30th Carnival of Making REAL Money – April 10th, 2009

This is the 30th 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 of over 250 submissions. It’s always a pleasure to read through these submissions.

We’ve gone simple this month, and just focused on personal finance stuff.

  1. Jed Norwood presents Safe Banking posted at Forex Course | ForexStrategySecrets.com, saying, “Getting a safe bank is top priority of any investor. This article has a table about the safety ratings for banks. It is worth the read.”
  2. Vera Lang presents How to Sell Your Jewelry in Art Galleries posted at Fine Craft Guild .com, saying, “If you are going to make money, you might as well make and sell something you love. This article is to help artisans get their head straight and make it a business.”
  3. TasJack presents How to Avoid Home Foreclosure posted at Stop and Avoid Foreclosure Resources, saying, “In these tough economic times, more Americans than ever are finding it difficult to pay the home loan notes they signed several years ago, or even more recently. The housing seller”
  4. Steve Patterson presents Use your Home Office as a Tax Deduction in 2009 posted at 2008 Taxes, saying, “When your home business is creating too many tax liabilities take a look at the office in the home tax deduction.”
  5. MoneyNing presents The Stress of Having Supersized Lifestyle posted at Money Ning, saying, “Not everything need to be supersized.”
  6. Buck Weber presents Sell Your CDs & DVDs posted at THE BUCK LIST, saying, “Tape cassettes are down to fifty cents each, usually, and VHS tapes have fallen from a used price of $4 to $5 to an average of around a dollar now. Can CDs and DVDs be far behind in the face of Blu-ray and MP3 formats?”
  7. ifvat presents Junk Silver Coins – How to Purchase Silver Bullion Under Spot | ifvat.com posted at ifvat, saying, “I’m going to tell you about a certain type of coins that you can purchase under the spot price of silver.”
  8. KCLau presents Save money the stupid way posted at KCLau’s Money Tips, saying, “Simple ways to save money”
  9. Bank Savings Review presents FNBO Direct Online Savings Account Review posted at Bank Savings Review, saying, “FNBO Direct is one of the best banks out there. I especially love their bill pay feature”
  10. farid presents How To Make Money In 3 Easy Steps With Forex posted at Easy Ways To Make Money From Blog And Get Profit, saying, “I am going to tell you The Secret of Easy Money. How to make money just by clicking mouse buttons? The answer is simple “
  11. Jacquelyn presents Financial Housekeeping When You Are Laid Off posted at WParent.com – Wise Parenting Guide, saying, “When you are laid off or facing retrenchment, financial matters must be taken care off. This article suggests some of the areas to look into.”
  12. Matt Sherberg presents Choosing the Best Debt Solution posted at Debt, saying, “When you have mountains of debt piling up and you have debt collectors waiting at your doorstep, it is time to get off the couch and find a debt solution that will work for you. The right debt solution can help you reduce your debt.”

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. Oh, 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