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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Happy Holidays! In celebration of the successful launch of the Bid Fiddlers gold-making forums we're giving away a golden Soul of the Aspects pet.

(A huge thanks to @RhoWoW from the @RealmPodcast for providing the giveaway pet. Rho is a fantastic cheerleader for all WoW podcasts out there and a very generous person. Go listen to the Realm Maintenance podcast.

HOW TO ENTER:

To enter the contest do the following things:

• Sign up for a free account on the BidFiddlers.com forums 
• Reply to this contest post with your answer to the following question: "What are you looking forward to most in 2015?" 

Your answers don't have to relate specifically to WoW. I'm just a huge fan of the feeling of new beginnings that a new year brings.

CONTEST RULES:

• Answers to this contest post will be accepted up until midnight on December 31, 2014. 
• In the week following the closing of entries one comment will be chosen at random (via random.org where the comments are numbered from 1 being the first comment to what ever the last comment is).
• The winner will be contacted by me via the email address used to sign up for the forum and will be asked to reply to obtain the pet gift code.
•  If the winner doesn't accept the gift or reply to the email an new winner will be chosen at random and so on.

SPREAD THE LOVE

In addition, while it's not required, please feel free to share this contest on your blogs, social media and any other methods you see fit.

STICK AROUND 

I also hope that if you've signed up for the forums to enter the contest that you also stick around and chat with other forum members about gold-making. We have a great little community here and we're always looking for new members to help us learn about making gold in World of Warcraft.

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It's been a few years since we posted our original 25 Must-Follow Gold-Making Twitterers post. We figured with the amount that the gold-making community has grown and changed it was time for an updated list.

If you still haven't signed up for Twitter do it today and make these the first 25 people you follow. You won't be disappointed.

Below are 25 people (in no particular order) from in and around the gold-making community who are active on Twitter we feel that all of them deserve your follow.

(We couldn't include all the great gold-makers on Twitter in a list only 25 people long. If you didn't make this year's list, don't feel bad. We still love you.)

1. @GoldTauna - Tauna. A gold-making blogger who's going strong.
2. @Hasteur - Hasteur. Strong supporter of WoW podcasts.
3. @NovitshTeatime - Novitsh. Short-form gold-making blogger. Likes tea.
4. @Sapu94 - Sapu (TSM Lead Dev). Lead Developer of TSM (and good guy).
5. @CryanTSM - Cryan. Tester on TradeSkillMaster. Very helpful for TSM questions.
6. @TSMAddon - TradeSkillMaster. The official TSM Twitter! 'Nuff said.
7. @eSevenf - eSevenf. A great gold-making blogger from Germany.
8. @WoWgoldbandit - Riquun. Gold-making blogger who's hit the ground running.
9. @GLDMKR - The GLDMKR Podcast. A daily gold-making podcast by yours truly.
10. @twitchietgw - Twitchie. Master of all things maths and glyphs.
11. @UndermineJrnl - Undermine Journal. The Twitter of AH data site.
12. @GoClockworkRiot - Faid. Intelligent gold-making blogger. Recently back.
13. @PhatLewtsGold - Phat Lewts. One of the strongest voices in gold-making today.
14. @Selltacular - Copper to Gold. Consistent and helpful gold-making blogger.
15. @GimpsGold - GimpsGold. Supporting and helpful gold-maker. Knows his stuff.
16. @SocoWow - Soco. Gold-maker and transmogrification expert.
17. @manthieusmovies - Manthieus. Active gold-making YouTuber.
18. @StedeWoW - Stede. Strong and active gold-making podcaster.
19. @kero_gold - Kero. Great gold-making podcaster.
20. @WowProfitz - Profitz. Nicest (and scariest) gold-making clown around.
21. @ryanaeckles - Aldred Eckles. Newer and well-written gold-making blogger.
22. @GoblinRaset - The Drunken Mogul. Gold-making blogger/podcaster. Drinks.
23. @TheGreedyGoblin - The Greedy Goblin. Great gold-maker.
24. @erogroth - Erogroth. Gold-making blogger. Awesome guy.
25. @The00shinn - Sean Mee. Nice guy and huge gold-making supporter.

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Today's post is my addition to Selltacular's Gold Carnival topic for July which asks:

"What is your definition of a good gold maker?  How do you measure gold making success?"


The short answer: Someone who is having fun.


The slightly longer answer:  Anyone who enjoys themselves while making gold. Do you enjoy yourself? Than you're a good gold maker.

Do I measure someone's gold-making success by the amount of gold the have or by their knowledge or control of markets? No. I measure a gold-making success by if that person is having a good time doing what they are doing. That's it.

It's easy to get in the trap of judging yourself against others standards just as it is a trap to judge others against your own ideals. I work to help anyone learn to make gold no matter your current position along their gold-making journey.

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Every once and a while a gold-making thread will pop up on /r/wow. When they do I love reading the comments to try and learn what normal (ie. non-gold-maker) players do to make gold.

When the thread "How do you like to make your gold?" popped up today I was anxious to see what commenters were saying.

Learning how different players think about gold-making is a good way to stay a well-rounded gold-maker. Read on past the jump for some quotes from the thread.

