This week sees a search engine marketing and SEO approach to the traveling business show, recognized by one and all as Carnival of the Capitalists and arrives at Gabriel Goldenberg's search engine optimization SEO blog known as SEO ROI Services.

This week's edition of Carnival of the Capitalists highlights some of the best bloggers writing on the internet today, as well as some of the best and most popular entries ever to the Carnival.

Blogging topics presented include entrepreneurship, management, stock market trading, internet commerce, marketing, the national economy, and personal finance.

As you would expect from Carnival of the Capitalists, there are many discussions of economics, marketing, business, and small business.

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 well as some long time contributors.



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

My post is titled "Business disasters: Turning the page" where I discuss how business people have too often felt the pain, both personal and financial, of a business disaster. The reasons for failures are many and varied, and require a careful analysis to assure the don't recur. The problem then often moves from business analysis to decision paralysis. It can be very difficult to turn the page.

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:

thecotc -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!



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 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 hosted at the personal finance blog known as Money Walks.

In the meantime, click your mouse over to the SEO ROI Services 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 visit Carnival of the Capitalists and get into business for yourself.

Tags: carnivals, capitalism, business, marketing.

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Liberating Volunteer Slaves in a Free Nation

By Corey Donaldson

Date: 2007
Format: Paperback; 320 pp
Publisher: The Freedom Academy










Being a dissatisfied employee is the equivalent of becoming a volunteer slave, write Corey Donaldson in his eye opening book Liberating Volunteer Slaves in a Free Nation. To escape the bonds of voluntary servitude, the author describes the process, of internal changes in habit of thought, that can result in achieving freedom as an entrepreneur.

For Corey Donaldson, a free person takes personal responsibility and accepts accountability for their actions. Instead of maintaining the dependent modes of thought that wallow in servitude, the author describes some positive steps that will remove the bonds that stifle personal freedom. One of the most crucial aspects of achieving freedom is the overcoming of obstacles and personal failures and setbacks. Within these experiences are the keys to future entrepreneurial success.



Corey Donaldson (photo left) pulls no punches with his call for personal empowerment. He discusses openly the factors that he believes hold people back from reaching their full potential. He turns self help books upside down with his radical acceptance of personal responsibility and total accountability concept. The author provides the tools necessary to overcome your personal fears and to take control of your own life. The road to personal success is not an easy one, and Corey doesn't sugar coat his ideas. To his credit, he even tells his readers that if they are not ready to let go of their fears and seek freedom as humans, then they should stop reading his book at the first chapter.

For me, the power of the book is in its honest approach to achieving personal empowerment. Instead of providing feel good nostrums, Corey Donaldson guides the former slaves as he calls them to freedom. His book is a wake up call for anyone who hates their job and feels trapped with no visible escape. At the same time, the author values personal experience as the keys to a better future. His entrepreneurial solution, to gaining financial and personal security might not be for everyone, but paradoxically that hard nosed approach makes the book more powerful.

I recommend Liberating Volunteer Slaves in a Free Nation by Corey Donaldson for anyone seeking the keys to unlock the cell door that blocks their personal and business success. Instead of forcing yourself to go to work, at a job that you hate, the book provides an alternative path. That journey to self understanding and taking charge of your life will often lead to a very successful entrepreneurial career as well.

Read Liberating Volunteer Slaves in a Free Nation by Corey Donaldson and thrown off those chains, and become empowered as never before in your life.

Tags: Corey Donaldson, Liberating Volunteer Slaves in a Free Nation, entrepreneurial freedom, business book reviews.

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Business people have too often felt the pain, both personal and financial, of a business disaster. The reasons for failures are many and varied, and require a careful analysis to assure the don't recur. The problem then often moves from business analysis to decision paralysis. It can be very difficult to turn the page.

Moving on from disaster can be very problematic for many organizations. Often, the owner or CEO become defensive and decide and prefer to avoid risk. The failure to place the problem in the past, and look to the future, can often be a worse decision than the original crisis. It is important to remember that choosing to retrench, and even to do nothing, is a decision in and of itself. By keeping that fact in mind, moving forward can become an easier transition.

The effects on an organization, following a major disaster, are not always obvious at first glance. Very often, they are subtle and deadly. An examination of some of the effects of a mistake can help a company recover and return to success. Following the assessment of the damage and its causes, the next step is to chart a course for the future. This is not the right time to get scared of making any decisions.



One result of a mistake is a round of finger pointing and blame placement. This is not the correct approach to the problem. Instead of placing blame on a scapegoated employee, there needs to be a renewed emphasis on team building and internal company cooperation.

Sometimes, good decisions just go bad due to to timing, competition, or the industry health in general. Firing or demoting an employee for risk taking sends the wrong message to the rest of the staff. Creating a culture of covering up, keeping heads down, and risk avoidance is a recipe for business failure in the long run. Be sure to let your employees understand that risks are rewarded, and are seen as a step to future profits.

Another costly result is an exodus of good staff people. The round of resume circulations is often seen as result of the disaster. Instead, the employee turnover is a consequence of the blame game. No one wants to remain in an organization where any mistakes result in a one way trip to the company's Siberia. Risk takers should be praised for their creativity, and a series of pilot programs, periodic checkpoints, and research plans be developed to prevent future monetary drains.



