Morgan Pressel has got to be a corporate sponsor’s dream.

Birdies, Eagles, and Tweets

She’s one of the most incredibly talented young golfers on the LPGA Tour. At 21, she’s already won a Major (and several other impressive events, both professional and amateur). Week in, week out, the sparkly, attractive, dynamo exhibits class, style, brains, and a social media marketing acumen so astute it causes the developers of Twitter to lie awake nights wondering how they can possible bring the rest of the world up to Morgan Pressel’s level of understanding.

Anyone who has lost a job, lost a home, or is simply struggling in this economy, (which,to some degree, includes just about everyone), will be hard pressed to see good things going on in today’s business world. But with no disrespect intended to anyone who has been hurt, there are always two sides to every situation.When you get right down to it, there are at least a few good things that have come from the country’s troubled economy and the challenges that face business today.

Here are eight ways that business is better because, or in spite, of the fact that the economy is so lousy.