briefly told.
• Sagar presents 75+ Tips on Becoming a Better Networker posted at Bootstrapper. Lots of useful advice on how to network effectively.

In The Money

• Kenton Newby presents Benefits of Being in the Physical Information Product Business posted at KentonNewby.com. He highlights the multiple benefits of creating, marketing and selling information products.
• Ted Stearns presents 4 Tips To Surviving The Real Estate Market posted at Seasoned TradeLines, saying, “It is easy to get caught up in the hysteria surrounding the real estate market. I offer 4 tips to help you stay focused and survive the slump.”
• Jose DeJesus MD presents Market Timing – When is the Best Time to Invest New Money posted at Physician Entrepreneur. This post offers a very simple solution to market timing issues. Worth reading.

Success in Business

• Richard Lee presents The One Thing You MUST Learn To Succeed In Any Business posted at Richard Lee. A simple home truth simply written. Read it. Think about it.
• Mark Riffey presents Bose understands what people want posted at Business is Personal. This describes Bose’s approach to customers.
• James D. Brausch presents Training Your Customers posted at jamesbrausch.com. This is a very interesting issue and something that many business owners fail to address properly.
• Aussie Investor presents How To Invest In Gold posted at Australian Investing. Aussie Investor explores alternatives that mean you don’t have to carry about huge ingots of the stuff!
• Carol Bentley presents Does your business pass the “Charlie the Plumber” test. . . posted at Carol Bentley . This is quite an original article with a good approach on dealing with customer selection.

Real World Wealth

• Martin Russell presents The Danger Of Free posted at Word of Mouth Marketing. This article explores why ‘free’ is a bad idea for your business!
• changeyourtree presents Two Simple Savings Concepts You Should Be Utilizing But Probably Aren?t posted at Change Your Tree, saying, “Winning with money requires the use of many different techniques all working together. Here are two great techniques that will build great strength in your finances.”
• neumes presents I Did My Millionaire Math, What Comes Next? posted at Millionaire Neumes, saying, “Getting from where you are to your first million begins with simple math. Once you’ve done that, what comes next?”

It’s an online world

• Fred Black presents Don’t give a Hoot about Google Page Rank. posted at Fred Black: Internet Business Blog.. This is quite up my alley at the moment! So don’t sweat it, according to Fred.
• Adrian presents How to Successfully Advertise Your Blog posted at Path to Your Destiny, saying, “Many people attempt to make money online by running a blog, but they all encounter a simple problem: If nobody’s visiting their blog, how on earth can they make money from it? This post takes in in-depth look at what it takes to successfully advertise your blog and bring in new, fresh readers.”
• george29 presents AboutEverything.com: Gain the Trust of First Time Buyers Online posted at AboutEverything.com, saying, “Steps to earn the trust of first time buyers onlie”. Wise words… Now how do we do that exactly?
• Matt OConnor presents Must Have Internet Marketing Ebooks posted at Adventures In Internet Marketing. Matt introduces some of his favorite reading.

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.

Additional Notes on Submitting Articles

Please note, though, that the terms of the Carnival have changed slightly. 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 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. Your article MAY, however, include links as you wish…
• 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.
• 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 @ InvestorBlogger
Carnival of Making REAL Money

Recommended Articles

Kingsley Tagbo presents How to Overcome Procrastination in 8 Easy Steps. This is easily the biggest factor that prevents us from being successful! Thanks, Kingsley.

Inspiration

Wanda Grindstaff presents Success vs Failure in a Home Based Business posted at Creating Abundant Lifestyles.

Woody Maxim presents One of the most important questions I’ve ever been asked posted at Woody Maxim.

Christine presents Finding Your Special Talent posted at Me, My Kid and Life: An American Single Mom Living in France. When you do find your talent, you can unlock your hidden potential.

Ed Rivis presents Discipline: Number One Success Tool for 2008. posted at Ed Rivis in which he describes his idea of the most important quality for success in any business.

Steve Faber presents Financial New Year’s Resolutions – 3 You Can Set and How to Achieve Them. posted at DebtBlog, which includes earning more money, saving more and getting out of debt!

Robert Phillips presents Top 3 Reasons New Year?s Resolutions are for Losers posted at CYBERCA$HOLOGY and asks “Are you a loser?”

Hot Money

Ryan presents Money Market Accounts posted at Care on Credit, saying, “A money market account you buy from a bank is different from a money market mutual fund you buy from a broker. Make sure you know the difference!”

