DIY Carnival!
February 17th, 2008 by Liz Fuller
Q: What do you do when you can’t go to the Carnival?
A: You make one up yourself
So welcome to my do-it-yourself collection of interesting articles I’ve been enjoying this week around the web.
And in the spirit of DIY and doing less with more, I’d like to share several articles with you that can help you to continue to grow your business in a troubling economy.
First, as you probably know, When the Going gets Tough…the Tough Start…Planning!
Whether it’s a marketing plan, a strategic plan or a business plan, now’s the time to start planning how you are going to make more and keep more in lean times. Evan Carmichael has made this easy for you with his post, Top 50 Business Plan Posts of the Year.
Rafi Mohammed has put together 4 Pricing Strategies to Prosper in a Recessionary Environment at Pricing for Profit. You’ll be pleased to know that none of the strategies involves simply cutting your prices.
If you’d really like some outside business consulting Scott Ginsberg (the Nametag Guy) offers some tips on How to Become Your Own Consultant. This one article is crammed with good information and strategies about how to step back, think objectively about your business, and overcome your marketing, management, leadership and sales challenges. It will definitely get you thinking!
And if that thinking has you convinced that you need a new logo and marketing materials - then be sure to enter Hewlett-Packard’s 2008 What Do You Have to Say? Small Business Contest. Top prize includes a new logo design, website, business cards and a color printer. But don’t wait! The contest deadline is Feb 28, 2008.
Then take a few moments to watch this ABC interview with Lisa Stone the co-founder of BlogHer. If your target market is women, you’ll be interested to learn that women today spend more time surfing the internet than reading the newspaper or watching TV. If you want to reach women (who make 83% of all purchases!), then you want to be online.
That’s it for this week’s do it yourself carnival - I hope you enjoyed it!
And look for posts from the real carnivals next week!
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