The 143nd edition of the longest running internet blog carnival, the well known Carnival of the Vanities, is up at the eclectic blog known as Mister Snitch!.

Carnival of the Vanities is the original collection of blog postings, assembling some of the best and wide ranging bloggers on the internet.

This week's Carnival of the Vanities entries include politics, literature, science, medicine, technology, business, culture, comedy, and sports.

I have an entry in this week's Carnival of the Vanities as well.

My entry post is entitled "Business cooperation makes everyone a winner" where I discuss sharing contracts too large for your business, with other businesses as a partnership, that benefits everyone involved. Strategic alliances can also lead to other long term business for all of the companies involved.

To participate in the Carnival of the Vanities, or any of the other blog carnivals, one of the easiest techniques is to use the all inclusive carnival entry form at The Conservative Cat.

Another participation option is to simply e-mail your entry to the host of the week.

That's what I usually do.

As I suggest elsewhere, hosting and contributing to the various internet blog carnivals is a great promotional idea for your blog.

Next week's edition of Carnival of the Vanities will be at Laurence Simon's well known political, technology, and cat blog known as This Blog Is Full Of Crap.

In the meantime, head on over to the Mister Snitch! hosting of Carnival of the Vanities and enjoy the posts on offer.

You will almost certainly be introduced to some great new blogs.

Tags: Carnival of the Vanities, blogging, carnivals, promotions.

READ MORE - Mr. Snitch hosts Carnival of the Vanities

The winners of the prestigious Marketing Sherpa 2005 Best Blogs Awards have just been announced.

As you can see from the following list, some of the very best business bloggers on the internet today are included.

Unfortunately, not everyone could win, and some very deserving business blogs came up just a little bit short, in the overall voting totals.

Blog Business World was also nominated for an award, but did not win.

Of course, the real honour is in both the nomination and the support received from the readers and visitors to the blog.

I want to take this opportunity to congratulate all of the very deserving winners and to all of the other nominated bloggers. Thanks to everyone who read and voted for these great business blogs.

I also want to send out a special thank you to everyone who voted for Blog Business World. Your generous support is greatly appreciated and will never be forgotten.

Business blog awards make winners of every business blog, whether an award winner, a nominee, a voter, or a business blogger building a readership audience. The awards raise the profile of blogs in general, and business blogs in particular.

The awards make winners of us all.

Best individual's blog on the general topic of marketing and advertising


Winner: Seth Godin's Blog
Honorable Mention: Adrants



Best group weblog on the general topic of marketing and advertising


Winner: MarketingVOX
Honorable Mention (Tie):
Marketing Genius   
Church of the Customer

Best PR-topic blog


Winner: Media Guerrilla
Honorable Mention: Strategic Public Relations



Best B-to-B marketing-topic blog


Winner: Guerrilla Consulting
Honorable Mention: B-to-B Lead Generation Blog



Best blog on small business marketing


Winner: Duct Tape Marketing
Honorable Mention: Small Business Trends


Best blog on online marketing


Winner: Chris Baggott's Best Practices in Email
Honorable Mention: Charlotte Li's Blog



Blogs on Search Marketing


Winner: Search Engine Roundtable
Honorable Mention: Brad Fallon

Best Blog on Niche Marketing


Winners (tie):
Ypulse - Media for the Next Generation
WonderBranding - Marketing to Women
Honorable Mention:
Lipsticking- Smart marketing to women online

Best non-English-Language Blog


Winner: MarketingFacts (completely in Dutch)
Honorable mention: Media Culpa (in Swedish with some English)



Top readers' choice write-in vote


Winner: Easy Bake Weblogs
Honorable Mention: Collateral Damage (CMO Magazine)

Tags: blog awards, blogging, Marketing Sherpa, voting.

READ MORE - Marketing Sherpa Blogging Award winners

This week sees a financial market approach for the travelling business show, recognized by one and all as Carnival of the Capitalists makes a visit to Byrne Hobart's financial and marketing blog known as Byrne's MarketView.

This week's edition of Carnival of the Capitalists highlights some of the best bloggers writing on the internet today.

Blogging topics presented include entrepreneurship, management, market trading, internet commerce, marketing, the national and global economies, and technology.

As you would expect from Byrne's MarketView there are many discussions of business, markets, and economics.

It's always great to read and discover the many high quality blogs out there in the blogosphere.

We don't always get to them all, and this edition of Carnival of the Capitalists has introduced many of us to some brand new ones.

As I am always privileged to do, I have an entry in this week's Carnival of the Capitalists as well.

My entry post this week is entitled "Blog business cards: Networking your blog" where I recommend that bloggers print and freely distribute traditional business cards for their blog. After all, blogs should be marketed in a similar manner to any other small business, and the old school concept of business cards is still an effective marketing tool.

If you wish to submit an entry to next week's, or any Carnival of the Capitalists edition, e-mail your entries to the new address:

cotcmail -at- gmail -dot- com

You can always use the handy entry form at Gongol.com where all you have to do is fill in the blanks. Talk about making it easy to be included!

Another brand new form for sending entries to all of the internet carnvivals is provided by The Conservative Cat. This is a great one stop entry drop, for all your blog post entries, for every blog carnival.

