August 2008

23rd Carnival of Making REAL Money – September 3rd, 2008

This is the 23rd edition of the Carnival of Making Money Online. I’m proud to offer this limited list of top quality articles that are vetted from the original list of submissions. It’s always a pleasure to read through these submissions.

Recommended Reading

  • GrrlScientist presents High Wire: The Precarious Financial Lives of American Families posted at Living the Scientific Life, saying, “This is a book review of a nonfiction masterpiece that will keep you awake at night, planning how to safeguard your economic future — all on your own! It talks about the most important and long-term relationship in your life: your relationship with your work, and how that has changed substantially since the 1970s. It also discusses the myth that the average American can become a wise enough financial planner and investor to “beat the odds” and become at least more financially comfortable.”

Other Reading

  1. KCLau presents What Do You Know About Bankruptcy? posted at KCLau’s Money Tips, saying, “Bankcruptcy is a word that immediately brings a negative vision to our minds. It happens everywhere in the world and is not partial to a certain country, race or nationality. An article on how bankruptcy happens and how to be discharged from bankruptcy.”
  2. MoneyNing presents Stop Worrying About Your Finances posted at Money Ning, saying, “Stop worrying about your finance and just go do it already!”
  3. Dorian Wales presents The Guardian: “Toxic Debt Can Damage Your Wealth” posted at The Personal Financier, saying, “The Guardian: “A panel of top Wall Street bankers has recommended cigarette-style health warnings on complex financial instruments and suggests that ill-considered bonus packages may be encouraging financiers to take excessive risks”"
  4. Dr. Joe Capista presents How a Vision Statement Can Influence Your Business Success posted at The Success Triangle, saying, “Many people tend to negate the value of a vision statement for a business. But a vision statement is important for success of a business as it provides a sense of direction on where you want your business to go. Without a vision, you are like a crewless boat; adrift with no destination in sight. Discover the importance of having a concise vision statement.”
  5. Joe Manausa presents How To Dispute Your Property Taxes posted at Tallahassee Real Estate Blog, saying, “As long as the assessed value does not exceed the market value they will raise the assessed value, so it is important to know what your property is worth today!”
  6. Kacper Wrzesniewski presents Why did I invest so little? posted at KacperWrzesniewski.com, saying, “It is very common that after successful picking a stock an investor is asking this question. This feeling that you could invest more and now enjoy much bigger earnings appears and it is difficult to free your mind

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.

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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 don’t bother to follow the policy. Well, that’s a pity because I left out some great articles this time around! 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. 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

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Dot Com Carnival for August 23, 2008

Welcome to the August 16, 2008 edition of dotcom carnival.

  1. KCLau presents Average Monthly Household Income in 2007: Is it enough? posted at KCLau’s Money Tips, saying, “According to a survey done by the Statistic Department for the Economic Planning Unit, published in Personal Money Magazine June 2008 edition, a typical family in Malaysia earns only RM3686/month. How much this is worth and how much can be spent.”
  2. Fred Black presents Why Do Smart People Sometimes Find Success So Difficult? posted at Fred Black: Internet Business Blog..
  3. Liz presents 7 Reasons Your Online Business Will Fail posted at Nitro Marketing Blog, saying, “Are you making these 7 common mistakes with your internet business?”
  4. Alvaro Fernandez presents Mind Games @ Venture Capital Journal posted at SharpBrains: Your Window into the Brain Fitness Revolution, saying, “The August issue of Venture Capital Journal brings a very good piece on the emerging brain fitness software (also called “neurosoftware”) category:”
  5. Eric Holmlund presents 18 Ways to Make Money Online posted at Eric’s Tips, saying, “This is part of my lesson series. If you would prefer to link to one of my other lessons instead, that would be fine too.”
  6. Fiona King presents 100 Free Security Tools That Will Save Your Online Privacy posted at Internet Service Deals.
  7. Richard Adams presents 99% Of Success Online Is Selecting The Right Niche posted at No More Compromise.
  8. Helen Anderson presents Protect Yourself When Shopping Online posted at Savings Accounts.
  9. Raymond presents How To Chase High Interest Rates On Savings Accounts and Manage Them posted at Money Blue Book.
  10. Kenton Newby presents Six More Upgrades to Supercharge Your Wordpress Blog posted at KentonNewby.com.

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of dotcom carnival using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page. Do check out our submission requirements, before you submit!

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Update #1: Adding two new feeds for Top 20, updating others

It’s time for the second revision to the feeds. There’s really not much too this.

Graduates: GeniusTypes and AndyBeard

GeniusTypes: It’s been great having his blog on our recommended feeds list, but GeniusType’s author is now busy pursuing his movie making career. Still there are some wonderful posts on his blog, including Candy Machines: How to get started.

AndyBeard’s Blog is also a great blog for information on SEO and Affiliate Marketing stuff. Unfortunately, he’s been quite busy, too, and hasn’t updated in nearly 2 months.

Updates: InvestorBlogger and AdesBlog

InvestorBlogger and AdesBlog feeds have both been updated. In fact, I’ve had trouble with Ades feed on several occasions. Still I think it’s fixed now.

New Enrolments: EMonetized and MyMoneyBlog

EMonetized Blog focuses on affiliate marketing, blogging, and much more. He’s got a lot of great posts about this and I’ll hopefully be featuring much more on his blog.

MyMoneyBlog has been blogging since late 2004 (almost before InvestorBlogger started!) with a lot of great financial posts related to savings, earning money, and personal financial issues.

To download the latest release, click on this link.

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