Archive for the 'Trends' Category

The “Wedding Business” is big business. In the Gatlinburg-Pigeon Forge area of Tennessee (Sevier County) there is a special exemption in state laws that apply to the rest of the state just to accommodate the tourist trade there for weddings.
Weddings are joyous events and people sink thousands of dollars into the preparations. Accordingly many businesses […]

My wife and I were out with her parents on Saturday night at an oriental restaurant that is usually busy, but the other night it was absolutely CRAZY! My mother-in-law noted “No recession in sight here!” And, that night, at least, there was a mass of happy diners!
But whether the economy in general is “in […]

No, not in a strange foreign country with impure wells… right here in the USA! It has little to do with how to work at home but this does effect how you feel. Perhaps you’d have the motivation and strength to work at home or in self employment if they water you were drinking weren’t […]

Warning: This product is not in good taste, but then again neither is much about this election. Even Tom Hanks is reported as saying he’s already “bored”… So join the crowd!
Note: This image has intentionally been moved down the page to spare the eyes of all children who love the book “Why Mommy Is A […]

Google stock took a tumble because people aren’t clicking on as many ads these days.  eMarketer has a good article on this topic.
Actually, nobody’s sure what’s really going on, but the stock market responds short term to rumor as much as reality.
Google is still the best at protecting advertisers against accidental clicks and click fraud […]

It’s important to read Kotkin’s “Tale of Two States”.
This is not for lack of trying. Ohio and its cities have worked to lure jobs through tax abatements and downtown development projects. Cleveland, in particular, has tried to sell itself as a “comeback city” and has developed a gentrified Potemkin village, but in 2004 it actually […]

Some people work at home to balance their lifestyle. Finns work at home because they’re workaholics evidently. At least that’s what I gather from this piece at YLE News
Finland is one of top countries in Europe in terms of how people experience time pressures at work. According to a report in the newspaper Keskisuomalainen, one-third […]

I saw this a few days ago and forgot to link to it.
Now Seth, don’t you know IT IS NOT A RECESSION UNTIL THE POLITICIANS SAY IT’S OVER AND CAN TAKE CREDIT FOR FIXING IT AFTER 200 million people worked their behinds off trying climb out of it and survive in the meantime, “Economic Stimulus […]

In Australia that is. From the Liverpool City Champion. Check out the amazing statistic about the percentage of home businesses to small businesses in Australia - 70%! (Could it be just another politician’s exaggeration?)
“People in small business are very hard workers and 70per cent of them in Australia are home-based,” said Mr Adams, whose business […]

Just the other day I was reading that businesses in New York are starting to take the EURO in exchange for goods and services. I wondered how they’d handle those transactions…
So today, Wells Fargo announces a service to help some small businesses with that.
Wells Fargo offers online foreign exchange service to small business
The service […]