Monday - March 02, 2020
Robert Bly joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the power of words, and how you use them as leverage in your marketing/advertising strategy.
Robert Bly joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the power of your expertise in words – written and spoken – in the form of content that nurtures customer relationships. Graphics don’t nurture – words do.
Robert Levin joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how having an assistant manifests as a powerful lever of your time, and should be considered an investment, not an expense.
Robert Levin joins Jim Blasingame to reveal why learning how to delegate is powerful, but not easy for most of us, and why you can’t grow your business without becoming good at it.
Robert Levin joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that having perfection as your standard will stifle your business, and that being a delegator and accepting excellence as your standard, becomes a powerful business lever.
Weldon Long joins Jim Blasingame to share their perspectives on life, work and dealing with pandemics, and why problems tend to seem smaller and less scary when you can approach them with perspective.
Weldon Long joins Jim Blasingame to reveal some of the ways to help customers get out of their own way, and why focusing on value instead of price is a high percentage perspective.
Joe Tankersley joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the 50th anniversary of Alvin Toffler’s book, Future Shock, and why his perspective, along with others, such as Gordon Moore and John Naisbitt, became prophecies of our reality.
Joe Tankersley joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that the velocity of change is what’s different today from past eras, and why no other generation has ever had to deal with such an increase in the speed of change.
Joe Tankersley joins Jim Blasingame to mark the 50th anniversary of Toffler’s book, Future Shock, by noting that his “stability zone” prophecy, and Naisbitt’s “high-tech, high-touch,” will prevail for generations of analog humans in the digital age.
Tuesday - March 03, 2020
Roberta Matuson joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the concept of a “sustainable” workforce, by creating an environment that helps employees deal with whatever issues the organization faces.
Roberta Matuson joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the current workplace landscape that includes a lot of poaching of key employees of other, often smaller companies, and what you have to do to defend yourself.
Ed Marsh joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how the realization that the U.S. supply chain is too heavily dependent on China could, with our increased energy independence, help the American manufacturing sector.
Ed Marsh joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the many reasons why you should attend the conventions and trade shows of your industry as a way to network and learn more about the direction of your marketplace sector.
Ed Marsh joins Jim Blasingame to discuss how conventions and trade shows increasingly focus on technology elements to make sure they’re relevant to the younger demographic attendees.
Hector Barreto joins Jim Blasingame to report on the legislative summit The Latino Coalition is conducting -- and streaming live -- on the Internet, including the speaker assembly that includes President Trump.
Hector Barreto joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the trend of Hispanic voters as more of them – men and women – become business owners.
Stephen King joins Jim Blasingame to reveal breaking each job or project into its own financial statement so you can more finely tune the company’s gross profit performance.
Stephen King joins Jim Blasingame to reveal breaking down your business’s operation into gross profit centers that you track individually so you can improve both pricing and resource application.
Stephen King joins Jim Blasingame to introduce the concept of activity-based payroll as part of your financial management, and how to find the tracking and management tools that will help you.
Wednesday - March 04, 2020
Jim Ballard joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that working on how we deal with business issues can help us achieve a better, more balanced personal life.
Jim Ballard joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the power of being quietly introspective, such as meditation, prayer, etc., as you deal with the challenges of life and business.
George Levy joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how some industries are using blockchain as a business model, while others are adopting it defensively.
George Levy joins Jim Blasingame to report on how the relatively new digital levers of blockchain and cryptocurrency are becoming disruptive challenges for some, and levers of opportunity for others.
George Levy joins Jim Blasingame to report that the blockchain that delivers cryptocurrency is the public kind, while industries, companies and business relationships may create their own private blockchain.
Jim Blasingame reveals the difference between what customers need and what they want, and how you can make a very nice living delivering that difference, if you charge for it.
Jim Blasingame offers his disregard for the hysterical behavior of Wall Street, as it recently gyrated up and down on different pieces of news, and why that is not the behavior of serious business professionals.
Robert Litan joins Jim Blasingame to report on the turnaround of the momentum of Joe Biden during Super Tuesday, how it began, why it happened and the implications to follow.
Robert Litan joins Jim Blasingame to report on how the coronavirus, both truth and hysteria, is and will continue to have an impact on the global economy.
Robert Litan joins Jim Blasingame to propose that one silver lining from the coronavirus could be the realigning of supply chains and manufacturing away from China and toward U.S. production.
