This is a collection of posts from the latest blog carnivals that I feel are valuable to small business owners.

There are gems of information in all of these posts, so if the topic interests you, please read them.

What is a Blog Carnival?

My personal favorite posts:

Entrepreneurship
• The Little Detail that Matters for Small Retailers
• Entering Overfilled [tag]Market Sectors[tag]
• Naming a business, product or service
• Buying an Online Business

Personal Finance & Investing
• Breakeven Point Before Real Returns
• Uninterrupted Prosperity
• Stated Income Loans May Pop the Housing Bubble
• Circumventing Late Fee Anger

Blog Carnivals Referenced
• Carnival of the Capitalists

Tags: Blog Carnival, Retailers, Naming a business, Online Business, Breakeven Point, Stated Income Loans, Housing Bubble

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This is a collection of posts from the latest blog carnivals that I feel are valuable to small business owners.

There are gems of information in all of these, so if the topic interests you, please read them. You may learn something new.

What is a Blog Carnival?

My personal favorite posts:

Marketing and Advertising
• The Workhorse of Sales Letters: The Opening Paragraph
• Simplified Marketing Plans for the Real World
• Dumb Advertising!

Entrepreneurship
• Being a Successful Business Owner
• You Will Be Successful… In 5 Years
• The Danger of Short-cuts in Writing Business Plans

Taxation
• The Fat Tax Doesn’t Work
• Alternative Minimum Tax Discussion
• Whither the Estate Tax?
• Death Tax Debate
• Is the IRS picking on small businesses?

Personal Finance
• Get Financially Secure, Not Rich
• College Savings Reality Check
• Not So Rewarding Credit Cards
• Who Can you Trust with Your Money?

Blog Carnivals Referenced
• Carnival of the Capitalists
• Carnival of Personal Finance #53
• Carnival of Investing #27
• Carnival of Business #9

Tags: Blog Carnival, Sales Letters, Marketing Plans, Advertising, Business Owner, Business Plans, Fat Tax, Alternative Minimum Tax, Estate Tax, Death Tax, IRS, College Savings, Credit Cards

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Begining this week, I will do a full roundup of my favorite blog carnival posts. There are several carnivals that feature great posts on the topic of finance, investing and business, that I don’t want to limit my list to just the Carnival of the Capitalists.

What is a Blog Carnival?

My fpersonal post collection:

Managing
• Predictably Unpredictable (Part 1)
• Why Should I Help You?
• Too Much of a Good Thing?

Career
• 3 Questions for Your Prospective Boss
• Give Value First
• Breakthrough Manifesto (Part 1)
• Be the Best

Personal Finance
• The Role of Financial Advisors (Part 1)
• Gas Price Tips
• How the Middle Class Can Get Back on Solid Financial Ground
• Ten good rules-of-thumb for investing
• Making Early Retirement Happen
• Are all the Joneses overspenders?

Blog Carnivals Referenced:
• Carnival of the Capitalists #137
• Carnival of Personal Finance #49
• Carnival of Investing #23
• Carnival of Business #5

Tags: Blog Carnival

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This week’s edition (#136) of the Carnival of the Capitalists can be found at The Virtual Handshake.

About the Carnival of the Capitalists
What is a Blog Carnival?

My personal favorites list from the CotC #136:

General Business
• Entrepreneurship Gap
• Ultimate 2006 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting Guide

Marketing
• What Do Simple Folk Do?
• Starbucks = Coffee
• Creative Ideas for Businesses
• Advertising and Customer Service

Personal Finance
• Time for medical check ups

Other Blog Carnivals of Interest:
• Carnival of Personal Finance #48
• Carnival of Investing #22
• Carnival of Business #4

Tags: Carnival of the Capitalists, Blog Carnival

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This week’s edition (#135) of the Carnival of the Capitalists can be found at Harshly Mellow.

About the Carnival of the Capitalists
What is a Blog Carnival?

My personal favorites list from the CotC #135:

General Business
• Field Reports: Breakthroughs and Being Swept Away
• What is your competitive advantage?
• The Real Secret Of Business Success
• Why Business Needs More Geeks
• The Art of Sales

Investing
• Meeting of Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders
• Investing in Energy

Personal Finance
• How Much Did You Pay in Taxes?

