Is your firm ready to achieve new growth levels in 2008?  Start setting the stage now for bigger and better sales by tuning into our September 25 Growth Without Barriers webcast. The topic: Powerful Sales and Marketing Strategies. The webcast begins at 1:00 p.m. EST and lasts one hour.

Following up on our July webcast "Building Your Brand and Best Practices for Small and Growing Companies," the September 25th webcast will focus on specific sales and marketing strategies to help you drive top-line growth. Listen, the environment is getting more and more competitive.  With a potential slow down in the economy, your business needs to focus and re-commit to selling, selling, selling!

Topics will include: building and motivating an effective sales force, understanding the basics of building a marketing plan, building an effective public relations and promotional campaign, best practices in developing and implementing marketing strategies and a special segment on web-based marketing. Please join your Growth Without Barriers hosts -- Grow Fast Grow Right founder Andrew Sherman, and SBE Council President & CEO Karen Kerrigan for this exciting and powerful webcast.

As always, Karen will bring you the latest from Washington in her From the Hill webcast segment.  This is both an exciting and perilous time for business issues in the nation's capitol, and Karen will highlight the good, the bad and the ugly on legislative and regulatory initiatives that may impact business operations.  If you have specific issues or questions you would like Karen to cover in her update, please email: kkerrigan@sbecouncil.org.