Latest Stories for January, 2005

 

Carnival of the Capitalists Arrives Monday!

Carnival of the Capitalists, that weekly business event that travels from blog to blog, will be arriving here at Small Business Trends next Monday morning, January 17, 2005. Carnival of the Capitalists rounds up and showcases business articles from a variety of excellent sites. I invite all…

Top Economic Trends for Small Biz

Dr. John Soper, an economist with John Carroll University, will be speaking with us tomorrow about the economic trends impacting small business in 2005. I can’t wait to hear what he predicts. And I hope you’ll join us. It’s another of our 45-minute audio Conversations with small…

Health and Family Trends for 2005

Food and pets figure in greatly in the top 10 trends for family and health in the United States, as predicted by Better Homes and Gardens magazine. If you are a small business owner, consultant, solo entrepreneur, author, home-based business or franchise owner, you may just find a promising new…

PowerBlog Review: MaxBlumberg.com

Editor’s note: we are very pleased to present the forty-seventh in our regular weekly series of PowerBlog Reviews of other weblogs. Just when you think there can’t possibly be a different approach to a marketing blog, one comes along to prove you wrong. MaxBlumberg’s Positioning…

Entrepreneurship Trends for 2005

The National Dialogue on Entrepreneurship newsletter (free subscription) has issued its entrepreneurship trends for 2005: Economic Development Becomes More Entrepreneurial - Economic developers are beginning to realize that spurring entrepreneurial activity should be a key part of their programs.…

Top 2005 eBusiness Trends

Here’s a list of Top 10 eBusiness Trends for 2005, from eMarketer.com. It’s a far-reaching list, covering many different technologies: Alternative Advertising: Major brand owners are concerned about TV commercials losing eyeballs, and so they will be spending more of their…

The Small Business Advocate’s 2005 Predictions

Jim Blasingame, the Small Business Advocate, has issued his list of Top Predictions for 2005 in his newsletter (free subscription required). There are a large number of predictions — 18 to be exact — but I’ll highlight just a few of the most universally relevant predictions: 2005…

PowerBlog Review: Binza

Editor’s note: As we start another year, we are excited to present the forty-sixth in our regular weekly series of PowerBlog Reviews of other weblogs. We enjoy reviewing blogs that are being put to unusual purposes, and Binza is one of them. This blog is an interesting example of using a…

Blogging a Fast Growing Trend

Readership of blogs and RSS news feeds in the United States is growing rapidly, according to a hot-off-the-presses study. I predict that blogs and RSS will continue to be hot Internet trends in 2005. The just-released Pew Internet and American Life survey profiles this astonishingly fast growth.…

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