Archive for the 'Trends' Category

A friend of mine who works at a “brick and mortar” automobile dealer has a unique job – he’s in charge of their online sales. Who’d have thought a local dealership in the “middle of nowhere” would have a sales person who is supposed to spend 100% of his time selling online?
It just goes to [...]

Intuit today released their findings on Small Business Optimism. Remember that Intuit’s idea of a “small business” is probably different than yours.
When most of us think “Small Business” we think of a family business hiring a few employees – perhaps 10 or so.
For government reporting purposes, a small business is any business under 500. This [...]

Does your home business get a big boost from the Holiday Sales season?
If it does, it’s hard to predict what you might want to do this year to maximize sales. In years past, you might have thrown money into advertising and not worried about what worked and what didn’t because overall profits justified it.
But what [...]

You have a business target in mind. You know that if you can meet Person X, you can likely do some business. But this person seems completely unreachable through ordinary means. The corporate voice mail tree sends you exactly where it’s designed to send you – to voice mail hell.
If you could connect someway [...]

The Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal is reporting this headline: Skype sold in deal valuing it at $2.75B
It caught my eye because I just resubscribed to their service… it does make it easier to communicate.
Ebay’s President and CEO had this to say:
Skype is a strong standalone business, but it does not have synergies with our [...]

This, admittedly ISN’T for purely home businesses.
You’d get in trouble because you’re likely too far “off the beaten” path to be accepted under this program.
More details will be coming out later, but, for now I’m going to alert my readers to this blog.
You may qualify for this if you …
1. Have an existing business (or [...]

We’ve heard for quite some time about the “Digital Switchover”. It happened this weekend. One headline read “Millions Left Without Television”. Another headline said that the switch prompted 700,000 calls to a federal hotline on Friday and Saturday alone. I suspect this a very good time for packages like Direct TV! Here’s why – despite [...]

Joel Kotkin asks Is Your City Safe From The Tech Bust?
“A decade ago, the path to a successful future seemed sure. Secure a foothold in the emerging information economy, and your city or region was destined to boom.”
Today, that isn’t necessarily so.
I recall a friend visiting me in another state over 12 [...]

Jenni Hunt markets a unique resource on how to make money through one of Ebay’s hottest selling items – Toys!
You can read her sales page here (affiliate link): Summer Toy Guide
I’ll let her describe it in her own words, but I think the logic is sound. Toys sell at the best prices during the upcoming [...]

BuddyPress is going to be hot – I think. Why? It gives Wordpress bloggers on the MU platform the ability to have powerful social networking tools for their own little “Micro network” for fans connecting to their blog and its niche. Because Wordpress is a leading blog platform, Buddypress automatically has a large potential user [...]