The Carnival of Business

Welcome to Stock Market Beat! We are proud to be hosting this edition of the Carnival of Business.

Marcus Markou of the Business Opportunities Blog submits: “If they don’t fail outright, most businesses fail to fully achieve their potential. That’s because the person who owns the business doesn’t truly know how to build a company that works without him or her.. which is the key…” How Michael Gerber’s principles can help entrepreneurs build lasting businesses.

Negotiation is an art that can be studied and mastered. Peter Kua presents 19 Steps to Power Negotiations - Part 1 posted at RadicalHop.com by Peter Kua: Light Speed Personal Development.You start a blog to promote your book… so how do you promote the blog? David Maister presents Marketing Complexity posted at David Maister’s Passion, People and Principles.

Jim Logan presents What’s Unique About You And Your Business? posted at Jim Logan.

Confused between pyramid schemes and network marketing? Bill Perry presents Network Marketing: What is it? posted at Financial Freedom Library.

Why do advertisers spend money to reach people who would never buy their product? Daniel Scocco presents Dumb Advertising! posted at Future Tech Web.

People seem to be making a big deal about the announcement that Bill Gates will be retiring to concentrate more time on his foundation and surfing the Internet, which he thinks might be really big in the future. Here are a few reasons why it really won’t make that much difference, at least for a while.Jon Swift presents The Retirement of Bill Gates from Microsoft Is No Big Deal posted at Jon Swift.

Tracy Coenen presents Is the IRS picking on small businesses? posted at FRAUDfiles Fraud Blog.

The most common complaint I hear from managers is on time management. But there may be something even more important on which a manager should focus…. Jack Yoest presents Manager’s Tips at SBT posted at Jack Yoest.

A critical examination of some of the advice given by “prosperity trainer” and real estate investment “guru” John Burley compares his advice with that given by other financial gurus and concludes that Burley comes up short. Einzige presents John Burley’s 7 Levels of Investor posted at Die Eigenheit.

David Lorenzo presents Passion & Attitude posted at Career Intensity Blog - David V. Lorenzo.

Harrison presents 7 habits of Business Success posted at Journey To Financial Freedom.

G. presents Creating your own company posted at How to Make a Million Dollars. A quick summary about how to start your own company and how to trademark your business name.

With the stock going down the tubes, Vonage still has to deal with day-to-day management issues like dissatisfied customers. Babak presents Vonage: “Please Don’t Leave Us” posted at Trader’s Narrative.

Too few businesses have a detailed marketing plan. Becky McCray presents Simplified marketing plans for the real world posted at Small Biz Survival.As we hosted the Carnival of Business this week, we didn’t submit one of our own articles. However, if you would like to take a little tour a good place to start would be our Popular Posts Page. Next week’s carnival will be hosted by Consumer-Driven Weekly. You can submit your best business articles using the BlogCarnival submission form.

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