Mark Miller, one of our contributing experts here who covers Baby Boomer entrepreneurship, produced a video interview you should catch. He interviews Jeff Williams, founder of BizStarters, which helps entrepreneurs age 50 and over start businesses.
Mark also launched a new website about active…
Business travel is one of those necessities, especially when you own your own business. You may find that you are traveling quite often and, unfortunately, have a lot of free time on your hands in the evenings or during a weekend overstay. For many business travelers, it’s simply not possible…
Goldilocks had it easy. She only had three of everything to choose from. Her decisions were pretty straightforward. Things were either too big or too small; too hot or too cold. Then, in fairly short order, she found something that was “just right.”
If only the real world were…
Web widgets are little interactive boxes of updatable content that you can place on websites. The content updates dynamically. Widgets can consist of polls, games or lists of updated content. Or even audio. They are quite a growing trend — I bump into them everywhere online.
Staci…
This week’s Carnival of the Capitalists is now available. Guest host C.E.H. Wiedel from One Man Band: DIY Online Business for One pulled together a quality roundup. She named our collection of tips from marketers, “Top Experts Dish with their Best Kept Marketing Secrets” as Best…
The proportion of the U.S. population that is starting businesses is shrinking. Data from the Federal Reserve show that the proportion of America households that own a business declined from 14.2 percent in 1983 to 11.5 percent in 2004.
Data from the Small Business Administration shows that, on a…
Supermarkets in the future will be very different from the way we know them today.
Modern technology has allowed us to re-invent the way we shop and pay for our groceries and daily essentials. Here are some highlights to pique your imagination:
At Price Chopper’s Burlington store, checkout…
I asked some of the world’s top marketers, small business experts and bloggers one short and sweet question:
“Please share one of your best kept marketing secrets”
Without further ado, here are their marketing secrets:
ATTRACTING AND KEEPING CUSTOMERS
â—Š Seth Godin,…
Your logo, along with your company name, combine to create an image that effectively represents your company. Think of a time when you visited a medical or professional office. The first person you came in contact with was the receptionist. What impression did he or she exhibit? Professional?…
I am thrilled to announce that we’ve launched a new section here at Small Business Trends called “Marketing Tips,” with the support of Hewlett Packard (HP). We’ll be creating special content with marketing tips you can use.
HP has given us access to a number of in-house…
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