September 6, 2007 | Category: Carnivals, Small Business Carnival | Tags: Startup Advice

Welcome to the fifth edition of the Small Business and Startups (CoSBaS #5). If your entry is not here, it may appear in the next edition, unless it is either not relevant to the Carnival theme, promotes your services, or promotes specific affiliate products.

If you did make it in to this edition, please support this carnival by giving a link back to this edition as soon as you can. If you submit regularly, and get in but don’t link back, then your own readers don’t benefit with the opportunity of being introduced to other blogs – which is part of the reason for a blog carnival: networking. Enjoy.

Featured Posts

Here are this week’s featured posts.

1. 5 Ways to Act Like an Expert in Online Communities by Scott Allen.
2. The Ten Habits of Highly Effective Brains by Alvaro Fernandez.
3. Do You Have An Abundant Mindset? by Warren Wong.

Weekly Picks

Here are the remaining entries for this edition.

1. 5 Things You Can Do To Improve Your Marketing Overnight by Eric Hudin.
2. 7 Ways to Expand Your Products and Services by Terry Dean.
3. It’s Up To You – Make Customer Service A Positive Experience by Jason Rakowski.
4. Keys to Effective Holiday Marketing in 2007 by Frances Palaschuk.
5. Spending Those Hard Earned Dollars On Advertising by Matt Hanson
6. The Challenge of Providing Choice by Wilson Ng.
7. Top Ten Franchise Opportunities for $20,000 by Tom Stanley.

That’s it for this edition. If you have an article that you think fits in, please use the Blog Carnival submission form. A couple of notes to consider before entering:

1. If you submitted your article on or after Aug 24st, it may appear in the next carnival.
2. Please do not resubmit the same article to the same carnival. Go check out the other three blog carnivals that I am managing, in case there’s a fit for your article.
3. One entry per person per week (Monday through Sunday), please.

To summarize, this carnival targets existing small businesses and startups, or entrepreneurs on the verge. What advice can you give them – business and technical – to help them towards success? There’s a wide spectrum of topics, including branding, identity, marketing, hiring, online efforts, success, productivity and more. This carnival is not about home-based businesses, specifically, although on occasion I’ll accept related articles if they are general in scope.