Welcome to the December 9th edition of The Carnival of Making Real Money. There’s some great reading in here, so take your time this weekend, and read over the articles. See if you can’t find some new ways to make money next week! And if you want to submit, head on over to Our Submission Page.

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I’ve received dozens of entries for Issue #3 this week. Because of the sheer volume and range in quality, I’ve decided to accept entries that are relevant to the Carnival Theme. I’ve also received some spam entries, and some entries that fell between issues. I’m rejecting the spam entries out of hand, but the in-between entries I will accept this time.

Investing

Investing looks at ways that you can make money through stocks, ETFs, property, etc.

• The Skilled Investor presents The Fund Authority Score – A Better Mutual Fund and ETF Rating System posted at THE SKILLED INVESTOR Blog. The blog states: “With the Fund Authority Score system, individual investors can make concise and objective mutual fund and ETF comparisons. Fund Authority Scores are based on cost, performance, and other measures, which are correlated with better long term buy-and-hold investment results.”
• Leon Gettler presents Private equity: who makes money? posted at Sox First. He writes “Average private equity returns have underperformed the market. And the evidence suggests private equity firms mislead investors by overstating their profits.”
• Edith presents 2008 Apartment Market Trends (U.S.) posted at Stewart Hsu.

Real World Wealth

The Real World segment presents ideas from the real world of making money. This week’s issue looks at some ways to make cash, educate your customers, and property or business investments.

• Mark Riffey presents Strike a chord with your clientele, & educate them. posted at Business is Personal.
• Ron Ruiz presents Earn Money By Standing In Line posted at The Business Ideas-Making Money Blog.
• Anna Kuperberg presents Venus the Great Dane posted at SlobberSpace – A Dog Photo Blog.
• James D Brausch presents Joint Ventures posted at jamesbrausch.com.

Online Success

Online Success focuses on the world in front of your eyes! Tips on business ideas, getting referrers, advertising, blogging, etc. are all welcome in this category.

• Dan-O presents Mega Online Comic Manual: Create, Share and Profit from Webcomics posted at Danogo.com – Discover. Inspiring . Media. He encourages us with a post on how to make money and have fun creating webcomics and publishing them on the Web.
• Kenton Newby presents Video Tip of the Week: Automatically Finding Ideas for New Website Content posted at KentonNewby.com.
• Warren Wong presents How To Start A Successful Blog posted at Personal Development providing tips on how to start a successful blog and what it takes to succeed.
• Carol Bentley presents Refer, refer and be referred posted at Carol Bentley.
• Jim Sansi presents PR What? posted at The Kaizen Business.Jim Sansi presents PR What? posted at The Kaizen Business.
• Ed Rivis presents AB Split Testing Google. posted at Ed Rivis.
• Alex M presents Effective online marketing: what works? posted at We talk on making money on the Internet.

In The Money, the Mindset, and General

In the money presents financial reports and earnings reports.

• Malin presents November Earnings Report posted at Infektia.net.
• Todd presents 7 Essential Habits To Acquire Greater Wealth posted at We The Change.
• Andrew Michaels presents Freedom: Start Young, Live Simply posted at Lifecrafting. This article is about financial independence and freedom and how to get it. What are you working for? Why do you spend the hours of your life in a cubicle? Are you living your life how you want to right now, or putting off life for 30 years for an eventual “retirement day”. Take a look at your life.
• Mark Riffey presents Reach out. Regularly. Or they’ll forget about you. posted at Business is Personal.

I hope you enjoy the articles in this newsletter. That concludes this update. Submit your blog article to the next edition of carnival of making real money using our carnival submission form.

Best Wishes

Kenneth