How is the month flying by so quickly?  Hopefully you’ve contacted all of your wholesale shops to get them stocked up for the holidays.  We’re going to be sharing lots of holiday prep tips over the next few weeks but for this weekend, we rounded up some business articles that will give you a whole list of action steps to take before the end of the month!  Happy reading!

If you’re feeling a bit tired of social media and promoting everything, you are going to love this guest post on Papernstitch that shows you how to go about, Keeping It Real: Why You Don’t Need a Marketing Plan.

Do you know what you’re selling?  What you’re REALLY selling?  We bet you don’t.  But Kissmetrics wants to show you how to figure out What Are You Really Selling?

If you’re looking for inspiration this weekend, you’ll want to read this guest post on the When I Grow Up Coach site that continues the series The Recession is Bullhonkey: Leigh’s Story.

As your business grows, you’ll probably want to branch out and do speaking gigs.  But how do you do that?  Problogger wrote a great article that talks about how to Build Your Brand to Get Paid Speaking Gigs.

Need to add some spice and jazz into your writing?  April of Blacksburg Belle wants you to Make This One Change to Inject Sizzle into Your Writing.

{Featured image via Marianne Lomonaco}