Episode 040 of The Power Word: Gold Podcast. Your host Jim Younkin brings you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making tips, tricks and strategies.

In this week's episode Jim discusses what he's been doing in gold-making, the Postal addon, the upcoming Mists of Pandaria expansion and much more. And now on with the show!

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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.

Today's post is my response to a reader who had a problem in their 77-80 Cataclysm Items market with people posting items at prices below their "threshold price" but above their "buying price".

In essence, these sellers were perceived to be selling items in the reader's pricing "blind spot". Head past the jump for our email exchange, possible solutions and thoughts on the importance of constantly analyzing our markets.

Ever wanted to know how I edit the Power Word: Gold Podcast? In these three recorded livestream videos I go through editing the entire Power WordL Gold Podcast Episode 31. Come watch how the sausage is made!

Part 1: (embedded above) WoW Gold-making: WoW + editing PW:G Podcast Ep. 031 (Part 1) by Jim Younkin. 3.21.2012

Head past the jump for parts 2 and 3.

Episode 030 of The Power Word: Gold Podcast. Your hosts Jim Younkin and Faid bring you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making news, tips and strategies.

In this week's episode we discuss livestreaming, videos, "One Month, One Toon" Challenge, take live questions and more. And now on with the show!

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Today we have a question from a reader that I am going to let you answer. The question relates to realm population size and its effects on gold-making. Please help this reader by giving us your answer in the comments section below. Head past the jump for the question.

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Keelhaul (@DEazeroth) was at is again tonight. He hosted a Transmog Fashion Show with 100k gold in prizes on the Proudmoore-US (A) realm. Keel asked me to livestream it and the 1 hour recording of the event is above. You can also watch it on the recording's page on twitch.tv.

If you ever wonder who in the world would buy your transmog items for the prices we charge, just watch the video above. I know I saw some of the sets I'm selling being sported by the mogging players. Congrats to all the winners! I took care to read off the transmog items for the sets I thought were especially great.

To catch all my livestreams be sure to follow me at twitch.tv/jimyounkin.

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I'm what you might call an "alt-aholic". I love toons. Toons, toons and more toons. I have ten level 85 characters on my main server. I have far more than ten alts of various levels scattered over various servers. IN gold-making it is often very advantageous to have such a set up. Having multiple toons with multiple professions is a very solid strategy.

There is something, however, that I think I may have lost in my race to "have all the toons" and that is focus. Perhaps it is all the time I've been spending in Outlands reminiscing about "the good old days". Perhaps it is seeing people struggle to make gold with just one or two characters.

Mainly I just want to feel the way I did about a singular character the way I did in The Burning Crusade. Whatever the reason, I've decided to create what I am calling the "One Month, One Toon" Challenge. Read on past the jump to see how I'll be spending my next 30 days in World of Warcraft.

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This weekend I finally put some of the hard-earned PayPal dollars we've earned selling our guide to use and purchased a full version of XSplit Premium. We've been using the free beta version for a while now to do those cool multi-screen section videos the last month or so. (Download XSplit beta at XSplit.com).

Over this weekend we went ahead and created a proper twitch.tv account (http://www.twitch.tv/jimyounkin/) and started livestreaming. Over the weekend we did 20+ hours of livestreaming. We had a blast. Livestreams are far different than YouTube videos in that there is live interaction between myself and the audience. Head past the jump for a list of all the livestreams we did this weekend.

Episode 028 of The Power Word: Gold Podcast. Your hosts Jim Younkin and Faid bring you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making news, tips and strategies.

In this week's episode we discuss our changing transmogrification techniques, speculate on how to prepare for Mists of Pandaria and much more. And now on with the show!

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We're happy to announce that Power Word: Gold can now be translated into (nearly) every language on the planet. To activate this feature choose your language from the "Translate This Blog" drop-down menu in the sidebar. In the video above I have a little fun with the feature (and butcher the Icelandic language).

The "Translate This Blog" feature.

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The very first post I ever made on Power Word: Gold was posted on February 7, 2011, exactly one year ago today. (The image above shows what Power Word: Gold looked like when it first started. Very, um, literal.)

I just wanted to take brief moment to thank each and every one of you who have ever read one of our posts, left comments, sent us an email, listened to the podcast, watched our videos, interacted with us on twitter,  Facebook or Google+, purchased our guide or in any other way supported us in our first year.

You are the reason for any and all success we've had and we are eternally grateful. Here's to another tremendous year!

<3,
-Jim Younkin

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We decided to create a guild for Power Word: Gold. It is open to anyone who wants to come together to talk and chat about making gold in World of Warcraft. Also with the mobile Armory app there is often people to chat with even when you're not playing World of Warcraft.

Since our initial US guild set up we've also expanded to include an EU guild as well as some fancy new guild forums. Read on past the jump to learn how you can join the guilds.

In this long-form (48 min) video I discuss the Power Word: Gold 2011 year end review as well as look forward to what 2012 may bring for PW:G and the World of Warcraft gold-making community at large.

How did 2011 treat you and what do you look forward to in 2012? Let us know in the comments below (or even better create your own 2011 year end review video and post a link).

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