Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Blogs Will Change Your Business

Blogs Will Change Your Business

Think your business is not one that needs to be on the internet? Might be time to learn a bit more on how blogs have become incorporated into the larger "how people do things" scope of life.

Here is a great article with some interesting links to get you up to speed on a topic that isn't "optional" to know about any longer, if you are in business.

The End of a 1,400-Year-Old Business

The End of a 1,400-Year-Old Business

And you thought you'd like your business to be Built To Last...

Follow the link to learn about the world's longest continuously operating family business - Japanese temple builder, Kongo Gumi

Monday, April 09, 2007

Blog of Design Business Engineering

Blog of Design Business Engineering



Hey I just posted to my Merchant Circle blog about a new site that I am in process of launching. You can Find Me At this link too, with an article on www.find-me-at.com

And check out the Small Business Survey

A Letter from an Unwilling Cook - 101 Cookbooks

A Letter from an Unwilling Cook - 101 Cookbooks

This came into my browser today and amused me greatly. For quite a while now I have thought that entering the life coaching experience from the point of view of the newly single man would be a good idea - and starting with How To Eat Well, Without A Wife. So much of our identity can be bruised when we find ourselves single, and matters are made worse when there are practical issues involved, like How To Eat Well - when you don't know an egg from an eggplant.

Maybe I will put that on my To Do list for my next website. Cooking, Living and Fresh Starts. It occurs to me that the same thing would be valid for women who are Bloke Challenged and don't know how to do those blokey things around the house. Of course, many of the men I know are a bit challenged that way too ... ;-)

Monday, March 05, 2007

Future Of Small Business Report


Intuit has been hard at it, predicting the future trends and likely changes that will occur in small business over the next 10 years.

Whether it comes to fruition, or not, there is sure to be some essential food for thought in this report that could have repercussions for us all in the direction that we take our own businesses.

The report deals with the US but should track part of the way for any country. Forcasting growth in the entrepreneurial and personal business sectors, with a move away from the White Male Entrepreneur being the typical face of small business in the future, and the increase in business ventures from the fringe demographics - young starters and older people looking to fund a retirement they just can't afford, as well as the growth in female operated business, there are sure to be some interesting times ahead.