There's a song that we sing in church that came to mind after reading about The Gold Queen's incredible act of compassion.

Have I done any good in the world today?

Have I helped anyone in need?

Have I cheered up the sad and made someone feel glad?

If not, I have failed indeed.

- Have I Done Any Good

I encourage you to head over and read about what was able to be accomplished by one human being reaching out to help another human being in need.

(You can also catch The Gold Queen on the latest episode of the Power Word: Gold Podcast.)

Bravo TGQ. You never cease to amaze me.

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Ever since I worked at an MMORPG company and I found out one of my co-workers who had worked on World of Warcraft had an NPC in WoW named after him I've always thought it would be awesome to have an NPC or item in the game named after me.

While I do have an NPC named after me in a previous MMORPG I worked on, having someone (or something) in World of Warcraft would be awesome.

Earlier tonight I found out about (and bought off trade chat) Erorus' Ledger of Trade which is a reference to Erorus, the creator of The Undermine Journal.

I even went into April and let her know that Erorus has an item in the game and how cool that was. I then also mentioned how it would be cool if I had an item in the game but I likely wasn't popular enough for that.

Later that night I decided to build a Trading Post (of course I would!) for my garrison building in The Spires of Arak.

Imagine my surprise and delight when I used my garrison ability (called "Smuggler's Run") which summons a Rare Goods Vendor and his name was "Honest Jim". I thought that was pretty neat but as I looked closer I started to notice some things.

• He's a human named Jim.
• He has facial hair. (Although, he also has hair on his head which doesn't fit my theory. lol)
• His flavor text reads "If you've got the gold, I've got the goods!".
• He is a Rare Goods Vendor (get it…Rare Goods, as in Blues).
• He sells you many rare items, some at pretty high prices (2,200g for a 28 slot bag!?!).

2,200g for a bag? That's some ignorant bull…gimme one!

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It's New Year's Eve and time to put some of my thoughts down about what's happened here at Power Word: Gold this year.

While there has been some fairly drastic changes in the area of gold-making itself due to the release of Warlords of Draenor this post will mainly focus on what's been going on with the blog specifically.

I normally try not to talk too much about the blog itself as I like to let the details be background to the content these end-of-the-year posts are when I allow myself to be a bit more introspective. Read on for more.

I'm excited to finally be able to start poking the Warlords of Draenor Alpha with a +2 stick of pointiness! More to follow.

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Last year as I was going through some old links I tried to view my original 250K WarcraftEcon interview and was saddened to find out that WarcraftEcon had gone offline. All that information, all those Hall of Fame interviews were gone forever.

For those of us who have been making gold for a long time, WarcraftEcon was one of the seminal gold-making resources and sources of inspiration. Perhaps best known for it's Hall of Fame series of interviews WarcraftEcon was an important part of gold-making history.

I decided to contact Oligopoly who had run WarcraftEcon.net and see if I could help bring WarcraftEcon back to life and you know what? He said yes! Read on for more information on the return of WarcraftEcon.

Episode 085 of The Power Word: Gold Podcast. We bring you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making tips, tricks and strategies.

In this episode your host Jim Younkin talks about working with limited time, running deal finding markets, Power Word: Gold anniversaries, and much more. And now… on with the show!

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If Power Word: Gold were a child it would be toddling around the auction house knocking over weapons racks and crawling on crates of Goblin Rocket Launchers. (We assume. We have no first hand knowledge of what a three year old does…yet.)

We've been writing Power Word: Gold for three years now. That's kinda crazy and kinda cool all at the same time. Read on past the jump for a look back and a look forward.

Episode 084 of The Power Word: Gold Podcast. We bring you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making tips, tricks and strategies.

In this episode your host Jim Younkin and special guest Stede discuss Stede's history in gold-making, gold blogging, podcasting and much more. And now… on with the show!

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Faid wrote:

"I've been that person, crashing glyph markets for fun and profit. It's a valid tactic for market grooming and is also just a fun way to learn more about markets, your competition, addons, etc. But if someone else trying to mess with your profit margins is upsetting to the point it will drive you out of the market you should probably stick to dailies and not worry too much about the Auction House."

