Good advice for troubled economic times.

The economy is not in the best shape right now world-wide in case you didn't notice.
All that really matters is your own personal economy however. Even in the great depression people made money. Some became very wealthy at the worst economic time in history. This time will be no different. There will be people that lose everything, and there will be people that prosper.

While you can't control the outside influences, you can control how you react and what action you take. If you focus on making your business better, more efficient, more competitive, and better promoted, you too can prosper. Its a mind set. If you think everything is going down so you stop advertising, stop working hard, stop getting leads and building your business your income will go down automatically.

"No one ever went forward by retreating"

On the other hand if you keep working hard, advertise, and tweak your business to produce results, you'll prosper.

This will mean looking at better ways of doing things, cost effective ways to advertise and building relationships.

Troubled times are a good opportunity to test new methods and ways of solving problems.