The Carnival of Entrepreneurs #22

The Carnival of Entrepreneurs is back at Startup Spark for its 22nd edition. Rolling along nicely – every week we get a few new people sending in submissions, which tells me the Carnival continues to extend its reach through the Web. Thank you to everyone that has supported it so far…

My Carnival Highlights

• Jimmy Atkinson presents How to Avoid Being Audited When You’re Self Employed posted at Ask the Advisor.
• Janet Green presents Kids and Entrepreneurialism: Nurture their natural spirit posted at The Marketing Idea Blog, saying, “This article encourages entrepreneurs to understand that they can teach, lead and encourage the next generation of business owners”
• iamawahm presents Does Your Child Have An Entrepreneurial Spirit?? posted at Working At Home Mom.
• CA presents Who is the small business CEO answerable to? posted at Atlantic Canada’s Small Business Blog
• Wayne Hurlbert presents Solving business problems: Seeking patterns posted at Blog Business World, saying, “When you talk to many business people, they are convinced that the problems associated with their industry are like those experienced elsewhere. Not only do they believe their industry is unique in the business world, but their own company is one of a kind as well.”
• Christopher J. Brunner presents Expanding Your Business Overseas: Why and Why Not? posted at GreatFX Business Cards, saying, “A four part post series that explores expanding your business overseas, including the why’s and why not’s for doing so, international
• labor laws, protecting your product from idea theft and the money and taxes involved with such a venture.”
• Jack Yoest presents Is the Manager Obsolete? Or When Does Consensus Stop? posted at Reasoned Audacity, saying, “Does business need managers? Or first-line supervisors? Or should organizations simply go Greek and give every citizen-employee a voice and a vetoing vote? The corporation as pure democracy. This was the theme of a Wall Street Journal article, Managing: Can a Company Be Run as a Democracy?”

Tips, Tricks and To-dos

• Michael Anuzis presents How to Negotiate a Pay Raise with Game Theory posted at Empowering People Through Information.
• David presents Is Your Advertising? Sexy? posted at The Alexander Report, saying, “This article explains how to create sensual advertisements”
• Jack Yoest presents How To Cut The Federal Budget at a Government Agency by Lurita Alexis Doan posted at Reasoned Audacity, saying, “Why is Congressman Waxman so unhappy with Lurita Alexis Doan, head of GSA? Is it contracts, campaignings, competence? Your Business Blogger recently sat down with Lurita Doan. She was really quite at home with the intense blood sport that passes for politics. (She’s from Louisiana.) (And works academia.) We discussed her management style and her goals in government.”
• Joshua Dorkin presents Creating an Effective Business Logo Design posted at Time For Blogging.
• John Ingrisano presents Dress the Part posted at The Freestyle Entrepreneur.
• Michelle Cramer has what you need to consider before moving your home office to a commercial location. A virtual office might be a good stepping stone.
• Aaron Brandon has tips on growing traffic for your blog. My favorite? Blog carnivals..
• Theda K. Rogers presents Toddler holding on tight? 5 tips for working at home. posted at Crayon Writer, saying, “Are you a budding entrepreneur, but you have a young child at home with you? Hopefully these tips will help!”
• savingadvice presents Starting a Business with Pocket Change Part 3 posted at Personal Finance Advice, saying, “Productivity and money flow are the lifeblood of any business, no matter what the size. Being able to get a handle on these will make running the rest of your business that much smoother.”
• Christopher J. Brunner presents Direct Mail Marketing Tips (1 of 2) posted at GreatFX Business Cards, saying, “Tips for producing and distributing effective direct mail marketing.”

