Unions in the United States are targeting small businesses these days, especially small service businesses.
Jeff Cornwall over at The Entrepreneurial Mind points out this growing trend in the small business market, saying:
We’ve all read the obituaries of organized labor in the U.S. But,…
Over the past decade there has been a decline in consumer interest in major sports when compared to other forms of entertainment according to a recent article in the McKinsey Quarterly. In Europe between 1996 and 2001, the number of TV viewers of sports fell by 15%. In the US, NFL Monday Night…
A growing segment among small businesses is the home-based business. Home-based businesses mostly consist of one employee — the sole proprietor running them. On occasion, you may also find a home-based business with as many as a couple of employees.
With the advent of low cost home-office…
Product quality and value trump brand in the process of deciding what to purchase and who to buy it from according to a Millard Group online survey. The results come from more than 66,000 respondents. Thirty-seven percent of the respondents listed quality as the most important factor, and 26%…
Editor’s note: we are pleased to present another article by guest expert John Wyckoff. We talk frequently here at Small Business Trends about retail trends and how even though the big guys keep getting bigger, small businesses today are competing by being smarter and better. Creating a…
Emeka over at the Timbuktu Chronicles, a blog about African entrepreneurship, reports that eCommerce is on the upswing in Africa.
He points to an African eCommerce website called eShopAfrica, and a speech by the site’s founder Cordelia Salter-Nour giving an overview of eCommerce in…
Editor’s note: We’re excited to present the twenty-ninth in our popular weekly series of PowerBlog Reviews of other weblogs…
Lip-Sticking is a fun and useful blog that is full of personality. As the title says, the site is all about “Smart Marketing to Women…
Listening to the nightly news and reading the newspaper, sometimes you get the impression that the situation for small businesses in the U.S. is dire … worse than since the Great Depression of the 1930′s. And I’m certain that if you searched hard enough, you could find a statistic…
eBay is on a global expansion bid.
As I noted in an earlier post, eBay reported astonishing growth in its latest quarterly numbers. When you examine the numbers closely, much of the growth is coming from markets outside of the United States. The U.S. market accounted for 32% growth. That’s…
The majority of companies in the US and Canada with sales of over US$250 million are failing to respond adequately to emails with high-value purchase intent and are missing out on revenue opportunities according to an eGain survey conducted in July 2004. Three hundred companies were surveyed, and…
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