Entreprenuership
• Resources for Young Entreprenuers
• The Importance of a Good Business Name
• Developing People Skills

Miscellaneous
• Reckoning the Odds of Recession
• The Mom Calculator

Other Blog Carnivals of Interest:

• Carnival of Personal Finance #47
• Carnival of Investing #21
• Carnival of Business #3

Tags: Carnival of the Capitalists, Blog Carnival, competitive advantage, Business Success, Business, Art, Sales, Berkshire Hathaway, Investing, Energy, Taxes, Young Entreprenuers, People Skills, Recession

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This week’s edition (#134) of the Carnival of the Capitalists can be found at Interim Thoughts.

About the Carnival of the Capitalists
What is a Blog Carnival?

My personal favorites list from the CotC #134:

People
• Lessons From Jerks in the Workplace

Investing
• Investing in Gas Companies
• How to Calculate Your Personal Rate of Return
• A few words about Microsoft

Alternative Energy
• 2006 Hybrid Tax Breaks, Complete Listing
• Big Oil Won’t Miss The Coming Alternative Energy Boom

Personal Finance
• U.S. Millionaire Count Hits Record — You Could be Next

Entreprenuership
• Internet Home Business & Life
• The Highway to Success
• Getting Ideas from Business Opportunity Magazines

Miscellaneous
• The Cost of Not Answering the Phone
• Why Golf is Bad for the Boardroom

Other Blog Carnivals of Interest:

• Carnival of Personal Finance #46
• Carnival of Business #2

Tags: Carnival of the Capitalists, Blog Carnival, Investing, Gas Companies, Personal Rate of Return, Microsoft, Hybrid Tax Breaks, Alternative Energy, Home Business, Success, Business Opportunity Magazines

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Hello and welcome to lucky edition #13 of the Carnival of Entrepreneurship. The CoE is a traveling small business blog post collection published every Thursday.

I received several great submissions covering excellent topics. Without further delay, here are my favorite picks:

• Matt Inglot gives 5 excuses why someone can’t become an entrepreneur, and what aspiring business owners can do to overcome The Barriers to Starting Your Own Business.

• Chris Pearson suggests finding a niche to become an expert in so that you can Kiss Corporate Life Goodbye.

• Dave G. writes about his success with Google Adsense in the post Adsense = Free Car and Free Home.

• Rob May offers sound advice on Pre-Entrepreneurship: What To Do When You Are Waiting.

• Phylameana lila Désy is attempting to harness good chi through Feng Shui In Her Home Office. I love Feng Shui and believe in the power of energy flow and conceptual symmetry.

• David Lorenzo teaches us how to take advange of chance meetings through Mastering the Random Encounter.

• Jack Yoest compares the anticipation created by marketing to Selling the Great Wall of China. Great pictures, Jack!

That concludes this week’s Carnival of Entrepreneurship post. Submit your blog article for consideration into CoE #14.

About the Carnival of Entrepreneurship
What is a Blog Carnival?

Tags: Carnival of Entrepreneurship, small business, entrepreneur, Starting Your Own Business, niche, Adsense, Pre-Entrepreneurship, Feng Shui, chance meetings, marketing, Blog Carnival

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This week’s edition (#133) of the Carnival of the Capitalists can be found at About.com Entrepreneur’s Guide.

About the Carnival of the Capitalists
What is a Blog Carnival?

My personal favorites list from the CotC #133:

Entreprenuership
• 10 Mistakes Made by the Newly Self-Employed
• Learning From the Newly Self-Employed Mistakes
• Mindset: Starting Your Own Micro-Business

General Business
• Monday Morning Business Humor

Saving & Investing
• Complacency anyone? (Wall of Worry vs. What, Me Worry?)
• Reveling in High Gas and Oil Prices

Economics
• Voting For Inflation (Minimum Wage Increase)
• Young People Receiving Money From Parents

Personal Finance
• How to Become a Millionaire
• High Deductible Health Insurance High-Jinks

Tags: Carnival of the Capitalists, Blog Carnival, Self-Employed, Micro-Business, Business Humor, Inflation, Minimum Wage Increase, Millionaire, Health Insurance

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This week’s edition (#132) of the Carnival of the Capitalists by can be found at Free Money Finance.