Lori presents MyCreditcardCash.com Review | Blogging with Cents posted at Blogging with Cents, saying, “This was one of my first money makers. I was quite unsure about the program but gave it a go. If you have or can get traffic, then you can make this work. I’ve made a huge chunk of change with them. This is an online money maker and you do make REAL money.”

Richard Lee presents Internet Business » Business Ideas For 2008: Uncommon Advice posted at Richard Lee.

Pivotal Investor presents Fertilizer stocks sow the seeds of profits posted at Pivotal Investing, saying, “Share prices of fertilizer manufacturers have soared in recent months, fueled by growing demand for ethanol and feed crops, and the industry outlook remains sunny.”

Investing Angel presents Is Trading For You? posted at Stock Tips, saying, “See if stock trading is right for you!”

Lucy Baldwin presents Buying Gold 101 For Beginners posted at Gold To Buy: Investing in Gold, saying, “Here is a beginner’s guide to investing in gold.”

KCLau presents KCLau’s Money Tips in 2007 – Personal Finance Articles Yearly Roundup posted at KCLau’s Money Tips, saying, “This is my roundup of finance related articles from 2007.”

The Dividend Guy presents Understanding The Investor Life Cycle posted at The Dividend Guy Blog, saying, “The investor life cycle is important to consider when making your investment plans. This post talks about each of these phases one goes through in a life time.”

Online Success

Vahid Chaychi presents You Need to Make More Money? Why Don?t Start an Online Work at Home Business? posted at Weboma.com.

Jose DeJesus MD presents Online Business – A Source Of Success For Many posted at Physician Entrepreneur.

Ian Richardson presents Free Methods To Drive Traffic To Your Site posted at Make Everything EzyAs123.

James Alenteal presents A subtle conversion rate & response booster from 3 masters. posted at James Alenteal’s Conversion Rate Clinic, on how to increase your blog and website opt-ins.

That concludes this edition. Thanks for your patience. You can read other issues by clicking here. You can also submit your article to the next edition using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

Additional Notes on Submitting Articles

Please note, though, that the terms of the Carnival have changed slightly. If you have any questions, just see the most recent Carnival for what’s accepted. So hurry… get your submissions in!

• your article must be original and previously unpublished in this carnival. One article per person/blog only. I like to maintain 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. Your article MAY, however, include links as you wish…
• 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.
• 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
Editor
Carnival of Making REAL Money

After receiving a nice letter telling me about this from Denise, I thought I would mention it on my blog.

What is Carnival of Making REAL Money?

This Blog Carnival is about Making Real Money. In fact, this carnival aims to promotes ideas that make real money. The more original the better! Let’s hear how you have made money! We strive to offer quality links to quality blogs.

If you have any questions, just see the most recent Carnival for what’s accepted. So hurry… get your submissions in! Editions are published every Sunday at the moment, and acceptance rates are running at about 30% as we strive for quality articles.

The most recent carnivals are: January 1st and December 23rd. The upcoming edition will be published January 6th. Submissions deadline is approaching on Friday.

Current blog Carnival Policy

• * your article must be unique (no Articles from online sources)
• * no spam or articles that are pitching something for sale. This is not an advertising carnival. Your article MAY, however, include any advertising and affiliates as you wish…
• * 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.
• * No more than one submission will be accepted from an individual at an edition.
• * It would be nice if you acknowledge the blog carnival somewhere on your blog. 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!

Comments and questions via the contact form:

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Thanks.

Denise from BlogCarnival wrote:

“Dear IB, Just wanted to let you know that we’ve chosen carnival of making real money to be our featured carnival on Thursday, January 3rd. You’ll see it splashed on our homepage all day.

We recently added featured carnivals to highlight and acknowledge carnivals we really like. Congratulations!

Regards, Denise”

So I’m definitely hoping that this edition will be better than the previous ones. That’s great news, and I’m sure it will help bring more submissions! Thanks to the writers who helped to get it mentioned!

Recommended Articles

FIRE Finance presents Our 7 Mutual Fund Investing Mistakes! posted at FIRE Finance. This article has some great subheadings! Some of the advice would also apply to almost every asset class. (Recommended)

Dan Johnson presents How to Automate Your Savings with a Credit Card posted at Credit Cards That Pay which outlines a technique that I was unaware of. This could really start some good savings habits! (Recommended)

For more on investing, real estate, business, click on ‘more’…

Investing, Real Estate and Business

Pivotal Investor presents Top 10 Growth Stocks For Under $10 posted at Pivotal Investing. Pivotal Investor outlines 10 stocks and describes their companies. Of course, do your own DD before you consider buying.

Vahid Chaychi presents Is Forex a Suitable Job for Everybody? posted at Weboma.com in which he highlights the business, the kind of personality needed, and human frailties of trading (some of which are all too well known to this editor!)

Dereck presents Very Large Dataset Analysis #3 – 91 Good Dividends For Bad Times posted at The Best Stock Trading in the World, in which he outlines some interesting stocks with good yields!

FSBOJane presents Take a chance, make an investment! posted at FSBO Jane and outlines how killing two birds with one stone may be a good opportunity. How about combining your workplace with your home?

ChristianPF presents Would Peter Lynch invest in Crocs? posted at Christian PF in which he considers whether investing in Crocs would make a sound investment or not.

Allen Taylor presents Student Housing – A Niche Market – The ?Echo Boomers? are off to College posted at Investing World Today. As a student, my landladies over the years were way into this kind of investing. It paid well, I’m sure.

Blaine presents Business venture is starting to take root posted at BlainePower.com. He describes how he started a business on a shoestring and what’s happening now.

In Business: Advice, Help and Inspiration

Fred Black presents The Frustration of Trying to Make Money Online posted at Fred Black: Internet Business Blog. Fred outlines 20 things that can help you to succeed where so many failed before.

Ed Rivis presents 2008 campaign testing. posted at Ed Rivis. Ed outlines how to attract new clients for both online and offline businesses. Practical and to the point.

James D. Brausch presents Four Types Of Systems posted at jamesbrausch.com in which he offers real advice on managing your business processes. Sensible and practical.

Kenton Newby presents Can You Really Make Money Showing People “How To”? posted at KentonNewby.com in which Kenton challenges you to find new ways to make money by helping people.

Mark Riffey presents Does your business run at the speed of trust? posted at Business is Personal in which he consider how there is a lack of integrity in business these days. He challenges you to take action!

Hill Robertson presents Turn Your Passion into Your Profit posted at Hill Robertson. He describes how he turned his simple interest in Christmas lights became a passion that drives him today. What’s your passion?

Personal Money Making Methods

Lulu presents How to make the most of Cash Back Credit Cards this Christmas posted at How I Save Money.net in which Lulu outlines how to earn and save on your Credit Cards on spending that you would do anyway.

Steve Faber presents Tips For Selling Your Own House posted at Debt Solution, unfortunately, the lack of formatting makes an otherwise excellent article difficult to read.

That concludes this edition. Thanks for your patience. You can read other issues by clicking here. You can also submit your article to the next edition using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

Additional Notes on Submitting Articles

Please note, though, that the terms of the Carnival have changed slightly. If you have any questions, just see the most recent Carnival for what’s accepted. So hurry… get your submissions in!

• your article must be original and previously unpublished in this carnival. One article per person/blog only. I like to maintain 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. Your article MAY, however, include links as you wish…
• 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.
• 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
Editor
Carnival of Making REAL Money

Making Real Money

Jose DeJesus MD presents Portfolio diversification and picking the right asset mix posted at Physician Entrepreneur.

MoneyNing presents My Fiancee Was Offered to Break The Law posted at Money Ning, saying, “The perfect example of how not to make money!”

Richard Lee presents Everything You Will Ever Need To Know About Business posted at Richard Lee.

Dereck Coatney presents How To Make A Million Dollars In About 8 Years posted at The Best Stock Trading in the World.

Woody Maxim presents What will you do with the message? posted at Woody Maxim.

Tips for Bloggers

Stephen Dean presents Copywriting Technique: Blow It Up… posted at Stephen Dean’s Copywriting And Internet Advertising Blog – Copywriter.

Tiffany Colter presents Leaving the information age posted at Writing Career Coach.

Woody Maxim presents Watch your ad spend closely posted at Woody Maxim.

Kenton Newby presents Google Analytics Goodness…Can You Believe This is Free? posted at KentonNewby.com.

Ian Richardson presents Hosted WordPress Is FREE To Install, and YOU have complete control! posted at Make Everything EzyAs123.

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.

Please note, though, that the terms of the Carnival have changed slightly.

This carnival aims to be about ideas that make real money. The more original the better! So, let’s hear how you have made money! Each Carnival will only have quality links.

If you have any questions, just see the most recent Carnival for what’s accepted. So hurry… get your submissions in! blog Carnival Policy:

• your article must be unique (no Articles from online sources). One article per person/blog. Additional articles may be resubmitted.
• no spam or articles that are pitching something for sale. This is not an advertising carnival. Your article MAY, however, include any advertising and affiliates as you wish…
• 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.
• 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!…

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