Here are some small business trends for 2011, which will help small business owners to become successful and to reach a new level of entrepreneurship: More small businesses are shifting to variable cost business models, from fixed cost and accepting a pay-as-you-go approach, to reduce requirement of cash and increase suppleness of business. Fixed assets and fixed costs will be avoided. Small business outsourcing, as well as contingent workers instead of full time employees, will add considerably.

The new changing trend in small business is, emergence of social media in to the small businesses. This results as small business owners become more contented with this media; its advantages become clearer and social media’s positive impacts become more noticeable. The growth of Facebook and social commerce are main factors of the growing awareness and use of social media by small business.

In last few years, it has been seen that there was continuous growth in number of contingent workers such as temps, contractors, part-timers and freelancers. And they realize that to become successful, they need to see themselves as small business owners. This trend will improve their business and result in a stronger, more successful freelance community.

Small businesses are driven by changing demographics, economic pressures, new technologies and growing concerns about the environment, focusing on their families and communities. Small businesses will get advantage from the local customers and opportunities created through local campaigns. It’s a new trend, that small business owners are becoming more aware about their local customers.

The most important trend is new technology including cloud, mobile, local and social computing. All of these trends and technologies are impacting small business from several years and helping them to become successful.