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Working at Home Blog Carnival-Eighty-fourth Edition

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Welcome to the May 9, 2008 edition of working at home blog carnival. This weeks Carnival has, as always, some really good articles. So, Sit Back and Enjoy.

And Here We Go…

advice

Steve Faber presents - Increase Targeted Web Site Traffic – It’s All in a Name posted at Home Based Business Success.

Tali presents Mark Joyner’s Mind Control Marketing - Fascinating, but Do You NEED it? posted at The Marketer Review, saying, “What can we- internet marketers- learn from psychology, sociology, physics, military tactics, sports plays and politics? Mark Joyner believes that we con learn to control the minds of others.”

business

Matthew Paulson presents 2 Tips for Free Website Marketing posted at American Entrepreneurship.

Carol Bentley presents How informative are your sales letters. . . posted at Carol Bentley, saying, “How informative are your sales letters?”

Ed Rivis presents Public admission. I’m guilty. posted at Ed Rivis, saying, “Public admission. I’m guilty.”

Jack S. Keifer presents Finding The Magic Pill For Unlimited Income Online posted at Jack S. Keifer.

Deb Bixler presents Sensational Summer Sales posted at Direct Sales / MLM Cash Flow, saying, “Summer is a terrific time for business when you choose to make it happen…. This audio post is all about attitude!”

Michael Law presents How Business Cards Can Skyrocket Your Business posted at A Law Student and Young Lawyer Blog - Law Vibe.

general

Prashant K Shukla presents Role of Meta Title Tag in SEO | My Smart SEO posted at Prashant K Shukla, saying, “Meta tags are the blocks which contain information about the contents of your web page and they exist into the head area of your web page. They are basically meant to communicate with the search engine. The Meta Keywords Tag and Meta Description Tag also need to be taken care of and optimized equally in addition to that of Meta Title Tag to secure a place at the top of the search engines and in convincing a search engine that your site’s contents are more relevant than that of your competitor’s.”

lists

P.L. Frederick presents Small & Big: 18 Excuses Not To Go To Work Today posted at Small and Big, saying, “18 reasons to drop that office job and go work for yourself.”

tips

BlogMeTheMoney presents Powering Up Your Blog With These 26 Power Lists/Rankings posted at Blog Me The Money, saying, “traffic=money, brand awareness=traffic=money, If your business is a blog this article can help, if you dont have a blog for your business, that is always a great way to add to your traffic to your business site that is not a blog.”

GP presents Team Canter Prepares to hit the trail posted at Innstyle Montana- Come on Inn, saying, “Whether running your business. or organizing an outdoor adventure.. plan, plan and plan again”

Dorian Wales presents The Personal Financier: Content Sites Compared: Helium, Associated Content and Constant Content posted at Personal Financier.

Brian Terry presents 259+ Great Resources for Great Web Design posted at Big Selling Website Design.

work

David B. Bohl presents Tips for Setting Boundaries in Your Life and Work posted at Slow Down Fast Today!, saying, “Setting boundaries prevents misunderstandings, hurt feelings, awkward situations, grudges and other interpersonal torpedoes from endangering your relationships.”

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May 9th, 2008 at 06:51am | Posted by Joe | Carnivals, Work at Home | 2 reader remarks | Print This Post

Things Can Still Go Wrong, Even With a Game Plan

 Well, my desktop has finally had a fatal crash!

The end was a bit drawn out. Tuesday night, it had a minor crash, but I was able to revive it with a little tender loving care and maybe a little name calling.

Yesterday, it rebooted on it’s own as I was in the middle of typing something, but when it came back, it couldn’t find the hard-drive. I went into the extreme back end of the setup and convinced it that it should boot from my backup disk and reintroduced it to the hard-drive.

Today upon booting up, it wanted to do a check-disk test, so I let it go through and everything was fine for about an hour. Then I started smelling something electrical. You know that pungent smell of ozone. Well, I think it was the hard-drive taking it’s last breath. All the power went off and stayed off!

I knew the end was coming and even made plans to go out today and get another desktop. The lappy is fine for travel, but it doesn’t have all my everyday files etc. just the things I use while I am away from my home office.

The plan was to get the new computer, transfer all my files from my old baby to the new guy and everything would be just honkey-dorey. Well, we all know that saying about “The best laid plans…” nothing goes the way you want and it definately never goes smoothly.

