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5 Trends That Will Shape Small Business in 2012

Duct Tape Marketing

Blog posts, white papers and in-person and online seminars create awareness, build trust, educate and illustrate core stories. This trend highlights the marketers’ need to go beyond SEO and PPC and move deeper into social networks, mobile marketing and app-based local marketplaces. Apps inside social networks provide answers.

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Expenses You Don't Think of When Starting a Business

Software By Rob

The comments here and on a few social bookmarking sites mentioned that you could quit your day job if you wanted to, and that you could live on $2500/month just fine in many cities in the world (although in my hypothetical situation I was speaking about a developer based in the hypothetical U.S.). 44 Steve P on 01.14.09