Perhaps you recall the 3-part series I wrote, “Help, My Logo is So 1999!” In that series I invited you to weigh in and vote on your favorite logo designs. (I had used the Logoworks by HP design service and wrote a review of it.)
I am pleased to announce that based on your feedback, we…
(Hayward, California May 1, 2008) – Over 15,000 authors joined with industry leader Article Marketer to celebrate the company’s recent acquisition of its 5,600th publishing partner.
Boasting the industry’s largest distribution list, Article Marketer distributes original content…
Let’s not pretend that as small business owners and employees we don’t have to eat, drive cars or heat our homes. Rising prices hurt us because we are people … consumers … above all else.
But as businesspeople, the situation can be even worse if you happen to be in one of…
Remember in high school or college the couple that seemed to have a never-ending, on again, off again dating relationship? One week they’re on, the next week they’re off. The next week they’re on, the following week they’re off.
Well, in speaking with tens of thousands of…
Please join me in welcoming Clate Mask as a regular contributing columnist here at Small Business Trends.
Clate is the President and CEO of InfusionSoft. As I have gotten to know more about Clate, I know we are going to appreciate him contributing to this community.
You see, I have never actually…
How does the typical entrepreneur come up with the idea for his or her new business? The popular perception is that most entrepreneurs search for them, looking at newspapers, magazines, the Internet, and so on for information about market trends and business opportunities unfolding in the market…
Mark J. Penn is a pollster and the man who identified the trend of “soccer Moms” in 1996. Later he wrote a book called Microtrends along with Kinney Zalesne.
He defines a microtrend as affecting a small percentage of the population that can have a large impact on society as a whole:…
What happens when you have a very long domain name that does not serve your business well — and you decide to get a new domain?
That very thing happened to a small business in Canton, Ohio. Until this week they had a domain name that was 15 letters long. As of a few days ago, their…
The Bureau of Economic Analysis says we had a little over half a percent growth for the first quarter of 2008. The U.S. economy is actually growing, not moving backward into negative territory. In other words, no recession.
Now I remember why I don’t pretend to be an economic expert and…
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