Welcome to the January 27, 2008 edition of carnival of making real money. This is the first edition to be hosted on the new website/blog: MakingREALMoneyBlog. As usual, I’ve performed my editor’s trick of whittling away a bunch of crap to leave the gems that remain glistening, bright and informative! We had over 60 submissions, and we’re presenting the best 1/3rd of the bunch. Enjoy!
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.
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Best Wishes
Kenneth @ InvestorBlogger
Carnival of Making REAL Money
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