Latest Stories for March, 2005

 

PowerBlog Review Schedule

One of the Internet trends we spotted over a year ago was that of business blogging. To track that trend, we started a weekly feature back in February of 2004 called PowerBlog Reviews. Each week we review notable examples of blogs that are being used for some sort of business purpose, with a…

Liability Costs Hurt Small Businesses Disproportionately

It seems like not a day goes by in the United States without hearing about the high liability costs burdening businesses. That includes malpractice liability costs for doctors and hospitals. Liability costs are impacting businesses harder each year. A Towers Perrin Study illustrates how tort costs…

Carnival of the Capitalists Arrives at Blogcritics

Carnival of the Capitalists, that weekly business event that travels from blog to blog, has arrived over at Blogcritics — check it out. Eric did a nice job with it. Next week — March 14 — Carnival will be stopping over at my other blog, the RFID Weblog. To submit your entry for…

ChoicePoint’s Small Business Action Raises Bigger Issues

ChoicePoint, the embattled data broker, has announced it is suspending most sales of data to small businesses. The action affects the company’s 17,000 small business customers. The announcement is designed to re-assure investors and regulators that it is taking action to combat recently…

PowerBlog Review: JSLogan

Editor’s note: Every week we analyze and review a small business blog, to demonstrate how small businesses are leveraging this new format. This is the fifty-fifth in our series of PowerBlog Reviews. JSLogan is a blog by Jim Logan, founder and President of Accelerate Business Group, LLC. The…

10,000 eBay Cottage Industries in the U.K.

The United Kingdom is now eBay’s third largest market, after the United States and Germany. The U.K. site for eBay has 10 million members and is growing at the rate of more than 160% annually. What’s more, there are 10,000 entrepreneurs in the U.K. making a living as eBay sellers: For…

More Evidence that Online Audio is Hot

BusinessWeek has an insightful report on something that I brought up a while back: the explosion in growth of podcasting, and the dramatic changes in radio and audio on the Internet. In an article entitled “The New Radio Revolution” it reports: “For all the hullabaloo it’s…

New State Small Business Reports Marginally Helpful

The National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB), which represents 600,000 small businesses in the United States, just inaugurated a new series of state surveys of small business owners. Called the “Small-Business Conditions” reports, they cover 26 of the 50 states. Each state…

Small Businesses Create Customer Evangelism

Last week we recorded some wisdom from Jackie Huba, the co-author of “Creating Customer Evangelists.” Jackie Huba discusses how businesses — especially small businesses — can create customer evangelists. Jackie has some great tips specifically for small businesses. So what…

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