Latest Stories for August, 2007

 

Women Business Owners Part of Social Entrepreneurship Trend

Today’s high-powered women executives make it a point to weave social entrepreneurship into their businesses. The Women Presidents’ Organization – Chicago chapter, recently announced the results of a survey of its members. Those survey results were especially interesting…

BusinessDictionary.com for Fast Look Ups

BusinessDictionary.com was recently launched. You can use it to look up over 20,000 business-related words. It’s got phrases ranging from management terms of art (management by walking around) to technology terms that might pop up on your computer (ActiveX) to financial terminology…

Be Seen on Small Business Trends: Recruiting Writers

I am looking for two additional professionals to start writing alongside me here on Small Business Trends, on topics related to trends and new developments affecting small businesses.  If you run your own business or if you coach small business owners and you like to write, then you’d…

Value Your Business In Ten Minutes at BizBuySell

BizBuySell, which is an online marketplace for buying and selling businesses, now offers a free valuation report. The valuation report helps you determine fair market prices for businesses in your industry. I used the tool yesterday and came away impressed. It’s very simple to generate a…

On Youthful Entrepreneurs and a Super Fast ROI from Blogging

Jack Yoest (one of our Experts here) hosted this week’s Carnival of the Capitalists. Be sure to check out The Digerati Life’s article about the Five Youngest Entrepreneurs. Blawg Review #123, a roundup of blog posts by law bloggers is now live at Todd Smith’s Texas Appellate Law…

Learn from Your Desk, at iBusinessChannel.com

Ruth King is one of the early pioneers of video on the Web.  Long before YouTube entered the online video scene, Ruth started the BusinessTVChannel.com to provide video programming on the Web to business owners. Then disaster struck. The company that was supplying their video bandwidth…

New Business Ideas: Targeting Nostalgic Consumers

Amidst the daily push towards the future and the latest technology and new products, consumers are increasingly looking back with nostalgia at the past era, memories of which they hold dear in their hearts. We’ve seen a couple of consumer products which aim to bring back those nostalgic…

Great Big List of 100 Small Business Podcasts

Over at the Small Business Trends Radio show site, we have published a great big list of 100 small business podcasts.  The Back-story Behind the List Staci, the Program Manager for the Small Business Trends Radio show, has been working on the list for a couple of weeks now.  To put together a…

How to Explain Social Media to Local Small Businesses: Give Examples

Sometimes at speaking engagements before business owners when I cover trends in social media, I know I am not making it real if I see eyes wandering and feet shifting.   I know what they’re thinking:  “This social media stuff sounds like something from Mars or Jupiter — or…

To Grow Your Business, It Helps to be a Geek

To grow your company bigger and faster, it helps to be a geek.   CDW, the computer and technology products vendor, did a survey of owners of mid-size businesses.  The business owners were asked to look back at their growth path.  The point of the survey was to identify which factors helped…

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