Tune in as Patricia interviews Patricia Sigmon, founder and president of LPS Consulting, a 30-year-old technology firm that specializes in creating technology solutions for small to midsize businesses, with profit generation and return on investment as the focus. She is also author of Six Steps to Creating Profit: A Guide for Small and Mid-sized Service-Based Businesses. Do you find yourself "waiting" for better economic times so you can hire new employees, expand your business, and hopefully recoup your investment in the new hardware and software you bought before the economy tanked? Stop waiting, says profit-management expert Patricia Sigmon, and embrace the new normal: scaling back and doing more with less. She will discuss 8 ways to adapt your business to the new normal.

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