I'm curious, with all the economic challenges we're facing ... is your business growing, staying the same or dipping down along with the economy.

What are your thoughts?

We ran an Internet Marketing workshop for our (B2 clients, and 2 things happened:

1. Numbers we down even though workshop and marketing were better - about 50% lower registrations

2. Attendant drop outs were up 30%

We believe that it wasn't the cost, as it was actually lower, but instead it the time out of the office which was the biggest problem, some even sacrificed their paid ticket not to come. We also had a lot of decision makes deciding to send a staff member instead.

Colleagues who ran a similar workshop but B2C, had same number of attendants, but lower sales at the end of the 4 days.

Interesting... I think the main factor is fear. People aren't sure what's going to happen.

Our business involves outsourcing so we've actually taken on some larger companies which has helped, but some of our smaller clients are a little more strapped for cash these days.

Overall we're growing, but this economy has definitely lengthened the sales cycle.

most of the businesses nowadays if not going down are only maintaining. the economic crisis really hit and affected us all.