Are wooden pallets a thing of the past? Joel Barker joins Jim Blasingame to report on a new way to make shipping pallets out of paper instead of wood, and why a small business owner should care.

How to stay on the leading edge of emerging opportunities, without tipping over into the bleeding edge. Pam Harper joins Jim Blasingame to discuss how to avoid the capital bleeding edge when taking advantage of leading edge emerging opportunities.

Get outside of your four walls to identify emerging opportunities. Pam Harper joins Jim Blasingame to discuss where to go, who to see and what to read in order to identify and take advantage of emerging opportunities.

Who knew social media would become a big marketing tool for businesses? Pam Harper joins Jim Blasingame to discuss how small businesses can identify and take advantage of emerging opportunities.

True healthcare reform can only come from marketplace-based solutions. Jim Blasingame reports on a number of market-based healthcare reform options that work without increasing government control over our lives.

Will your management style allow the creativity your business requires? Terry Murray joins Jim Blasingame to discuss what managers have to be prepared to do in order to foster and lead the creative process necessary to compete.

Competitiveness requires innovation, which can't happen without creativity. Terry Murray joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the challenges and importance of fostering creativity in today’s multicultural, multi-generational workplace.

How do you talk to buyers and investors about your invention? Kim Lavine joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the business knowledge you need to have to talk to investors and buyers about funding your invention and business.

Investors like opportunities in consumer products with distribution channels. Kim Lavine joins Jim Blasingame to discuss how inventors are being successful with consumer products, both with investors and consumers.

There have been three major marketplace disruptors since 1995. Jim Blasingame discusses three disruptors that have changed the marketplace since 1995: commercial use of the Internet, broadband Internet and mobile technology and networks.