small businesses

Earlier this morning the Daily News Journal highlights Jerome Perkins and Rishi K. Saxena, the two Democratic challengers to Donna Rowland in the 34th House District race, explaining the issues they stand for and the beliefs they hold true.

From R. Neal, Harold Ford, Jr. responds to Phil Gramm’s assertion that we are in “a mental recession” and that America is “a nation of whiners”:

Congressman Marsha Blackburn has been endorsed by The National Federation of Independent Business:

My column in this week's Tennessean is on what it takes to make word of mouth effective:

I noticed yesterday Versus, the new gaming place on Gay St. is packed up an gone. I wonder why, they seemed to be doing OK. This seems to be a bad time for start-ups anywhere in town. I noticed a few small businesses by Ftn. City Park have recently closed. But the other night the Old City was actually packed, for no special reason, maybe a sign our economy is not a total disaster.

Summary: MagCloud is an HP Labs research project evaluating new web services that will provide small independent magazine publishers, online content owners, and small businesses the ability to custom publish digitized magazines and economically print and fulfill on demand.

I am pleased to announce that this blog now has a relationship with the International Council of Small Business (ICSB) as part of their new website (you can find the direct link here).

In cleaning out the hundreds of e-mails that amassed during my recent vacation that took me off the grid I came across an interesting study. (By the way, I highly recommend a complete break from email, voice mail, etc. at least once a year -- you will be amazed at how calming it can be).

Jim Tomasik cites Democratic Congressman Dan Boren of Oklahoma as a model in his quest to defeat Congressman Marsha Blackburn: