Land of Opportunity

Kevin Eikenberry’s leadership blog announces that Fortune magazine has released their list of the 75 smartest business books.

Rather than provide a single long list of 75 smartest business books, Fortune has the good sense to break the list into smaller topic areas, each with a handfull of smartest books.

I took a quick look at the leadership, power, and office categories. Interestingly, many of the smartest books are (more…)

An article about a library that lends iPods with audio books got me to thinking. What are some possible business opportunities involving Apple iPods?

National iPod Rental Networks

There are least two markets for a national chain of iPod rental centers (more…)

Arkansas Business has released their reknown Book of Lists. This year’s edition is packed with lists ranking the largest law firms, accounting firms, hotels, employers, banks, and the largest in just about every industry in Arkansas. Especially helpful is the inclusion of web addresses for most of the listees.

Of particular note were the Largest SBA Lenders: Arkansas Capital Corporation (29 loans, 15.9M), Arkansas Certified development Corporation (25 loans, 14.8M), Arkansas National Bank (27 loans, 7.8M) and Metropolitan National Bank (22 loans, 4.9M)

There are 25 employers listed under Largest Arkansas Employers. (more…)

Betsy Martin, Research Specialist at the Arkansas SBDC, announced recently that she had acquired three new books with demographic data on Arkansas. What an excellent idea for a blog post! Several times each year, I teach a database marketing class, which covers the basics of analysing a customer database and segmenting the data with both Census data and commercial segmentation systems.

What follows is a mini-compendium of FREE demographic sources for small businesses. (more…)