Carnival of Making REAL Money Issue #21 on August 1st, 2008
August 1, 2008 | Posted by InvestorBlogger | Comments Off
These articles are presented for the Carnival of Making REAL Money edition for August 1st, 2008. Because there are only a few articles for this edition, I’ve only organized a few categories! Thank you for your excellent submissions and keep them coming! Summer time is no time to forget about personal finance, that’s for sure!
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
Tuesday’s News Round Up: Asus Eee PC 900, PPP, and Carnivals
March 11, 2008 | Posted by InvestorBlogger | Comments Off
In Tuesday’s News on InvestorBlogger Dot Com, as we delve into some stories of interest to me! But first…
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.
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