Latest Stories for September, 2005

 

TrendTracking: Government Websites, Blog Niche-ification, More

Welcome to the third edition of TrendTracking, a weekly place for small businesses to see and be seen. CRM Lowdown is a blog about customer relationship management topics. Some of the posts are about CRM software applications, but others are about the general attitude and mindset of managing…

Rise of the Entrepreneurial Class

John Koten, Editor in Chief of Inc magazine, recently spoke about the “rise of the entrepreneurial class” at a talk I attended at the Cleveland City Club. He called it one of two key factors in our economy today. A wide range of people today see themselves as entrepreneurs, he says…

Are Small Businesses Avoiding or Embracing Online Banking?

Entrepreneur magazine has an article by C. J. Prince about small businesses being slow to adopt online banking. One of the main issues that holds back small businesses from adopting online banking is security. Small business owners fear for the security of their accounts when transactions occur…

PowerBlog Reviews Grand Finale

Welcome, to the final edition of the PowerBlog Review series of reviews of other business blogs. We go out with a bang — a Grand Finale, if you will. For our last finale, we have written about three blogs. I hope you enjoy them — all 86 Reviews. Please scroll down to see the final…

PowerBlog Review: Emerging Technology Trends

Editor’s note: Welcome to the eighty-sixth and final in our regular weekly series of PowerBlog Reviews. Roland Piquepaille’s Technology Trends blog has been one of my favorite blogs ever since I started blogging two years ago. Roland Piquepaille is a computer consultant from Paris,…

PowerBlog Review: Embrace Pet Insurance Blog

Editor’s note: We are pleased to bring you the eighty-fifth in our regular weekly series of PowerBlog Reviews. The Embrace Pet Insurance blog is the blog of — you guessed it — a pet insurance business. Embrace Pet Insurance is a startup company with an intriguing history. First,…

PowerBlog Review: Warren Greshes Talking Success

Editor’s note: Welcome to the eighty-fourth in our regular weekly series of PowerBlog Reviews. This week’s review is being guest-blogged by Lynne Meyer. By Lynne Meyer Warren Greshes multi-tasks as a professional speaker, author and talk show host who blogs from Chapel Hill, North…

Outsourcing Companies Target Small Business

We all outsource. Or subcontract if you prefer. Guy Clapperton at Business Insight is quite right when he points out that most small businesses have been outsourcing things like accounting for many a moon. On a personal level we all tend to outsource our plumbing, electricity or joinery needs once…

Business Owners: Recognize Changing Market Forces

Last Friday I heard small business expert Steven Little speak. He was in town for an entrepreneur conference, “One Inc.Redible Day.” A key nugget heard in his talk: Business owners need to recognize the forces of change around them, and adapt to changes in the marketplace. “Small…

On Wal-Mart, Small Businesses and Business Ecosystems

Today’s Wall Street Journal has an excellent piece by Gwendolyn Bounds about entrepreneurs getting their products into Wal-Mart. The article follows two entrepreneurs who have a new writing instrument — a pen with an unusual shape — and how they’ve dreamed of getting it on…

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