Archive for the 'Trends' Category

When the “normal” economy is causing a financial pinch, people turn to folks who have developed their own methods for surviving without lots of cash. In this case it’s the Amish.
This reminds me of a family I know who got started in business just this way. They started buying “bents and dents”… often from insurance […]

According to Bloomberg, there’s 650,000 homes in foreclosure in the United States out of 18 million.
One real estate investor quoted in the article had this to say:
“This country needs a cleansing,” billionaire real estate investor Sam Zell, chairman of Equity Group Investments LLC, said yesterday at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Los Angeles. “We […]

This is from Newsmax and it’s about how to REVERSE the process. But the frightening thing is that the lack of exercise and fast food causes liver disease - in youth!
Thankfully the damage seems to be able to be reversed … at least when changes are made.
For adults and children who’ve repeatedly indulged in fast […]

According to Business Week, the economic slump hits men the hardest. Why’s that? “Men, concentrated in the weakest sectors, are losing jobs in this downturn, while women make gains.” Those sectors are manufacturing and construction.
They eat from the same dishes and sleep in the same beds, but they seem to be operating in two different […]

Are you optimistic for your business? Many small business owners plan to GROW their businesses at this time. They’re letting other people worry about “recession”!
SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(Marketwire - April 18, 2008) - The recent QuickBooks “Get Back to Business” survey found that small business owners are optimistic about their businesses despite uncertain economic times. […]

From the Agurban Institute
According to Telecommunications Industry News, broadband penetration in the U.S. has grown by more than 300% in the past six years. This is according to a recent report by Scarborough Research.
Approximately 49% of American adults now have a high-speed internet connection in their households, up from just 12% in 2002. DSL represents […]

Rothschild, the famous financier, is reported to have said never to buy until there is “blood running in the streets”.
Whether there’s blood or not, Americans are flocking to flea markets and Craigslist to sell prized possessions just to raise money to pay the bills.
This means that people with cash can be snapping up items […]

The news is filtering through the nation “Rice Shortage!”
Because of the astronomic price of gasoline that keeps moving upwards, talk of “recession” (or “Depression”), etc. this combination of news has the potential to spread panic.
And the fact that the “stimulus payments” are going out in the mail soon and everyone knows they’re a joke that […]

According to the Nashville Business Journal in 2007 entrepreneurial activity increased, especially for men and immigrants.
The Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity showed 495,000 new businesses a month were started in the United States in 2007, involving 0.3 percent of the adult population, or 300 of every 100,000 adults. This is slightly up from a participation […]

Read this at BizReport. HT to Womma.org
If you’re marketing through online video, you really need to be hitting the social networks like Digg, etc.
Search engines provide lots of traffic, but the social networks EQUAL them! It’s a way for the small fry to compete.
They’re sending 30% of the traffic to videos! Wow!
According to the report, […]