2009 Top Ten Small Business Trends & Artisan Economy

Saw an interesting new presentation on SlideShare from Emergent Research for 2009 top 10 small business trends:

2009 Top 10 Small Business Trends

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Here's a snapshot of the top ten trends slide:


Many of the trends point to increased small businesses & going to what's described as a modern day technology based Artisan economy. Intuit & Institute for the Future (ITFT) have put together a 31 page white paper, The Future of Small Business Report, The New Artisan Economy, here's a good point by point review of the paper.