-In Defense of Glyphs over on Clockwork Riot 

Her post is a tremendous rallying cry for all you glyph sellers out there. The point-by-point response to Selling Glyphs Scares The Hell Out Of Me was quite thorough.

To paraphrase an old scribe:

"Then [Jim] said unto [Faid], Almost thou persuadest me to be a [Glyph seller]." 

Almost. Now, I have some dailies to do.

(Read on for a bit more.)

Farli wrote:

"I recently watched a livestream where Jim was vendoring 83-84 greens which he sells for like 300-400g each. His reasoning behind this was he did’nt [sic] want them filling up his guild bank so only kept one extra item.    

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I myself have 7, 8, 9, 10 copies of the exact same 83-84 green,I know I can post 1 - 2 and drop the others in the guild bank or mail them off." 

-April Gold Making 2013 on The Overcut

Juggling that much unnecessary back stock would drive me nuts.

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Episode 054 of The Power Word: Gold Podcast. We bring you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making tips, tricks and strategies.

In this week's episode your host Jim Younkin discusses 83-84 MoP item sales analysis, 5.2 changes, speeding up TSM posting and much more. And now on with the show!

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We had a really great post submitted by Erogoth which was posted on The Hatchery today (Making Gold Without Every Profession and Limited Startup Gold by Erogroth) and it got me wondering how many others were out there with great gold-making ideas hiding inside them.

We set up The Hatchery back in 2011 to make is as easy as possible for anyone to get their gold-making ideas published to a wide audience. Read on past the jump for more.

Today, February 7, 2013, marks the two year anniversary of the first post ever on Power Word: Gold.

When we marked our one year anniversary we made note of how much the visual look of the blog had changed.

This year we want to highlight the increased avenues for sharing gold-making information that have taken place. Read on past the jump for more.

Exactly one year ago today we put The Power Word: Gold Guide up for sale.

Asking people for real-world money was a big change for Power Word: Gold. It was first step in an effort to move Power Word: Gold toward profitability.

Over the previous year we have learned a lot by selling the guide. We have learned about selling products online. We have learned about distribution. We have learned about about pricing. We have learned about marketing. We have learned about customer support.

Most of all, however, we have learned to appreciate the community.

We want to thank each and every one of you who has shown your support for the blog, podcast and livestream by purchasing The Power Word: Gold Guide.

Your support has meant the world to us. Thank you.

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This the second post of our participation in 20 Days of Gold-Making. Be sure to also check out everyone else who is participating.

The prompt for today's post is "If you set yourself a goal what was your goal and at what point did you set it?" Read on past the jump for our thoughts on goals.

Episode 049 of The Power Word: Gold Podcast. We bring you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making tips, tricks and strategies.

In this week's episode your host Jim Younkin looks back over what's happened with Power Word: Gold in 2012, where it's going in the future and much more. And now on with the show!

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Each player has their own special ways of making gold in World of Warcraft. No two players are the same. No two servers are the same. This means that each of us walks our unique own gold-making path.

Since Mists of Pandaria is coming out in 5 days we thought it would be good to take some time to reflect back over our own gold-making journey through Cataclysm and pick out the top 5 most enjoyable techniques we used to make gold in World of Warcraft.

Head past the jump for our Top 5 most enjoyable gold-making techniques from World of Warcraft: Cataclysm.

I was recently interviewed by Chase Jacobs about my gold-making endeavors. The full interview has now been posted on Chase's new site MMO Sentinel as well as at Examiner.com.

We really enjoyed the interview. Read on past the jump for a short excerpt and links to the full word interview.

Just a quick note to let everyone know that Power Word: Gold has reached over 1 million pageviews!

The fact that people have come to look at content we've created over a million times is incredible. We're humbled.

A special thanks to all of you who have been a part of our lives this past year and a half. We couldn't have done any of it without you!

Here's to another million!

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Nev was one of the first members of the gold-making community that I connected with when I started blogging. She is one of the people I looked up to while I was getting started. She was the first person to ever comment on my blog (on my very first post nonetheless). Read on past the jump to learn more and get details on how to donate.