If you are searching for new and exciting ways to expand your blog's readership, you should seriously consider sending an entry to Carnival of the Capitalists.

Merely being included in the company, of the first rate regular Carnival of the Capitalists contributors, will enhance the reputation of your blog.

The extra visitors can't sent to your blog won't hurt either!

The growth and staying power, of Carnival of the Capitalists, is beginning to catch the attention of people outside the blogging community. Each hosting, brings a fresh assortment of new readers, to the various blogs involved.

The visitors aren't only bloggers anymore.

Readership is expanding to include the mainstream media, various government and private organizations, many businesses, and other interested people from beyond the blogging community.

Many people are introduced to some tremendous blogs that they might otherwise have missed.

Next week's Carnival of the Capitalists will be right here at Blog Business World.

I am looking forward to receiving a stack of entries from my regular readers. If you have never participated in Carnival of the Capitalists before, this is the ideal time to start.

Send me those entries right away!

In the meantime, click that mouse over to the Byrne's MarketView hosting of Carnival of the Capitalists.

If the great posted entries don't convince you to click, or the possibility of finding some brand new blogs to read doesn't do it, then Carnival of the Capitalists certainly will offer you a chance to change your market view. (groan)

Tags: carnivals, capitalism, business, promotions.

READ MORE - Carnival of the Capitalists at Byrne's MarketView

Conversations with Experts: How to Build Your Business On and Off-line

Hosted by Denise Wakeman and Patsi Krakoff of Build a Better Blog System.

Business Models Made Marketable

Wednesday, June 15, 2005, 8:30 p.m. ET - FREE

Guest Expert: Andrea Lee of Multiple Streams of Coaching Income featured in the Build a Better Blog System.

One of the greatest challenges a solo professional can have is finding ways to look, use and expand their business model to grow with their vision and company mission.

Using a bigger picture mindset shift and encouraging you to think upgrade, Andrea will walk you through all the nuts and bolts of building a system that will grow as your business grows. She will walk you through the nuts and bolts of building “multiple Streams” in your business that will provide you with meaning and money.

Come and join her as she shows you real life examples of solo-professionals who are creating six and seven figure incomes by taking their business models and making them marketable.

Andrea J. Lee is the author of Multiple Streams of Coaching Income, and founder of the Ecommerce for Coaches Training System. She is also an award-winning author, entrepreneur, mentor, coach and consultant to business owners on five continents.

She is a thought-leader in the field of personal and business coaching, and builds, manages and consults to the largest coach training companies in the world.

Now the CEO of the Andrea J. Lee Group of Companies, she writes, speaks and develops advanced marketing, Internet and business systems for coaches.

Her mission?

To put money in the pockets of 10,000 coaches by 2008.

When she is not coaching, Andrea can be found enjoying life in Calgary, Alberta, Canada with her husband of nine years, Michael James Flannery and their two Vizslas named Chili and Eureka.

To obtain a copy of the "book that is bending brains around the world" visit Multiple Streams of Coaching Income, or sign up for the Audio Ezine "Best of Multiple Streams" which is a weekly ezine containing 2-minute voiceovers by Andrea on themes from the book.

Registration for this free teleseminar with Andrea Lee is here:

http://www.ConversationsWithExperts.com

Conversations with Experts is sponsored by Build a Better Blog System.

Tags: teleseminars, Andrea Lee, income, coaching.

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Blogiversary number two has arrived for leading blogger Jeremy Wright of Ensight.

Without a doubt, Jeremy is one of the most important bloggers writing on the internet today.

Or blogging for the last two years for that matter.

A history of Jeremy Wright and Ensight reads like a story of the development of blogging itself. Combining his personal life, his career, his hopes and dreams, into one of the most read and referred blogs in the blogosphere is a testament to the dedication of Jeremy as a blogger.

From his interviews in every major newspaper in North America, to starting several blogs, to being one of the driving forces in initiating The 2005 Business Blogging Awards, to selling a blog, to selling blogging services on eBay, to joining forces with respected blogger Darren Barefoot in in creating the professional blogging business called Inside Blogging, to speaking about blogging at every opportunity, to writing a book on blogging, Jeremy Wright has been a pioneer in blogging in every respect.

Jeremy succeeds as a blogger because he literally lets it all hang out on his blog.

Baring his soul has also led to paying the price in terms of employment.

Many bloggers write about honesty, openess, and transparency in blogging.

Jeremy Wright lives those concepts every day on his blog, and is not afraid to pay the price for doing so.

Bloggers everywhere owe a major debt to Jeremy Wright and to Ensight.

I am proud to be a supporter of Jeremy's blog.

I am even more honoured to be counted among his friends.

As long as Jeremy Wright leads the way in blogging, the medium is in great hands.

Even if Jeremy moves on to other things, and leaves blogging far behind, he has left a small army of disciples to carry on his blogging mission.

Blog on Jeremy.

Thanks for being a tremendous blogger and inspiration to others.

Thank you for being such a great friend.

You certainly deserve every accolade that you receive.

Happy second blogiversary.

And many more.

Tags: blogiversary, blogging, Jeremy Wright, tributes.

READ MORE - Ensight celebrates second blogiversary