Get Ready for Carnival of Personal Finance #73
Next Monday, the Carnival of Personal Finance will be hosted by Cecilia at City Girl’s Financial Blog. She’s looking forward to reading your submissions, so if you’re a blogger who is writing about personal finance this week, submit your best article for consideration. The official deadline is, as always, Sunday at 3:00 PM Pacific Time.
Thanks for Linking to Carnival #72
An important part of participating in a Carnival is linking back as soon as possible, once the Carnival has been published. This helps create buzz and drive traffic to all the participants. Thanks to the bloggers who linked back to Monday’s Carnival, hosted at It’s Just Money, including The Weight of Money, InsureBlog, Retiring Early, and Blunt Money!
Carnival of Personal Finance #72
It’s Just Money did a great job this morning posting the latest Carnival of Personal Finance. Every week, there are more and more submissions, and LA Money Guy picked a few of his favorites to highlight:
- Pay off the house or have another child? No contest, from The Coin Jar
- Don’t GET Rich Quick; BE Rich Quick, from Christine Kane
- What Use Is Personal Finance Advice If You’re Making Minimum Wage?, from Free the Drones
- Scam-Proof Yourself to Eliminate Risk, from Wenchypoo’s Wisdom
- Personal Assets Add Up, from The Weight of Money
When you get a chance, read through the articles included. You might want to do a few a day for the entire week to give yourself some breathing room.
The Carnival is One Step to a Wildly Successful Personal Finance Blog
Recently, Jim from Blueprint for Financial Prosperity mentioned the Carnival of Personal Finance in an article outlining 25 steps to a wildly successful personal finance blog: “Participate in the personal finance related blog carnivals each week and sign up to be a host…”
Jim assembled a number—25, in fact—of great tips for the personal finance blogging rookie or newbie. Check it out when you get a chance.
Please Submit Articles to Carnival #72 Now
If you haven’t already, choose a recent article that you’d like to highlight and submit the link to the next Carnival of Personal Finance. It will be hosted by It’s Just Money on Monday morning, and LAMoneyGuy’s already organizing the articles. Help him out by submitting before the 6:00 PM deadline. That’s Eastern U.S. time, and don’t forget to turn your clocks back early Sunday morning.
Carnival of Personal Finance #71
The latest Carnival of Personal Finance has been posted at Fat Pitch Financials. The articles are organized by topic. Start with the articles listed as “Editor’s Choice” and take a look at the others if something interesting catches your eye.
I like the idea of the host selecting a few articles as “Editor’s Choice.” To highlight those entries further, here they are.
- What is the most unusual thing you have done for money? at It’s Just Money
- How to Calculate Tax-Equivalent Yield at AllFinancialMatters
- How to use XIRR in Excel to calculate annualized returns at Experiments in Finance
- Index Fund Valuation Matrix at The Real Returns
- The Real Return on My Rental Property at 2million
- Eating Breakfast to Save Money? at The Simple Dollar
Don’t forget to read the full Carnival. Next week’s will be hosted by It’s Just Money. Start submitting your entries now.
It’s Time to Submit Articles to Carnival #71
The earlier the articles are submitted, the better for the host who has to assemble everything. So don’t delay, and submit your favorite article from the past week or so now. On Monday, the Carnival of Personal Finance will be hosted by Fat Pitch Financials