Thursday - March 05, 2020
Doug Obey joins Jim Blasingame to discuss why he thinks the U.S. is in a hyper-inflationary period, why that is a problem and why it isn’t being reported.
Doug Obey joins Jim Blasingame to reveal why he thinks the Fed isn’t properly reporting the inflation rate, why he thinks the real number is closer to 7%, and why it matters.
Rich Galen joins Jim Blasingame to report on the most recent primary process called Super Tuesday, and why the results were something that even the most veteran political pundits got wrong.
Rich Galen joins Jim Blasingame to discuss whether Joe Biden has what it takes to go the full distance against the incumbent, President Trump, and whether he can win.
Rich Galen joins Jim Blasingame to report on what caused the 2020 Super Tuesday to take such a dramatic shift in favor of Biden, and whether there will be a brokered convention at the Democratic convention.
Janet Christy joins Jim Blasingame to offer suggestions on why it’s a best practice for your business to encourage employees to identify risk factors with screening and take other actions to become healthier.
Janet Christy joins Jim Blasingame to reveal why your business should consider investing in and facilitating an on-site medical screening offering to help employees learn about how to become healthier.
Adrian Ott joins Jim Blasingame to reveal why the who – customers – are more important to focus on than the what or how – product – you want to take to market.
Adrian Ott joins Jim Blasingame to discuss how to work with entrepreneurs who may get so focused on what they offer that they lose sight of the human beings – customers -- they want to buy their stuff.
Adrian Ott joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that the gold you seek, when mining for it in the marketplace, is in the heads of your prospects and customers – nowhere else – and that’s where your focus should be.
Friday - March 06, 2020
Why even non-profit organizations have to make a profit
Featuring
Toni Pergolin 
March 06, 2020
March 06, 2020
Toni Pergolin joins Jim Blasingame to reveal why every non-profit organization has to operate at a level of profit in order to capitalize the services they were founded to deliver.
The 21st century challenge of dealing with the velocity of change
Featuring
Tony Uphoff
March 06, 2020
March 06, 2020
Tony Uphoff joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the challenges small businesses face dealing with the increasing velocity of change, especially when it comes to staying up-to-date on technology.
Long term success requires financial management
Featuring
Bob Prosen
March 06, 2020
March 06, 2020
Bob Prosen joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the direct connection between sustaining your business operation and you becoming an effective, engaged financial manager. No, this doesn’t mean you have to become an accountant.
Why you should know about the System of National Accounts (SNA)
Featuring
John Horvat II
March 06, 2020
March 06, 2020
John Horvat II joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how the System of National Accounts (SNA) has considered, with encouragement from the U.N, including illegal, illicit and immoral business as part of a countries GDP.
Monday - March 09, 2020
Toni Pergolin joins Jim Blasingame to reveal why every non-profit organization has to operate at a level of profit in order to capitalize the services they were founded to deliver.
Toni Pergolin joins Jim Blasingame to debunk the myth of non-profits by declaring that without a profit margin, a non-profit can’t deliver its mission, plus leadership styles that are conducive to successful non-profit operation.
Kathy Perry joins Jim Blasingame to report on how Twitter is responding to competitors promoting the capability of stories by their users with their own stories platform.
Kathy Perry joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the reasons every business must present themselves online to the mobile platforms, including having local search elements in all meta data and narrative.
Kathy Perry joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how to decide how to divide your ad budget between Facebook and Google, plus how to use Facebook’s Messenger bots for better customer service.
Bill Schley joins Jim Blasingame to reveal why knowing the fundamentals of marketing, that focuses on what real people want, must be included in your new marketing strategies.
Bill Schley joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the power of marketing fundamentals, and the three Ws of marketing that represent whether and why people buy from you.
Eva Rosenberg joins Jim Blasingame to report that Sub S, LLCs and legal partnerships have to file a tax return or an extension by Monday, March 16, 2020, and whether an extension impacts chances of an audit.
Eva Rosenberg joins Jim Blasingame to reveal some of the reasons why it’s probably smart to file an extension for your business and personal returns, plus reasons why you would want to change from a Sub S to a C Corp, or vice versa.
Eva Rosenberg joins Jim Blasingame to report on some of the insurance credits and retirement factors that could be tricky for tax filing accuracy.
Tuesday - March 10, 2020
Diane DiResta joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the challenges of conducting effective communication when there are such varied generational experiences and expectations in the marketplace and workplace.
