Monday - November 03, 2014
Brad Knox joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the the most important thing a small business needs to know about Obamacare is what is required to comply with employee notification.
Brad Knox joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how the Obamacare tax credit works, what the employer mandated means for you, and how the Exchanges work.
Barbara Weltman joins Jim Blasingame to talk about her time with several Washington regulating agencies and frustration for how cumbersome the process is.
Barbara Weltman joins Jim Blasingame to reveal several important tax provisions that so far have not been renewed by Congress, even though the tax year is running out.
Barbara Weltman joins Jim Blasingame to talk about potential benefits for small business if Congress could send one message to President Obama about getting out of the way of small business.
Corrine Sandler joins Jim Blasingame to reveal why small businesses need to use more data to make decisions, and how to use existing tools to do that.
Corrine Sandler joins Jim Blasingame to introduce a service that will help small businesses use big data to help them make better decisions and launch better products.
Joanne Black joins Jim Blasingame to discuss to reveal how to achieve a successful balance in activity between in-person and social media activity.
Joanne Black joins Jim Blasingame to talk about some of the issues that women face as sales professionals and debate whether they’re different from men.
Joanne Black joins Jim Blasingame to debate whether women are better at getting referrals than men.
Wednesday - November 05, 2014
Andrea Nierenberg joins Jim Blasingame to share her experiences and strategy in getting connected in a new city where she’s recently relocated.
Andrea Nierenberg joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that adding social media to our networking strategy hasn't so much changed the rules as it has added new tools.
Sam Norwood joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how the 2014 election results should offer some clarity to issues business managers have had with government policies.
Sam Norwood joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how big business and small business will likely respond to the 2014 election results.
Sam Norwood joins Jim Blasingame to reveal what won’t change when the GOP take control of both houses of Congress in 2014.
Jim Blasingame reveals why your small business has brand power without having an expensive and sexy media campaign.
Jim Blasingame reveals why business owners and managers helped repudiate the anti-business policy positions and rhetoric of President Obama in the 2014 elections.
Carla Caldwell joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the irony of using technology to help you disconnect from your business and achieve some balance.
Carla Caldwell joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how to tell if your technology is holding your business back, and how to determine when it’s time to upgrade.
Carla Caldwell joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how technology and associated resources can help small business owners shed some of the hats that are weighing them down.
Thursday - November 06, 2014
Jeff Zbar joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how things have changed regarding the initial expansion for a start-up when the founder can no longer do everything.
Jeff Zbar joins Jim Blasingame to identify new free resources, many from Google, that will help your startup expand and grow without adding expense.
Rich Galen joins Jim Blasingame to report on the results of the 2014 mid-term election as a political tectonic event based on Republican gains.
Rich Galen joins Jim Blasingame to reveal why the 2014 election results will help the electorate gain clarity regarding who is obstructing and who is leading.
Rich Galen joins Jim Blasingame to report on whether President Obama will be able to work with the Republican controlled Congress on issues like immigration.
Tom Somodi joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how to approach change scientifically and methodically to increase your success rate.
Tom Somodi joins Jim Blasingame to explain some of the scientific elements of implementing change operationally and strategically.
Joel Barker joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the dangers to humans from dragging the ocean bottom for fish, plus the benefits to fish of deep sea oil rigs.
Joel Barker joins Jim Blasingame to report on increased use of graphene, including as a blended through-put in 3D printers.
Joel Barker joins Jim Blasingame to report on a car made by 3D printing that has only 64 parts.
Friday - November 07, 2014
Bob Bly joins Jim Blasingame to reveal what content marketing is, how it works, why it’s different and why you need it.
Bob Bly joins Jim Blasingame to explain the best practices and resources to use to deliver your content marketing strategy.
John Fox joins Jim Blasingame to reveal several key tax reform issues the president and the Republican Congress should work on, including lowering the corporate tax rate.
John Fox joins Jim Blasingame to reveal why the Democrats lost the election because they ran away from their president and their principles.
John Fox joins Jim Blasingame to reveal why the public education system has failed America.
Greg Bustin joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the power of accountability in business and why the most important factor is character.
