The folks who hosted the discussion that led to the report that I linked to earlier today have a great new blog called smallbizlabs.com. Here is what they say about its purpose:
Small Biz Labs is the research blog for Emergent Research’s ongoing project to identify, analyze and forecast the key social, business and technology trends that will impact small business formation and operations.
Central to this work is our partnership with Intuit and the Institute for the Future to produce the Intuit/IFTF Future of Small Business forecast report series.
The primary purpose of this blog is to point to and comment on studies, research, surveys and data sources related to small business.
These are great folks and it looks to be a very good blog.
Small Business
The Center for Media Research has released a study by Vertical Response that shows just where many of these ‘Main Street’ players are going with their online dollars. The big winners: e-mail and social media. With only 3.8% of small business folks NOT planning on using e-mail marketing and with social media carrying the perception of being free (which they so rudely discover it is far from free) this should make some in the banner and search crowd a little wary.
http://www.onlineuniversalwork.com