Welcome to the May 3, 2008 edition of Carnival of Tips. We had over 50 great entries this week on:

Business & Career:

• Sarah Paine presents Is Risk Aversion Ruining Your Business? posted at Sarah Paine, saying, “Take a look at how your aversion to risk may ruin your chance of running a successful online business. Discover how to overcome this fear by acknowledging it.”
• Fred Black presents What Can You Learn from Watching Big Product Launches? posted at Fred Black: Internet Business Blog..
• Tip Diva presents Top Ten Tips - Finding Your First Post-College Job posted at Tip Diva.

Education:

• David Cassell presents Online Degree Fallacies posted at selectcoursesblog.com.

Finance & Investment:

• Debt Freedom Fighter presents Payday Loan Lenders: Why You Should Avoid Them posted at Discover Debt Freedom!.
• Investing Angel presents Why I Sold My Apple Shares Today » Free Stock Market Investing Tips posted at Stock Tips, saying, “Apple is a great brand and a great company, but I still sold my shares of the company recently.”
• Matthew Paulson presents The Benefits of Small Business Blogs posted at American Entrepreneurship.
• Value Seeker presents Stock Investment Resource: Stock Market Investing Tips - Is Small Cap Value The Key For 2008? posted at Stock Investing, saying, “Small cap value stocks performed poorly in 2007. Will 2008 see a resurgence of small cap value?”
• The Fund investor presents Why Invest In Mutual Funds? posted at Mutual Fund Investing Tips, saying, “Many people invest in mutual funds without really understanding the benefits of this type of investment vehicle.”
• Sarah presents Are You Ready to Buy a House? posted at Tips To Save Money. Learn To Be Frugal, saying, “Buying a house is the American dream, but does your current financial situation allow for it?”
• Eric presents Growing Money posted at Make Money Blog, saying, “Tips on making money, avoiding scams, growing money, and overcoming poverty.”
• Lars presents Save Money on Gas - Make the Most of it at the Pump posted at InsightsandAdvice.com, saying, “Tips on ways to save money at the gas pump.”

Health & Beauty:

• Mark Schauss presents Smog and Premature Death - Science Has Linked Them, The White House Denies It posted at Toxic World Blog - Detoxify and Heal Your Body.
• Aparna presents Eyebrows shaping and care posted at Beauty and Personality Grooming, saying, “Eyebrow-shaping is not as simple as most of you would think it to be. Seek the advice of beauty experts, specially trained to deal with different faces, to tell you exactly what will suit you. Remember these points when you shape your eyebrows.”
• Julena presents Cucumber ? The Green Skin Care Magician posted at Organic Makeup and Skin Care, saying, “Making cucumber your skin’s best friend.”
• Tip Diva presents (1) Top Ten Tips - Organizing Your Handbag and (2) Top Ten Tips - Quick Beauty Tricks posted at Tip Diva.

Hobbies:

• Creep Colony presents StarCraft - General Tips » StarCraft / StarCraft 2 / Starcraft II Strategies, Bots, Maps, Downloads, Cheats, & News posted at Starcraft II Information, saying, “Remarks: The #1 StarCraft & Starcraft 2 tips/tricks source, providing the latest news, downloads, maps, bots, strategies & cheats.”
• First Lady Of Poker presents The Art Of Checking posted at Shopping and Poker Blog, saying, “Sometimes, the best move in a hand is to just check and wait to see what others do.”

Home:

• Karen Dowell presents Feed the birds posted at Wiggly Wigglers.
• Amy L. presents Using Fall Leaves To Fertilize And Protect Your Lawn posted at Housekeeping Tips, saying, “Remarks: Every year, people spend millions of dollars to purchase commercial fertilizers and mulches for their lawns. Yet at the same time, they rake up the fallen leaves from neighboring trees and put them in the trash.”
• GP presents Mending Fences.. Not for the Sheepish posted at Innstyle Montana- Come on Inn, saying, “Mending fences… not for the sheepish!”
• Sara Ost presents The Green Kitchen Painless Energy Conservation posted at EcoSalon.com.
• Randy Rhodes presents Reconditioned Dyson Vacuum: Questions To Consider Before Purchasing Retail posted at Dyson Animal Reviews.
• Kacper Wrzesniewski presents Unclutter your keys posted at KacperWrzesniewski.com, saying, “Yesterday, I came with a great idea. I decided to reduce the number of keys I carry with myself.”
• Tip Diva presents (1) Top Ten Tips - Reducing Your Gas Usage and (2) Top Ten Tips - Organizing Your Postal Mail posted at Tip Diva.

