What strategies can we learn from top performing companies? Sam Reese joins Jim Blasingame to reveal two critical best practices used by top performing companies, including effective management teams and clear performance metrics.

Are you you reaching your marketing potential? Ilise Benun joins Jim Blasingame with marketing tips, including defining your profile customers and marketing to them strategically with the help of organizing tools for marketing tasks.

The difference between an Olympic gold medal and no medal is often less than 1%.Tom Connellan joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how small businesses can significantly increase their competitiveness by simply improving many of the things they do by only 1%.

What are the characteristics of a thriving small business? Andrew Oman joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the importance of sustainable operations, strong customer communities and effective marketing to a successful organization.

Does your organization have what it takes to be successful? Andrew Oman joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how successful organizations employ a clear vision, internally and externally, strong leadership and a well-developed products.

Are your employees teams working? Chester Elton joins Jim Blasingame to discuss how strengthening the performance of employee teams by helping them feel they are working for a cause greater than the company or themselves, including being the best at what you do.

Do you have policies that are good for your business but not for your customer? Leigh Branham joins Jim Blasingame to discuss how dangerous policies can be when they have the result of making you irrelevant to customers.

How organized are your email, folders and boxes? Christina Cavanagh joins Jim Blasingame to offer tips and best practices on taking control of your email, including creating folders and other archiving steps.

How can delegating and outsourcing help you synthesize time? Christina Perkett joins Jim Blasingame with tips on how to better manage your time and leverage yourself by becoming a better delegator and entering into outsourcing contracts.

Want to give your business a good head-start on the new year? Jim Blasingame suggests a number of ideas for what he calls "December cleaning" so your business can start fresh in the new year with everything from stuff to employees to inventory - even customers are not immune to Jim's broom.