Greg Bustin joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how the roles reputation and tracking play in business accountability.
Adrian Ott joins Jim Blasingame to reveal what digital habits are, how they’re different from other habits and how to capitalize on your customer’s digital habits.
Adrian Ott joins Jim Blasingame to use big company examples to show small businesses how to take advantage of the digital habits of customers.
Adrian Ott joins Jim Blasingame to use a traffic analogy to explain how to take advantage of customer digital habits.
Monday - November 10, 2014
Gary Harpst joins Jim Blasingame to reveal why you should be able to focus your business model so tightly that you can describe what you do in two words.
Gary Harpst joins Jim Blasingame to talk about how to think about your business model focus so that your investment of time, money and energy are properly aligned.
Pam Harper joins Jim Blasingame to reveal several reason why the CEOs of small business should do what their big business peers are doing, read business books.
Pam Harper joins Jim Blasingame to reveal two books she recommends to small business CEOs, including one on how to ask questions and one on understanding the power of habits.
Pam Harper joins Jim Blasingame to reveal two more books to read soon, including one on trust and one on why things go viral, plus a special offer on Pam’s book.
Pam Danziger joins Jim Blasingame to reveal her recent research on affluent consumers, the top 20%, regarding their spending plans for the holidays.
Pam Danziger joins Jim Blasingame to report on the emergence of the two youngest generations as affluent consumers and how they will be different from Baby Boomers.
Peter Meyer joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the role that values plays in brand image and value, and why small businesses have an advantage that money can’t buy.
Peter Meyer joins Jim Blasingame to reveal why the essence of brand value today is authenticity you deliver, not just talk about, and why small business has an authenticity advantage.
Peter Meyer joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the key elements of a brand that’s build and based on authenticity and values that are delivered automatically with products and service.
Tuesday - November 11, 2014
Jim Blasingame reveals the full impact of voters repudiation of President Obama’s policies, and to attribute much of that result to small business stakeholders.
Jim Blasingame recommends that you should at least give a veteran an interview if he or she applies for a job, and recommends what questions to ask them.
Ken Davis joins Jim Blasingame to celebrate Veterans Day with a report on the origins of the Star Spangled Banner on its 200th anniversary.
Ken Davis joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the origins of Veterans Day as a movement and as a national holiday.
Ken Davis joins Jim Blasingame to talk about the different ways we celebrates those who served in our military to defend the American ideal.
Joe Davis joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the work the VFW is doing to recognize and serve our veterans, including the reorganization of the VA hospitals.
Barb Carson joins Jim Blasingame to report on how the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Office of Veteran-owned businesses is helping veteran small businesses, including family support.
Barb Carson joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the special loan guarantee features designed to help military veterans.
Adrian Guglielmo joins Jim Blasingame to talk about the national shame that America has allowed the current treatment of our veterans seeking medical services.
Adrian Guglielmo joins Jim Blasingame to talk about the “Leave No Veteran Behind” program that helps veterans find employment opportunities in airport ecosystems.
Wednesday - November 12, 2014
Rob Grede joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the key components of a successful marketing strategy, and none of them are what you sell.
Rob Grede joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the three things your brand can stand for, as long as it’s not all three.
Bill Dunkelberg joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the mid-term election results and how much of it can be attributed to small business owners.
Bill Dunkelberg joins Jim Blasingame to reveal economic challenges small businesses are still dealing with for more than six years.
Bill Dunkelberg joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how the failure of Washington to do its job is resulting in a lack of capital spending by small businesses.
Janet Christy joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the dangers of a business having a dependence on set-aside business preferences, or a limited number of customers.
Janet Christy joins Jim Blasingame to reveal why having government preferences creates the potential for an unsustainable business.
John Dini joins Jim Blasingame to report on what it’s going to look like as millions of Baby Boomer small business owners divest of their businesses over the next decade.
John Dini joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how having limited resources for a small business start-up can turn into an advantage eventually.
John Dini joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the power of delegating, and how that practice can pay dividends when you’re ready to sell your business.
Friday - November 14, 2014
Beverly Inman-Ebel joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how to prepare for an interview with a prospective employee using intuitive interview. steps.