Relationships:

• Ken presents What Are The Obvious Signs Of Infidelity? posted at The Cheating Detective, saying, “Help with identifying, confronting, and overcoming the infidelity of one’s partner.”

Self:

• chris presents Fortune Cookie Note for April 27, 2008 posted at Fortune Cookie Notes, saying, “Fortune Cookie Note photo blog detailing tips on life.”
• Randy Rhodes presents Depression, Girls, and Wholesale Domination posted at Woody Maxim.
• Frederic Premji presents 7 Ways To Wake Up Motivated! posted at BlogMotivation.com.
• darryl heron presents Use The 2 Minute Rule to Super Charge Your Productivity posted at Systems Overload, saying, “Try usign the two minute rule to eliminate tasks from your to do list. Read about it here.”
• Tip Diva presents Top Ten Tips - Staying Safe At Night posted at Tip Diva.

Sports & Fitness:

• darryl heron presents Why Not Have a Fruit Day? posted at Systems Overload, saying, “You can have a fruit day to help you add variety to your diet and help you to stay motivated. Read about it here.”
• The Push Up Coach presents Common Push-Up Mistakes posted at The 1000 Push Ups Club, saying, “People often make mistakes when doing push ups that detract from their fitness goals.”
• Tip Diva presents Top Ten Tips - Saving Calories While Eating Out posted at Tip Diva.

Technology:

• darryl heron presents Why Not Create Tasks Right From Your Inbox? posted at Systems Overload, saying, “Did you know that you can create tasks right from your emails in Microsoft Outloook? Creating tasks can put your emails into a format that allow you to better track the actions associated with them and helps you to keep your inbox under control.”
• Wong SK presents software,download,tips,news and reviews | WongSK Blog: Can Connect To Internet But Can’t Browser Web Site ? How To Settle ? posted at WongSK Blog, saying, “tutorial how to settle can’t browser the website issue.”
• darryl heron presents (1) Are You Using Firefox As Your Web Browser?, saying, “Here is a post that I used about why you should give the Firefox web browser a try,” and (2) Put the World Times on Your Desktop, saying, “Qlock is a handy application that allows you to put mutlitple clocks with times from ciities around the world. It is great if you have family or business associates around the world and you want to know if it is too late/early to call them. Read about it here,” posted at Systems Overload.
• Cindy King presents Book Review - Landing Page Optimization posted at Cindy King, saying, “a review of an entire book of tips to make your internet landing pages work better”

Travel:

• Owen Peery presents Carcassonne, France posted at France Tales, saying, “Carcassonne is a pristine medieval town located about 45 minutes south of Toulouse. It is a very easy day trip if you are traveling from the Toulouse area.”
• Davexplorer presents (1) Five Most Unusual Buildings and (2) The Five Most Unusual Travel Destinations posted at 5 Most Unusual.
• Gray presents Healthy Travel posted at SoloFriendly.com, saying, “A list of 16 tips for healthier travel.”
• Christine presents Eating in France on 10 Euro per Day for 2 People posted at Me, My Kid and Life: An American Single Mom Living in France.

Websites & Blogging:

• Matthew Paulson presents WEBSITE REVIEW - MakeMoneyFromWriting.com posted at American Consumer News, saying, “Work at home.”
• Terry Dean presents Conversion Rap posted at Integrity Business Blog by Terry Dean.
• Blogging Trutyhs presents All About Blogs Blogging Blog History Common Blog Terminlogies posted at Making Money Online, saying, “A weblog (the word was coined by Jorn Barger in 1997) is a log or record or collection of stuffs like personal opinions, links to different websites, and written advice.”
• Ian Richardson presents More proof on the way on building backlinks posted at Make Everything EzyAs123, saying, “Techniques to generate backlinks to your web or blog”
• Sam Carrara presents 24 Hour Special- Top Search Terms posted at Sam Carrara’s Marketing Education.
• Robert Phillips presents I’m Not as Bad As Others posted at CYBERCA$HOLOGY.

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of Carnival Of Tips using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page And check out the following Carnivals Tip Diva recently participated in:

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