Diane DiResta joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the challenges of managing the many different communication platforms that customers can – and do – choose from as we work with them.
Christophe Uzureau joins Jim Blasingame to warn small businesses to beware that large customers could use their blockchain infrastructure and resources as a way of abusing and/or intimidating smaller vendors.
Christophe Uzureau joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the five elements of blockchain applications and how this will be used as we adopt the new open source technology.
Christophe Uzureau joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how the tokenization element of blockchain will impact business in the future, and to predict that blockchain will be widespread in the economy by 2023.
George Troy joins Jim Blasingame to report on how the coronavirus has impacted the retail economy in London, England, and what other retailers should do in preparation for a disruption.
George Troy joins Jim Blasingame to report on the business decisions that retailers in London, England are making as they deal with the coronavirus issue.
Wayne Crews joins Jim Blasingame to report on Executive Order 13891, which requires that all existing regulatory steps that are not created by Congress must be listed in a single portal for easy access.
Wayne Crews joins Jim Blasingame to reveal another way that the Deep State has a negative economic impact through the regulatory Dark Matter they impose on businesses, like memos and blog posts that are distributed as law.
Wayne Crews joins Jim Blasingame to report on some good news of how the Labor Department will be establishing their regulatory effort going forward that, unlike an executive order, can’t be changed by future presidents.
Wednesday - March 11, 2020
Jim Blasingame explains why he thinks Wall Street is increasingly merely a leading indicator of itself, and in the current uncertain marketplace, is not contributing solutions to the Main Street economy.
Pam Danziger joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the impact of the coronavirus reality and hysteria on the small business retail sector, including what we should learn about having both a storefront and online strategy.
Pam Danziger joins Jim Blasingame to discuss some of the issues involved in running a retail business when customers and supply chains are being impacted by a potential global pandemic.
Pam Harper joins Jim Blasingame to discuss why now is a time when we’ll all learn whether we have high-functioning teams, or just a gaggle of people who have meetings.
Pam Harper joins Jim Blasingame to reveal some of the steps to take to test the effectiveness of your teams before the marketplace makes the stress real, including whether you have the right technology.
Pam Harper joins Jim Blasingame to focus forward to a post-pandemic marketplace and consider the silver lining that could be a more robust, stronger and more versatile team structure.
Jim Blasingame reveals six mistakes to avoid when searching for investor capital, including how to narrow your focus on those investors who are interested in what you do.
Thursday - March 12, 2020
Ruth Sherman joins Jim Blasingame to report on what a Ted Talk is, how they have been franchised to make more, smaller events, called Ted-X Talks, and what it takes to be able to deliver one.
Ruth Sherman joins Jim Blasingame to reveal her experience in proposing her presentation at a Ted-X event, how the process works including financial, content and presenting her program.
Barbara Weltman joins Jim Blasingame to remind owners of pass-through business entities, like Sub S, LLC and partnerships that their tax filing date is March 16 this year, and also to discuss filing an extension.
Barbara Weltman joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the possibilities of the Federal government altering tax filing and paying due dates because of the current coronavirus pandemic disruption.
Barbara Weltman joins Jim Blasingame to discuss some of the proposals from the government to provide pandemic relief for small businesses, and whether it’s even necessary.
Ed Harrington joins Jim Blasingame to reveal some of the guidelines to employ when conducting a brainstorming session, including being civil while being creative.
Ed Harrington joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how to ask questions of a brainstorming/ideation group to get the most productive results for the overall exercise.
Holly Wade joins Jim Blasingame to reveal some of the reasons why the financial strength of the small business sector will be a significant factor in the economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.
Holly Wade joins Jim Blasingame to report on the NFIB Index that shows small businesses are still well capitalized, and why borrowing money from the SBA will not help the coronavirus issue.
Holly Wade joins Jim Blasingame to report on the NFIB Index that shows small businesses response to the coronavirus challenge should still be strong employers through this difficult period.
Friday - March 13, 2020
Robert Grede joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the first five of his 10 rules for writing compelling ad copy that sells, including the headline, benefits and facts.
Robert Grede joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the second set of five ad copy rules to follow in order to be more compelling and sell more, including use of testimonials, tell the truth, and review all of the foregoing nine rules before you send.
