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Focus Minded articles appeared in several carnivals last month. In an effort to support the carnivals, hear were the appearances.

• 5 Essentials for Kick Starting Your Business appeared in the Carnival of Entrepreneurs #28
• How To Prevent WWIII While Working With Friends appeared in the Carnival of Entrepreneurs #30
• The 2-Hour Business Plan appeared in the Carnival of Entrepreneurs #30

I am looking forward to seeing what carnivals August brings. Feel free to visit those carnivals as they contain some very valuable articles for Entrepreneurs.

Would you like to include FocusMinded.com in any of your carnivals or on your site? Send me a quick message and let’s talk.

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Three weeks ago I celebrated my first wedding anniversary and we had a wonderful celebratory night out. It was, however, a really rough year for us. We’ve commented to several people, how we are just grateful to be alive!

Last year I made the choice to go full time into website design and suffered all year because of that decision. You see, I am not really that good of a designer. My strong suit is programming, but I lack patience, in fact I am more of a business man and a visionary than a website designer or developer. Yet, I learned some very important lessons along the way and I want to share them with you.

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Unbelievable that another week has gone by already. Nevertheless I have a nice list of bookmarkable links for you. If you’ve found something to be bookmarkable send it to me or comment it below.

• Daily Blog Tips presents How to Find Short Domain Names.
• Ronald Huereca of Devlounge is part of creating a very sweet plugin, WordPress Automatic Update. It is still a very young project, but could prove to be the best thing ever for WordPress CMS users.
• Scott Gledhill writes about Corporate Web Standards on Digital Web Magazine. A fairy tale no longer, give this article a read.
• Sarah Pacopac of BlueJar.com writes a contest entry called The 3 P’s for Creating a Successful Website.
• Raj Dash of Bootstrapper answers How Entrepreneurs Brainstorm with a list of 7 of the common methods.

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Freelance Switch is looking to gather information from their global audience and wants our help. By filling out the survey you can make sure you get all the results available only to respondents. I guess I should mention that they are having prizes too. So head over, support the cause, and fill out the survey.

Read about the survey or Jump right in and take it.

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Choosing the right length for an effective request for proposal (RFP) or quote form can be a daunting task. In a perfect world we would love our clients to fill out a comprehensive document detailing everything they usually forget to tell us. Imagine having those needed details BEFORE you do the work instead of after you’ve done it.

Since we all know that this is not likely to happen, how do we choose that perfect RFP length? Is a long form better than a short form? What are the pros and cons with each type? What do others say is best? And are their any alternatives available to us?

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