Making REAL Money Blog

Welcome to the April 1st, 2008 edition of the carnival of making real money. Well, we’ve had quite a rollercoaster ride over the last few weeks with elections, primaries, credit crises, seesaw markets… Our writers have come through this time with some quality articles, so thank you.

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 14 submissions!

Recommended

Inspiration

• Aaron Brandon presents Just Start A Business? posted at Aaron Brandon.

• James D. Brausch presents How To Learn posted at Internet Business Blog.

• Lee McIntyre presents Do What You Love Not What You Hate posted at Lee McIntyre’s Honest Marketing Blog.

• 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

• Barb A. Ryan presents Your Family Financial Planning posted at Pasadena Financial Planner.

• 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.

• Amy S Quinn presents CRM for Freelancers: 26 Tips a One-Man-shop Can Use to Make More Money posted at Bootstrapper.

• 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.