Making REAL Money Blog

Welcome to the March 22, 2008 edition of carnival of making real money. In many parts of the world, people are celebrating Easter; in Taiwan, it’s the 12th presidential election. In this edition, there were more than 75 submissions, from which I have been able to find about 1/3 that are worth presenting.

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

Welcome to the March 10, 2008 edition of carnival of making real money. Some how out of 66 submissions, I was able to find only 16 that I thought were appropriate for this carnival. So without further ado, I present these in the carnival… Thanks to the writers for the best articles! Well done.

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 carnival of making real money. This edition of the carnival has some great articles in it as usual. Kudos to those bloggers who wrote them. I was sad to leave out a number of great articles that didn’t correspond with the conditions of this carnival. I do have another carnival with easier TOS, but unfortunately, the first edition got screwed up seriously. However, if you bear with me, I’ll fix that for the 2nd edition of Dot Com Carnival (coming soon!).

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