As small business owners our work hours are increasingly encroaching into personal time, and we are working nontraditional hours. Evenings, weekends, holidays, while driving — even bathroom time is no longer sacred.
A recent Staples survey of U.S. business owners with 1 to 20 employees, shows…
Small Business Trends is a Finalist in the 2007 Codie Awards. I am humbled — and quaking in my boots.
Finalists in the Codie Awards were selected from more than 1,200 nominations, with nominations reviewed by 219 screening judges.
So why am I quaking in my boots? Because I saw the…
Editor’s Note: We have another in our 2007 trends series. This article looks at trends in small business podcasts, i.e., audio files that can be downloaded over the Web.
By Steve Rucinski
With forecasted sales of over 120 million MP3 players and 200 million MP3 enabled cell phones in 2007…
A distinct trend is that of Baby Boomers choosing to continue working into their “retirement.” They want active, full lives. Complete retirement from work does not fit into that definition.
Some choose the path of getting a part-time or full-time job. Increasingly, however, we see Baby…
Anna Johnson has sent me a link to another of her fun Flash movies to watch. This one’s called Career Choices. I’m not sure if the point is you should find a career that you are temperamentally suited for, or if the point is not to let yourself get stereotyped. Either way, it’s a…
At the start of every year I pick the technology tools no small business owner should be without.
This year, I was faced with so much wonderful technology — low cost or in many cases free — that I picked ten items, rather than my traditional five.
Included on the list are technology…
Editor’s Note: Last year, Dawn Rivers Baker wrote a guest article here at Small Business Trends outlining the top trends in microbusinesses for 2006. She was kind enough to update her article for 2007, as below.
By Dawn Rivers Baker
Not too much has changed during the last twelve months…
I have been tagged by Alex Bellinger at SmallBizPod in the chain-letter blogging meme.
Here is the way it works. I have to answer five questions. Actually, I understand I can change the first four if I wish, but I must answer the fifth question exactly as is. Then I get to tag five other people…
Greg Balanko-Dickson has challenged me to work on the financial section of the Trends Map. Greg, I accept your challenge.
So what’s this all about?
A couple of days ago I published a link to a very interesting Trends Map by some futurist forecasting folks. I added my comments about the…
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