Podcast: Candidate Tax Plans Offer Little For Micros
I’ll have to confess to you that one of the highlights of my week was viewing the spectacle of punchy Congresspersons conducting their telecommunications competition hearing. It sort of defies description but, if you want a treat and have a couple of hours to spare, visit the hearing archive, which is linked below.
There aren’t very [...]
Deer-in-the-headlights marketing: thoughts about viral marketing
Before I do anything else, go read BL Ochman’s excellent post about how to (and how not to) “do” viral marketing. Then come right back here, m’kay?
If you are acquainted with any five-year-olds, then possibly you’ve noticed the phenomenon of the kid who says something funny, usually by accident, and cracks up all the grown-ups [...]
Left out in the cold again
When I was complaining in last week’s MicroEnterprise Journal about Senator Tom Coburn and his infamous holds on the SBA reauthorization bills, I didn’t realize that there was more to the story than a Senator with a spite against the SBA.
Evidently, Senator Coburn isn’t just putting holds on SBA-related bills. I have since learned that [...]
Vision Accomplished
I came across something I wrote … now that I think about it, I’m not even sure when I wrote it. I’m glad I found it, though; it’s helpful to remind myself (and you) to think about this stuff every now and then. It’s particularly important to think about them at times when you’re so [...]
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Dawn Rivers Baker, aka The Journal Blogger, is the editor and publisher of The MicroEnterprise Journal, and the self-proclaimed Socrates of the small business blogosphere. See her 