Archive for the 'Trends' Category

The book Big Box Swindle:The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America’s Independent Businesses raises important questions and suggests some interesting ideas that should be of interest to work at home entrepreneurs who struggle to overcome the “Big Boys’” economies of scale. The main argument against the “Big Box” and it’s “low low [...]

if you’ve ever read the “Rich Dad/Poor Dad” books, you may recall that Robert Kiyosaki got his start in Hawaii. From time to time he does seminars on the Island of Oahu. What would be interesting to see is if Rich Dad could take someone from the audience right there in Oahu and see if [...]

The New York Times in American Dream Is Elusive for New Generation makes,to me, an astonishing statement. In noting the story of a young college graduate who can’t find work in his field in Boston, the article says that, increasingly, young men have to leave the country to find opportunity! For young adults, the prospects [...]

This story is about how the retirement of Baby Boomers will affect the market, specifically mutual funds. But it may get you thinking about the type of business opportunities this “age wave” will produce… 79 million baby boomers enter retirement: What it could mean for the market. As you might imagine the old advice to [...]

I don’t have a link  for this… I was driving through our beautiful Amish country to get out of the house today when I heard a story on the radio about “Stealth Brands”. Two examples given were Starbucks trying to open up shops without any of their branding that looked like “local independent businesses”. Coors [...]

“Adverse Possession” is a vaild legal concept. If some property is truly abandoned and one takes possession and pays the taxes, there are legal provisions that could let you own that property. But when someone hasn’t abandoned the property, attempts at adverse possession are just GRAND THEFT. So don’t be duped into trying something that [...]

In the wake of the financial crisis that doesn’t seem to go away and the ongoing political disaster that seems to characterize both “Republican” and “Democrat” administrations, it’s time to think for a moment about Reinventing America. In light of that we should think in terms of reinventing home business. Will this collapse ultimately put [...]

Rick Newman interviewed Tom Peters on the subject of Why American Workers Need To Toughen Up. Peters says that individuals and businesses need to be resilient. He doesn’t have much sense of timing… getting resilient involves having resources. That involves planning and saving in the “fat” years when profits are rolling in. In the middle [...]

Want to know in general where people are moving to your country FROM or moving from your county TO? Check out this interactive map from Forbes. If you can identify mass migrations you may be able to market services to these people by “meeting them at the front door” when they enter your county so [...]

Seth Godin’s got a thought provoking piece called Goodbye to the Office Why do people “go to the office” anyway? For about the same reason most churches have services at 11:00 AM… that used to be the time the farm chores like milking cows and gathering eggs were done, folks had time for breakfast, and [...]