According to the Top Ten Promising Small Business Opportunities for 2006 post on the Small Business Trends blog the number 1 business trend for for 2006 will be Outsourced information technology services. That’s good for me, offering as I do web technology outsourcing for small businesses.

Small businesses do not have the staff internally to handle all their information technology needs. More and more they outsource slices of their technology needs.

That certainly sounds plausible to me. Although I do see the obsticle of persuading small business that a) the web and other Internet technologies can make an important difference to their bottom line and that b) that website that their cousin’s kid who’s really good with computers isn’t going to cut it. Here’s to Hogtown’s 2006 at the crest of a small business trend.