Archive for the 'Trends' Category

Here’s the latest from Edmunds on the Toyota recall. As small business people, what can we learn from this debacle? Let’s see… 1) If you have a website some how related to the mess, then posting updates may get you a surge of traffic … be sure to “Digg” the article and use other social [...]

Census: Home Workers Grew in First Part of Decade No, these weren’t self employed for the most part. They seemed more likely to be corporate types of work that happened to be done at home. Data from the Census Bureau says Americans working from home are likeliest to be white, college-educated female professionals. They also [...]

From the Business Opportunities Blog Out of luck and out of jobs as the nation slowly tries to emerge from a recession, many Americans are finding in Conan O’Brien what they can’t find elsewhere — dignity in telling The Man to take a hike. WalletPop reports in O’Brien’s fight to keep his job as host [...]

This is from Newsweek: Strange Jobs That Could Earn You $100,000 Per Year 1. Ethical Hacker (you could do this at home) 2. Cotton Gin Operator (I live in a place they still grow cotton. My only surprise is that someone’s earning good money at it! But this is only “weird” to a city slicker.) [...]

My online friend Jack Schultz has a great newsletter. Here’s the Archive. He’s a voice for small town America and the small business owner. I will be posting some of his comments. Here’s another one… The Senior Market Bladders have never been bigger or badder. Same with vision care, cosmeceuticals and pretty much every other business associated [...]

My online friend Jack Schultz has a great newsletter. Here’s the Archive. He’s a voice for small town America and the small business owner. I will be posting some of his comments. Here’s one… Home Cleaning is holding strong. Taking care of the kids, scrubbing the toilets, checking in on Mom, helping with homework, coaching [...]

My online friend Jack Schultz has a great newsletter. Here’s the Archive. He’s a voice for small town America and the small business owner. I will be posting some of his comments. Here’s another one… Local Business Demand is exploding for locally grown and made products–which means more support for mom-and-pop stores. The dividend: For every [...]

My online friend Jack Schultz has a great newsletter. Here’s the Archive. He’s a voice for small town America and the small business owner. I will be posting some of his comments. Here’s one… Discount Retail is thriving: Everyone’s eating lower on the food chain these days. Consumer spending is down more than 30 percent [...]

Here’s an interesting blog post: Why Capitalists Need To Embrace Social Entrepreneurship As I understand it, social entrepreneurship means using the entrepreneurial creativity one would use for personal profit in a venture designed to benefit others or fund a particular venture that has social good as the primary aim while maintaining it’s ability to sustain [...]

Want to keep track of the big weekly trends in Search? Then check out this link to the Google Blog called “This Week In Search” If I want an automated list of hot topics by pure search term, I just press a button on Micro Niche Finder and – voila – a list appears. I [...]