Steele Agency

A review of the just released Ad-ology report: 2010 Small Business Marketing Forecast including perspectives on social media. We’ve broken it down, highlighted the data you need to know and are interested in your thoughts.

Any address on the state of the economic soul is bound to contain a mix of optimism and realism. On the one hand, great business, infrastructure, and education developments in the area have indeed occurred over the last year and deserve attention and merit; however, the current economic climate creates an uncertainty about the future that makes many a positive statement of growth appear self-deluded or perhaps reason to go to a local sports game rather than a meeting on the state of local business.

Nov. 10, 2008| CHARLOTTE, NC. PayPal founder, Peter Thiel, said American entrepreneurship is the way out of the current economic crisis. His talk, “The Business Model of the United States” was given at the opening reception of the Collegiate Network’s East Coast Editor’s Conference held in Charlotte, NC on Nov. 7. He crafted a view of American business for the seventy undergraduate editors of independent newspapers and magazines gathered for the weekend conference. Premised on the idea that the most fundamental business principle is “not to compete,” he described the type of business which defines America on the world stage given the current political, international, and economic climate.

ROME, GA. When Sergey Brin and Larry Page began work on their Stanford doctoral project to create a search engine that would better connect users to relevant information, it’s possible they envisioned the kind of global success their brand would have just ten years following their first $100,000 investment from Sun Microsystems even from their home garage office. As Maureen Schumacher clearly articulated at Berry College’s Executive Round Table Dinner, the company is founded not just on the concept of connection to information, but on the notions of innovation – nine of them to be exact.

Freedom Flight Center wants you. Executives announced plans to begin accepting flight students in two to three weeks at this week’s Rome Kiwanis Club meeting. CFO, David Wright presented an entertaining history of aviation, including the real story of Orville and Wilbur Wright – after a coin flip put Wilbur in the driver’s seat first that fateful morning, he wrecked and left Orville with the history making flight. As he continued with tales of the aerial feats, it was easy to see just how much this man loves flying.