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There have a been a couple Carnival of Entrepreneurs in the last 2 years, but Ben from Startup Spark has taken up the project and he’s doing it right this time.

I submitted my Internet marketing cautionary tale, Pipeline Profits: Tempted? If so You Aren’t Ready to Be Rich! to this weeks edition and I was very pleasantly surprise by the quality of the Carnival of Entrepreneurs
Edition #4.

The Picasso Award *

The award goes to Trusted Adviser for his story Trust Tip 3: The ABC 20 Question Rule which is great advice and particularly relates to me. The story outlines some basic tips to develop a curious attitude to transform from being self-oriented to customer oriented:

But most importantly, your self-orientation will drop. Self-orientation is the biggest factor affecting personal trust—if your objectives, goals and focus is on yourself, then to that extent, customers and clients won’t trust you. As well they shouldn’t. Being constantly curious transforms self-orientation into customer focus.

The Matisse Award

This award goes to The New Marketing World for his practical explanation - Product’s Life Cycle: How Long You Have to Sell. I love good clear concepts presented well. They are some of my favorite blog posts in general and this one is a classic example:

The product’s life cycle is the term used to understand the life in which the product still appeals to consumers. Eventually the product will get old and need replacing, will be surpassed by new products, or will no longer be of interest to consumers.

The Basquiat Award

This award could be given for the title alone. On J. Timothy King’s Blog he presents What Chocolate Says About Entrepreneurship. It’s a review of the movie Chocolate, which I haven’t seen, but I’ll be looking for it after reading Timothy’s review:

But the story of the movie Chocolat is about something greater than catering to the lowest common denominator. It’s about passion and innovation. It’s about being an entrepreneur, about independence and self-actualization. Vianne represents this entrepreneurial spirit, which is why I identified so fully with her character.

That’s it for my first look at the Carnival of Entrepreneurs I hope you’ll take a minute to check it out.

- Jon Symons

* P.S. I’ve decided to use more references to “art” on this site, just to mess with Google a bit. Google consistently sends traffic to this site for art related searches, primarily because of having the word in my domain name [a good SEO tip there - even when there is little reference to a word if it is in the domain name a search engine will give the site "weight" for it.]