Latest Stories for September, 2004

 

Small Businesses Are Going Global

GlobeTrade.com is an organization dedicated to helping small businesses go global in their search for markets. We recently asked Laurel Delaney, GlobeTrade.com’s Founder and CEO, to share her thoughts about key trends in small business globalization. Here is what Laurel had to say: The World…

Digital Photo Printing Stays Home

Makers and sellers of ink jet printers and supplies can take heart from a recent Lyra Research report while photofinishers can only read and weep. As the number of households with digital cameras increases, home printing of digital photos will continue to be the trend for the majority of users.…

Business Blogging: Like Dungeons and Dragons

“Blogging is a little like playing Dungeons and Dragons. You find one thing, and it leads deeper into something else, and then into another level, and another….” That’s according to blogger Steve Rucinski, of Small Business CEO. Steve said this in response to a question I…

Changing Role of The Company

Later this week, September 30-October 1, a group is gathering at the Wharton School’s SEI Center for Advanced Studies in management, to explore whether the traditional idea of what constitutes a company is obsolete. Their goal will be to reconcile the ways in which companies do business in…

PowerBlog Review: @rgumente

Editor’s note: We’re very pleased to bring you the thirty-second in our popular weekly series of PowerBlog Reviews of other weblogs… This week we review the @rgumente blog. The @rgumente blog is a Romanian business blog, written entirely in English. This is a gem of a blog that…

Marketing to Small Business Owners

One of the major trends we are seeing in the small business market is that more older entrepreneurs are starting up businesses. A combination of demographic and societal factors is behind this: the aging of the population in most Western cultures; changing employment practices (does anyone retire…

Swiss Army Knife + Memory Stick = Trend

One of the most recognizable and copied consumer products of the twentieth century has been updated to twenty-first-century functionality. The venerable Swiss Army Knife– the all-purpose pocket tool that comes with everything from a corkscrew to a toothpick–now offers the choice of a…

Small Boutique Hotels Growing

Have you ever traveled on business and yearned for a quiet, memorable place to stay, away from the hordes of other business travelers? Or a unique vacation experience? Small, independently-owned boutique hotels are the answer. And these days it is getting easier to find such hotels. According to…

DNA & The Organization

Organizational DNA is a topic growing in visibility. Interest in it is trending upward, as is its influence on the business world. I Googled the phrase today and got 741 hits. A search at Amazon.com turned up 30 books. Booz Allen Hamilton’s annual rating of the value of its newly developed…

Entrepreneurs Finding it Harder to be Successful

Editor’s Note: A few weeks ago Dr. Scott Shane, a very talented professor here in our home town of Cleveland, Ohio hit our radar screen. He recently was named as principal investigator for a new study commissioned by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation to examine what factors affect the…

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