How important is a first impression? Dianne Legro explains to Jim Blasingame why a good first impression is critical and offers several tips and tools that will help you put your best foot forward when you meet someone for the first time. They also talk about the business benefits of doing public speaking.

Would you like to go after larger customers? Tom Searcy talks with Jim Blasingame talk about how small businesses can find and sell larger customers, including several tried and proven tips, tools and best practices.

What is the social media strategy for your small business? Are you using Twitter? Joel Comm joins Jim Blasingame to talk about the business advantages of Twitter and other social media. Joel also evaluates Jim's social media performance - it ain't pretty.

With so much fear in the marketplace, how can your small business be fearless? Steve Chandler and Jim Blasingame talk about attitudes and tools that you can employ to fight your fears and a slow economy successfully.

How can small businesses export successfully in a global economic downturn? Doug Barry talks with Jim Blasingame about a number of small business exporting tips and tools, including a new book on experting for small business.

What are the most important marketing steps you can take in your small business in 2009? Ilise Benun joins Jim Blasingame to lay out some of the steps, especially the ones that get you closest to customers.

Relationships are even more critical to business success in a recession. Andrea Nierenberg talks with Jim Blasingame about several networking tips and best practices that will help you recession-proof your small business.

What do you have, as a small business owner, that big business CEOs envy? Jim Blasingame talks about some of the advantages small businesses have that they should be leveraging everyday. He also talks about building better banking relationships.

Your ability to survive and grow this year will require doing things differently than last year. That's the advice Tom Asacker and Jim Blasingame offer as they talk about the new reality of the marketplace.

What does it take for a small business to blend their traditional marketing strategy with the new social media elements? Gene Marks joins Jim Blasingame to talk about how to pull this off.