Beverly Inman-Ebel joins Jim Blasingame to identify three questions to prepare and how to ask them of an employee prospect to conduct an intuitive interview.
Grace-Marie Turner joins Jim Blasingame to report on the admissions by one of the Obamacare authors that this law was based on lies and deception.
Grace-Marie Turner joins Jim Blasingame to report on the admission by an Obamacare author that they knew it would never work economically.
Grace-Marie Turner joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the likely steps that will be taken to modify and fix Obamacare by the next Congress.
Steve DelBianco joins Jim Blasingame to discuss what Net Neutrality is, who the players are and why small business owners need to pay attention to this debate.
Steve DelBianco joins Jim Blasingame to reveal what net neutrality means and report on the current stage of the debate about making the Internet a regulated utility.
Ivan Misner joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how a Community Foundation works and how you can use it to create your own non-profit fund to use to contribute to charities.
Ivan Misner joins Jim Blasingame to identify the Three Ps that you can use to give back to others while growing a successful business.
Ivan Misner joins Jim Blasingame to report on the good work Stand Up America is doing to help young people find their way out of difficult environments.
Monday - November 17, 2014
Jim Blasingame reveals the players and the key issues in the net neutrality debate and why every small business owner needs to understand the impact of this issue on their business.
Jim Blasingame talks about the celebration of the 17th anniversary of his radio program, and the 15th anniversary of his electronic weekly newsletter, plus why you should celebrate your own milestones.
Ken Gronbach joins Jim Blasingame to reveal global population projections for the next 35 years and after, by region and nation, and the winners and losers.
Ken Gronbach joins Jim Blasingame to reveal why he’s not worried about feeding 10 billion Earthlings in 2050.
Ken Gronbach joins Jim Blasingame to predict that the Americas, especially the U.S., will fare well as the planet’s population grows to 10 billion over the next 35 years.
Karen Kerrigan joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the problem that will be created by Obama’s plan to turn the Internet into a government regulated utility.
Karen Kerrigan joins Jim Blasingame to report on the news that Obamacare was based on lies and deception and to remind you that they told you this five years ago.
Jay Mincks joins Jim Blasingame to report on why small businesses that survived 2008-2009 are financially stronger today than they were.
Jay Mincks joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how his organization has adjusted to the new expectations of customers in the Age of the Customer.
Jay Mincks joins Jim Blasingame to report on the likely compliance steps small businesses will have to take to comply with Obamacare going forward.
Tuesday - November 18, 2014
Wally Bock joins Jim Blasingame to reveal why managers who spend time face-to-face with their employees on a regular basis have the best teams.
Wally Bock joins Jim Blasingame to talk about the right way to discuss mistakes employees make by using questions instead of statements.
Burt Folsom joins Jim Blasingame to compare the denial of President Roosevelt in 1938 when his party lost big in his second mid-term election and similar behavior by President Obama when the same thing happened to him in 2014.
Burt Folsom joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the historical significance of President Obama’s plan to use an executive order to provide amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants.
Burt Folsom joins Jim Blasingame to report on the historical implications of the deceptive and cynical way Obamacare was created and sold to Congress and Americans.
Eva Rosenberg joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the compliance issues employers have to address to comply with the mandates of Obamacare.
Eva Rosenberg joins Jim Blasingame to report on a very generous amnesty program for employers who have treated de facto employees as contractors.
Tim Berry joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the LEAN management and manufacturing process and how to apply it to planning.
Tim Berry joins Jim Blasingame to reveal his ideas about how to use the LEAN system of performance improvement in the business planning process.
Tim Berry joins Jim Blasingame to explain how to use the LEAN system of performance improvement to manage an ongoing business month after month.
Wednesday - November 19, 2014
Pete Sepp joins Jim Blasingame to report on the lobbying industry in the U.S. that is more developed and powerful than any other country, and how that impacts our lives and global relationships.
Pete Sepp joins Jim Blasingame to talk about the possibility that there will be tax reform between the new GOP controlled Congress and Obama in 2015.
Gary Moore joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the origins of capitalism and what it looked like before Wall Street took it hostage.