Lois Frankel joins Jim Blasingame to report on the current state of progress for women in breaking through the system that has favored men for millennia.
Lois Frankel joins Jim Blasingame to report on the things that women do that impede their progress, like not speaking up, not being sufficiently confident of their own competence, and taking more risks.
Lois Frankel joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the idea that in a male-dominated environment, sometimes its women who hold each other back, and the power of respecting someone even if you don’t like them.
Jeff Zbar joins Jim Blasingame to remind you that you likely have customers who you did business with once that just need to be reminded of you, and how that converts to quantum leap sales growth.
Jeff Zbar joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the opportunities possible to build and keep customers by nurturing relationships on social media sites, especially LinkedIn.
Steve Martin joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how attitude is a combination of two of four elements called the Quadrant of Attitude, which are positive, negative, passive and active.
Steve Martin joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how deficient employee engagement can be better understood by applying the combinations that are possible from the Quadrants of Attitude.
Steve Martin joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how to use the Quadrants of Attitude approach to identify and encourage your entrepreneurial employees who want to take risks with your capital.
Monday - March 16, 2020
Stacey Brown Randall joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that there are four sources of the prospecting Holy Grail – referrals – including customers, centers of influence, and two more.
Stacey Brown Randall joins Jim Blasingame to report on the power of referrals during a time of economic crisis, like we’re experiencing with the coronavirus impact.
Leo Haviland joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the responses by equity markets to the coronavirus concerns, and whether this scenario has become an excuse to sell off an oversold market.
Leo Haviland joins Jim Blasingame to report on the many influences in the decision-making process by all of us, including economic, financial and public policy.
Leo Haviland joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the disconnect of Wall Street to the real economy, and whether the current selloff could take stocks back to the more realistic level.
Leigh Branham joins Jim Blasingame to report on the two ways that key employees leave your business, including the inevitable as people seek their own growth, and the preventable kind caused by your own bad management.
Leigh Branham joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that you need to consider the five elements in the cost of employee turnover – especially the ones you could prevent – as you compensate and lead your people.
Michael Saltsman joins Jim Blasingame to report on the challenges for hospitality and food service businesses as they’re impacted by the change in societal behavior in response to the coronavirus concerns.
Michael Saltsman joins Jim Blasingame to discuss how and whether the government should get involved with help, including in the discussion payroll tax abatement, extending unemployment, etc.
Michael Saltsman joins Jim Blasingame to warn against America making long-term reactions and responses to a coronavirus challenge that could be a short-term challenge.
Tuesday - March 17, 2020
Ken Tencer joins Jim Blasingame to address the challenges business owners have in keeping our operations in operation when we don’t know what the future will hold for our customers.
Ken Tencer joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the fact that with all we’ve been through in the past 20 years, small businesses are more prepared than ever to weather a pandemic storm, and that focus is a key to survival.
Leslie Grossman joins Jim Blasingame to encourage us to stay connected as we distance ourselves physically, and to talk with younger business owners who may not have experienced such a jolt to the economy.
Leslie Grossman joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the relative financial strength of the small business sector following the 2008 crisis, and their ability to weather the current pandemic crisis.
Leslie Grossman joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the power of perspective when dealing with a challenge like we have with the coronavirus pandemic, and identify the silver linings that may come from this.
Debra Fine joins Jim Blasingame to discuss how some states are dictating how small businesses operate their businesses, and the slippery slope that creates going forward.
Debra Fine joins Jim Blasingame to discuss some of the ways to stay connected to our network during a time when doing that physically is a challenge, maybe even prohibited.
Dawn Fotopulos joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the importance of getting ahead of expense issues by being transparent with stakeholders like landlords so they can be part of how we all deal with a business slowdown.
Dawn Fotopulos joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the dirty little secret that way too many small businesses have too many invoice balances that aren’t collected on time, and how to remedy that – or else .
Dawn Fotopulos joins Jim Blasingame to reveal tips and best practices for how to get your customer invoices paid quicker, including delivering them yourself, including during a period of economic uncertainty.
Wednesday - March 18, 2020
Jane Pollak joins Jim Blasingame to discuss what she learned about admitting she needed the help of others, and offers her thoughts on how interdependent we all really are.
Jane Pollak joins Jim Blasingame to discuss why we should be aware of those around us who may need help and reach out to them with an offer of help that allows them to maintain their self-respect.
