Gearing Up For 2010

2010 is right around the corner, and for most business owners this time of the year allows for reflection on what has occurred during the previous months in their business.

But now what?

Many experts are predicting that next year will be an extremely tight credit market for small businesses with credit cards and boot-strapping being the most effective forms of small business financing.

Other experts are claiming that the recession will last well into 2011 with only moderate gains in the financial market.

There is only so much "positive" news about the economy and financial markets that you can endure as a business owner. Instead, BizHive would like you to consider 2010 to be the year where you regain the power of choice for your organization.

What does that mean?

Imagine what it would do for your business if you were in well in control of how your company were going to generate new sales, and where those new sales were going to come from.

Further, imagine your business reducing its dependency on credit in order to operate, and instead growing towards financial stability through new sales generation.

What if you could choose these kind of results for your business instead of reading about them?

How Other Businesses Are Going To Do It

Social Media has become a real game-changing solution for small businesses to complete on the large stage of the internet. The diagram to the left outlines how businesses in the fourth quarter of this year were using social media to accomplish important tasks such as: increasing website visitors, generating new leads, and increasing sales.

Reports from several sources including Emarketer.com provide concrete data that show businesses in a variety of sectors plan on increasing spending for social media marketing as much as 79%.

With 2010 being the Year of Choice for your organization, the opportunity is now directly in front of you. Do you embrace social media as a viable channel for new business development? Or, do you wait?

Can you?

BizHive specializes in creating online marketing strategies that include how to leverage social media specifically to generate new sales.