Gerald Celente joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the reasons why Wall Street operates without regard for Main Street and has found a way to be successful without adding value to the economy.
Gary Moore joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how the way capital markets work today does not support a form of capitalism that allows all parties to the economy to share in prosperity.
Ilise Benun joins Jim Blasingame to reveal why you should follow the Four Cs of marketing, including choosing your profile customer to focus on, and identifying the best ways to connect with them.
Ilise Benun joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the Four Cs of marketing, including a discussion of the last two, cultivate customers and build credibility.
Gerald Celente joins Jim Blasingame to report on the troubling global economy and what that will mean for U.S. small businesses.
Gerald Celente joins Jim Blasingame to report on how oil prices impact geopolitics and global economies, and what that means for U.S. small businesses.
Gerald Celente joins Jim Blasingame to report on how global economic and political issues will impact the future of U.S. small businesses.
Thursday - November 20, 2014
Jeff Zbar joins Jim Blasingame to reveal why equipping and training employees to telework can save your business during a disaster or other business disruption.
Jeff Zbar joins Jim Blasingame to talk about why you should ask customers how they want you to connect with them, including traditional methods and new media.
Cam Fine joins Jim Blasingame to reveal several pieces of legislation the 113th Congress should pass that will help community banks serve their small business customers.
Cam Fine joins Jim Blasingame to reveal an expectation that the 114th Congress will be more productive in terms of passing laws that will help community banks help small businesses and the economy.
Cam Fine joins Jim Blasingame to reinforce the importance of the symbiotic Main Street relationship between community banks and small businesses.
Ed Yourdon joins Jim Blasingame to report on several ways that the trends in technology can have questionable implications for society.
Ed Yourdon joins Jim Blasingame to reveal what a death march project is and how it can seduce you into taking risks that could take you down or make you rich.
Ed Yourdon joins Jim Blasingame to talk about his work as an expert witness on technology for litigants in patent infringement lawsuits.
Don Cooper joins Jim Blasingame to talk about how to recognize that a customer should be fired, and how to do it.
Don Cooper joins Jim Blasingame to emphasize my every business that expects to have sustained success has to charge customers enough to accomplish long-term profitability.
Friday - November 21, 2014
Kelle Olwyler joins Jim Blasingame to talk about why successful business growth is more sustainable if you have a plan that covers all the elements that support growth.
Kelle Olwyler joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the questions to ask yourself about your organization and capital structure to see if you’re business is ready to grow.
Gene Griessman joins Jim Blasingame to reveal why the most successful people have in common the ability to concentrate and stay focused on their goal.
Gene Griessman joins Jim Blasingame to reveal why having the ability to concentrate and focus are among the key attributes of successful leaders in all fields.
Gene Griessman joins Jim Blasingame to reveal why being curious and paying attention are two powerful leadership traits
Jim Blasingame reveals what was going on in the founding days of his now-17-year-old media company.
Jim Blasingame speaks to President Obama about his various policies and point out how they’re created disruption instead of solutions, and to encourage him to be less disruptive in his last two years.
Steve Forbes joins Jim Blasingame to talk about the challenges the new GOP-led 114th Congress will have working with President Obama in the next two years.
Steve Forbes joins Jim Blasingame to report on Obama’s executive order on illegal immigrants and to express his objection to it as a violation of the Constitution.
Steve Forbes joins Jim Blasingame to say that he sees an improving economy for next year and how to prepare for it.
Monday - November 24, 2014
Tom Asacker joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the difference between a big business brand, with logos and tag lines, and a small business brand, which is more about the experience of customers.
Tom Asacker joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the connection between small business brand power and the ability to be innovative in serving customers with relevant experiences.
Bill Brandt joins Jim Blasingame to talk about what the most recent election results means for national and state politics and for the future of America.
Bill Brandt joins Jim Blasingame to debate the issues around President Obama’s recent executive order on immigration.
Bill Brandt joins Jim Blasingame to comment on whether future Democrats will regret that President Obama issues the immigration executive order instead of waiting for a legislative process.
Tom Anastasi joins Jim Blasingame to reveal first steps that small businesses can learn from big businesses about how to successfully bring a new employee onboard.
