Verizon Small Business Center Presents Free Webinar Today (Dec. 14) on How to Increase Profits, Featuring Small-Business Owner and Best-Selling Author Gene Marks

NEW YORK, Dec. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Verizon Small Business Center will host its last free webinar for the year today (Dec. 14), featuring Gene Marks, a small-business owner, columnist and author of five best-selling books for small-business owners and managers. Marks, whose latest book is entitled "In God We Trust, Everyone Else Pays Cash – Simple Lessons from Smart Business Owners," will offer advice on how businesses can increase their profits next year.

Marks writes weekly on political, economic and cultural events that affect the business community.  His articles appear in The New York Times, Forbes, The Huffington Post and American City Business Journals.

In this one-hour live webinar, Marks' topic will be: "12 Ways Smart People Will Grow Profits in 2012."  Previously, in a guest post on the Verizon Small Biz Blog (www.verizon.com/smallbusinessblog), Marks shared insights on how to use outsourcing as an option to cut costs.

Follow @VZSmallBiz on Twitter (or www.twitter.com/VZSmallBiz) for key tips provided by Marks during the webinar, or search in Twitter for #vzsmb.  The webinar begins at 2 p.m. ET.  The free webinar series presented by the Verizon Small Business Center keeps small businesses informed and engaged to help them gain a competitive edge. 

SOURCE Verizon