In this segment I visit with Debra Aho Williamson, Senior Anaylist at E-Marketer, about trends she’s seeing and her observations and insights about internet marketing and advertising.

Diane DiResta is president of DiResta Communications, Inc., a New York City
consultancy serving business leaders who want to communicate with maximum
impact – whether face-to-face, in front of a crowd or from an electronic
platform.

Jason Zickerman is the President of the Alternative Board, a franchise peer-support network with a presence across the USA. In this segment we talked about the boards work, and how they help the participants with issues they face in their businesses.

Our guest on this segment of the Smallbiz Brain knows SEO—-that’s search engine optimization and it’s essential for achieving success on the internet.
Stephen Riegel is Director of Search and the co-founder of Faction Media—-a leading provider of Search Marketing solutions; connecting clients directly to their online target audience through research, analysis, strategy, and design.
Steve’s Marketing 101: Online Branding approach has been hailed by industry
leaders Atlas DMT and Michael Campbell of Dynamic Media as “Best in Class”
and “easily in the top 1% of search engine marketers”, generating programs that consistently exceed industry performance standards in both Paid and Natural Search.

Our guest on this segment of the Smallbiz Brain has a diverse background with more than two decades of experience in marketing, management, and sales. Besides spending many years working in the corporate world, he has started and run more than five small businesses.

Our guest on this segment of The Smallbiz Brain had a mission to make all matters related to starting, growing and operating a small business easier for those that own them. Jim Tracy is the founder and CEO of http://www.AmericasBestCompanies.com. The company is a national, small business organization that fights passionately for the small business owner by providing education, information and benefits that are tailored to the needs of small businesses. ABC has developed considerable strength in numbers—-they now influence more than 50,000 small business owners. ABC offers a low priced membership for all its products and services. This allows every small business owner to maintain a competitive edge against big corporations.

Our guest on this segment of the Smallbiz Brain has owned retail businesses, restaurants and consulting practices. Today Mary Pat Kavanagh’s specialty is teaching her clients to create strategic, profitable, long-lasting relationships using social networking.

Jennifer Bays joins me on the Brain to discuss “Womens’ Online Magazine”. Find out more about this fast growing social platform for women entrepreneurs.

Lucy Rosen is president of The Business Development Group, Inc. (http://www.businessdevelopmentgroup.com), a leading marketing, public relations and business development firm based in New York. A visionary in creating and expanding business opportunities for her clients through her expertise in building strategic alliances, she is also the founder and president of Women on the Fast Track (http://www.womenonthefasttrack.com), a unique international networking organization for businesswomen.

Our guest on this segment of the Brain is changing the way customer relationship management is done. David Schenberg is the Founder and CEO of Busy Event, an Event Customer Relationship Management platform that directs the flow of meetings and events and the people and data associated with them.