Latest Stories for December, 2005

 

Retail Trends: Safety Sells

Editor’s note: We bring you this month’s article by expert guest blogger, John Wyckoff. This month John examines an interesting trend affecting retailers such as car dealers, power equipment sellers, and motorcycle dealers: the trend of the newly safety-conscious America. By John…

Top Legal Technology Trends for 2006

We continue our 2006 trends series with Dennis Kennedy’s Legal Technology Predictions. Dennis is a well-known law blogger (blawger) who writes about technology in the law office. In his article he identifies six big picture trends, as he calls them, affecting technology use by lawyers. …

Carnival of the Capitalists – Check Out The Long Tail Entry

Despite this being a holiday week, the Carnival of the Capitalists is going strong. The latest edition is now available over at the Multiple Mentality blog. The Carnival of the Capitalists is a weekly online roundup of business writings from various blogs — more information about Carnival…

Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays

Top Ten Promising Small Business Opportunities for 2006

We continue our 2006 trends forecast series here at Small Business Trends. In this post we outline our own list of the top ten promising small business opportunities for 2006. First, a few words about how I chose the top ten. i) The list is limited to businesses that the mainstream can…

Shopping Trends for 2006

A while back, Nellie Lide of the McGinn Group, sent me a link to her article outlining 2006 shopping trends on the New Persuasion blog. She noted, “When I wrote this over the weekend I thought of you and how many times you’ve given me awesome information — you might like this…

Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Trends for 2006

Entrepreneur Magazine has published a comprehensive list of 2006 trends forecasts and what they call hot businesses. It has a lot of great information in it. Oh, the list is not perfect. It suffers from being too long and is not as tight as it should be. Certain trends it identifies are out…

Changes in the Centuries Old Ice Industry Arrive

Editor’s Note: Now and then we like to profile changes and trends in specific vertical industries — especially when a centuries old industry is changing in some innovative, unexpected or even disruptive way. This article was submitted by a reader, Keith Lechwar, about the ice industry…

Microbusiness Trends for 2006

Editor’s Note: We continue with our series on 2006 trends forecasts. As promised, we are pleased to host a number of original content pieces on a variety of niche topics. The following set of trends predictions comes from Dawn Rivers Baker, editor of The MicroEnterprise Journal, a…

The “Happy About” 2006 Business Trends

We continue with our 2006 trends round-ups. The following list of top ten trends for 2006 comes courtesy of Happy About Corporation. Every year they have put out a list of top ten trends with input from executives from various industries. (They even rate the accuracy of past years’…

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