Carnival of Entrepreneurs #34: August 14, 2007

Welcome to the August 14, 2007 edition of carnival of entrepreneurs. This 33rd issue of the Carnival of Entrepreneurs is a great size with about 30 entries! It is growing richer with higher impact entries too! I also want to thank you for submitting a specific post and not just a site. Remember, if you don’t include a specific post you are proud of and place it in a category, it won’t be included. Also, I am starting to see people multiple posts each week to get them on the COE. If I see that you have many submissions, I will pick one and the rest will not get included.

What is really great is that the content and submissions get better and better with each passing week.

Business Insights and Ideas

Charles H. Green presents Deer in the Headlights Decison-Making > Trusted Advisor Associates > Trust Matters posted at Trust Matters, saying, “When faced with surprise sebacks the way most people react is to just do the same thing – they freeze, and can’t adapt. Some people, however, can. Why?”
Shawn Edwards presents How to Be Lucky | Desty Online posted at Desty Online, saying, “Luck in all things, business included, is really being ready to take advantage of opportunities.”
Ryan Ambrose presents What WoW Can Teach You About Membership Sites posted at The Self-Reliant Post, saying, “What can a game you play online teach you about creating a successful membership site business model? Read about it here.”
wilson ng presents Going to the Top too fast posted at Reflections of a BizDrivenLife, saying, “Success is intoxicating, and we all desire it – if possible, we would like to have it thrust upon us as soon as possible. However, scaling up too fast can be dangerous, and success that is easily won can as easily be lost or worse, can hurt you as much as failure does.”
Warren Wong presents Stop Checking That Stock posted at Personal Development for INTJs, saying, “Are you constantly checking your stocks? Here’s why you should stop doing that and live your life.”
Moneywalks presents How to Determine Financial Success posted at moneywalks.
rck@TheRoadtoCEO.com presents A Motivation Secret of Top Performing Managers posted at Get More Done with Activity Logs, saying, “A Motivation Secret of Top Performing Managers
August 7th, 2007
A frequent question we get from managers at all levels is how to motivate consistent high performance from others.

In today’s business environment, you can’t force anyone to do anything.

As a manager, you need to think of yourself as leading a volunteer army. In the words of President Dwight Eisenhower, you need to get people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

The fact is, psychological research proves that praise and appreciation is far more effective than threats or punishment regardless of what you want people to do.

When people want to do something they tend to put in more and better effort than if they believe that they have to do it. And in this issue we share a motivation strategy that you can use to encourage this kind of voluntary contribution from everyone around you.”
Gley Yahya presents Does eBay Make Money posted at Work At Home Start Up Guide, saying, “You are heading to ebay like most of marketers? They say something like this “where customers go marketers will follow. All ebay users are right to do business with ebay; eBay is the most trusted company according to the Ponemon Institute and the nonprofit TRUSTe. People are sick of scams!!!”
Christine Kane presents What?s Easy. What?s Not. posted at Christine Kane’s Blog.
Ruth Mitchell presents In the Garden of Good and Evil posted at Buy Outside the Box, saying, “Fine tune your critical thinking processes.”
Alvaro Fernandez presents Training the Aging Workforce posted at SharpBrains: Your Window into the Brain Fitness Revolution, saying, “A new trend that will generate business opportunities.”
CA presents Manufacturing moving back to the US? – Part 1 : Atlantic Canada’s Small Business Blog – IQI Strategic Management Inc. posted at Atlantic Canada’s Small Business Blog, saying, “Will manufacturing move back to US? In a free market economy it should and will. But in a mixed economy will it?”
Warren Wong presents How To Pick A Good Stock posted at Personal Development for INTJs, saying, “Do you know how to pick a good stock? Here’s how to find a good long term investment!”

Inspire Me!

Silicon Valley Blogger presents Top 10 Wealth Building Ways Of Ordinary People posted at The Digerati Life, saying, “Different avenues for success, including many business-oriented ones on this list.”

Online Success

Becky McCray presents Simplified Online Marketing posted at Small Biz Survival, saying, “Online marketing feels like a moving target, with new tools introduced daily. I want to simplify it and explore how to build an effective online presence.”
Vahid Chaychi presents What Is Forex and How to Make Money with It? posted at Internet and Search Engine Marketing, saying, “Forex is one of the best work at home opportunities. It is good because it doesn’t need any marketing, referring and recruiting. If you learn it properly, you can make lots of money but it can be also risky if you start trading before you learn.”
Pete Johnson presents Book Report: The Virtual Handshake posted at Nerd Guru, saying, “This article is a review of David Teten and Scott Allen’s excellent book on optimizing interactions with people online called The Virtual Handshake. Allen is a Entrepreneur columnist at About.com and this text should be required reading for entrepreneurs trying to make money online.
Mitchell presents I Want to Market Online, How Much Will it Cost? posted at lifeBLUE Blogs, saying, “Thanks for hosting the carnival!”
Matt Everson presents Search Engine Marketing Strategy for Service Providers posted at Astuteo, saying, “There are a number of tactics a real-world service business can use to pull in customers online, but none so effective as simply being in the right place at the right time – a search engine’s results page. Every search engine strategy requires a solid grasp of the keywords and search terms that will wrangle in the most relevant traffic. The system described here will show you how to break down your service business and discover those terms, beginning with a basic list of core terms and finishing with a final list of thousands of search terms suitable for categorizing and implementing in a new Google AdWords campaign.”

Tips

Harrison presents My 9 Tips in Business Negotiation posted at Journey To Financial Freedom, saying, “I’m sharing my 9 tips in business negotiation which I learn from my business.”
Janet Green presents How will you be photographed? posted at The Marketing Idea Blog, saying, “Over the past few years I’ve noticed a trend in business photographs: the arms-crossed business owner. And frankly, it’s driving me crazy!”

Tricks and To-Dos

Stefan Töpfer presents THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG – Want to waste some more time before you start your business? posted at The Small Business Blog, saying, “Not everything in business or life can be planned – so don’t waste time on it.”
Jack Yoest presents Watch For Upwarding Leaping Monkeys posted at Yoest.com, saying, “Managers, are there monkeys leaping up on your backs? The monkey is the next move after the boss and subordinate part after talking — all too often the boss has the next move. The staffer has ‘delegated’ a task up to the boss. An upward leaping monkey.”

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