Small and Home Business Carnival – December 2008

We have a large and varied number of articles in this edition of the blog carnival. Hopefully, you’ll find some welcome advice amongst these excellent submissions … Happy reading.

• Emmanuel presents Build It Before You Need 2 posted at PACE with Emmanuel Oluwatosin.

• Steve Holder presents Guide to Non-Disclosure Agreements posted at Intellectual Property Advisor – Before discussing sensitive business matters with employees or business associates, you should know whether you need a Non-Disclosure Agreement to protect your business. Learn what an NDA is for and how to use it appropriately.

• hank presents Dream More, Work Less posted at MiB Smarter Money.

• Carol Bentley presents Who is leaving cash on the table posted at Carol Bentley.

• John Crickett presents Sales – Do You Know Your Numbers? posted at Business Opportunities And Ideas – If you don’t then how do you know if your business is growing, shrinking or just treading water?

• Steve presents Starting Your Own Business: Getting Beyond The Excuses posted at MyWifeQuitHerJob.com.

• Henri Schauffler1 presents Online Home Business – How To Succeed With Lead Generation posted at Henri Schauffler.

• Surfer Sam presents Ten Fantastic FREE Ways to Market Your New Online Business posted at Surfer Sam and Friends – These ten action points to market your small business web site are guaranteed to draw in new customers.

• Gunvi presents 5 Hot Tips For A Big Selling Squeeze Page posted at Big Selling Website Design – Squeeze page information.

• nickel presents 2009 Traditional and Roth IRA Contribution Limits posted at fivecentnickel.com.

• Gunvi Sund presents Profit Big With Video Opt-ins & Professional Videos posted at Gwennice’s Program Reviews – Online video is all the rage. You can barely go anywhere on the internet without running into it.

• Peter Lee presents Join SFI Marketing The No.1 Internet Home Based Business posted at Work From Home Business Blog.

• Ian Richardson presents 5 Ways to Make Your Website Sticky posted at Internet Business Blog to Make Everything EzyAs123 – This is an excellent article on 5 effective ways to make your website sticky.

• Khan presents Your Guide to Freelancing posted at Higher Education and Career Blog – Whether your freelance business is creating web sites, writing creative copy for businesses or designing marketing programs, your business’ success is important to you.

• Andy Birol presents A Small Business Owner’s Prayer For Obama posted at Birol’s Blog – A small business owner’s prayer for President Obama.

• greg Group presents 10 Secrets to Business Start-up Success posted at Associated Content.

• AndrewB presents Home Business Opportunities – Truth About Home Based Business Opportunities posted at Personal Plug – Research is important when looking for home based business opportunities but it takes a little more than just research to determine whether the opportunity is the right one for you.

• anya presents Selling in Tough Markets – free special report posted at Gavin Ingham.

• Don presents How To Know When It’s Time To Quit Your Day Job posted at Working From Home – How many of you that are still working at a 9 to 5 job but thinking you want to work from home have asked yourself this question? Here are some pointers to help you find the answers.

• fwp presents a freelance switch ? posted at the financial wellness project.

• Welly Mulia presents 4 Ways To Promote An Affiliate Product And The Most Effective One Is… posted at Internet Business Make Money Online With Welly Mulia.

• Scott Mahler presents Why You Need to Upgrade Your Website posted at Datex Media – In today’s global economy, it is more important than ever to upgrade your website.

• Kevin Dawson presents The Important Art of Slogan Writing posted at Kevin Dawson’s Copywriting & Traffic – The importance of a good slogan.

• Will Edwards presents The 4 Ps of Service Strategy posted at ITIL V3 Talk – The 4 Ps of Service Strategy (after Mintzberg) are as follows: Perspective, Plan, Position and Patterns – at least according to ITIL v3. A Strategy can be any of these things or, indeed, any mixture of them.

• Brian Terry presents 3 Ways To Make Money With Product Creation posted at Big Marketing Secrets Blog – The popularity of online shopping has brought so many opportunities for entrepreneurs. Today, they don’t even need to build a brick and mortar business as they can serve their customers better through online transactions.

• Stefan Töpfer presents Business?09 – Win £10,000? Competition And Unleash It! Challenge Goes Live. posted at Winweb.

• Dan McDonnal presents Social Networking for Small Business posted at McDonnal.com Blog RSS feed – Advice, guidance and incite into leveraging emerging technologies to enhance business performance.

• Kathleen Gage presents Collaboration Rather Than Competition – The Need for Wise Partnerships is higher than ever posted at Street Smarts Marketing & Promotions – With today’s economy the way it is it is necessary for entrepreneurs to consider alternative methods for sustaining as well as growing their business. An incredibly powerful solution is through collaboration rather than competition. Learn how you can keep your business healthy during these uncertain times with Joint Venture and Affiliate Partnerships.

• Monevator presents Why blogging for money will not make you rich posted at Monevator.com – Many self-employed and home-based professionals these days go through a period of thinking blogging might make them a good income. Generally, they’ll be lucky to get $1 a day. Here’s why…

• MWM presents Are You an Apple Farmer or a Potato Farmer? posted at Pizza For A Dream – Neat story about the different types of money we all make day to day.

• DebbieDragon presents 5 Tips for Making Some Cash and Selling Stuff on eBay posted at American Consumer News.

• John Kirk presents GOING SOLO – Basic Principles posted at Be Your Own Boss – A few basic tips for the new or nearly new entrepreneur from 30 years of personal experience.

• Dave Kerpen presents So You’ve Put Up a Facebook Page, Now What? 10 Tips for Business Community Building on Facebook posted at Buzz Marketing Daily – Ten Tips for How to use facebook to Build a Community of Fans and Followers for Your Business.

• Tony Huynh presents 8 Ways to Make Your Goal a Certainty posted at LimitlessUnits.com – People will allow themselves to be pushed around and bullied in order to remain comfortable. People will act in a painful situation to ease the pain or remove the source of that pain. Security and comfort is not afforded by a job, it is provided by your ability to produce.

• David Weeks presents Online Marketing Methods That Work posted at The 5 Phases Of Network Marketing – The author of this article is Jeff Beale.

• Ralph Jean-Paul presents How To Become a People Person posted at Potential 2 Success – “All things being equal people will do business with people they like. All things not being equal, they still will. Learn to become a people person and become better in relationship, leadership, and influence in every part of business and life.”

• Wayne John presents UserVoice is a Better Way to Obtain Customer Feedback posted at Wayne John – If you value feedback from your users, or simply want to give them an easy, professional way to let you know what they think, then you need to look at UserVoice. This is the best feedback tool I’ve seen. If you run a blog or web site, you need to look at this!

• Debra Taylor presents Have a Home Business? Keep It Moving. Overcome Procrastination. posted at Support4HomeBusiness – Everyone needs some support with staying on track as a sole proprietor working from home. When tasks are difficult, unpleasant or seemingly unproductive, it can be challenging to stay motivated.

• Businessinfoguide presents How to Launch Your Own Website Today posted at Business Info Guide.

• Shortcut Sleuth presents 12 Successful Work at Home Tips posted at Shortcut Sleuth – If you work from home, here are a few tips to help make the experience more successful and enjoyable!

• Dawn Abraham Business Coach presents How to Write a Simple & Successful Small Business Plan posted at Qualified Life Coach.Com – Do you want to know how to simply and effectively get your new small business plan to produce winning results in just a few short months?