Welcome to the seventh edition of the Carnival of Small Business and Startups (CoSBaS #7). 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.

Editor’s Picks

Here are this edition’s Editor’s picks.

1. Khalid Hajsaleh: Yeah, I’m Gonna Need You to Come in on Saturday. This would be darn funny if it weren’t so scarily true. As a former telecom company employee, I have an intimate understanding of what Khalid so accurately highlights in this article. But maybe you’ll get a good, wistful laugh out of it. Having been an assistant project manager, on the other hand, and knowing what “needs to be done”, I can only wonder what goes through the heads of some managers. Warning: some foul language.
2. SavingWithMe: 6 Small Businesses I Should Have Started In College. If you’re still in college, consider a few of these small businesses before you graduate. But you might want to think twice before running your own pedicab/ rickshaw. They’re a safety hazard on the road, and not to mention a hazard to your health – unless you think inhaling carbon monoxide from hundreds of cars all day is healthy. (You’re not moving as fast as a regular bicycle.) I love Jerry Seinfeld, but he did one bad thing: popularizing rickshaws in N. America for the past 15 or so years.One additional option: If you can cook, expand #5 to include becoming a personal chef to your college mates. Tell them that instead of them spending loads on takeout, you’ll make them a nice meal each day for a few dollars, with leftovers. Get a few students to buy in, and you can make them all the same meal, make some money or at least eat free.

Weekly Picks

Here are this edition’s regular picks.

1. Gavin Ingham: Cold-Calling Tips for Getting Through to the Decision Maker.
2. Edith Yeung: The 5 Rules of Writing Effective Email.
3. Lorraine Cohen: How Are You Networking?
4. Todd Goldfarb: 8 Tactics for Marketing a Small Business.
5. Chris Tackett: 5 Steps To Turn More Leads Into Cash!
6. Erik: Write A Successful Business Plan On Your Own.
7. Michelle Cramer: Implementing a Wellness Program.
8. Chris Russell: Improve Employee Productivity – Put Your Policy and Procedure Manuals Online.

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 Sep 22nd, 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 better fit for your article. I am pretty picky about categories.
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.

Welcome to the third edition of the Carnival of Better Blogging (CoBB #3). This Carnival covers any aspect of blogging: writing, design, analytics, infographics, SEO, etc. As always, there are some great entries this week. So please go check out the articles.

If your entry was accepted, support of this carnival of a link back to this page would be appreciated. If you did not get in, it’s likely you will be accepted in the next edition. Please: no one-paragraph articles or trying to push your affiliate links, and no pages with pop-ups/ pop-unders. These will be deleted immediately. I also have a current aversion to anything about BlogRush because they’re always from bloggers trying to get people to sign up (i.e., have affiliate links).

Enjoy.

Featured Post

This is the featured post for this edition.

1. Pat B. Doyle: Is Your Blog Easy To Read?
   Every blogger that enters blog carnivals (or not) should read this. When I have to go through as many submissions as I do (almost) every week, you win points in my editor’s book by having easy to read pages. Else your post has to be exceptional.

Weekly Picks

Here are the weekly entries for this edition.

1. Ant: 10 Questions to Ask When Writing Hypnotic Posts.
2. Doris Chua: 15 FREE Ways to Bring in New Readers to Your Blog/ Site.
3. Edith Yeung: How to Drive Traffic to Your Website or Blog – Part 1.
4. Vaibhav Gadodia: 9 Surefire Tips to Get Traffic to Your Site for New Bloggers.
5. Amanda Harris: Resources For Your Charities Website.
6. Mandy: How Do Bloggers Get To Take A Holiday?
7. Silicon Valley Blogger: Ways to Monetize Your Blog.

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 Sep 22nd, it may appear in the next carnival.
2. Please do not resubmit the same article to the same carnival.
3. One entry per person per week (Monday through Sunday), please.

Welcome to the second edition of the Carnival of Better Blogging (CoBB #2). This Carnival covers pretty much any aspect of blogging: writing, design, analytics, infographics, etc. As with the last edition, there are some great entries this week. So please go check out as many of the articles out as you have time for.

If your entry was accepted, support of this carnival of a link back to this page would be appreciated. If you did not get in, it’s likely you will be accepted in the next edition. [Please: no one-paragraph articles or trying to push your affiliate links. These will be deleted immediately.]

Enjoy.

Featured Posts

These are the featured posts for this edition.