Steve Moore joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the Fed’s response to the Wuhan coronavirus and whether its rate cuts and quantitative easing so far has been appropriate.
Steve Moore joins Jim Blasingame to discuss whether government help for small businesses during the coronavirus pandemic is being applied in an appropriate and helpful way, especially relative to credit issues.
Steve Moore joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the likelihood that the political class will not be able to resist playing politics as the country deals with the coronavirus pandemic.
Jim Blasingame reveals six more too-common mistakes business owners make when seeking investor capital, including staging your information sharing from small to large, as requested.
Jim Blasingame talks about the quandary we have of dealing with the reality of a deadly pandemic and the potentially dangerous government response to it.
Anna Murray joins Jim Blasingame to report on how New Yorkers are responding to the coronavirus reality, including whether the state and local government response is appropriate and/or constitutional.
Anna Murray joins Jim Blasingame to report on how cyber-criminals are using the threat of the coronavirus to get unsuspecting people to become victims as they seek pandemic news.
Anna Murray joins Jim Blasingame to report on some of the reasons for and methods of cleaning our tech tools so we don’t allow the coronavirus to live there.
Thursday - March 19, 2020
Jim Canterucci joins Jim Blasingame to reveal why communication must flow in all directions in your organization, not just trickle down from the top.
Jim Canterucci joins Jim Blasingame to reveal why every member of your organization should be part of the communication hierarchy.
Curtis Ellis joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the challenges we’re facing with the coronavirus pandemic, and that how we handle it will reveal where the character is in America and where it is lacking.
Curtis Ellis joins Jim Blasingame to discuss some of the ways the small business sector will need to be supported, including keeping the business and employee relationships intact.
Curtis Ellis joins Jim Blasingame to discuss how to make sure the U.S. small business sector doesn’t have another lost decade like the one following the 2008 financial crisis.
Mark Babbitt joins Jim Blasingame to offer his perspective on what we have to do to weather the coronavirus pandemic, including finding solutions that bring out the best in us.
Mark Babbitt joins Jim Blasingame to recommend how to use all of our communication resources, especially social media, as we weather the current “social distancing” period.
Bob Dilenschneider joins Jim Blasingame to create perspective for how to manage the current pandemic crisis with how we’ve dealt with other challenges, including 9-11 and the 2008 financial crisis.
Bob Dilenschneider joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that we have to cut leaders some slack for the tough decisions they have to make on our behalf during unprecedented times, plus the kind of help small businesses really need.
Bob Dilenschneider joins Jim Blasingame to discuss how some politicians are responding to the coronavirus pandemic with methods that impinge on our Constitutional rights, even if they’re doing it for the right reasons.
Friday - March 20, 2020
Olalah Njenga joins Jim Blasingame to reveal what she was thinking and what was motivating her when she started her small business seventeen years ago.
Olalah Njenga joins Jim Blasingame to reveal three trends in customer expectations, including the experience, the humanity and the endorsement.
Gleb Tsipursky joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how we sometimes make very important business decisions based on our predisposition to see opportunity based on our own bias, and not facts.
Gleb Tsipursky joins Jim Blasingame to discuss how often we disregard or fail to acquire facts and figures in making decisions, in favor of our own cognitive bias.
Gleb Tsipursky joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that any cognitive bias we may have might be about things external to us, as well as the failure to recognize our own weaknesses, like not delegating enough.
Michael Stallard joins Jim Blasingame to report on the statistics showing suicides declining around the world, but doubling in the U.S. since 2005, and what could cause that.
Michael Stallard joins Jim Blasingame to discuss what could be causing a 50% increase in suicides in the U.S., including opioid crisis, disabled veterans, social media, lack of faith life, etc.
Michael Stallard joins Jim Blasingame to offer suggestions on how to help someone who might be suicidal, including paying attention to their behavior, and NOT minding your own business.
Tom Borg joins Jim Blasingame to identify the direct connection between your corporate culture and the performance of your business.
Tom Borg joins Jim Blasingame to recommend applying behavioral metrics, like the DISC system, to your people so you know how to motivate each behavior type to be more fulfilled at work.
Monday - March 23, 2020
Jim Blasingame explains the relationship between COVID-19 and the novel coronavirus, plus he reveals the three things we have to hold on to as we deal with the current pandemic situation.
Jim Blasingame discusses the pandemic challenge we face and why how we deal with it must not create more problems than the disease.
