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Five Ways to Spot Business Trends
Editor’s Note: The Today’s Trend segment on the Small Business Trends Radio broadcast earlier today was about Five Ways to Spot Trends. I promised I would post it in full, so that no one would have to take notes during the program. Following is the transcript of that short segment:
Our…
How to Become a Trend Watcher
When I speak at events about trends in small business, often I am asked, “How do you spot trends?”
The answer is not simple and it is not short. I employ a large number of techniques for spotting and tracking trends in my daily work. Many of them involve following online sources. I…
Free is No Substitute for a Business Model
Esther Dyson, former chairwoman of ICANN and now Editor at Large at CNET, was interviewed at the Open Business site about business models for Internet startups.
The point of the interview is that “free” is not a substitute for a business model. However, giving stuff away for free in…
Carnival of the Capitalists – On Markets and Trade Shows
This week’s edition of Carnival of the Capitalists is now available at The Stalwart blog, where Joseph Weisenthal did a fine job as host.
Lots of great entries there, as usual. One of my personal favorites is Jack Yoest’s 7 Steps in Making Money at Trade Shows.
The Carnival of the…
50 Million Use RSS But Have No Idea What It Is
At least 75 million people in the USA and U.K. use RSS on a regular basis. However, about 50 million of them wouldn’t have a clue if you asked them what RSS was.
That’s according to research pulled together by the smart folks at MarketingSherpa.com.
So what’s going on?
People…
Top Ten U.S. Spending Trends
Editor’s Note: The following guest article looks at Americans’ spending patterns over the past several years, and the trends they suggest for the future. Small businesses in retail and those that sell to consumers will find this trends interpretation especially useful.
By Cheryl…
Learn to Blog
This spring and summer I will be teaching classes in blogging, RSS and online marketing at the University of Akron, where I am a part-time instructor.
If you are located in northern Ohio, these are reasonably priced courses. Several of them are set up as one-day seminars, where you will be…
Increasing Use of Niche Job Boards
Editor’s Note: We bring you another selected edition of the Herman Trend Alert here at Small Business Trends. This edition of the Alert focuses on anticipated shortages of qualified help in the United States and the reliance on niche job boards to fill positions. I would add my own…
Zillow and Changes to the Real Estate Industry
Real estate site Zillow.com launched last week. Some are predicting that Zillow.com is going to hurt realtors.
But wipe away those tears, realtors. Zillow.com is not going to have as big a negative impact on realtors as predicted.
Zillow.com is a website where you can go to find an instant…
Businesses Started by 50-Somethings Survive Longer
One of the trends we spotted a few years ago and started writing about is that of the older entrepreneur (read our essay, the Graying of Small Business).
This is a category of older first-time entrepreneur, who is usually someone I call a “refugee from the Corporate world.” These older…
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