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WEBINARS REMINDER January 13, 2010: Marketing Research and Customer Engagement and Why it Matters to Your Business In this webinar, you will: Explore the basics of why and how to use research as one of the newest and most exciting ways to engage your consumers! Learn how to measure, manage, and improve your business with research! Discover how the internet has changed the consumer landscape and what that means to you!   Date: Wednesday January 13, 2010 Time: 4pm EDT to 5pm EDT Price: Free Registration: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/500467747 This webinar will be conducted by Lynnette Leathers, President and Founder of Mindspot, Inc. January 20, 2010: Hire Your First Employee with Rhonda Abrams Small business success depends on building a great team-that means finding hiring, and leading great employees! In this webinar, you will: Identify exactly the kind of help you need and where to find it! Discover how to become both a manager and a leader! Realize the great opportunities that exist in this economy from terrific available talent to lower labor costs! EXTRA BONUS: Every webinar participant will receive a free copy of Rhonda's new book, "Hire Your First employee: The entrepreneur's guide to finding, choosing, and leading great people." Date: Wednesday January 20, 2010 Time: 4pm EDT to 5pm EDT Price: Free Registration: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/619217147 Hire Your First Employee with Rhonda Abrams will be conducted by Rhonda Abrams; author, entrepreneur, and nationally-syndicated small business columnist for USA Today. She has built four companies depending on finding and managing employees. She is currently the President and Chief Entrepreneur of The Planning Shop.		Can't Make the Webinar? In case you missed one of our webinars, the recorded versions are available a week after the original airing in our Previous Conference Calls and Webinars section. Apply for the Make Mine a Million $ Business Competition Deadline: January 18, 2010

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Wednesday January 27, 2010: Start With Why
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Wednesday February 10, 2010: Sell to the Choir with the Founder and Leader of Maverick & Company, Alecia Huck.

For 2010, little improvement seen in job market

U.S. economy to grow too slowly to create many jobs, forecasters say

By Rex Nutting, MarketWatch
This is an update to correct the affilation of David Levy, who is chairman of the Jerome Levy Forecasting Center.

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- The U.S. economy is limping -- not sprinting -- out of the Great Recession of 2008 and 2009.


While the economy is likely to grow at a steady but unspectacular 3% pace in 2010, the prospects for significant job growth are dim and the unemployment rate could still be in the 10% neighborhood at this time next year, economists say.

Growth of 3% would be far slower than is usual after a steep recession (the economy grew nearly 10% in the year following the 1958 recession), but it would be slightly stronger than the 2.8% average of the past 20 years.

Above-trend growth "never felt so bad," wrote economists at JP Morgan Chase. "Growth will not be boomy. And growth will not go far in returning the economy to healthy levels of activity."

Still, it's expected that the economy will begin to create some jobs again in 2010, after two years of month-after-month declines that -- including anticipated downward revisions -- total a loss of more 8 million jobs.

According to the median forecast of economists surveyed by Blue Chip Economics, about 1.1 million nonfarm payroll jobs will be created next year. The consensus expects the unemployment rate to be 9.9% a year from now.


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http://www.marketwatch.com/story/little-improvement-seen-in-job-market-in-2010-2009-12-24