Anne Zimmerman joins Jim Blasingame to discuss some of the partisanship that’s holding up the government from helping the American people during the coronavirus pandemic.
Anne Zimmerman joins Jim Blasingame to reveal why giving more money for SBA loans for small businesses during the coronavirus pandemic will be too late because the SBA isn’t a direct-funding entity.
Anne Zimmerman joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how small businesses have been treated badly following the 2008 financial crisis, and why this approach must be different in the response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Nick Mathews joins Jim Blasingame to reveal some of the best methods and practices of helping small businesses during the pandemic, including helping employees by giving the financial resources to their employers.
Nick Mathews joins Jim Blasingame to explain why federal bank regulators need to abate their oversight of loan quality as they review bank records so their standards reflect the current financial challenges for small business borrowers.
Caleb Barlow joins Jim Blasingame to reveal some of the weak points of our home WiFi networks and how to protect from cyber-criminals during the pandemic work-from-home period.
Caleb Barlow joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that using a VPN connection will add cyber-crime protection during the work-from-home period, plus changing your SSID on your model to a “Quad 9” setting, as in “9999”.
Caleb Barlow joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the extra layer of concerns for data security professionals as cyber-criminals redouble their efforts to breach our systems during the pandemic period.
Tuesday - March 24, 2020
Kate Hodel joins Jim Blasingame to report on what her organization and other regional entities are doing to help small businesses with capital acquisition and business traffic.
Kate Hodel joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the impact on small business families – owners and employees – when the pandemic puts them out of business, and how long they can hold on is the question.
Karen Kerrigan joins Jim Blasingame to discuss why we should all be noticing evidence of character – leadership, courage, selflessness – as we observe so-called leaders doing their jobs on our behalf.
Karen Kerrigan joins Jim Blasingame to review some of the reasons why the pandemic relief legislation, the CARES Act, has been stuck in Congress and where it’s stuck because of unrelated amendments being added.
Karen Kerrigan joins Jim Blasingame to discuss how the unprecedented Fed plan to capitalize Main Street businesses during the pandemic would work, and will it keep the funding flowing through the employers, not directly to the employees.
Greg Kozera joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the granular challenges any small business has during a shutdown that’s different than large companies, plus the future of non-China supply chain redundancy going forward.
Greg Kozera joins Jim Blasingame to report on why crude oil has dropped over 50% in a short period, and natural gas is down as well, including geo-political influences, and what will be the long-term implications.
Joel Barker joins Jim Blasingame to report on the continued growth and elegant applications of 3-D paradigm enhancement, including the new examples of very small pieces and biological products.
Joel Barker joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how a new technology would create electric current from the moisture in the air, plus a new agriculture method that reduces the amount of raw land to feed the world.
Joel Barker joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the many global paradigms that are shifting because of the pandemic, and what the world will look like on the other side of this, including many of our institutions.
Wednesday - March 25, 2020
Felice and Michael Friedson join Jim Blasingame to reveal how they’re managing their important reporting while they’re self-quarantined for two weeks, and how the coronavirus pandemic is being handled in Israel.
Felice and Michael Friedson join Jim Blasingame to report on how the Palestine region is managing the coronavirus pandemic, and why that close neighborhood of countries could be problematic in social distancing effectiveness.
Ruth King joins Jim Blasingame to report that some sectors of the construction industry have continued to work because their projects were already funded.
Ruth King joins Jim Blasingame to report on how her clients have prepared themselves to weather something like a pandemic shutdown, and what we can learn from them.
Ruth King joins Jim Blasingame to reveal some cash management tips and best practices to use for now, and to prepare you for the next financial challenge.
Jim Blasingame reports on why our experience with Y2K over 20 years ago is the best perspective to assume as we deal with ending the coronavirus pandemic.
Jim Blasingame reveals some of the institutional hurdles the Fed and the SBA will have to jump over in order to get quick emergency cash to Main Street businesses.
Chad Moutray joins Jim Blasingame to report on the challenges the U.S. government – the SBA and the Fed – will have in getting emergency cash distributed to Main Street small businesses.
Chad Moutray joins Jim Blasingame to report how U.S. manufacturers are dealing with the uncertainty of the coronavirus pandemic challenge, which is changing every week.
Chad Moutray joins Jim Blasingame to discuss some of the future implications that could accrue to U.S. manufacturers on the other side of the coronavirus pandemic shutdown of the economy and their supply chains.
