Would you like to get your business profiled on the home page of a major business site?
JumpUp.com has a new feature called the New Business Spotlight, appearing on its home page.
You can submit a Spotlight application for your business. It could be an excellent way to get free online visibility…
Business partnerships — they can put a small business on the map.
One of the most famous partnerships in recent history was between IBM and Microsoft. In 1980, IBM was a huge company. Microsoft was a small band of geeks. It might have stayed that way, except that IBM struck a deal to include…
On October 24, 2006 I will be in New York to attend the Make Mine a $Million Business Event by founding partner American Express OPEN. In the afternoon will be networking and workshops. Then the evening awards program starts at 4:00 PM, with financial guru Suze Orman. Twenty women business…
The US Army is getting more recruits with tattoos. And so are you.
One third of the population 18 to 29 has a tattoo. Your Business Blogger is outside this age range and our five-kid penta-posse has not yet demanded needles with ink. But this is an exploding trend that will affect small business…
Spam is the modern-day menace of email, following us like a herd of rapacious predators, kept at bay only by anti-virus and anti-spam software.
Yet, there is a positive side of spam.
You can use spam to to spot trends.
Think I’m joking? No. (Well, maybe this is a little tongue in cheek, but I…
Perkins Kleiner Caufield and Byers, a large Silicon Valley venture-capital firm, recently announced that it is doubling its investment into green technologies. If you were thinking of approaching them or any VC with your new biodegradable dog leashes, you may want to re-think that. Look carefully…
Most of you probably know what a wiki is, but if you don’t here is a simple definition: a wiki is a website that any visitor can change or update.
When I saw my first wiki 3 years ago, it was one of the ugliest websites I think I had ever seen. As a visitor, yes, I could update it. But my…
Punctuality is the politeness of kings.
Small business owners have smaller margins for error than our larger big-company counterparts. One way a person, a company, can stand out and avoid error is to respect people’s time. By being on time.
Your Business Blogger was reminded of this truth…
The more we can do for ourselves as small business owners, the more empowered we feel. We are in charge. Like we can whip the world.
That was my point in an interview I gave recently. Journalist Leah Betancourt wrote about it for KCCI.com, in a small business trends segment:
Campbell said…
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Author of Career Transition
