Birmingham born businessman Nic Windley is running in the BUPA Great Birmingham Run, 23rd October 2011, and others like him across the UK are running business marathons of all shapes and sizes to rebuild the UK economy.

With the public sector having being responsible for 60% of employment and many private sectors reliant upon massive borrowing or public spending accounting for 58% of economic output as reported by the Daily Mail and Financial Times, far too many people have been reliant upon either being employed themselves by the public sector or getting work for their businesses from people employed in the public sector.

Last month Prime Minister David Cameron told would-be entrepreneurs "now is the time" to launch their business, reported the BBC.

The coalition government is looking to the private sector to provide the engine for growth to balance out the jobs being cut in the public sector.

One of the challenges that many businesses will be facing in order to grow their business is generating leads, sales and loyalty and harnessing the power of technologies like the internet to do it in a predictable, scalable and measurable way that gives them back control of their business in these uncertain times as well as freeing them up to have more time to work on developing the business.

Nic Windley recently launched eB2BLeads a specialist Inbound Marketing UK Agency that combines some of the world's leading technologies and strategies in the on-line space to help companies grow and scale their businesses using on-line marketing in a more controlled manner than traditional approaches freeing up the business to do what it does best.

"Business gets a bad press at times and Birmingham also gets its fair share so I'd like the people of this City and surrounding counties to know that there are teams running marathons every day to try and stimulate the economy once again."

"In fact just the other night I was at a Birmingham Entrepreneurs Meet Up where people shared their experiences, good and bad, along with the projects they were working on today so that others could learn about the marathon that lay ahead of them."

"It was inspiring to see such positivity, motivation and creativity bubbling under the surface of Birmingham's city, contrasting much of the doom and gloom we see in the media today."

"People need to know this, as it's the start of better things and businesses who are running their own marathons need your encouragement and support, just like the runners here today."

"Marketing, which also includes delivering on your promises, will be an essential ingredient to putting this economy firmly on the road to recovery once again."

Nic Windley is a certified Inbound Marketing specialist having spent over 15 years in business development roles within the technology sector.