10 Lessons Smart Business Owners Learned From the Recession and Why They'll Make More Money in 2010

• Sales and Marketing Executives (SMEI) of Philadelphia

Smart business owners have successfully navigated around political, economic and financial panics. This time around, like before, the best have kept their heads and prospered. Others have fallen by the wayside. Those business owners that succeeded understood that behind this last financial mess, things were happening that would set the stage for their successful future.

• New ways to service customers
• Better ways to generate revenues
• More markets and improved technologies.

In this presentation, national columnist, best selling author and successful business owner Gene Marks will discuss why the past financial mess was a good thing for the small business community and what smart business owners and managers are doing right now to navigate their companies through to more profits in 2010. Attendees will learn how smart business owners:

• Figured out how to follow the money (especially the stimulus money) and what new tools they’re using to get the most for their marketing dollar
• Learned about new economic and financial indicators that give a better barometer of the overall economy and their company’s health
• Find more creative ways to keep their employees happy while controlling costs.

Members & First Time Guests $25.00
Non-Members $45.00

Come for Networking, Breakfast & Professional Development