Small Biz Experts
PRESENTING SMALL BUSINESS EXPERTS
We regularly feature industry experts who share their knowledge. Below you will find a list of the experts’ articles, interviews and book reviews.
Are You Hunting or Harvesting? from Clate Mask
Dawn Rivers Baker
Top Ten Opportunities in 2008 for Personal Businesses
Microbusiness Trends for 2007
Microbusiness Trends for 2006
Tim Berry
Who is "Small Business Owners?"
Blogging: Business, Pleasure, Death Sentence?
Startup Culture Shock: Is Startup Life Life?
Writer Tip: Use Slide Deck for an Outline
Stop It: Dreaming Isn’t Working
A Tech Consumer Moment
6 Tips For Involving Your Kids in Your Business
5 Things I Like About My Tablet Computer
Are Your Employees’ Hours Quality Time or Quantity Time?
Don’t Let This Happen To Your Network
Being the Boss is Overrated
Big Brother in Small Business
Travels with Email
Name This Tune: Cash, Growth, and Profits
Economic Dark Clouds and Your Business
Andy Birol
Five Mistakes When Selling to Small Business Owners
Owner’s Series Books for Business Growth
Why the U.S. Presidential Election Doesn’t Matter
Your Best and Highest Use (Audio)
David Bohl
Aspiring Entrepreneurs: No Money? No Problem! Get Started Today
5 Methods to Conquer Loneliness When Traveling on Business
Who Else (Besides a Majority of Business Professionals) Wants Work Life Balance in 2008?
Entrepreneurs: 5 Sure-Fire Business Resolutions for 2008
Entrepreneurs: Remember the Promise of the Paperless Office?
Will Amazon “Kindle” a New Lifestyle Trend?
Entrepreneurs, Does Retirement Fit Into Your Plans?
Laurel Delaney
Building Global Bonds One Customer at a Time
Is Your Export Business Recession-Proof?
Resolutions to Do Business Globally in 2008
12 Days of Christmas in a Web 2.0 World
What’s Ahead in Our Brave New Cyberworld
Who Moved My Client Base?
Small Businesses Are Going Global
Tom Ehrenfeld
Tom Ehrenfeld, The Startup Garden…final installment
Tom Ehrenfeld, The Startup Garden … continued
Introducing Tom Ehrenfeld, Author of The Startup Garden
Brent Leary
Social CRM: Not Your Father’s Customer Relationship Management
Master of My Domain Names
3 Reasons Why SMBs Have Not Flipped For Web 2.0
The 3 Most Asked Questions About CRM by Small Business Owners
The Technology You NEED in 2008 (Audio)
Robert Levin
Trends Into Opportunities: Strategy, Sales and Websites
Trends into Opportunities: More Competition for Employees and Customers
Joel Libava
Franchising Convenience
Owning A Piece Of The Pie. Is a Food Franchise For You?
Franchise Industry Feeling The US Economic Slowdown — Part Of a Cycle
Small Business Tools From The SBA
Is Franchising a Viable Option For Veterans?
The R Word and Economic Woes — The World Will Go On
Often Overlooked Benefits Of Franchise Ownership
The Top Franchise Trends For 2008
Here’s To Your Health (Care)
Help For the Time Starved: Service Franchises
Nellie Lide
How to Turn Your Existing Business Green
The Green Umbrella: Green Business Opportunities
Green: Taking Care of Business, Ourselves and the Planet
Shopping Trends for 2007
Martin Lindeskog
The Illusions of Entrepreneurship - A Book Review
PowerBlog Review: Joseph’s Marketing Blog
The Small Business Climate in Different Countries
Graham Lutz
20-Something Business Trends: The High School Graduate
20-Something Business Trends: The Online Entrepreneur with Time and Money
Mark J. Miller
The Baby Boomer Path to Starting a Business
Next Big 2.0 Opportunity: Facebook for Grownups
Marketers Listen Up: Boomer Women are Happier and Wealthier
Reaching Baby Boomers on the Internet
Zane Safrit
Tips and Resources to Hire the Best
Why Word-of-Mouth Should Be Core to Your Business
Time-Generating Resources for CEOs
Scott Shane
Behavioral Economics for Entrepreneurs
Gazelle Firms
Zero Capital Gains on Start-ups - A Not So Good Idea
The Mall Bathroom Test to Identify Entrepreneurs
Start Your Business in a Favorable Industry That You Know Well
Start-up Failure Rates Vary — Choosing the Right Industry Matters
Potemkin Village Ventures
Where Are All The Angel Group Investments?
How Do Entrepreneurs Come Up With New Business Ideas?
Startup Failure Rates — The REAL Numbers
Strategy in Networked Industries
What Should MBA Programs Teach Aspiring Entrepreneurs?
