A Small Business Blog and Small Business Tips Related to Growing, Marketing and Managing a Small Business.Small business blog for small business owners, includes resources for businesses, small business grants, business plans, business letters, daily business tips, online marketing advice and information. Learn ideas for your small business.Top 10 Winners and Losers for 2008- December 31, 2007 Top 10 Winners Predicted for 2008 1. Video 2. Healthy 3. Long Tail 4. Buy USA 5. Rich Internet Interactive Web Semantic Web Web Services 6. Aggregate and Attention Data 7. Power of the People 8. Going Green 9. Biometrics and Big Brother 10. Prosthetics Bionic Top 10 Losers Predicted for 2008 1. Lead 2. Squat Toilets 3. DRM 4. China 5. Skinny is Out 6. Blockbuster Netflix 7. Orbo 8. MySpace fell to Facebook 9. Privacy 10. Piracy More on 2007...http://www.small-business-software.net/#543 Google Takes on Wikipedia- December 17, 2007 According to InfoWorld: Google is developing an online publishing platform where people can write entries on subjects they know, an idea that's close to Wikipedia's user-contributed encyclopedia but with key differences. The project, which is in an invitation-only beta stage, lets users create clean-looking Web pages with their photo and write entries on, for example, insomnia. Those entries are called knols for "unit of knowledge," Google said. Google wants the knols to develop into a...http://www.small-business-software.net/#542 Reputation Management- December 12, 2007 The Internet is a bit like the old wild west, and sadly, people often post material about an individual, product, company, or service that is inaccurate or simply nasty. Businesses and individuals alike are struggling with how to best deal with online inaccuracy and defamation. The normal steps for dealing with defamation typically involve litigation, but this is not always realistic for Internet-based situations since the Internet is global, and not managed or governed by any single set of...http://www.small-business-software.net/#541 Internet More Popular with Kids than TV- December 11, 2007 Young Europeans prefer the Internet over television, and nearly half say they watch less TV because of surfing the web, a poll of 10 European countries showed Wednesday. complete articlehttp://www.small-business-software.net/#540 Stream Lined Sales Tax- December 10, 2007 Two national retail advocacy groups are at odds with each other over whether Internet sellers should collect sales tax from their buyers. The National Retail Federation and the Electronic Retailers Association issued dueling statements on Thursday asking Congress to consider with extreme caution any legislation that would make it easier to require Internet merchants, mail-order houses and other remote sellers to collect sales tax across state lines. The debate is based around U.S....http://www.small-business-software.net/#539 |