WOW! Be sure to catch the Trend of the Week and then make planning for 2006 for your small business a flawless process. Listen to Anita Campbell as she shares with you the Top 10 Small Business opportunities for 2006. Then sit back as Anita interviews Hector Barreto the head of the SBA (Small Business [...]

On this Small Business Trends radio broadcast Anita has as her special guest, Mike Seifert of Strategic Resources Inc. www.sr-inc.com Tired of your website being a cost drain? Find out what today’s smart businesses are doing to bring their business processes online and make their websites become profit centers. Click Here to Listen and Learn!

A new study entitled “Survey of Small and Mid-Sized Businesses: Trends for 2000” prepared by Arthur Andersen provides an interesting peek into the challenges and opportunities faced by the small businesses. This year’s report pays particular attention on the impact of the Internet and technology on small businesses. According to the study, majority of small [...]

Wisconsin’s small-business owners are increasingly less optimistic about the state’s business climate, conditions and outlook for the next quarter’s prospects, according to the Wisconsin Small-Business ConditionsSM. The report’s data, which was released today by the National Federation of Independent Business/Wisconsin provides an overview of small-business conditions within Wisconsin and compares them with neighboring states. A [...]

In my experience the path to an idea can be sparked by unusual things. For example the song “The Night Chicago Died”. Hey sometimes creativity happens in strange ways. Somehow the 70′s ballad made it on to my iPod and I listened to it on the weekend. The song is about an important night in [...]

I ran across this this advice for CEO’s from John Kernan. John has been a successful serial entrepreneur for probably 40 or more years, most recently with a KP and Accel-backed company called Lightspan (Lightspan merged with Plato Learning, and John now does angel investing and board service). John has, over the years, run companies [...]

It isn’t just programmers who repeat mistakes, entrepreneurs do the same. Bootstrappers fall into a slightly special category of entrepreneurs who really can’t afford to repeat too many of these mistakes so I am collecting ones that I myself have done and also that I have seen other people do. 1. Bootstrapping a business vs [...]

On this Small Business Trends radio broadcast Anita Campbell has as her special guest, Ron McDaniel, CEO of Buzzoodle www.buzzoodle.com. Ever heard the term ‘buzz marketing’ and wondered what it means to your business? Ron talks with Anita about the revolution in marketing, including the trend toward buzz marketing and word of mouth marketing – [...]

You built a web store or are considering building a web site. You want it to be good looking. Hence, you pay a web designer to create Flash, other fancy menus, and other gimmicks. However, you may still get low or no sales. Why? Because a web site is not a graphic showroom. Flash, fancy [...]

Check out this great list of rules by the CEO of Odeo and former CEO of Pyra Labs the creater of Blogger now owned by Google. – Be Narrow – Be Different – Be Casual – Be Picky – Be User Centric – Be Self-Centered – and More… Click Here to See Details of the [...]