Carnival of Business – Oct 30 2006
I entered my “Flipping the Switch” story in this week’s Carnival of Business which is being held at Mine That Data.
My story made it into the “Next Best” second [hopefully this isn't like the Olympics where the silver medal is considered the first loser]. I shouldn’t complain thou, there are pushing 40 entries and, having hosted the Carnival of Personal Finance 3 times on my old site, I can tell you it’s a ton of work.
My personal fav from this week’s Carnival of Business is by Christine Kane and it’s called Don’t GET Rich Quick. BE Rich Quick.
There is a lot of truth to it and it reminds me of book that had a profound affect on me when I read it called: The Instant Millionaire: A Tale of Wisdom and Wealth
PS. For you Carnival newbies, if you get a story published in a carnival, it’s only polite to link to it and send some traffic to the carnival. I still hold a grudge for Steve Palvina and a couple others who would send in stories to the Carnivals that I hosted and then not link up to them…
But I think it’s long past the time someone addressed the social contract implicit in the carny culture: Anyone who submits a post to a specific edition of a roaming carnival should help promote that edition.
The etiquette here is based on fairness and reciprocity. Each individual participant contributes content with the expectation of being remunerated in traffic. A given host contributes time and effort, often a considerable amount, seeking the same pay-off. So where are all these readers supposed to come from? In theory, every participant entreats his site visitors to review the newest edition of the carnival in question. In practice, however, a handful of blogs usually do the heavy lifting to generate interest
while others barely lift a finger. Source.
Check out the carnival. Sorry for the rant.
Jon Symons
Complaining about bad carnival etiquette…so you don’t have to.
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Comments ( 2 )
Kimber added these pithy words on Oct 30 06 at 12:30 pmSo true, Jon.
I completely believe in building teams
and sharing success is part of the process.
“It’s lonely at the top” is a myth.Though I have to admit
that I don’t often check source of traffic
(don’t even know how to do it
on Road To Forbes)
so unless people drop me an e-mail that they’ve linked,
I tend not to return the favor.
Out of ignorance,
not intentional.
Kevin Hillstrom added these pithy words on Oct 30 06 at 5:19 pmYou’ve already driven traffic to this week’s Carnival, helping the other bloggers out. And someday, the kindness you showed will be paid back to you. Things always work out well for nice people, in the long run!
Thanks,
Kevin