Small and medium businesses (SMEs) are vulnerable to economic downturns. What actions they can take to navigate the crisis. What marketing strategies they can apply during these times. Professor Ayşegül Özsomer Tunalı is one of the world’s foremost thinkers on marketing and brand building. She has over 20 years of experience in research, consulting and teaching in the US and Turkey. She has many publications in global marketing journals and her papers received several awards, including the American Marketing Association Gerald E. Hills Best Paper Award in 2011, for the 10 year impact made to research entrepreneurial marketing. She is the co-author of the book: The New Emerging Market Multinationals: Four Strategies for Disrupting Markets and Building Brands.