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[...] Carnival of the Capitalists The Marketing Whore welcomes you to the Carnival of the Capitalists.The good news: All posts which are safe for work reading. (So click and link away!)The bad news: This post was delayed due to our server being down (still celebrating Memorial Day we guess). Sorry about that.The next carnival, June 4, will be hosted at Spooky Action.Now, onto the carnival.Marketing:Zenofeller.com smacks of rebellion (with a hint of lunacy) with The Failure of Marketing: Historically, marketing is plagued by one fundamental, strategical failure. It fails to communicate the notion of “don’t buy this shit”. Nope, that’s not a typo. And don’t let my hype fool ya, there’s genius in this post. (Genius always has a hint of insanity.)At Sox First the Six rules to avoid PR disasters are mandatory reading. I don’t care if PR interests you or not; this is vital.The Buzz Bin had a great post on Pitching Bloggers:What’s wrong is treating bloggers like traditional media outlets. New media content creators do not have any obligation to “report” or field inquiries. They don’t have to write up a kind review of your product (even if you comp them something), and a great majority distrust traditional public relations tactics. (This post is a follow-up to this post, Thinking Bloggers and Pitching Blogs, which I think he intended to be his first link in that post… In any case, I also recommend reading it.)In Queercents says, God Made Me Buy It: The Virtue of Consumption. This line should make you go read it:consumerism is consumerism… no matter what virtue or non-virtue is pushing you to buy something.Gender & Culture:The Epicurean Dealmaker poses some interesting gender matters regarding i-banking in Fingernails that Shine Like Justice. Also a delight ~ no, make that a riot to read.I have witnessed and participated firsthand in sustained and determined efforts to increase the number of women recruited into investment banks, and it is true that the number entering each year in first-year analyst and associate classes has increased markedly from my youth. However, what is also true is that very few of these women stay. The ones I know who do genuinely seem to enjoy their work, and they can cut the balls off a charging rhinocerous (or CEO) with an indenture with the best of them, all the while making their doltish male colleagues think impure thoughts about their pantyhose. In other words, I am of the opinion that smart, aggressive women have a distinct advantage over men in investment banking. Why, therefore, aren’t there more of them?Phil for Humanity writes about The Size of Money. Those who cannot see and those who are new to the US have to deal with our funny money and it’s time we started making more cents sense with our money.Econbrowser writes on something we all are thinking about, fuel prices, with the current status of Arizona Clean Fuels’ effort to build a new refinery, Who should pay this bill?General Business:Atlantic Canada’s Small Business Blog compares Business life lesson – Business is a team sport. But don’t mistake this for just the typical “No ‘I’ in “Team” talk; this is worth reading.InsureBlog ponders health care in Margarita’s & Medicine. As a self-employed person who knows many others in this same boat, I know we wonder what’s worth paying for. Here’s a perspective I recommend you read.You can cough up the $40,000 or so to have your joint replaced (if you do not have insurance).Or, you can jet to an exotic isle where the procedure is more like $6000. hell’s handmaiden discusses Supply, demand, behavior, profit … and such like. With 8 points, she had me intrigued at the first one:The law of supply and demand is not based on human behavior. It is assumed.Small Biz Survival asks, What is an entrepreneur? I found the ideas for spotting and supporting them to be most interesting.Wayne Hurlbert at Blog Business World has a book review of Run With The Bulls by Tim Irwin. Does Wayne give it a thumbs up or down? Go read and see.Charles H. Green of Trusted Advisor says Far too many people are calling themselves “Trusted Advisors”, and he’s got some advice for you if you’re considering joining them:The two most trust-destroying words you can say are, “trust me.” Never say you’re someone’s trusted advisor, much less say you want to be, much less build an ad campaign around it. It is inherently non-credible and insincere. (I try on my own website– which of course uses the term — to say “helping people become trusted advisors” — and not to claim that I are one).Businesspundit wrote What Tiger Woods Can Teach You About Running a Business. Even the non-golfers can follow the lessons. And we need them.In business, I think we often know the things we should do, but instead we try to do the things we want to do. We like the random fun things. We want to plan, brainstorm, hold meetings, all the stuff that doesn’t require any discipline or focus.Can I get an, “Amen,” from you all? *wink*About.com Entrepreneur’s Guide discusses Borrowing to Build Your Business. I know a few of you may be tempted to by-pass this post, but read this line and see if you shouldn’t change your mind:why would you want to borrow instead of getting investors? Simply put, borrowed money is cheaper than invested money.Also, a few posts with neat resources:The Alexander Report has a list of Apparel and Textile Associations and Organizations.Prosperity Achiever has a CSS Tools Collection.Labels: blogging, book reviews, consumer types, gender, general business, marketing, PR [...]

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