About the Carnival of the Capitalists
What is a Blog Carnival?

My personal favorites list from the CotC #132:

General Business
• Being a Technopreneur
• Ethics as a Core Competency.

Taxes & Finances
• Turn In Tax Cheats And Make Money
• Removing Private Mortgage Insurance (PMI)
• You, Inc. And The IRS
• Real Estate Investments: Sell vs. Hold?

Human Resources & Management
• Unmotivated Employees - Is It Your Fault or Theirs?
• When Money is Not an Option

Next week’s CotC #133 will be hosted by Scott Allen’s About.com Entrepreneur’s Guide.

Tags: Carnival of the Capitalists, Blog Carnival, Ethics, Tax Cheats, Private Mortgage Insurance, IRS, Real Estate Investments, Employees

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This week’s edition (#131) of the Carnival of the Capitalists by Dane Carlson can be found at Business Opportunities Weblog.

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About the Carnival of the Capitalists
What is a Blog Carnival?

My personal favorites from the CotC #131:

• Are You A “Leftover” Investor?
• A Look at Financial Infidelity in Relationships

Next week’s CotC #132 will be hosted by Frank, HelloDollar.com.

Tags: Carnival of the Capitalists, Blog Carnival

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This week’s edition (#130) of the Carnival of the Capitalists by Rob can be found at Jotzel.com.

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About the Carnival of the Capitalists
What is a Blog Carnival?

My personal favorites list from the CotC #130:

Entrepreneurship
• Venture Capitalists are Not Long-Term Investors
• Forget Investors, Get Out There And Make Some Money!
• Elasticity for Entrepreneurs
• What Is The 80/20 Rule And Why It Will Change Your Life

Marketing & Advertising
• Sales Techniques: Create Sense of Urgency
• Trade Show Conventions - Do’s and Don’ts

Financial
• How to Translate Financial Reports into Action Items
• How to Stop Credit Bureaus From Selling Your Information

Human Resources & Management
• Hiring Mistakes
• Why New Supervisors Go Mad
• Exploring Whitespace

Next week’s CotC #131 will be hosted by James Archer, StrangeBrand.com.

Tags: Carnival of the Capitalists, Blog Carnival, Venture Capitalists, Entrepreneurs, 80/20 Rule, Sales Techniques, Trade Show Conventions, Financial Reports, Credit Bureaus, Hiring Mistakes, Supervisors, Whitespace

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This week’s edition (#9) of the Carnival of Entrepreneurship by Nathan Moore can be found at MooreThoughts.com.

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About the Carnival of Entrepreneurship
What is a Blog Carnival?

Next week’s Carnival of Entrepreneurship will be hosted by Denise O’Berry’s Just For Small Busiuness.

Tags: Carnival of Entrepreneurship, Blog Carnival

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This week’s edition (#129) of the Carnival of the Capitalists by Sam Decker can be found at Decker Marketing.

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About the Carnival of the Capitalists
What is a Blog Carnival?

My personal favorites list from the CotC #129:

Entrepreneurship
• Avoid Being the Architect of Your Own Demise.
• 10 Ways to Delegate Without Hiring Staff
• Entrepreneurial Proverbs
• Strategic Plan for 2006: 12 Places to Say No

Marketing & Advertising
• The Wisdom of Niches: Why Experts Still Matter
• Meaningful Marketing in Business Jurassic Jargon
• How to Buy Word of Mouth

Customer Centricity
• Always Recommend the Right Products
• Rules Of Engagement: Or Are We Still Just Dating?
• Customer Service IS a Profit Center

Leadership
• The Art of Sucking Down
• Creating a Culture of Winning

Technology
• Entrepreneurs Hope Podcasting Has Potential

Economy
• Stop Buying Cheap Imported

Other
• How to Become an Early Riser - Part I
• How to Become an Early Riser - Part II

Next week’s CotC #130 will be hosted by Jotzel.com.

Tags: Carnival of the Capitalists, Blog Carnival, Hiring Staff, Entrepreneurial Proverbs, Niches, Marketing, Word of Mouth, Customer Service, Creating a Culture, Podcasting

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This week’s edition (#7) of the Carnival of Entrepreneurship by Dane Carlson can be found at The Business Opportunities Weblog.

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About the Carnival of Entrepreneurship
What is a Blog Carnival?

A selection of the CoE topics I found most interesting:

• Where’s the Product?
• Re-arrange Your Way to Success
• Microsoft Small Business Summit - Never Eat Alone

Also featured in the carnival was my posted reply to Bob Bly’s Anti-Business Card article - Are Business Cards Worth the Money?

Next week’s Carnival of Entrepreneurship will be hosted by Jeff Cornwall’s The Entrepreneurial Mind.

Tags: Carnival of Entrepreneurship, Blog Carnival

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This week’s edition (#127) of the Carnival of the Capitalists by Clyde Smith can be found at ProHipHop.com.

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About the Carnival of the Capitalists
What is a Blog Carnival?

A selection of the CotC topics I found most interesting:

Entrepreneurship
• Zen, Motorcycle Maintenance, and Entrepreneurship
• Yes Entrepreneurship Can, and Is, Being Taught

Marketing & Advertising
• Do You Have to Drip Slime to Sell Your Services?
• Reactivating Old Subscribers in Your Email Lists

Responsibility
• The Capitalism of Conscience
• Corporate Social Responsibility

Economics
• Yield Curve Update

Technology
• Thinking Twice About Tech Transfer

Next week’s CotC #128 will be hosted by Casey Software.

Tags: Carnival of the Capitalists, Blog Carnival, Entrepreneurship, Email Lists, Capitalism, Yield Curve, Tech Transfer

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This week’s edition (#6) of the Carnival of Entrepreneurship by David Daniels can be found at Global Market Development.

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About the Carnival of Entrepreneurship
What is a Blog Carnival?

A selection of the CoE topics I found most interesting:

• Top 10 Reasons NOT to go in Business For Yourself
• Why Most Businesses Fail
• Time is Money

Next week’s CoE will be hosted by Dane Carlson at Business Opportunities Weblog.

Tags: Carnival of Entrepreneurship, Blog Carnival

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This week’s edition (#126) of the Carnival of the Capitalists by ‘FMF’ can be found at Free Money Finance.

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About the Carnival of the Capitalists
What is a Blog Carnival?

A selection of the CotC topics I found most interesting:

Business Advice
• How to Beat the Fear of Starting Your Own Business
• Responsiveness is Your Competitive Advantage

Personal Finance and Investing
• Debunking Dividend Myths!
• A Healthy Dose of Skepticism
• A Veteran at Bootstrapping Offers Advice

Economics
• The End of the Yield Curve Inversion
• Anti-Capitalist Language
• Improving Upon Supply and Demand

Technology
• Managing All That Business Data

Career
• What’s Your Motivation Threshold?
• Slow Leadership: Choices

Next week’s CotC will be hosted by ProHipHop.

Tags: Carnival of the Capitalists, Blog Carnival, Starting Your Own Business, Competitive Advantage, Bootstrapping, Yield Curve Inversion, Supply and Demand, Business Data, Motivation

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Carnival of Entrepreneurship 5 - March 2nd, 2006

This week’s CoE comes to us from Martin Neumann of ePublishingDaily.com.

Here are a few of my favorite topics from Martin’s selections:

• Time Management
• If Customers Aren’t the Enemy, Then Who is?
• The Price of Money

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Next week’s CoE will be hosted by David Daniels, Business & Technology Reinvention.

About the Carnival of Entrepreneurship
What is a Blog Carnival?

Tags: Carnival of Entrepreneurship, Time Management, Customers, Money, Blog Carnival

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This week’s edition (#125) of the Carnival of the Capitalists by Harish Keshwani can be found at Ideologic, LLC.

A selection of the CotC topics I found most interesting:

Business Advice
• Business at a Crossroads: Growth or Status Quo?
• Issues Entrepreneurs Face as their Businesses Grow

Personal Finance and Taxes
• Tax Shelters and the Pretensions Attached to Them
• Irrational Exuberance: The Next Great Bubble Burst
• The Impact of New Bankruptcy Laws
• Bankruptcy Risk Score - The Credit Score You Don’t Know About

Economics
• Open Source and Business Communities

Technology
• Storing Lightning in a Jar: Ultracapacitors

Ethics
• Business Ethics: Corporate Social Responsibility

Trends
• Discovering New Trends
• Trend Unit: Become a Better Trend Watcher

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Next week’s CotC will be hosted by the Free Money Finance Blog.

