http://www.microenterprisejournal.com/JournalBlog/ Official weblog of The MicroEnterprise Journal (www.microenterprisejournal.com), the microbusiness news source. 2005-12-13T10:41:54-05:00 http://www.microenterprisejournal.com/JournalBlog/archives/2005/12/more_thoughts_o.html Here's a recurring complaint that I hear among microbusiness owners: 'I want to get more customers and make more sales but I don't have a big marketing budget and nobody knows that I'm here.' The thing about this plaint is... The Journal Blogger 2005-12-13T10:41:54-05:00 http://www.microenterprisejournal.com/JournalBlog/archives/2005/12/from_todays_nde.html You know, Syracuse U is an interesting place (especially in the realm of entrepreneurship education and, most especially, in the realm of women's entrepreneurship). What's cool for me is that it's in my back yard here, so I get to... The Journal Blogger 2005-12-12T12:08:56-05:00 http://www.microenterprisejournal.com/JournalBlog/archives/2005/12/gone_fishing.html Monday's issue of The MicroEnterprise Journal (December 12, 2005) is going to be the last regular issue of this year. Then, as is my custom, I'll release my 2005 Legislative Report on the following Monday (December 19th, and it will... The Journal Blogger 2005-12-09T15:18:37-05:00 http://www.microenterprisejournal.com/JournalBlog/archives/2005/12/stick_with_what.html Increasing, more and more of the work of running a business is being shifted onto customers - support, help desk, data, ordering and check out, the hunting down of manuals or even the retrieval of basic information. It's all... The Journal Blogger 2005-12-09T11:43:32-05:00 http://www.microenterprisejournal.com/JournalBlog/archives/2005/11/conflicting_rep.html According to the latest Small Business Index of Optimism out from the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB): Get ready for a strong fourth quarter, say American small-business owners, whose upbeat views of the days ahead triggered a nearly-four-point jump... The Journal Blogger 2005-11-09T20:43:25-05:00 http://www.microenterprisejournal.com/JournalBlog/archives/2005/11/more_on_the_mic.html Just in case you think we've been howling into the wind on microbusiness software market, check this out, from a Working Tech column published Monday in Business 2.0. Here's how Microsoft's strategy will work. Currently, for small businesses to get... The Journal Blogger 2005-11-09T15:07:09-05:00 http://www.microenterprisejournal.com/JournalBlog/archives/2005/11/small_business_1.html If you want to sell your products overseas, you may be heartened to know that some members of Congress want to help you out. Yesterday, House Small Business Committee Chairman Don Manzullo (R-IL) and Congressman John Mica (R-FL), who are... The Journal Blogger 2005-11-09T07:13:50-05:00 http://www.microenterprisejournal.com/JournalBlog/archives/2005/11/this_weeks_busi.html ... goes to Sony BMG Music. Why? Because, according to Information Week, Sony is so paranoid about music piracy that they've included a hacker's tool called a rootkit "on selected CDs" that exposes its own customers to some pretty severe... The Journal Blogger 2005-11-08T09:10:07-05:00 http://www.microenterprisejournal.com/JournalBlog/archives/2005/11/microbusiness_m.html Just in case your laptop wasn't getting it done for you, or you'd like an easier way to check your email while sitting in traffic jams, check out this high tech mobile office gear for trucks. Ford Motors is bragging... The Journal Blogger 2005-11-07T15:43:27-05:00 http://www.microenterprisejournal.com/JournalBlog/archives/2005/11/winds_of_potent.html Gallup gallops into the week with more sort-of bad news for Congressional Republicans. Not that Democrats should start dancing in the streets just yet. While Gallup found that Americans say the country would be better off if the Dems controlled... The Journal Blogger 2005-11-07T12:35:26-05:00 http://www.microenterprisejournal.com/JournalBlog/archives/2005/10/they_just_cant.html The next time President Bush or anybody else from this Administration starts to prate about how much they do for small businesses, remember this stuff. In the context of federal contracting in the rebuilding of the storm ravaged Gulf Coast,... The Journal Blogger 2005-10-07T10:30:00-05:00 http://www.microenterprisejournal.com/JournalBlog/archives/2005/10/they_dont_want.html You may notice that there will be a little less coverage of House Small Business Committee hearings from The MicroEnterprise Journal in the coming months. That's because I'm told that the House Small Business Committee is not going to be... The Journal Blogger 2005-10-06T15:33:48-05:00 http://www.microenterprisejournal.com/JournalBlog/archives/2005/10/squeaky_microbu.html To what degree does anybody want to be important? I can sit here and prate about how microbusinesses are changing the economy and the world, but if that level of economic keystone-ness is more of a burden than microbusiness owners... The Journal Blogger 2005-10-06T07:26:01-05:00 http://www.microenterprisejournal.com/JournalBlog/archives/2005/10/and_dont_forget.html Wow. I feel so vindicated. The trouble I've always had with President Bush is that he says pretty things but his subsequent behavior makes it very clear that he doesn't mean any of them. The problem I've had with the... The Journal Blogger 2005-10-05T11:01:28-05:00 http://www.microenterprisejournal.com/JournalBlog/archives/2005/10/do_your_homewor.html Here's something microbusiness owners are famous for. We get so wrapped up in producing our product that we forget about the need to run our businesses. Or maybe we don't forget. Maybe we just decide that the numbers and the... The Journal Blogger 2005-10-05T07:24:07-05:00