Latest Stories for July, 2005

 

PowerBlog Review: AutoMuse

Editor’s note: We are pleased to bring you the seventy-sixth in our regular weekly series of PowerBlog Reviews of business weblogs. This week’s review is being guest-blogged by Lynne Meyer. Lynne Meyer, APR, is president of A Way with Words. By Lynne Meyer AutoMuse, a blog written by…

Profile of Small Business Online Behavior

Fortune magazine has created a profile of small business, based on its own Zogby/Fortune Small Business survey of 2000 entrepreneurs, as well as other published surveys. So what does it show about small business and online behavior? An interesting picture emerges: 81% of all entrepreneurs plan to…

Forbes Magazine Best of the Web: Small Business Blogs

Small Business Trends has been named as a Forbes Best of the Web in the category of Small Business Blogs. I’m honored to be named, especially in the company of such other world-class blogs, including: Duct Tape Marketing All Business Blog Center Church of the Customer Fresh…

Barbers Reinventing Their Industry

The venerable small business trade of the barbershop is changing. For 30 years barbershops were in a long decline in which the numbers of barbers in the United States kept going down. However, since 2001 the industry has been making a slow resurgence. How have they managed to turn the industry…

Jeff Nolan, Venture Capitalist, Talks With Us

My interview of Jeffrey Nolan, a venture capitalist with SAP Ventures, is now up over at the RFID Weblog. He talks about which kinds of RFID businesses are getting venture funding today — and which kinds are not. Jeff is himself a blogger. Actually he is my favorite VC blogger because he is…

PowerBlog Review: Landfair Furniture

Editor’s note: Welcome to the seventy-fifth in our regular weekly series of PowerBlog Reviews of business weblogs. This week’s review is being guest-blogged by Lynne Meyer. Lynne Meyer, APR, is president of A Way with Words. By Lynne Meyer The Landfair Furniture blog is written by Mike…

Small Businesses Bypassing Big Cities

BusinessWeek.com points out the trend of entrepreneurs bypassing big cities in favor of small towns. The article highlights the fundamental shift our economy is undergoing, as small businesses and small locales take on greater importance: “With the old-line manufacturing economy almost a…

Illegal Immigrants are a Lucrative Customer Opportunity

Throughout its history, the United States has been a welcoming place for immigrants. (Statue of Liberty: Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore….) But our porous borders have led to unprecedented numbers of…

Mobile Phones Transforming Small Businesses

What is the most significant piece of technology to impact small businesses worldwide? The computer? The fax machine? Desktop software? Try the mobile phone. Emeka at the Timbuktu Chronicles points to a Reuters article about small business people in Kenya whose sole piece of high technology is…

PowerBlog Review: Kiger’s Notebook

Editor’s note: We are pleased to bring you the seventy-fourth in our regular weekly series of PowerBlog Reviews of business weblogs. This week’s review is being guest-blogged by Lynne Meyer. Lynne Meyer, APR, is president of A Way with Words. By Lynne Meyer With the avalanche of…

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