Apparently not. The August 11, 2008 issue of BtoB magazine reported on a Opinion Research Corp. study that says, at least for small business, otherwise.
Conducted by phone between June 24 and July 3, the study polled 500 small-business owners and decision-makers. What they found was that 65% rated their business conditions as “good,” whereas only 27% rated the economy as “good.”
So, where do you and your business fit? Is business good for you? Or could it use some improvement?
To some degree, I would think, that might have to do with …

I am a firm believer that if you want a sustainable business, one that you can make and keep profitable over the long term, you must be passionate about it. And I’m not the only one who believes this.
Mark Cuban, billionaire entrepreneur, wrote about it in his blog:
“The Passion of Business and the Business of Passion“.
Stephen Colbert, of Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report, has implied that passion is a key to his success: “You have to have a passionate opinion; otherwise you sound false. You end up telling the audience …

At Alex Mandossian’s Teleseminar Secrets Reunion, we did a “timeline” exercise. Alex started it by charting his highlights and lowlights from the past 20 years. It was fascinating to see this laid out for us and to know even someone like Alex was in the abyss at a couple of points.
Even more importantly, I learned 2 important takeaways I wanted to share with you.
The first came from one of the participants. He remarked that the timeline exercise really put things in perspective. These were simply events, not good or bad. …

There are thousands of social networking sites out there, but (as expected) a pecking order is starting to emerge. That doesn’t mean things won’t change in a few months, but for now, many business folks are focusing on the big 3 — Facebook, Twitter and Linked In.

I read an article about how the music industry is having a heck of a time making money now — for a variety of reasons, but one of the main ones is because they can no longer make money the way they used to.