Archive for the 'Trends' Category

Here’s an excellent post by Ernesto Sirolli: Horse Manure and the next Entrepreneurial Revolution.
While we have spent millions bailing out the auto industry (just before BO drives a tent peg into its head with the latest emission standards!), we are stifling the people who might actually help us dig out of this hole: the [...]

President Obama’s plan is to give tax relief to the middle class to the extent that they have no stake in the tax code and so they will be willing to vote the Democrats into power forever under the guise of “making the rich pay their fair share”. On top of the thousands of dollars [...]

Of course this is a sales pitch for VIPDesk… a virtual staffing service. But it shows even in this tough economy, there will likely be moves to cost savings which could open up doors for work at home jobs.
This is for business people seeking to contract with virtual call centers. If you’re seeking to [...]

Editor’s Note: I asked a friend of mine, Aaron Wilmot to supply some ‘forecasts’. He is a network marketer promoting health and nutrition products.

As 2008 comes to a close we look back on several popular terms and trends of the past year. Words like fresh, natural, organic, and local became part of our [...]

There’s one thing about economic downturns. The market for Business Opportunity information and work at home programs will GROW.
Legitimate information and programs will be in growing demand because people sense the need to generate extra income “just in case” something happens to their job.
That’s always been the case… Just consider the trend since 1914 according [...]

It begins in 2009.
Till then, we only had to worry about .com,.net,.info,.us,.biz etc. domain extensions.
And most small time marketers still won’t have to worry much… unless they have $185,000 to invest in a unique top level custom domain name to host content like webpage.customextension
In other words, as this article speculates there could be extensions like [...]

Don’t let the news make you believe every business is hurting. There are several that aren’t hurting at all. One of them is doing the CLEAN UP of foreclosed homes. Many people being kicked out of their house aren’t in a mood to leave the residence “white glove” clean. In fact they leave all [...]

Credit card companies are slashing credit limits just to protect themselves from the worsening economy.
There are many businesses – home businesses and others – that get their start up “financing” through credit cards.
If that’s you, brace yourself if you haven’t gotten one of these notices in the mail.
The credit card industry is fearful that [...]

Bloomberg: Taxpayers Say NO to Wall Street Bonuses
Actually if the truth be known, I think there’s another descriptive phrase in front of that “NO!” but you get the point.
While the cufflinked beggars of Wall Street come hat in hand to the US Treasury pleading desperation, they plan to go back to their ornate boardrooms and [...]

According to USA Today, gas is under $2 per gallon in many metro areas. In some areas, there’s even a PRICE WAR going on.
Here’s what one station owner had to say:
“In the Indianapolis market, some competitors were so eager to go below $2 that we had a price war,” says Jay Ricker, who owns 54 [...]