Thursday - March 26, 2020
Jeff Zbar joins Jim Blasingame to reveal what he’s learned about being a home-based, remote worker for over 30 years, including his tried and true tips, best practices and technology.
Rob Jolles joins Jim Blasingame to tell the story about how his father kept busy during periods of slow economy in order to maintain a positive attitude and feeling of accomplishment.
Rob Jolles joins Jim Blasingame to report on why we should create a home video production studio, including how to assemble the highly digital technology that today makes this easy.
David Johnson joins Jim Blasingame to reveal some of the PR tips and best practices you should be using as you maintain relationships with employees, customers and vendors, and protect your brand.
Jim Blasingame reveals how emergency, government stimulus cash can go directly to your small business, why your banker is waiting on you to ask for that help, plus why some of that loan will be forgiven.
Grace-Marie Turner joins Jim Blasingame to report on the way America’s private sector has stepped up as if on a war-time footing, to fill in critical gaps in this war against the coronavirus. It’s another example of American values, unique in the world.
Grace-Marie Turner joins Jim Blasingame to reveal some of the ways that American healthcare policy and practices will be transformed as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, especially revealing the power of a private, market-based healthcare system.
Monday - March 30, 2020
Jim Blasingame reveals some of the issues to expect to deal with, including timing, as you expect to receive financial assistance from the government during the pandemic period.
Jim Blasingame reveals what will have to happen for the SBA to distribute the money Congress has set aside for small businesses in the CARES Act.
Sarah Hiner joins Jim Blasingame to propose that if we had to discover that we weren’t prepared for a Black Swan event, will we one day be thankful this one was just the coronavirus?
Sarah Hiner joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how her company, with many employees, has gone from everyone being face-to-face, to everyone working remotely.
Sarah Hiner joins Jim Blasingame to share their thoughts on why we all need to work together and take care of the least of us during this emergency pandemic period.
Karen Kerrigan joins Jim Blasingame to report on how the $350k in funding set aside for small businesses will be distributed, including a new SBA emergency fund to get money to your business quickly, including for contractors.
Karen Kerrigan joins Jim Blasingame to report on how the CARES Act is impacting small business tax paying and filing dates, including a 90-day extension on paying currently owed taxes.
Garrett Sutton joins Jim Blasingame to discuss why we should start noticing how corporations demonstrate character and values during the pandemic, and why force majeure will be a hot topic for some time to come.
Garrett Sutton joins Jim Blasingame to report on the reasons you should already be incorporated in order to protect your personal estate, and how to deal with your landlord during the pandemic.
Garrett Sutton joins Jim Blasingame to reveal some of the increased emphasis on force majeure aspects of contracts going forward following the pandemic, especially by insurance companies.
Tuesday - March 31, 2020
Bob Kustka joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the power of staying in touch with your remote workers during the day/week and keeping them up to date on the plans the company is making to deal with the pandemic period.
Bob Kustka joins Jim Blasingame to reveal why employees want and deserve to know what and how the company is planning to deal with the pandemic emergency period, especially the part that involves them.
Tom Sullivan joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how the SBA’s Emergency Loan program – separate from the CARES Act – will put cash directly into the bank accounts of small business owners from SBA.gov.
Tom Sullivan joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the different ways the SBA will help small businesses get emergency and longer-term cash to keep their employees and stay in business during the coronavirus emergency period.
Tom Sullivan joins Jim Blasingame to differentiate between the initial grant money for small businesses from the SBA and the guaranteed loan process through your local bank, plus U.S. Chamber resources to take advantage of.
Barbara Rembiesa joins Jim Blasingame to report on the many ways that technology is helping small businesses to stay in business as they deal with the realities of the emergency pandemic period.
Barbara Rembiesa joins Jim Blasingame to reveal tips and best practices to use as we have our organizations working remotely during the pandemic period, including hardware, software, data and security.
Steve Forbes joins Jim Blasingame to share his perspectives on the unprecedented steps we all are taking to deal with a pandemic disease and the economic impact of the overburdening response.
Steve Forbes joins Jim Blasingame to recognize that part of our response to the pandemic must be to include planning for when we’ll emerge on the other side of the pandemic, both medically and financially.
Steve Forbes joins Jim Blasingame to offer perspective on getting through this pandemic period, what the other side will look like, and appraising the emergency response of the government and Trump administration.
