Welcome to the inaugural edition of the Carnival of Cash Flow!

The Carnival of Cash Flow is a weekly feature, gathering posts from around the blogosphere related to the topic of business cash flow - smartly and timely managing money in and out of a business.  Here is where you can learn more about the carnival.

With no further delay, let’s jump into the this first edition:

Jimson Lee of CRM Help Desk Software.com offers a list of good choices for saving money for performing Online meetings, Remote support, Web conference, Web collaboration, Remote desktop, and Audio conferencing. This are a number of services listed here which can cut considerable expense supporting customers and sales opportunities without compromising quality or tainting your image.  Nice list!

Kathleen Gage of Street Smarts Marketing & Promotion offers the idea of holding teleseminars as a means to cost effectively reach new customers - For organizations and online businesses, teleseminars are more than just sales pitch; they provide a unique route to building a business.

Brian Terry of Big Selling Website Design presents 5 Hot Tips For A Big Selling Squeeze Page - If you’re not familiar with squeeze pages, they’re used in lead generation campaigns as a form of landing page to direct response to a call to action.  The tips in this post may give you an idea to increase response you haven’t considered.

Tisha Tolar of Empowering Mom offers some tips on staying sane in busy times: Work is good. Too much work is better. It means you are on track and growing. But you have to find ways to grow with it in ways that are productive and efficient so you can always remain on task and keep moving forward with confidence and less stress. For those of you struggling with cash flow challenges, you may find a tips or two here help you through the day.

Surfer Sam of Surfer Sam and Friends offers Small Business Tax Tips. For Business Owners, Start-Ups and Entrepreneur:  A small business owner needs to know about taxes. A common challenge for most start-up small businesses is learning the IRS tax requirements and regulations. You may want to start your own small business, or you may be a small business owner who wants to see the business grow and profit.

Money Blue Book presents six reasons to Organize Your Expenses With Business Credit Cards.  Note this is not managing a cash flow problem with credit cards - something I recommend against - but managing day to day business expenses.  This entry has some great ideas and ten good suggestions for business credit card options.

Louis Burns of NLP Marketing Blog offers the idea of Crafting Mental Movies For Others to influence and persuade.  This can be handy when speaking with business partners and suppliers in the midst of a cash flow crisis:  It’s been said that the best way to persuade others is to enter into the conversation already running in their head. Find out as much as you can about their beliefs, emotions, strategies and behaviors when it comes to their interactions with you. If you want to influence the other, be the other.

I’ll close this edition with a lighthearted post from Investing School:  25 Ingenious Ways to Spend Your Time in the Current Financial Crisis.  Enjoy!

Thanks to everyone for participating in this fist edition of the Carnival of Cash Flow.  I sincerely hope each of you reading this post discovers one idea you can use to improve your business.  All feedback is appreciated.

Thanks!  See you nest week!