1. Etienne Teo: The Comprehensive Secrets to Receiving Massive Traffic from Stumbling.
2. Peter Poffenberger: WorldWideWeb WarGames: 8 Ways a Competitor Can Sabotage Your Site.
3. Carole Fogarty: Prevent Leaking Energy in Your Work Space, Ouch! (Part 2 of Is Your Blogging Work Space With You or Against You?)

Weekly Picks

Here are the weekly entries for this edition.

1. Pinyo B: Top 10 Resources to Build a Better Blog.
2. Fred Peters: 10 Forums to Make You a Better Blogger.
3. Aahz: Top 10 Sites Every Blogger Should Join.
4. Taylor: Be Community Involved to Get More Traffic.
5. Thomas Slatin: Sneaky Cheap Website Promotion.
6. Marco Richter: Optimizing Your Permalink Structure.
7. Peter: Why You Should Blog.
8. Charles H. Green: Blogging vs. Podcasting.
9. Isabella Mori: The Z List: Are These My Worst Blog Posts?
10. Vanalli: How to Make Money Blogging.
11. Supermom in NY: Running a contest? Let these Contest Bloggers Know!
12. Madeleine Begun Kane: Ode To The Mobile Web (Cell Phone Browsing Humor).

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 Sep 15th, it may appear in the next carnival.
2. Please do not resubmit the same article to the same carnival.
3. One entry per person per week (Monday through Sunday), please.

Welcome to the sixth edition of the Carnival of Small Business and Startups (CoSBaS #6). 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.

Weekly Picks

Here are this week’s weekly picks.

1. Ben Yoskovitz: Warning: Do You Know Your Best Customers?
2. Jim Smoot: Difference Between A Manager and A Leader.
3. Warren Wong: Be A Good Manager By Letting People Learn And Grow.
4. Sue Massey: Do You Know How to Delegate Effectively?
5. Michelle Cramer: Inexpensive Ways to Conduct Marketing Research.
6. Chris Russell: Office White Noise.
7. Nenad Ristic: Attribution Theory.
8. Satish Talim: Setting Up An IT Company In India.
9. Jenny How: China 102nd Canton Fair (Chinese Export Commodity Fair) 2007.

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 Sep 8th, 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.

Welcome to the first edition of the Carnival of Better Blogging (CoBB #1). This Carnival covers pretty much any aspect of blogging: writing, design, analytics, infographics, etc. There are a lot of great entries in this issue. So please go check out as many of the articles out as you have time for.

If your entry was accepted, 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. If you did not get in, it’s likely you will be accepted in the next edition. [Please: no one-paragraph articles or trying to push your affiliate links.]

Enjoy.

Featured Posts

Here are the featured posts for this edition.

1. Pat B. Doyle: 23 Great Ideas For Blog Posts.
2. Carole Fogarty: Is Your Blogging Work Space With YOU or Against YOU?
3. Sutocu: Link Building Naturally with Link Baits.
4. isabella mori: flaming vs. appreciative communication.

Weekly Picks

Here are the remaining entries for this edition.

1. Edith Yeung: Want More Traffic? Find Out Here.
2. Ken Xu: Top 3 Idea Stimulators.
3. Silicon Valley Blogger: How I Boosted My Woeful Web Traffic.
4. K T Cat: The Pareto Principle and Corporate Blogging.
5. Rob: How to Improve your Google Ranking. [Video]
6. Bill Henderson: Writing a Good Blog Post.
7. Vanalli: How to Write Successful Blog Posts to Make More Money Blogging.
8. Etienne Teo: A Change in Blog Design and a Change in Fortune.
9. Charles H. Green: Trust Networks vs. Search Engines.
10. Doris Chua: Don’t Stop Blogging!

Bonus Entries

Here are some additional entries that I felt might be of interest, which are not specifically about blogging tips, design, or monetization.

1. If you’re interested in the finance/ economics niche or accounting, Laura Milligan presents the Top 100 Economics Blogs.
2. Don’t know what to do all the money you make from your blog? Read Millionaire Mommy’s The Powerful (and Addictive) Nature of Giving. She’s using her bounty to finance women entrepreneurs.
3. This has nothing to do with blogging, unless of course you’re not making money from your blog and have the blues. Read Gustav S‘ 10 Ways to Keep Yourself Happy.
4. But if it’s simply productivity issues you’re dealing with, read Julie Anne Bonner’s My Unbalanced Life – Top 7 Things I Do To Stay Sane and Productive.

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 Sep 8th, it may appear in the next carnival.
2. Please do not resubmit the same article to the same carnival.
3. One entry per person per week (Monday through Sunday), please.