Business Insights and Ideas

• Michelle presents Financial Freedom’s Biggest Obstacle posted at Aridni, saying, “Thank you for hosting this carnival!”
• David presents Enhancing Customer Shopping Experience posted at The Alexander Report, saying, “Business strategies to make your retail location stand out and increase sales.”
• Ashton presents Independent Inventors Have Changed Our World posted at Product Global.
• Barry Welford presents The Keyless Cell phone posted at StayGoLinks, saying, “Given the difficulties in accessing the Mobile Web via a cell phone, perhaps it’s time to switch to a keyless cellular phone.”
• Ashton presents What Does a $3.5 Million Violin Have to do With Product Packaging? posted at Product Global.
• Cade Krueger presents An Idea To Start A Home Business posted at Write To Right.
• Jim presents “There’s no way this can fail!” One of many famous last words of business posted at Jim Logan, saying, “There are many famous last words to business. These are the sayings that foretell you’re pending doom. Almost comical, they’re real statements spoken at many failed enterprises. Your radar should remain alert for famous last words and when heard, challenge whoever spoke them. You’re likely looking at the leader of the final collapse. Some of my favorite famous last words follow:”
• Pawel Brodzinski presents Start Small, Grow When You Can Afford It posted at Software Project Management, saying, “How to set speed for company’s development. In that case it usually doesn’t matter if you’re a startup or you have to redevelop an established company.”
• Jim presents The myth of the silver bullet posted at Jim Logan, saying, “I have bad news for some of you – there’s no silver bullet to
• sales success. It would be great if there were, but it doesn’t exist.”
• Ashton presents Inventoritis: The Surefire Way to Decrease Profits posted at Product Global.
• Murad Ali presents Avoid the Middle Class Decline posted at The New Business World.

Inspire Me!

• Stephanie West Allen presents Self-leadership lessons from Leonardo DiCaprio posted at idealawg.
• Cardin Lilly Routh presents Keeping Your Precious Things Precious posted at OptmistLab.com.
• Wanda Grindstaff presents It’s All About Having FUN – Living with Intent posted at Creating Abundant Lifestyles, saying, “Just have fun to boost your life and your lifestyle.”
• John Crenshaw presents The One Idea That Took 23 Years To Understand And Changed My Life Forever posted at Dominate Your Life, saying, “There’s one path on the way to meet your goals, and it’s disappearing behind you; there’s nowhere to go but forward, there’s no other option but to succeed.”
• Stephanie West Allen presents Friday frivolity (and a little wisdom): Why not become a jester? posted at idealawg.
• Susan Velez presents Happy Mother’s Day posted at The Secret To Life. 
• John Wesley presents Balancing the Future and the Present posted at Pick the Brain.
• Debra Moorhead presents The Key to Great Customer Service posted at Debra Moorhead.com.
• Terry Dean presents Do You Grab Your Audiences Attention? posted at Integrity Business Blog by Terry Dean.
• George Courtney jr presents Wave Goodbye to Winter posted at The Authentic Bartender Blog.

Online Success

• David presents LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA reports strong sales for the First Quarter of 2007The Alexander Report, saying, “Luxury goods manufacturer Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton reports that overall sales grew to 3.804 billion euros ($5.16 billion dollars) for the 1st quarter. The strong growth is led by strong demand on Tag Heuer watches. The blog includes articles about Tag Hauer marketing campaign, and online strategy to increase brand awareness”.
• Renthusiast presents Emerging thoughts on Property 2.0 posted at Renthusiast, saying, “The virtual property market is in some respects even hotter tan the conventional bricks and mortars game. In the world of property 2.0, things happen and they happen quickly. In conventional real estate, it’s the opposite.”•
• Robinson Go presents A Comprehensive Blogging Guide posted at Robinson Go dot Com, saying, “This is a future comprehensive blogging guide to help all aspiring blogging entrepreneurs from the newbie to the above average blogger. I believe this is a good tip for your readers who may exhibit enthusiasm for blogging online. Thanks.”
• Lead Optimize presents Make Your Site Say, “Can I help you?” posted at Lead Optimize.com, saying, “Make yourself available through your website to help your visitors choose your product that helps them solve their need or want.”

Conclusion
These are all great posts and a great way to share content across the blogosphere. Thanks again to all the contributors! This is my first as editor and sorry for the delay. This takes a bit longer than I expected but I have the time allocated now.

I hope everyone will link back to this post and help us promote the Carnival of Entrepreneurs.

Next week the Carnival is shifting to a Monday posting so we will be putting the deadline for this Friday. Look for the announcement. That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of carnival of entrepreneurs using the carnival submission form. This way we can stay on a regular schedule at Startup Spark. This Carnival is bursting at the seams and it always needs fresh eyes and attention from new bloggers that want to host it. Don’t forget: You can host too! Just email me.