Customers will tell you where your new opportunities lie. Steve Martin joins Jim Blasingame to discuss how successful small businesses look to evolving customer expectations to find their new growth opportunities.

Thriving in a slow economy requires finding opportunity others miss. Steve Martin joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how businesses grow in a tough economy by looking for internal and external opportunities to serve customers better.

Stickability without flexibility equals suicide. Greg Reid joins Jim Blasingame to discuss how to find success with persistence - stickable - while avoiding being so focused you can't be flexible.

What do customers and smart phones have to do with your strategic planning? Ed Abel joins Jim Blasingame to explain why customer adoption and behavior with smart phones provides strategic planning information.

Do you need an objective perspective of your business strategy? Ed Abel joins Jim Blasingame to reveal when to talk with your internal team about strategy and when to bring in an outside perspective.

How do you stop working IN your business to work ON your business? Ed Abel joins Jim Blasingame with ideas on how to take a break from execution – the present – to think about strategy – the future of your business.

Regular rebranding is critical to success in the 21st century. Joyce Weiss joins Jim Blasingame to discuss some of the ways a small business can approach the critical practice of continual rebranding.

Are you willing to risk what you know for what you might learn? Jack Uldrich joins Jim Blasingame to discuss why you may not know your customers as well as you think and how a little research can lead you to new opportunities for your small business.

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.

How dangerous is trying to please everyone? Tim Berry joins Jim Blasingame to reveal and discuss the entrepreneurial myth that pleasing everyone is a key to success, and that a business plan is only for start-ups.