In this segment with David Hallerman, Senior Analyst at eMarketer, discussed trends, observations and talks about how and what works in the world of internet marketing and advertising.

I just discovered this powerful series designed to help small businesses boost their sales and their bottom line. After speaking with Jill Konrath, the producer of this event, I was happy to help her get the word out about this to our SBA Members. I think this could be a valuable experience for us all.

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.

Sramana Mitra has worked in technology, and she’s worked in consumer fashion. She’s founded 3 companies in her life, and has served many others as a Strategic Consultant.
She’s a contributor to The Wall Street Journal, writes a weekly column for Forbes, and strategy blog is syndicated by Seeking Alpha, Yahoo! Finance, ReadWriteWeb, Cadwire, Emergic, GigaOm, TheStreet.com and many others.
Today—Sramana is on a mission to encourage entrepreneurship at all levels. She says that we need to create jobs, jobs are created by entrepreneurs, and on a global scale, we need to really move the needle on entrepreneurship.

As part of her effort to foster entrepreneurship, Sramana has recently written a book entitled, Entrepreneur Journeys.

Harry S. Dent says that the stimulus plan is doomed to fail and that by early to mid 2010 we will enter a deeper downturn or “great depression“almost regardless of what the government tries to do.

I interviewed Harry S Dent just yesterday on The Smallbiz Brain. Dent insists that there is absolutely nothing the US government can do to stimulate our economy out of the current downturn. He says it is occurring naturally and is the result of a unique and dramatic convergence of cycles that can be traced back 40-80 and 500 years back into economic history.

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.

Born and raised in the Philippines, Margarita McClure spent a good part of her life thinking she would end up with a career or a business in the food service industry. She graduated from the University of the Philippines with a degree in Hotel & Restaurant Administration, then received an Associate Degree from the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco where she graduated at the top of her class.

In this segment, author and consultant, Gary Harpst talks about what the incoming Obama administration will need to do to help small businesses across America. Gary feels we, as organizations, are not really very good at planning strategies and executing against them.

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