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More small-business trends for 2009

NFIB SmartBrief | Jan 05, 2009

Small-business columnist Steve Strauss continues with his list of Top 10 Trends in Small Business in this installment in USA TODAY. On Strauss' list today: Web 2.0, shoestring marketing, social networking, innovation and more downsizing. Citing NFIB data, Strauss lists economic tumult as the No. 1 trend. "Small-business owners broadly and sharply [will] feel the impact of the recession," says the National Federation of Independent Business. USA TODAY (01/05)


A year-end review of some odd office behaviors

NFIB SmartBrief | Dec 30, 2008

Thousands of retail stores expected to close this year

NFIB SmartBrief | Jan 02, 2009

Financial resolutions for a new year

NFIB SmartBrief | Jan 02, 2009

More workers will be counted among disabled this year

NFIB SmartBrief | Jan 02, 2009

Outsourcing business may pick up in 2009

NFIB SmartBrief | Dec 31, 2008

Entrepreneurs clean up -- thanks to foreclosures

NFIB SmartBrief | Dec 30, 2008

Desperate employers opt to send workers on unpaid holidays

NFIB SmartBrief | Dec 31, 2008

Hope grows for health care reform

NFIB SmartBrief | Dec 30, 2008

Obama eyes as much as $310 billion in tax cuts

NFIB SmartBrief | Jan 05, 2009


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