Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google were successful in creating and maximizing their own platforms. Phil Simon joins Jim Blasingame to discuss how small businesses can successfully create their own platforms or maximize those of others.

Learn how to identify and use platforms for growth. Phil Simon joins Jim Blasingame to talk about how to grow by using outside platforms as well as your own, while staying true to your business model.

What is a platform and could one benefit your small businesses? Phil Simon joins Jim Blasingame to define what a business platform is and discuss how it has created great opportunity for companies like Apple, Amazon and Google.

Platforms blur the line between work and life and connect with customers wherever they are. Phil Simon joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the use of platforms as a 21st century business best practice, including for small businesses.

Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google were successful in creating and maximizing their own platforms. Phil Simon joins Jim Blasingame to discuss how small businesses can successfully create their own platforms or maximize those of others.

Learn how to identify and use platforms for growth. Phil Simon joins Jim Blasingame to talk about how to grow by using outside platforms as well as your own, while staying true to your business model.

Are you benefiting from the new technology or becoming a victim of it? Phil Simon joins Jim Blasingame to discuss how the evolution of technological innovation is benefiting small business both in capability and pricing.

The cost of starting a business has been drastically reduced because of technology. Phil Simon joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the efficient power of technology's 5 enablers: cloud computing, SaaS, open source technology, mobile, and social technology.