
Editor’s Note: We have another excellent forecast for our 2006 trends series. This time we looked east, to the Philippines, to successful business owner Wilson Ng. Many of us who read Small Business Trends are located in North America and Europe. What little we know of Asia we get from TV…

Editor’s Note: As we continue with our top 2006 trends series, we are very pleased to offer this guest column by Ramon Ray. Ramon is THE man when it comes to technology for the small business office. In the following article Ramon offers his list of top 2006 trends in technology —…

Professor Cornwall, who heads the Center for Entrepreneurship at Belmont University, offers his 2006 predictions. He predicts a positive employment situation in the United States, with unemployment below 5% (considered an historically low mark and a very good number) . He goes on to predict that…

We continue our 2006 trends series with Dennis Kennedy’s Legal Technology Predictions. Dennis is a well-known law blogger (blawger) who writes about technology in the law office.
In his article he identifies six big picture trends, as he calls them, affecting technology use by lawyers. …

We continue our 2006 trends forecast series here at Small Business Trends. In this post we outline our own list of the top ten promising small business opportunities for 2006.
First, a few words about how I chose the top ten.
i) The list is limited to businesses that the mainstream can…

A while back, Nellie Lide of the McGinn Group, sent me a link to her article outlining 2006 shopping trends on the New Persuasion blog. She noted, “When I wrote this over the weekend I thought of you and how many times you’ve given me awesome information — you might like this…

Entrepreneur Magazine has published a comprehensive list of 2006 trends forecasts and what they call hot businesses. It has a lot of great information in it.
Oh, the list is not perfect. It suffers from being too long and is not as tight as it should be. Certain trends it identifies are out…

Editor’s Note: We continue with our series on 2006 trends forecasts. As promised, we are pleased to host a number of original content pieces on a variety of niche topics. The following set of trends predictions comes from Dawn Rivers Baker, editor of The MicroEnterprise Journal, a…

We continue with our 2006 trends round-ups.
The following list of top ten trends for 2006 comes courtesy of Happy About Corporation. Every year they have put out a list of top ten trends with input from executives from various industries. (They even rate the accuracy of past years’…