So, even with having a really good plan and a backup of files I need, this is just going to be a pain to accomplish a simple little task that should have only taken an hour.

I’m off to get the new desktop in a couple of minutes, wish me luck!

May 8th, 2008 at 10:31am | Posted by Joe | Attitude, Rants | reader remarks | Print This Post

My Take On SOBCon08: It Takes Passion to be Successful

 I’ve been pondering for a couple of days about what SOBCon 08 meant to me and what I could share with you about the experience of being among Professional and Amature Bloggers and how that could relate to Business.

All of the presenters were quite informative and full of information that could be used in a Home Business, Online or Offline. But, the One Thing that they all shared and every one of the participants was full of is…

PASSION for What They Do!

Saturday was basically for the nuts and bolts of how to use Blogging as a Tool to enhance your business. Still the Passion of people like Wendy Piersall (and all the rest) came through in the way they talked and how they shared Their experiences to try to help the rest of us! (Wendy actually inspired Brian Clark of CopyBlogger to write a post about how he ended up where he is today)

The same Passion came through at the get togethers both before and after the Main Event. Although lots of great information was shooting in all directions, My biggest take-away was some of the casual conversation that had nothing to do with Business.

These People are Passionate about their Businesses, their Families, their Cities, their Pet Projects. They are Real people, just like you and me and they Love what they Do. If you had a question, they had an answer. If they didn’t have the answer, they would help you find the answer. It’s almost like we always knew each other, friends helping friends and sharing because that’s what friends do.

So, I’d like to introduce you to My Friends…

• Cliff Atkinson
• Shashi Bellamkonda
• JJ Betts
• Chris Brown
• Chris Brogan
• Anita Bruzzese
• Dave Bullock
• Mark Carter
• Brian Clark
• Tom Clifford
• Clay Collins
• Valerie Combs
• Chris Cree
• Lisa Cree
• Thomas Croghan
• Donna Cutting
• David Dalka
• Kevin Dixie
• Tim Draayer
• Andrew Dubber
• Easton Ellsworth
• Kevin Ferrasci O’Malley
• Chantelle Flannery
• Sarah Filipiak
• Mary-Lynn Foster
• Annie Galvin Teich
• Brian Gardner
• Chris Garrett
• Jon Gatrell
• Phil Gerbyshak
• Jared Goralnick
• Karen Hanrahan
• Joseph Hauckes
• Vicky Hennegan
• Scot Herrick
• John Hong
• Stephen Hopson
• Robert Hruzek
• Timothy Johnson
• Sara
• Pete Jones
• Todd Jordan
• Bob Kakoliris
• Christine Kane
• Adam Kayce
• Kristen King
• Scott Kolbe
• Jen Knoedl
• Thomas Knoll
• Stephen Koernig
• Bryan Kress
• George Krueger
• Amy L
• Tammy Lenski
• James G. Lindberg
• Eli Litscher
• Rick Mahn
• Sim Margolis
• Michael Martine
• Becky McCray
• Maria Meadows
• Cory Miller
• Ann Michael
• Dawud Miracle
• Debra Moorhead
• Matthew Murphy
• Paul O’Flaherty
• Tim Padar
• Jesse Petersen
• Melissa Pierce
• Wendy Piersall
• Sandra Ponce de Leon
• J. Erik Potter
• Karen Putz
• Susan R Quandt
• Levy Rivers
• Barbara Rozgonyi
• Jeff Sable
• Sheila Scarborough
• Mary Schmidt
• Derek Semmler
• Maria Sharon
• David Sherbow
• Steve Sherlock
• Brad Shorr
• Louise Silberman
• Sonia Simone-Rossney
• Julien Smith
• Stephen Smith
• Michael Snell
• Derrick Sorles
• Terry Starbucker
• Liz Strauss
• Jon Swanson
• Ruth M Sylte
• Michelle Vandepas
• Lorelle VanFossen
• Colleen Wainwright
• Denise Wakeman
• James D. Walton
• Randy Windsor
• Joanna Young

This post was going to be more about Networking and how that would relate to building a Small Business, but PASSION for what you do is At Least as Important. And if you have the Passion for Your Business, Networking will come naturally.

Do you have the Passion to make Your Business a Success?

(Before you ask, Yes I Did use Liz’s list)

May 6th, 2008 at 03:29pm | Posted by Joe | Attitude, Blogging, Community, Inspiration, Work at Home | 4 reader remarks | Print This Post