Podcast: Will Obama Blow It With Small Businesses?
The song of the angry not-so-young microbusiness owner has been a recurring theme here at the MicroEnterprise Journal/Microbusiness News Briefs for a few weeks now.
There’s a reason for that.
It seems that the more time that goes by, the angrier those microbusiness owners get. It’s not that we don’t understand about all those jobs, [...]
REAL expertise makes a hard man humble
A few weeks ago, NY Times columnist Nick Kristoff began a column with this provocative set of thoughts:
Ever wonder how financial experts could lead the world over the economic cliff?
One explanation is that so-called experts turn out to be, in many situations, a stunningly poor source of expertise.
It’s possible that others would find this provocative [...]
Deer-in-the-headlights marketing: 10 reasons why I won’t be doing business with you
I once had a pretty bizarre conversation with a guy who was having a lot of trouble figuring out the whole marketing thing. Not too terribly unusual but, being a guy, he had a funny way of dealing with it.
His desperate situation (hates marketing, not making any money, needs to do marketing but hates marketing [...]



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