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Top Ten Trends for Software Vendors
Here is another list of top ten trends predictions for 2005, this one for software vendors:
1. Voice over internet protocol (VOIP) goes mainstream
2. China’s power and world economic influence grows
3. Working at home goes mainstream while small business thrives
4. Offshoring activity picks…
Independent Coffeehouses Understand Their Market
Yesterday I ran into Valdis Krebs. Valdis is a well-known figure in the world of social networking analysis.
Seeing him reminded me to write about an intriguing trend. Look at this photograph to the left and tell me what you see that is strange.
If you see that everyone in it is looking at some…
Toward the Empathy Economy
An article by Bruce Nussbaum in BusinessWeek suggests that the thing that will set American businesses apart in the future is their ability to provide great customer experiences. To deliver great customer experiences, businesses will need to hire people with right-brain skills involving creativity…
PowerBlog Review: George’s Employment Blog
Editor’s note: Welcome to the fifty-eighth in our weekly PowerBlog Reviews of business weblogs.
George’s Employment Blog covers employment law and human resources. The blog is written by George Lenard, an attorney from St. Louis, Missouri, and Michael Harris, a Human Resources…
More Demand for Investor Relations Consultants
The passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act turned the world of publicly-traded companies in the United States upside down. A lot has been written about the increased compliance and reporting costs that smaller businesses now face.
There’s another aspect to Sarbanes-Oxley. Small-cap…
Reinventing A Business
I recommend you visit Rosa Say’s Talking Story blog and read the roundup of guest posts she is running this week on “reinventing your business.”
I have a short post up about using RSS for marketing. My philosophy is that reinvention starts with something small and manageable,…
Buying Sight Unseen a Growing Trend
A New York Enterprise Report story profiles an Ecuadorian immigrant who came to the United States 30 years ago. He sold encyclopedias door-to-door at first, opened a furniture store six years later, and today is a multi-millionaire and CEO of 1-800-MATTRESS.
What a great illustration of the…
14 Ways to a Successful Company
Two years ago Ron Finklestein, a former corporate executive who transformed himself into a successful business coach, started an annual conference in Akron, Ohio, USA called “Celebrating Success!” I was fortunate enough to work with Ron on that first annual conference as one of the…
PowerBlog Review: Decent Marketing
Editor’s note: it’s time again for our weekly PowerBlog Reviews of business weblogs. This is the fifty-seventh in the series.
Decent Marketing. The name carries with it all sorts of connotations. Not bad. Respectable and worthy. Kind.
Katherine Stone writes the Decent Marketing blog.…
The Author as Entrepreneur
Virginia Postrel points to an article in the Washington Post about what it takes to be an author today (hint: entrepreneurial skills help):
“A new book is printed in the United States just about every 20 seconds, according to a company called R.R. Bowker, which compiles the Books in Print…
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