So, after hosting the Carnival of the Capitalists last week (which was a blast, BTW) … and surveying the usual suspects in my blogroll … I think we need of a Carnival just for small business topics. Things like:
- Small biz marketing.
- Small biz advertising.
- Hiring and keeping good employees.
- Reaching out to your community.
- Management issues.
- How to start a small business.
- What it takes to succeed as an entrepreneur.
- Teaching/learning entrepreneurship.
- And so on…
I’m going ahead with this … so, I’ll set up a separate page just for the Carnival of Small Business, accept entries for the first edition this week, and will publish said first edition next Monday. If you want to submit an entry or host the Carnival one week, send an E-mail to sbcarnival AT gmail DOT com. (I’ll have a “fancy form” to submit entries this week.)
Great/sad/frightening/disturbing article from one of my favorite writers, Norm Brodsky. All about recent “run ins” with picket lines and inflatable rats at one of his building sites…
I’ve been thinking a lot about rank-and-file union members lately, and I have to say it’s a shame how the guys at the top have let them down. Union leaders must be the only people on the planet who haven’t figured out that if you want to get anywhere today, you have to think and act like a businessperson. You have to market yourself. You have to make the case why someone should purchase your services. If what you want are jobs for union members, you need to treat employers like potential customers, not like adversaries you’re going to force into submission. In a competitive economy, nobody buys because they’re forced to. They buy because they want to. The notion of threatening a customer shouldn’t even enter your mind.
Read the rest at Inc.com.
