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Working at Home Blog Carnival-Sixty-nineth Edition

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Welcome to the January 25, 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

cfgoulart presents Drop Shipper Review - DBL posted at Making Money Resources, saying, “Review of a drop shipping company to help online sellers expand their offerings without having to carry inventory”

Carol Bentley presents Do you make this mistake with your letters. . . posted at Carol Bentley.

Matt OConnor presents Must Have Internet Marketing Ebooks posted at Adventures In Internet Marketing.

Charles Eglinton presents eBay Power Seller posted at AuctionIncome.com - eBay Bidding Tips & Selling Tips, saying, “Is it Worth it to Be an eBay Power-Seller? It is worth it to become the kind of person who can be a Power-Seller”

Kenton Newby presents 6 Tips for Better Recordings When Creating Your Infoproducts posted at KentonNewby.com.

Dave Origano presents Top Internet Businesses - Online Business Ideas For The Starting Entrepreneur posted at Online Marketing & Exponential Business Growth Blog, saying, “Dave Origano discusses the various kinds of things to sell and how to sell them online, including a detailed overview of the advantages and disadvantages.”

Richard Lee presents I?ve Made A Big Mistake posted at Richard Lee, saying, “advice on how to treat your customers.”

Tim Gary presents Are Your Customers Just Fresh Meat? posted at How to Make Time Out of Thin Air.

Tali presents 1 Way to Becoming a Better Marketer posted at The Marketer Review, saying, “A hilarious video prompts some harsh words.”

Sarah Paine presents Compose Your First Book with Articles posted at Sarah Paine.

business

Joshua C. Karlin presents Internet Business Moves, Fundraising Ideas Stay posted at Marketing & Fundraising Ideas.

Alex Marlin presents What Would It Feel Like To Be Rich posted at Life Improvement Tips For Thin and Small People.

ryan valen presents Internet Freelance Writing-Earn from Cyberspace posted at Academia-Research blog everything about how to write a good paper., saying, “Those who are trying to write for companies are not really enjoying the kind of job they are engaged in. Well, at least in a sense that they are tied with the routine tasks they do each day.”

aruntheace presents Make money online with automated Youtube niche video sites – Made for Lazy people! posted at www.aruntheace.com.

Praveen presents The Key to Online Business: Do Something Small posted at My Simple Trading System.

Woody Maxim presents It really is a numbers game posted at Woody Maxim.

Shaun Connell presents Content posted at Make Money Online, saying, “Learn how to create lots of high quantity and quality content for your blog.”

ryan valen presents Getting A UK Writing Career posted at Academia-Research blog everything about how to write a good paper., saying, “Many countries have their respective employment programs for their citizens. Because of the role of the government in this aspect, the designation of jobs only catered to its society is important.”

Cindy King presents International Success With Languages posted at Get International Clients.

ryan valen presents Careers in Writing, Helping you Find a Job posted at Academia-Research blog everything about how to write a good paper., saying, “Looking for a job may not just be a fulfilling experience but can also teach you so many lessons. Of course, when you seek employment, you will be able to structure your identity, meet new friends and even consider your perspectives in life on how you want to proceed with your dream career.”

general

Wanda Grindstaff presents Working From Home - Creating Your Future posted at Creating Abundant Lifestyles.

Life. Money. Development. presents Working in groups: 10 keys for success posted at Life. Money. Development., saying, “Advice for working in groups”

Deb Bixler presents The Impact of Technology on Communication posted at Direct Sales / MLM Cash Flow, saying, “Voice mail messages sometimes are the only way to go these days….”

Lee Eby presents 5 Ways to Guarantee your Success? posted at Lee Eby.

humor

James D. Brausch presents How to Feel Successful posted at Internet Business Blog, saying, “Sardonic piece about how NOT to succeed in a home internet business”

Brent Diggs presents Writing Prompts for the Not-So-Prompt posted at The Ominous Comma.

lists

Becky McCray presents Gene Marks can’t make these technologies work, but you can posted at Small Biz Survival, saying, “In response to an article in BusinessWeek, wherein Gene Marks listed off some tech ’solutions’ he says small businesses “can’t use.” Can’t? All small businesses? Let’s go through his list of 10 “overhyped and underwhelming technology” tools “that don’t work” and see if we can make them work for small business!”

tips

Chris presents Don’t Snooze In Your Cubicle: Here Are Four Ways To Snack For Higher Energy posted at The Healthy Snacks Blog.

LIVING OFF DIVIDENDS presents How I made $1921.11 In Passive Income Last Month posted at LIVING OFF DIVIDENDS.

Glowicki ProBlogger presents Add URL Submit Site to Search Engines FREE posted at Glowicki ProBlogger - Blogging Tips, saying, “Nice list of less popular but still big directories and search engines.”

Sarah Paine presents Making The Most Out Of An Article posted at Sarah Paine, saying, “How to create multiple back links with one article without being removed for duplicate content.”

James D. Brausch presents Follow the Yellow-Brick Road posted at Internet Business Blog.

Martin Russell presents Free To Attract Buyers posted at Word of Mouth Marketing.

Stephen Dean presents Deciphering Cosmopolitan Magazines posted at Stephen Dean’s Copywriting And Internet Advertising Blog - Copywriter.

