Archive for August 13th, 2006
Top Trends Affecting Small Business
Rhonda Abrams at Gannett News Service: The Institute for the Future, a research company based in Palo Alto, Calif., invited me and a handful of other small-business experts to predict trends affecting small business for the next five years or so. I thought I’d share the findings of the experts, predicting the top trends you [...]
Stephanie McIntyre at SecurityProNews: I am surprised that there are so many new scams on eBay these days. It seems that everyday I get at least one or two new invitations to fork over my userid, password or credit card info. There is very little that you can get past me now as far as [...]
Business 2.0 Magazine: International borders used to be the biggest barrier to entry for Americans interested in starting a business overseas. But today, as more nations ease trade regulations and restrictions on foreign investment, borders are more like invitations. Business 2.0 Magazine enlisted a team of top reporters to find out what, and where, the [...]
Helping Former Military Personnel Can Be A Six Figure Business
Unusual Businesses Ideas That Work: Finding a job is one of the biggest challenges for people coming out of the military. Karin Markley, founder of Military Exits, knows this well, she has 15 years of experience working in a civilian employment agency. She knows companies value employees with military backgrounds, and she wanted to provide [...]
User Generated Content Drives Web Growth
Vnunet.com: User generated content sites, such as platforms for photo sharing, video sharing and blogging, comprised five out of the top 10 fastest growing web brands in July, according to research from Nielsen//NetRatings. Other user-generated content sites that made it into the top 10 fastest growing web brands were MySpace, with a 183 per cent [...]