About the Carnival of the Capitalists
What is a Blog Carnival?

Tags: Carnival of the Capitalists, Tax Shelters, Bankruptcy Laws, Open Source, Business Communities, Ultracapacitors, Business Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility, Blog Carnival

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Carnival of Entrepreneurship 4 - February 23rd, 2006

This week’s CoE comes to us from Jack Yoest of Yoest.org.

Here are a few of my favorite topics from Jack’s selections:

• The Golden Rules of Business
• It Is Not OK To Steal
• Checklist to Internationalize a Product

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• About the Carnival of Entrepreneurship
• What is a blog carnival?

Tags: Carnival of Entrepreneurship, blog carnival

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This Presidents’ Day edition (#124) of the Carnival of the Capistalists can be found at The Stalwart.

A selection of the CotC topics I found most interesting:

• How To Become a Better Business Decision Maker
• Business Ethics: Some CSR Communities Online
• The Many Functions of a Corporate Board
• 7 Steps in Making Money at Trade Shows
• Business Ideas: Does your company live in the past?
• Customers are not the enemy

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Next week’s CotC will be hosted by Idedologic LLC.

• Carnival of the Capitalists home site
• What is a blog carnival?

Tags: Carnival of the Capistalists, Business Ethics, Corporate Board, Trade Shows, Business Ideas, Customers, blog carnival

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Carnival of Entrepreneurship 3 - February 16th, 2006

This week’s CoE comes to us from Australian blogger Leah Maclean of Working Solo. My recent post Adding Value to Your Business is featured as the #4 post! Thanks, Leah!

Here are a few of my favorite topics from Leah’s selections:

• 10 Steps to Marketing With No Money
• Things to Remember When Bootstrapping Your Start-Up
• 12 Rules of Time Management

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Next week’s CoE will be hosted by Jack Yoest.

• About the Carnival of Entrepreneurship
• What is a blog carnival?

Tags: Carnival of Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Bootstrapping, Time Management, blog carnival

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The latest edition (#123) of the Carnival of the Capistalists can be found at Frugal Underground.

Here are a few of the CotC selections I found most interesting:

• Copyright Tutorial
• New Investment Opportunity? Person to Person Lending
• Is Sweden Moving From Socialism to Capitalism?
• Mortgage Pre-Payments at Slowest Pace Since 2003
• Effective Interest
• Business problems: Seek them out

Next week’s CotC will be hosted by The Stalwart.

Carnival of the Capitalists Home Site

What is a blog carnival?

Tags: Carnival of the Capistalists, blog carnival

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Carnival of Entrepreneurship 2 - February 9th, 2006

This week’s CoE comes to us from Anita Campbell of SmallBizTrends.com. Anita did a great job at selecting a well rounded series of topics including:

• Six Steps to Learning From Your Successes and Failures
• Ten Steps to a Business Turnaround
• Seven Important Business Books

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I am proud to have been named host of the Carnival of Entrepreneurship 13 to be featured here on April 27th, 2006.

What is the Carnival of Entrepreneurship?

Tags: Carnival of Entrepreneurship, Business

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Scott Allen, About.com’s guide for entrepreneurs has started a new blog carnival similar to the Carnival of Capitalists called Carnival of Entrepreneurship.

View the Carnival of Entrepreneurship’s first edition dated February 2nd.

If you are unfamiliar with these carnivals:

… a traveling weekly blog carnival featuring the best of the [topic] blogosphere. Each week, a host blogger reviews submitted posts and selects and posts the seven best, in their opinion, along with their editorial commentary.

As a reader, this is an easy way for you to view the best posts from blogs around the Internet in one place, without having to browse through dozens of sites to find them.

Other blog carnivals of interest:

Carnival of Marketing
Carnival of the Capitalists
Carnival of Personal Finance
Carnival of Investing
Carnival of Debt Reduction

The Blog Carnival Master List
The Blog Carnival FAQ

Tags: blog carnival, blogosphere, blogs

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