Anita's second entry - actually written by Dave Patterson on Small Business Trends, explodes one of the myths in book retailing:
The New York Times bestseller list does not always mean increased sales. According to Alan Sorensen, an assistant professor of strategic management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, making the bestseller list had, "no discernible impact on sales," for established authors such as John Grisham.
The Managing Leadership blog, writes about errr...Managing Leadership. Actually, John Stoup, the blogger, wrote the book of the same name and the post is a discussion of Professor Adair's comments on it.
It seems that Inspiration isn't provided by leaders of organisations at all. Despite being counter-intuitive, the argument makes a lot of sense.
The venerable TJ of TJ's Weblog (Technology, Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship - you can't get much more Capitalist than that) has been having a rant at the appalling state of the Affiliate Programme market in Germany.
What is going on with affiliate program managing companies? There have been many start-ups in the last five years and there is strong level of competition that should keep the companies ready to have superior services in order to find an edge.
Perhaps he could try begging to see if any of them will take his money. You never know!
Scott Allen at The Social Networking Weblog has been taking time out from finishing his book on the subject to warn against "canned" messages from services such as Ecademy, Linked In and the current bete noire, Multiply.
If you're not willing to take the time to even personalize a message to a small group of people, like Christian did above, why would you expect me to just open up my calendar and contact list to you?
So, that's really it now for this week's Carnival on the Capitalists. If you want your post to be featured, you'll just have to wait until next week.
Thanks to all contributors and readers again.
Russell
Article comments
1 - Eric Olsen
hi Russell, looks like I missed that first post back in March, sorry.
This is a cool feature - money is good. Thanks and a belated welcome!
2 - Robert T DeMarco
This is the first time I read one your posts--excellent.
On the issue of books and their availability. Even when a book sells fast there is no guarantee book stores will reorder or that publishers will publish more copies. It could be as simple as the contract that was signed prior to the book being published or any of a long list of factors. In this case, the book received an inordinate amount of free publicity on the talk shows. It is unlikely that this could have been anticipated. Another factor could be it is seen more or less as a "fad" book. Or, the audience is limited to "mean spirited" right wing fanatics. Who knows?
You might change the word "loose" to "lose" Or Phil Winn might come in here and give you a spelling lesson.
I'll come back in later and delve into this post further when I have more time.
Bob