Tom Anastasi joins Jim Blasingame to reveal some of the most important questions to ask a prospective employee and how to ask them.
Bob Morris joins Jim Blasingame to discuss some of the sociological and technical influences on the future of books, especially non-fiction.
Robert Morris joins Jim Blasingame to reveal his thoughts on the kind of changes authors and publishers will have to make to get business people to read more business books.
Bob Morris joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how technology and social evolution is changing what is relevant to readers going forward.
Tuesday - November 25, 2014
Chad Moutray joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the different ways Washington dysfunction is putting roadblocks in front of small business manufacturing companies and vendors.
Chad Moutray joins Jim Blasingame to report on specific tax credits and deductions that are being withheld in Washington that would create more jobs.
Cliff Ennico joins Jim Blasingame to reveal some of the steps you have to take to get a non-profit corporation established with the government.
Cliff Ennico joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the growth in non-profit corporations and explain some of the pitfalls of establishing one with the IRS.
Cliff Ennico joins Jim Blasingame to reveal his thoughts as an attorney on the immigration executive order signed by President Obama.
Marie Dubuque joins Jim Blasingame to reveal several practices that will help you defuse problem customers, especially during the holiday shopping season.
Marie Dubuque joins Jim Blasingame to reveal some of the things you can do when customers are difficult, including charging them for their difficulty.
Ramon Ray joins Jim Blasingame to introduce his new quarterly magazine, Smart Hustle, and explain why he thinks it’s needed.
Ramon Ray joins Jim Blasingame to reveal why the 21st century is empowering small businesses with disruption capability formerly held by big business.
Ramon Ray joins Jim Blasingame to offer his perspective as a black American on the tragedy and subsequent developments of Ferguson.
Wednesday - November 26, 2014
Kathy Perry joins Jim Blasingame to reveal what she did to get her hand slapped by Facebook and why they didn’t like her behavior.
Dawn Fotopulos joins Jim Blasingame to reveal why discounting just to increase sales volume is a profit killer and bad business.
Kathy Perry joins Jim Blasingame to dispel the myth that your best practice is to achieve new customers instead of making the most out of existing customers.
Brad Huisken joins Jim Blasingame to reveal three different kinds of meetings to have with your sales team every week, and what to say to them.
Brad Huisken joins Jim Blasingame help sales people grow as decision-makers and sales professionals by using the three Ws when they bring you a customer issue.
Brad Huisken joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that “thank you” and variations on that theme are still the most powerful words in the marketplace, and that “no problem” is a big problem.
Chester Elton joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the different ways to recognize and validate your first line customers, your employees.
Chester Elton Kathy Perry joins Jim Blasingame to talk about the direct connection between having loyal customers and employees who have been made to feel they’re appreciated.
Kathy Perry joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how Facebook is lapping all other social media platforms in the war to achieve traffic referrals.
Kathy Perry joins Jim Blasingame to recommend that your referral traffic strategy should including more than one social media platform.
Thursday - November 27, 2014
Jim Blasingame reveals some of the issues and arguments concerning illegal immigrants that we’ll hear in the next two years.
Ken Davis joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the story of the original Thanksgiving, including some facts you may not have known.
Ken Davis joins Jim Blasingame to discuss why all Americans, native or otherwise, were one time immigrants, and America's history of immigration issues.
Bob Dilenschneider joins Jim Blasingame to to discuss why our blessings probably outweigh our negatives by a wide margin.
Bob Dilenschneider joins Jim Blasingame to express thankfulness for small businesses and small community banks, the twin pillars of the Main Street economy.
Bob Dilenschneider joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the unique nature of America as a nation of immigrants going back over 10,000 years.
Jim Blasingame tells the classic story of how the original thanksgiving celebration was made possible by one of the greatest examples of serendipity.
Jim Blasingame talks about why we should spend more time being thankful for what we have instead of what we don’t have.
Jim Blasingame reveals why all Americans are from immigrant stock, even Native Americans.
Jim Blasingame reveals the size, scope and profile of the undocumented immigrants who are at the heart of the immigration debate today.
