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Carnival of the Capitalists takes the Drakeview

As we all move toward the statistical time of year, the travelling business show, recognized by one and all as Carnival of the Capitalists, provides us with thoughts and ideas, as well some statistics from the Carnival's startup year.

This week's posts have a decidedly reflective air, as we engage the power of John D.'s great marketing, technology, and business blog, known as Drakeview.

When John is not providing technology ideas, he is writing about business and marketing As a supporter and believer in business success, I like that idea. A lot.

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

Blogging topics presented include entrepreneurship, management, legal issues, regulation, the media, internet commerce, the national and global economies.

As you would expect from Drakeview there are business, marketing, and economics postings everywhere.

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 "Cheap hits: You get what you pay for" where I discuss the idea of whether visitors resulting from gratuitous mentions of popular search terms has any real value.

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

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. The readership is enlarging, and finding entirely new visitors, every single week.

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.

Next week's Carnival of the Capitalists moves over to the great business blog that started it all, at Rob's Business Pundit.

In the meantime, click that mouse over to this week's Drakeview hosted Carnival of the Capitalists.

If the great posted entries don't convince you to click, the year's statistics for Carnival of the Capitalists, certainly will.

Activist blogs: Blogging for the cause

Activist blogs.

You know them when you see them.

While the first thought might run to the various political blogs, I am referring more to the blogs that are issue related.

For example, an activist blogger might write about the environment, abortion, legalizing drugs, or missing children, just to name a few.

Activist blogs usually are single issue, and for good reason. The blogger wishes to concentrate the entire blog's efforts toward a single goal.

Along with those various hot button issues, there will be controversy and negative feedback, as part of the overall package.

My friend Trudy Shuett of WOLves, when she's not writing about the value of business blogs and writers' blogs, is also an activist blogger.

Trudy provides a few handy suggestions, for those of you who are working toward a worthy cause. She knows from experience the highs, and unfortunate lows, that go along with activist blogging.

A blog certainly provides some powerful techniques for aiding your chosen cause, and working toward those important goals.

The blog will enable your voice to be heard in a crowd of other worthwhile organizations. The search engine visibility alone, makes the exercise a powerful one indeed.

Daily posts on your cause will keep readers returning for more information, either through bookmark, link, or site feed. Other people working to achieve the same societal changes will also link to your blog.

The mainstream media is constantly searching for spokespeople on various issues. A blogger is an ideal person to fill that role. With daily postings, and the necessary research to fill them, the blogger is very well informed on the topic.

Whether you are tying to change the world, or just your own little corner, activist blogs might provide the ideal outlet for your ambitions.

Start your activist blog today.

And even more blogging accolades

Bloggers are reaching the big time.

At least many of them are finding notice, in some of the biggest name publications, in the offline dead tree world.

Baseball blogger, and friend of Blog Business World, Aaron Gleeman of Aaron's Baseball Blog, received notice from the well known and very prestigious publication known as Sports Illustrated.

They don't get much more household names than that, in the magazine world.

Aaron found himself listed in the Sports Illustrated 50th Anniversary issue, no less.

He was joined by fellow baseball blogger Steve Goldman's A Pinstriped Bible. That highly regarded blog concentrates on the New York Yankees.

Long time readers of Aaron's Baseball Blog recognize his fondness, if that is strong enough, his obsession for the Minnesota Twins.

Sports Illustrated also recognized group baseball blog, Baseball Primer and a Boston Red Sox discussion blog, known as Sons of Sam Horn.

Sports blogs are among the leaders in moving into the mainstream.

Whether you have an interest in sports blogs in general, or baseball blogs in particular, they have hit a home run with their successes.

Way to go, Aaron.

Oh, and I hope you win a big pot at Texas Hold 'Em!

More blogging accolades

My good friend Yvonne DiVita of Lip-Sticking just keeps piling up the award nominations.

As I reported earlier, business blogger extrordinaire Yvonne DiVita was honoured with a nomination, by the Rochester (NY) Women's Network (RWN), for the "Up And Coming Business Woman Of The Year" Award.

Now she has added an even more prestigious nomination to her already impressive resume.

On September 23, Advanta (America's Business Awards) announced the finalists

in its "Women helping Women" contest.

Yvonne's company, called Windsor Media Enterprises, LLC, has been declared a finalist.

She will be traveling to New York City on October 22, for the award ceremony, where the winners will receive a Stevie Award.

Not only is Yvonne looking at even more awards, but she is also appearing on radio.

Yvonne stated:

was invited (as a result of the note I sent out regarding the

Stevie Awards) by Entrepreneur Radio Online, to be on the Lee Mirabel Show,

which focuses on business issues. They asked what I'd like to talk about and

I said, blogging. So, that's what we did.

Listen to Yvonne DiVita on Entrepreneur Radio.

Yvonne gave a fine presentation on the power of blogs.

Her interview is well worth a listen.

Business blogs: A recommendation

Business blogs.

I talk about them on this blog all of the time.

I post on various message boards about the advantages of blogs for business and for non-profit organizations.

I also write articles about business blogs, along with other search engine optimization (SEO) and marketing features, at SEO Chat.

That is only part of the story.

As many of my long time readers know, I am a freelance writer. Writing articles is something I do a great amount, and I enjoy it.

Freelance writing is an opportunity to unite a hobby, a passion, and an income all into one neat little package. It really should have ribbon and a nice bow. Perhaps some of my readers might supply them for me.

Another one of my professions, which I discuss but rarely talk about except in passing, is search engine optimzation and search engine marketing.

In effect, I help people's websites gain higher rankings on the search engines. That improved search placement for their most important keywords provides a business site with much better visibility.

You can't sell much online if no one can find your website.

I also assist the business with online marketing, to convert the resulting visitor traffic, into paying customers. Traffic numbers are great, but a few more dollars from sales is even better.

One of the techniques I recommend to all of my search engine optimization and marketing clients is to add a blog to their site.

A business blog is simply the fastest way to gain that important visibility.

Websites that feature a blog component, rise much more quickly in the search engines, like Google, Yahoo, and MSN Search, than they did before. In fact, sites will a business blog, as part of the content, will very often rank higher than a large well financed site.

For those lacking the funds, to run with the big dogs, a business blog is a great equalizer.

The high number of links, which are a hallmark of blogs, is very important to the search engine placement calculations. Blogs also provide another much sought after advantage for high search engine placements, in the form of regular fresh content.

The search engine's computerized formula, to decide what site will be on which page, is called an algorithm. There is nothing magical about it, as it's all mathematics.

The program in the algorithm is written to give high value to incoming links and to fresh keyword rich content. As we all know, blogs provide both of those features, as major parts of what makes them blogs.

I think the writer of the search engine calculation algorithm was a blogger. The formula certainly looks like it was written with blogs in mind. Oops, I think we might have let one of their closely guarded secrets out of the bag.

Blogs work wonders in the search engines.

Because of that powerful advantage, I recommend blogs, freely and openly, to all of me search engine optimization and internet marketing clients.

Now, I'm suggesting...no, I'm strongly advising, that that your business add a blog component too.

Get on the leading edge of internet marketing, public relations, and search engine optimization.

Get a blog.