The Internet is transforming rural businesses and extending their reach. Some small rural businesses are now able to operate globally, due to being online.
The University of Minnesota in the Midwest United States conducted a series of case studies profiling how rural Minnesota businesses are…
Editor’s note: We’re back once again with the sixty-seventh in our regular weekly series of PowerBlog Reviews of business weblogs. This week’s review is being guest-blogged by Lynne Meyer, APR, president of A Way with Words.
By Lynne Meyer
Today we review Notes from the World of…
I am pleased to mention that this blog, Small Business Trends, has been nominated for MarketingSherpa’s 2nd Annual Reader’s Choice Blog Awards.
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Small Business Trends is now providing content services to other websites. One of the sites at which we contribute is a small business finance blog over at Facteon.
Facteon is a factoring service for small businesses. What that means is that if a small business is owed a decent-sized invoice…
Small businesses often depend on having large companies as their customers. Their relationship forms a kind of business ecosystem.
Any small business owner who has ever had dreams of landing that BIG customer — the “whale” of the business world — won’t want to miss our…
Here is an example of niche marketing: a brand new print magazine, called Magazine Soho. The publication targets not small business — a broad category to be sure. No, it targets a segment of small business: Soho’s — small office, home office workers. And with a particular…
Markets are fragmenting into micro-markets. Instead of going after broad markets — say, women aged 18 to 49 — companies are segmenting their customers into narrower profiles based on lifestyle.
Today it’s not just about understanding the demographics of your target market. …
Editor’s note: We’re pleased to present the sixty-sixth in our regular weekly series of PowerBlog Reviews of business weblogs. This week’s review is being guest-blogged by Lynne Meyer, president of A Way with Words.
A Black Belt in Blogging
By Lynne Meyer
If there were such a…
Back in April I wrote about a trend I see increasingly, called the “on-again off-again entrepreneur.”
I promised I would write more about that trend, so here goes.
The on-again off-again entrepreneur is someone who moves back and forth between being employed and owning his or her own…
My talk on Wednesday evening about the On-Again, Off-again Entrepreneur trend is now available for your listening pleasure. It was part of the Conversations with Experts series. Many thanks to Denise Wakeman and Patsi Krakoff of Build a Better Blog for hosting me.
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