A third result is often a concentration of decision making into the hands of the owner, CEO, or senior management. The company becomes more centralized with a deepening sense of two way mistrust and micromanagement. Instead of helping the company move forward, this approach is focussed on the past. A fear of mistakes paralyzes the entire company into inactivity. A steady erosion of market share is the all too frequent next step.

When a disaster strikes a business, it is important to turn the page. If employees understand that risk and mistakes are part of the overall success of the company, they will continue to develop new financial, marketing, production, and distribution plans. Creativity should be encouraged, and tightening the decision making screws won't get the job done.

If a disaster happens, turn the page and write a new chapter of company success instead.

Tags: decision making, business management, creative thinking, overcoming disasters.

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Author, business professor, and former executive Dorothea E. Gaulden, author of the provocative book Right Makes Might: Reviving Ethics to Improve Your Business, discusses the unethical practices that have overtaken business in the past decade. She describes how employing ethical principles can help your company achieve greater success than competitors using unscrupulous business methods. Dorothea Gaulden is my internet radio show guest on Blog Business Success; hosted live on Blog Talk Radio.


The show airs live on Thursday, November 15, at 8:00 pm Eastern Time; 5:00 pm Pacific Time.

Author, business professor, and former executive Dorothea Gaulden discusses the unethical practices that have overtaken business in the past decade. You will learn:

* How good ethics are good business

* How to become an ethics based company

* How to make ethical business practices part of your company culture

* The financial consequences faced by unethical businesses



Dorothea E. Gaulden (photo left) is former finance executive with over 25 years experience and an adjunct professor of business. Dorothea E. Gaulden understands the importance of correcting the unethical behavior overtaking our business community at the corporate level and in university classrooms.

Dorothea attended Youngstown University in Ohio, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting. She earned an MBA in finance from the University of Saint Francis in Fort Wayne, and a Ph.D. in organization and management from Capella University in Minneapolis.

After 10 years with ITT Corporation, as assistant controller, Dorothea Gaulden was promoted to Director of Governmental Financial relations in Washington, D.C. where she worked with several government agencies on behalf of the company. Three years later she was promoted to vice president and controller and subsequently promoted to North America group controller responsible for financial performances of facilities in Mexico, Canada and the U.S.

Today, she serves as an adjunct business professor for undergraduate and graduate students at American InterContinental University, Indiana Wesleyan University and Argosy University.

During an active career, Dorothea E. Gaulden has witnessed first-hand the decline of ethical standards in the American business community from corrupt practices by corporate executives to dishonest business students in her classes. Inspired to make a positive impact, she authored Right Makes Might: Reviving Ethics to Improve Your Business (Bridgeway Books, Aug. 2007), in which she provides a timely glimpse of the current pervasive, troubling condition of business practices.

She explores the lack of common sense and respect for others, and the willingness of corporations and individuals to knowingly engage in unethical practices. She then utilizes her expertise to offer a workable remedy to combat this cancer tainting our business environment.

My book review of Right Makes Might: Reviving Ethics to Improve Your Business by Dorothea E. Gaulden.



If you miss this very informative show, it will be available for free download as a podcast for iPod, iTunes, and MP3 players; or play it right on your computer. To download this, or any other of my guest interviews, go to the Blog Business Success host page and click on Archived Segments. Once there, click on the podcast icon at the end of the episode description, to download the show free of charge for your listening enjoyment. You can also subscribe to the show feed.



To call in questions for my guest, the number is: (347) 996-5832

Let's talk with Dorothea E. Gaulden, author of the provocative book Right Makes Might: Reviving Ethics to Improve Your Business, discusses the unethical practices that have overtaken business in the past decade. She describes how employing ethical principles can help your company achieve greater success than competitors using unscrupulous business methods, to boost your business success on Blog Business Success Radio.

Tags: Dorothea E. Gaulden, Right Makes Might, business ethics, Blog Business Success, Blog Talk Radio.

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This week sees an entrepreneurial approach to the traveling business show, recognized by one and all as Carnival of the Capitalists and arrives at the UK based entrepreneurial blog known as Business Opportunities and Ideas.

This week's edition of Carnival of the Capitalists highlights some of the best bloggers writing on the internet today, as well as some of the best and most popular entries ever to the Carnival.

Blogging topics presented include entrepreneurship, management, market trading, internet commerce, marketing, the national economy and personal finance.

As you would expect from Carnival of the Capitalists, there are many discussions of economics, marketing, business, and small business.

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 well as some long time contributors.



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

My post is titled "Decision making: Avoiding two false choices" where I discuss how management decision making is crucial to the success of an organization. While that statement may appear moot, the decision making process is often taken for granted in many companies. In a few businesses, the process is even short circuited to gain support for some very questionable policy choices.

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:

thecotc -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!



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 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 hosted at Gabriel Goldenberg's search engine optimization SEO blog known as SEO ROI Services.

In the meantime, click your mouse over to the Business Opportunities and Ideas 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 visit Carnival of the Capitalists and get into business for yourself.

Tags: carnivals, capitalism, business, marketing.

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