GP presents Seasons of Success posted at Innside Montana-Your Home at the Range, saying, “Tips on surviving winter… good for biz also”

John Crickett presents Entrepreneur Or Salesman? posted at Business Opportunities And Ideas, saying, “If you want to start a successful business, you’ve got to be able to sell.”

work

David B. Bohl presents Small Business Trends Column - Who Else (Besides a Majority of Business Professionals) Wants Work Life Balance in 2008? posted at Slow Down Fast Today!, saying, “A nationwide survey sheds some light as to what people think will help them achieve their business goals in 2008. What made the top of the list? Achieving a work-life balance!”

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.

Remember, when you submit an article, please fill in the Category and Remark Fields to add your own description of your post.

Please Submit only ONE Article per Carnival, additional articles Will Not Be Accepted.

Since this is a community endeavour, please feel free to advise me through comments or my contact form if there is something you think I can do to improve the Carnival.

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January 25th, 2008 at 06:05am | Posted by Joe | Carnivals, Work at Home | 3 reader remarks | Print This Post

Is Hosting a Blog Carnival Worth the Effort?

In my opinion, without a doubt the answer is YES!

 For what little effort it takes, Signing up with Blog Carnival, maybe a post or two to promote it and Posting Your Carnival, you should see an increase in New Visitors and Page Views from the beginning. People look for Carnivals to join to promote their own Blogs and share the information they write about through them (the carnivals).

This coming Friday will be the 69th Edition of the Working at Home Blog Carnival and I’d like to share some of my experience running a Successful Blog Carnival with you.

Advantages:

• Increased Visits and Page Views. As I mentioned above you should see an increase in these stats from the get go. The more often you run a Carnival the better known it gets, word spreads and the numbers increase even more as time goes on.
• Increased Outgoing Links. You are linking to other blogs (some with higher Page Rank than you) within your given niche. This will help give more authority, at least with your readers, to the quality of information you provide to help them find what they need.
• Incoming Links. There are quite a few participants that will provide a link back in a post of their own in appreciation of being included in your Carnival. At the very least, you will get a trackback from their submission post (as long as they are allowing them). This can help in getting even more new visitors.
• New Resources. Not only are you providing additional information to your readers through the Carnival, but you are also gaining new places to help expand your own expertise in your given niche. You never know what treasures you may find or what relationships can form from a single Blog post.
• You Have Control. Blog Carnival provides you with all the links, categories and commentary the submitter provides. You can accept, deny or mark as spam each individual post. It all depends if you feel it should be included in your Carnival or not. They even include a nice and easy copy/paste code for you or you could use your own format for your Carnival Post.
• They’re Fun. New friends, new info, new ways to look at old things. Always enjoyable and something to look forward to. And regular readers seem to enjoy them too.

Disadvantages:

• Spam. I guess this really goes without saying, but the Spammers even try to submit “articles” into any and all Carnivals. Some are pretty good at disguising their “posts” as real. But, you have to be aware and not be fooled into including them, it could really hurt your reputation.
• Scrapers. Not only do these thieves try to make money using the old “AdSense Blog” format, they use other people’s work to do it. These posts are extremely hard to detect and in most cases you won’t even know unless the Original Author notifies you.
• Time Consuming. One drawback, if it can be called that, is that you really need to read every post that is submitted. In most cases it is well worth the read, but sometimes it feels like a waste of your valuable time, especially when you have to sort out the junk that seems to intrude on your good time.

Some Suggestions:

• Create Folders. Blog Carnival notifies you by e-mail of every article submitted. Sometimes you don’t have to time to go through and read each article right then and there. Create some folders like “Carnival Accepted”, “Carnival Deny”, “Carnival Pending” etc to keep your incoming folder clear and know what you still have to do.
• Give Yourself Time. Make sure that before the Carnival is set to go off, you have enough time to finish reviewing all the submissions beforehand. (I usually set the cutoff for submissions at least 24 hours ahead to give myself time to make sure everything I present is acceptable for the Carnival.) You don’t want something unacceptable getting through.
• Be Consistent. If you plan on presenting your Carnival once a month, once a week or special times throughout the year, make sure your participants know the details of the when. Remember, they have to write a post in time to be included. So, even if you have to remind them of the day or date, they have an idea of the when.

I am far from an expert on running Blog Carnivals, but I know what has worked for me in this particular niche for a decent amount of time. You may consider starting your own Carnival sometime and I hope this gives you some insight into what you have to look forward to.

Have you tried a Carnival? What was your experience? Can you add anything that I might have missed on running a Carnival?

January 23rd, 2008 at 06:14am | Posted by Joe | Blogging, Carnivals, Promotion | 1 reader remark | Print This Post

This Weeks Helpful Reads… Week 90

This is an ongoing series of interesting and helpful reads that I have come across on the Internet. I try to include the most helpful articles and links each week to provide the widest range of information for the home business entrepreneur.

10 Simple Productivity Tips for Bloggers by Skellie… Do you Blog for a living or use a Blog for your Business? If so, you may just find these tips useful in dividing your day into managable chunks to accomplish more in less time.

How Do You Prepare for Presentations by Ben Yoskovitz… Whether you are giving a big presentation to a large audience or a one on one with a single client, you need to be prepared. These 10 tips should help you either way.

Why You Want Your Business To Forever Be Unfinished by Dawud Miracle… This short commentary by Dawud gives some fine insight into why all businesses are a work in progress.

I hope you find some of these articles informational and helpful. I think they will be enjoyable reading nonetheless.

January 20th, 2008 at 06:15am | Posted by Joe | Weekly Helpful Reads | reader remarks | Print This Post