Latest Stories for February, 2005

 

PowerBlog Review: Online Marketing Blog

Editor’s note: It’s time again for another in our weekly series of PowerBlog Reviews of business weblogs. Welcome to the fifty-fourth Review. This week’s Review is about the Online Marketing blog. It’s the brainchild of Lee Odden, the founder of TopRank, a search engine…

More About the Growth of Service Industries

Recently I pointed out that service industries have outpaced goods-producing industries. The vast majority of jobs in the United States are in service-producing industries — about 80%. Here’s more about the growth of service industries. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics,…

“Starting Something” by Wayne McVicker

Today is the final stop of the 7th Business Blog Book Tour, and it’s here at Small Business Trends. We are excited to have author and entrepreneur Wayne McVicker with us today. Wayne was nice enough to spend some time with us on the phone, an interview which Steve “Professor…

Self-Publishing A Book

Editor’s Note: Today we are hosting the 7th Business Blog Book Tour. The Book Tour features Wayne McVicker, author of “Starting Something.” The following is our first Tour article — this one is the backstory about Wayne’s decision to self-publish his book. It’s a…

Entrepreneurism Helps Society

The short post I made a few days ago about religion and entrepreneurism apparently has struck a chord. Thank you for the many wonderful emails, for the comments you left, and for linking to the post. It’s as if entrepreneurs have looked for confirmation that following the path of capitalism…

The Dire State of Israeli Small Business

If you think your business is challenging, imagine what it must be like to be a small business in Israel. Small businesses represent over 97% of all firms in Israel. They constitute the only sector to have created new jobs in the last decade. Yet, look at the economic challenges that Israel faces:…

Small Business Network Replacing Old Boy Network?

It used to be the old boy network. Powerful businessmen would take care of their own, finding good jobs for anyone who managed to graduate from the right school or move in the right circles. Nowadays, it’s just as likely to be small business owners — with nothing to tie them together…

PowerBlog Review: Smart Marketing

Editor’s note: The PowerBlog Reviews are officially one year old! This is the fifty-third in our regular weekly series. The Smart Marketing blog by Jay Lipe brings you — well — lots of smart marketing information. The title says it’s located “at the intersection of…

Religion and Entrepreneurism — Connected Trends

Religion and entrepreneurism are two concepts that don’t necessarily go together as a pair. At least, when I think of one, I don’t automatically think of the other. Professor Jeff Cornwall, one of my favorite bloggers and a smart man, got me thinking about the topic on this Sunday…

Size of the SMB Market

A few weeks ago a reader from the U.K. emailed me wanting to know the number of small, midsize and large businesses in the U.S. and U.K. markets. I knew I had some information but couldn’t quickly find it (isn’t that always the way!).   Today I ran into that information, in a nice…

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