Archive for the 'Trends' Category

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, […]

Though the US Government has done it’s best to make everybody content to be a mindless, docile ward of the State and willing to give 100% of the productivity to Washington, a recent survey revealed that 2 out of 3 Americans still dream of owning their own company.
Several reasons were cited for wanting to start […]

Thursday May 15th marks the 3rd UK National Work from Home Day
From TMCnet
National Work from Home Day is organised by Work Wise UK, a national not-for-profit initiative to promote “smarter” working practices - such as flexible, remote and mobile working, and working from home. It aims
to give half the working population, some 14 million, […]

I found this quote from eMarketer interesting because these facts lead them to conclude we are reaching “broadband saturation”:
eMarketer estimates that by 2012 there will be over 533 million broadband households worldwide, of which 94.3 million will be in the United States. A good percentage of these broadband subscribers will also be subscribing to a […]

This is from Adrants so you always have to watch out for their Coprolalia…
Want to hear an interesting conversation about social media and it’s impact on marketing, advertising, public relations and journalism? Want to know how the role of public relations is changing in the world of public relations? Want to explore the differences in […]

When I was growing up, a famous movie had a character that whispered the magic word for success in the “future” back then: “Plastics”!
He might as well have said “computers” because for a while, the ability to operate a desktop was considered “magical”… now it’s simply assumed, like the ability to breath.
Chrysler is cutting “hundreds […]

If you’re thinking of starting a food related catering business from home or a small storefront, the Kosher food industry is booming.
At a local donut shop operated by a Jewish couple I heard a lady come in and say she was patronizing the store because she wanted to buy some “holy food”.
I prefer Hebrew National  […]

These are signs that more people will be trying to enter the work at home and business opportunity market and, in the process, easy prey for scam artists.
A UK paper announces we’re in a “Great Depression” because so many Americans are on food stamps - 28 million to be exact.
Independent truckers likely agree, many of […]