Small Business Essentials

I have been pondering my goals for this year in the past few weeks, and I have come up with one common thread: Less. How is less a goal, you might ask? Well, I think if I can retrain my habits to keep less in mind, I can actually get more of the things that [...]

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Carnival of the Capitalists for January 7, 2008. This is the first CotC for the year, and perhaps the last of its kind. This site, Small Business Essentials, provides information for small business owners and entrepreneurs on a variety of topics. My company is also available for hire if [...]

Happy Holidays! I’ve been on a bit of a holiday hiatus, but regular posting should be underway by Monday the 7th. This week’s Carnival of the Capitalists (for 12/31/2007) is up at SEO ROI. Of note:

This week’s Carnival of the Capitalists (for 12/16/2007) is up at samaBlog. Of note:

A while back, I had a post on sketchnotes which featured Mike Rohde’s sketches from a conference. I’ve found another great idea sketching idea that expands upon this technique: The Concept Map.

I have a guest post up today over at Rob May’s blog, BusinessPundit, entitled MBA By TV: Business Lessons Learned From Watching Kitchen Nightmares. The whole idea is a good laugh but the business principles are sound, so check it out!

Jay pulled up his shirtsleeves and did this week’s edition of Carnival of the Capitalists himself over at Dispatches from Blogblivion. Of note:

There’s a really great article on the empire of LeBron James, the NBA star, at Fortune / CNN Money: LeBron Inc. The building of a billion-dollar athlete. (Thanks to BusinessPundit for the tip-off.) What interested me the most was the "summit" that LeBron and his marketing team held at the end of the NBA season, [...]

The Carnival of Business and Entrepreneurship #2 is up at Bootstrapper right now. I wanted to point out the entry, The Single Fastest Thing You Can Do to Increase Trust, from Trusted Advisor. This interested me because Charlie’s reasons really did make sense, but I read a lot about Tim Ferriss and the The 4-Hour [...]

The Carnival of the Capitalists for December 3rd at One Man Band. Of note:

The Carnival of the Capitalists for 11/26 is up at Money Walks. Some posts I’d like to discuss for this week’s carnival:

The November 19, 2007 Edition is now up at SEO ROI. It got up a bit late so I haven’t had time to review, but I’ll post some of my favorites and a discussion later this week. UPDATE ADDED Noteworthy content coming out of this weeks CotC: