Working at Home on the Internet

Working at Home Blog Carnival-Twenty-first Edition

Welcome to the February 23, 2007 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

Matthew Paulson presents How To Identify Bad Financial Advice posted at Getting Green.

Debra Moorhead presents How to Set Clear, Definite Goals posted at Debra Moorhead.com, saying, “Being specific is so important in many business aspects. This article is about being clear about what you want.”

Tatum Manny presents Two Classic Blogging Income Mistakes and How to Overcome Them posted at Internet Marketing Tell All, saying, “”Proof that I’m right: Go to a prominent blogger’s site, one who makes a great income from their blog like Shoemoney, Steve Pavlina, or Problogger. Do you see 16 different banners for Amazon, Barnes and Noble, four different blog ad networks, Clickbank RSS Generated feeds and Google AdSense? Do the pages seem cluttered to you?”"

Stephanie Foster presents MyBlogLog Growing Pains posted at Aspects of Home Business Blog, saying, “MyBlogLog has some great potential but has also gone through some growing pains.”

business

Michelle presents Balance Sheet Basics posted at Aridni, saying, “Thanks for hosting!”

Silicon Valley Blogger presents Top 20 Dumbest Business Ideas That Made Millions…Or Not! posted at The Digerati Life.

Slade presents Martha Stewart Style Blog Marketing posted at PageCoach, saying, “Rather than trying to sell the perfect cookie to everyone in America, Martha decided to make a buck selling information ABOUT HOW TO MAKE a great cookie. Transforming her expertise into a career lies more in her ability to communicate.”

Jack Yoest presents Mothers Working At Home posted at Reasoned Audacity, saying, “More and more women are turning to home-based businesses as a way to find emotional balance with their work and with their children. But the IRS isn’t making it easy. Reforms are needed; Charmaine Yoest is co-author of Mother in the Middle: Searching for Peace in the Mommy Wars. This article was adapted from her article in Policy Review: The Journal of American Citizenship of The Heritage Foundation. Wendelyn Martz has lived on both sides of the mommy wars.”

Susan Velez presents How Important Is Your Goal? posted at The Secret To Life.

Beno Varghese presents Get paid to review posts on this site! posted at Beno Varghese dot-com.

Christopher J. Brunner presents Which Internet Browser Should You Choose? posted at The Small Business Buzz, saying, “The perks of Mozilla’s Firefox Internet Browser, explored by a recent convert from IE.”

humor

Sarakastic presents An open letter to spammers posted at Fibromyalgia Experiment, saying, “I thought it was funny.”

stories

Will Chen presents Mr. Cheap Stuff: Who do you think you are? posted at Wisebread, saying, “Interview with entrepreneur Dean Takamine, the webmaster of one the most popular deal finding websites MrCheapStuff.com.”

tips

David Olsen presents Blogging to the sound of SpongeBob posted at Affiliate Profit Center.

GP presents Some Day My Spring Will Come posted at Fish Creek House - INNside Innkeeping, saying, “As an innkeeper, taking care of the creature comforts in an eco-friendly way is a win, win, the environment, us and of course our guests.”

kumiko suzuki presents How To Make Money Online Uploading Videos - The Ultimate Guide posted at Cash Quest, saying, “Thousands of dollars can be made uploading videos!”

The Positivity Blog presents Prioritize with The Pareto Principle posted at Henrik Edberg.

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of working at home blog carnival using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.  If you would like to host one of my Carnivals, just use the contact form to make arrangements.

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February 23rd, 2007 at 06:14am | Posted by Joe | Carnivals, Work at Home | 9 reader remarks | Print This Post

What Would Seth Godin Do? Increase Your RSS Subscriptions

 Last week I asked… Is RSS Hurting The Blogging Community? The overwhelming response was that it is the Lesser of Two Evils. People don’t have the time to surf looking for your articles. RSS saves time and effort on the part of the reader and it is up to us to provide good content if we want to draw them into the conversation.

Lets face it, we All want people read what we write. That’s why we picked Blogging as a way to reach out to others for Business or Pleasure. That’s where RSS comes in. It is a way to give your readers what they want (good content) and they don’t have to go looking for it. RSS will send it to their Feed Reader as soon as you update your blog. I’m not going to get into the debate of full/partial feeds, that’s between you and your readers.

What I am going to do is share a WordPress Plug-in I found (I really don’t remember where, I should write these things down) that could help you convert new visitors to your blog into RSS Subscribers.

It’s called What Would Seth Godin Do?

What it does is put a Caption on your posts to invite New Visitors to Subscribe to your RSS Feed and/or through your E-mail Subscriptions. Just download the file, upload the file to your Plug-in folder (yes it is only one file). You can change the text to whatever you desire. The times it is shown to newbies can be set to the amount you feel works best for you.

It can be set to show either at the top or bottom of posts. It will show only once on a page, but will show on individual posts if the visitor lands on an individual post. The only minor drawback is that All of your visitors will be considered New until their cookies show that they have been there the number of times you set. So, don’t set it too high, you don’t want your regular readers to have to deal with it too often.

This is NOT a Paid Review… Boy, I hate having to say that, Damn Review Me…

Technorati Tags: RSS, What Would Seth Godin Do, Plugin

February 22nd, 2007 at 01:40pm | Posted by Joe | Blogging, Plug-ins, RSS, Reviews | 4 reader remarks | Print This Post

Would You Delete a Post When You Know You’re Right?

I’m going to take a page out of Liz’s book and ask a hypothetical working at home (blogging) question. Hope you don’t mind Liz.

 Question:

You wrote a post over a year ago about a business relationship that really started you Blogging. For you, it was a pretty good relationship. It neither made you money nor lost you money but you thanked the person for steering you in the right direction.

In response to the post, you get emails and comments from people who had a different relationship with this person which is described by them as Not Good. So, you wrote subsequent posts reflecting the differing opinions of your respondents who did not have the same experience you had.

Fast forward to present day. You are getting emails from the wife of the business man demanding you take all posts down and delete all references to them under threat of action by their lawyers. You know that everything you presented was correct through personal experience. So far everything has been said and done in the background by email, but it may be time to go public with the whole story.

What would you do?

February 21st, 2007 at 05:27pm | Posted by Joe | Attitude, Rants | 19 reader remarks | Print This Post