This is a rule that I don’t follow all the time, and it adds a lot of stress having to find a host from week to week.
The Carnival of Personal Finance has come to ask for hosts quarterly. He asks for hosts about a month in advance, then decides over the next couple of […]
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Managing a blog carnival can be really easy if you have great hosts. Great hosts write inventive posts for the carnivals and help to promote the carnival. It’s their edition of the carnival, so a good reflection on them is a good reflection on you.
My Carnival of Debt Reduction is no exception. I have great […]
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As a blog carnival gets more popular, the number of submissions goes up, and the traffic the carnival gets goes up as well. This is good. Unfortunately, this popularity also attracts posts that are of marginal quality or are highly commercial. Or, people will submit several posts to a single edition of the carnival. Spammy […]
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Getting hosts for your carnival can be tough. It takes organization to keep things moving, and sometimes the hosting schedule gets tight.
It’s tempting to jump at the first person who offers. That’s fine but be sure to do some due diligence.
Meaning check out their blog. Is it a place that you’d want to have the […]
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If you’re managing a carnival then you know how important your hosts are. They can make managing the carnival a piece of cake. And if they volunteer to host, they likely know what it entails and will put together a good carnival for you, the carnival readers, and for the submitters.
Once in a while, though, […]
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