Welcome. My name is Anita Campbell.

I am the Editor in Chief of this Small Business Trends site and the Small Business Trends newsletter. I am also the host of Small Business Trends Radio.

You probably want to know something about me. So excuse me while I talk about myself in the third person for a while in my Biography.

Biography of Anita Campbell

Anita Campbell has been an entrepreneur at heart her entire life. A lawyer by training, she has a wide range of interests, as reflected in her varied background in banking, information technology, human resources, marketing and eCommerce.

Today she is the CEO of her own business, Small Business Trends LLC, a media and information company. In that role she closely follows trends in the small business market and trends in technology.

Before starting her entrepreneurial journey she held various executive positions in the corporate world. Most recently she was a senior executive with Bell & Howell Company, including serving as CEO of a technology subsidiary of Bell & Howell.

A respected speaker and emerging trends resource, Ms. Campbell’s expertise has been noted or her opinion quoted in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, U.S. News and World Report, Inc Magazine, Entrepreneur Magazine, CIO Magazine, Entrepreneur Radio, BusinessTVChannel.com, Cleveland Plain Dealer, San Francisco Chronicle, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Akron Beacon Journal, Boston Globe, CRM Buyer, and countless trade publications, websites, podcasts and more.

Her popular website, Small Business Trends , is regularly noted as a rich informational resource. In 2005 and again in 2008 the site won the  Forbes “Best of the Web” distinction for small business blogs.  The site also has been highlighted or profiled in the Wall Street Journal (2007), on MSNBC’s “Your Business” show as Website of the Week, twice in the New York Times (2005 and 2008), and was a CODIE 2007 Finalist. 

The site also has won accolades including Honorable Mention from MarketingSherpa as Best Small Business Marketing blog, the #1 Most Practical Blog for Entrepreneurs from About.com, and Smart Stop on the Web by the Journal of Accountancy. 

Content from the site is syndicated through Newstex and regularly is re-published in various corporate, library, university and organizational newsletters and websites.  Content from the site also won distinction by being voted number one in 2 of the top 4 slots in the HP Best Business Blogs Contest, 2008.

Anita writes columns for or has contributed to numerous publications and websites around the Web on small business topics, including Inc Technology, Online Merchants Network, OPEN Forum, AccoutingWeb.com, JumpUp.com, Elance.com, COSE Mindspring, BNET.com, Success Magazine, numerous newsletters including the U.S. Postal Service newsletter, as well as blogs for private clients.  

She speaks regularly at small business events, including the Small Business Technology Summit, Small Business Leadership Summit, COSE Small Business Conference and numerous others.  She also participates in online events and has twice (2006 and 2008) served in Ask the Expert stints at the QuickBooks Community forums.

In November 2005 she became the host of her own radio show, “Small Business Trends Radio,” which broadcasts over the Internet each week and is podcasted.  The show features interviews of small business owners and also corporate executives with important information to convey to the small business market.

She previously was the founding editor of the RFID Weblog, which quickly earned distinction as a CNET “Blog 100.” She also is a contributing author to the book “RFID Security” by Syngress Press.

Ms. Campbell serves on various Boards, including the Advisory Board for NEOSA (the technology arm of COSE, a 17,000-member small business organization); the Advisory Board for the Center for Information Technology and eBusiness at the University of Akron; the Board of NorTech.

Ms. Campbell holds a B.A. from Duquesne University and a J.D. from the University of Akron Law School. She also completed the Leadership at the Peak Program at the Center for Creative Leadership, and the Executive Program at the University of Michigan Business School.

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Any opinions expressed in this website, newsletter or radio program are solely my own or the opinions of any third party who presents them, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of any organizations I am affiliated with.