Enterpreneurs See Opportunity in Bad News
Our Genes and Desire for Sensation Seeking Might Influence Entrepreneurship
A Mistake That Policy Makers Make in Encouraging High Growth Start-ups
Peer-to-Peer Lending and Entrepreneurship
Four Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make in a Recession
How the Presidential Candidates Would Help Entrepreneurs
Born Entrepreneurs?
Testosterone and Entrepreneurship
Why Investors Won’t Believe Your Projections
The Value of Failure
Fortunately, Americans are Becoming less likely to Start Businesses
Why is the Rate of Entrepreneurship Among African Americans so Low?
Five Myths about Financing Start-ups that Hurt Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs Finding it Harder to be Successful
Aaron SmithGo Mobile! Apple’s iPhone Defining the Mobile Computing Experience
Let Your Customers Pay with Credit Cards
More On Group Drawing and Annotation Tools
Perfect Technology Tools: The 90% Rule
Google Apps: The Sleeping Giant?
Ivana TaylorA One Page Marketing Plan Anyone Can Use
Rub My Tummy and It’s a Deal - Book Review
Why Social Media Should Be a Key Ingredient in Your Marketing Mix
Want to Make Money While Sleeping? Read: Beyond Booked Solid
Book Review: 365 Personal Brand Marketing Thumb-Rules
Book Review: The 7 Triggers to Yes
Book Review — Workination: Are you Fascinated with Your Career?
How to Get and Keep Customers with a Marketing Kit
The Complexity Crisis — Why Keeping it Simple is Not Stupid
Steven Teo
New Business Ideas: Easier Life Online
New Business Ideas: The New Tourism
New Business Ideas: Wacky Gizmos
New Business Ideas: Design is King
New Business Ideas: Super Supermarkets
New Business Ideas: The Power of Many
New Business Ideas: More Than Shoes
New Business Ideas: New e-Shopping Ways
New Business Ideas: Green Cuisine
New Business Ideas: Smart Cab Services
New Business Ideas: Wireless Wonders
New Business Ideas: Love for Pets
New Business Ideas: Health is Wealth
New Business Ideas: Common Scents
New Business Ideas: Vending Machine Variety
New Business Ideas: Convenience at Your Doorstep
New Business Ideas: iEconomy for iPods
New Business Ideas: A Twist on Tee Shirts
New Business Ideas: Social Networking Niches
New Business Ideas: It’s My Own Car
New Business Ideas: Ultra Luxury
New Business Ideas: Cell Phone 2.0
New Business Ideas: Attention-Grabbing Advertising
New Business Ideas: Food On The Go
New Business Ideas: Eco-Friendliness
New Business Ideas: Targeting Nostalgic Consumers
Watts Wacker
Futurist Watts Wacker’s Trends to Watch in 2006
Anti-Trending and Other Trends for 2005
Information is King…and Other Trends
John Wyckoff
The Little Detail that Matters for Small Retailers
Customs Seizures a Protection for Small Business
Retail Trends: Safety Sells
The Christmas Conspiracy
Working On, Not In, The Business
A Dangerous Trend
BMW’s Ad: No Respect
Harley, Short Sellers and Franchisees
Chinese Competition’s Impact on the U.S.
Pocketbikes and Pit Bikes - A Red Hot Trend
Powersports Industry Trends for 2005
Retail Trends: The Eyes Have It
How Harley Davidson Lost its “Cool”
Creating a Great Customer Experience
Motorcycle Industry Learns Women Rule
Jack Yoest
Politics as Marketing
Easy Sales: The Trend for Small Business
Respect: The Ultimate Business Etiquette
Job Candidates With Body Art: Hire Or Not?
Late Is Rude and Bad for Small Business
The Peak Experience
Rest to get the Best from Your Small Business
Small Business Super Star Hiring Hassle
Job Interviews: When To Lie
Practice for Small Business Managers
The Latest Trend In Hiring Requirements
Silence Can Be Golden and Good for Small Business
3 Questions for Mentors and Advisors in Small Business
Senator Bill Frist and Small Business Healthcare
Hiring? The Best Question To Ask a Job Candidate
Military Management: The New Trend for Small Business
Women’s Future in the Small Business Labor Force
Event Planning: Keeping it SAFE in 4 Easy Steps
The Management of Bureaucrats: 1 Rule, 3 Options
Sales Persistence & Knowing When To Stop
10 Reminders for Effective Management
Other People’s Time: OPT-in Management
Two Perfect Job Candidates? Here’s How to Choose
Business Composure and Leadership
7 Points for Sales Presentations
Big Business Supply Chain Management: A Small Business Option?
Bloom Where Planted or Search for Fertile Ground?
