This Week's Show Schedule
Monday - May 20, 2013
How much mentoring goes on in your company? Chip Bell joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how promoting mentoring in your organization can create many benefits, including increased engagement, more innovation and higher productivity.
How many different generations work in your company? Chip Bell joins Jim Blasingame to talk about the challenges and benefits of promoting mentoring in today's workplace with so many different generations that are so different from each other.
Prepare to collect and remit sales tax for online sales. Barbara Weltman joins Jim Blasingame to report on the progress of the Marketplace Fairness Act, which when passed, will require most online sales to be subject to local sales tax collection.
The new top rate tax increase could cost you a lot more than you think. Barbara Weltman joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how the way the new top tax bracket is calculated could create a lot higher tax bill for some small businesses.
Why would we give the IRS more access to our private affairs? Barbara Weltman joins Jim Blasingame to talk about why we should be concerned about giving the IRS more control over our lives as the enforcer of Obamacare compliance.
Do you have a project graveyard? Michelle LaBrosse joins Jim Blasingame to explain why projects get started but don't get finished, including how to eliminate the distracting elements that create these failures.
Are you good a picking projects you can finish? Michelle LaBrosse joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how to break big goals into small projects that can be completed.
Are you ready for more IRS in your life? Avik Roy joins Jim Blasingame to report on the way Obamacare creates a much more intrusive role for the IRS as the chief taxer and compliance enforcer for every American citizen and business.
Are you prepared for the employer mandate of Obamacare? Avik Roy joins Jim Blasingame to talk about how the employer mandate will affect small businesses, and a possible way to legally work around it.
Are you ready for a single payer health care system? Avik Roy joins Jim Blasingame to talk about what our attitude will be about Obamacare after it is fully instituted in 2014.
Tuesday - May 21, 2013
Get ready for a one-a-day marketing plan? Ilise Benun joins Jim Blasingame to recommend a multi-faceted marketing plan that you execute a different element of each day, like a one-a-day vitamin.
Where is the ROI for a small business social media strategy? Ilise Benun joins Jim Blasingame to compare a traditional marketing strategy and a social media strategy, and conclude that you need both/and, not either or.
How much of your time is focused on sustainability of your business? Steve Martin joins Jim Blasingame to talk about the importance of business sustainability thinking by the CEO of a small business.
Perhaps more than management, profitability is a CEO task. Steve Martin joins Jim Blasingame to explain why the long-term profitability of a small business is a role for the company's CEO, not the managers.
A SCORE volunteer relates client expectations and reality of social media. Steve martin joins Jim Blasingame to share his experiences with small business clients who are trying to create a successful social media strategy.
Are you doing what you were meant to do? Denise Barreto joins Jim Blasingame to offer ideas on how to find and pursue your life's work, by being intentional and taking inventory of yourself.
Be patient with your journey to entrepreneurship. Denise Barreto joins Jim Blasingame with suggestions for why you should be patient and deliberate in your quest for entrepreneurship by breaking your plan into small steps.
How do you think about acquiring success? Bill Treasurer joins Jim Blasingame to talk about the power of leaders opening success doors for their people and aggregating the success of the team.
How do you think about your leadership role? Bill Treasurer joins Jim Blasingame to talk about the power of opportunity thinking, which includes leading people first, instead of leading the project with the people as just a resource.
How much evaluation can your leadership ability stand? Bill Treasurer joins Jim Blasingame to offer suggestions on different ways to evaluate your leadership style and results.
Wednesday - May 22, 2013
Who has the most power in your business? Chuck Wall joins Jim Blasingame to talk about how control of your relationship with customers has shifted from you to your customer, and why.
Take a lesson from successful customer-focused companies. Chuck Wall joins Jim Blasingame to report on how highly successful companies got that way by how they talk with and respond to customers.
The U.S. tax code does not serve us well. John Fox joins Jim Blasingame to reveal why the U.S. tax code is broken and how certain changes could simplify it and lead to greater economic growth.
What's the difference between a 501(c)(4) corporation and a 501(c)(3). John Fox joins Jim Blasingame to explain the difference between a 501(c)(3) corporation and a 501(c)(4), and discuss the IRS controversy.
Do you want to pay for Cadillac health care coverage for billioinaires? John Fox joins Jim Blasingame to report that millionaires are receiving significant tax deductions that are not available to regular tax payers
Are you making the expectations journey with customers? Jim Blasingame reveals the journey of customer desires, from need to want to expect, and why you have to make this journey with them.
Why do entrepreneurs take risks? Jim Blasingame offers insight into the reasons why entrepreneurs take risks in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds.
Will the IRS scandal get bigger? Steve Moore joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the recent revelation that the IRS has been targeting private citizens and groups, potentially for political purposes.
Is the U.S. Constitution under attack? Steve Moore joins Jim Blasingame to discuss a number of scandals that have arisen from what seem to be assaults on our Constitutional rights, such as freedom of speech and of the press.
What's holding back the U.S. economy? Steve Moore joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the primary reason the U.S. economy is languishing, which is Obamacare and how much business owners are afraid of it.
Thursday - May 23, 2013
What does your budget look like? Cary Siegel joins Jim Blasingame to recommend the three most important components of financial education, including budgeting, living below your means and saving tips.
Do Millennials need extra help with their financial education? Cary Siegel joins Jim Blasingame to talk about some of the issues that Generation Y faces that may be unique to them.
Do you want the IRS to have even more control over your life an business? Grace-Marie Turner joins Jim Blasingame to report on the 47 new powers that Obamacare gives to the IRS as a way to make sure you comply with this law.
Do you want the IRS to share your private financial and health information with HHS? Grace-Marie Turner joins Jim Blasingame to reveal one of the 47 new power of the IRS, which is to be able to share your private information with other federal departments.
What's the best that could be expected from repealing Obamacare? Grace-Marie Turner joins Jim Blasingame to talk about what health care insurance would look like if Obamacare were repealed, including at least one good result.
What do the Millennials need to know about goal setting? Jay Papasan joins Jim Blasingame to talk about how he approaches Generation Y employees to help them set professional performance goals.
Is there a difference in managing Millennial salespeople? Jay Papasan joins Jim Blasingame to reveal his method of making sure his Millennial employees stay on track with their performance goals.
Reporting on the Moore, OK tornado. Terry Neese joins Jim Blasingame to talk about her experience with the tornadoes that hit Oklahoma this week, including the city of Moore, which is near her home.
The IEEW continues to train women entrepreneurs from around the world. Terry Neese joins Jim Blasingame to talk about the 2013 schedule for the Institute for Economic Empowerment of Women as it graduates another class of women entrepreneurs.
U.S. women entrepreneurs mentor women from Afghanistan and Rwanda. Terry Neese joins Jim Blasingame to explain the mentoring part of the IEEW's work with women entrepreneurs from Afghanistan and Rwanda.
Friday - May 24, 2013
Could you be doing more computing in the Cloud? Matt Peterson joins Jim Blasingame to encourage small businesses to be more intentional about seeking out Cloud computing services and solutions.
How many placed do you store documents? Matt Peterson joins Jim Blasingame to explain how cloud-based tools can help small businesses consolidate multiple document storage options into one.
Was Benghazi just a CIA screw-up? Bill Brandt joins Jim Blasingame to try make the case that the whole Benghazi issue was all due to the CIA, not the State department or the White House.
Does the IRS scandals stop at the management level? Bill Brandt joins Jim Blasingame to try to place the blame for the IRS mistreatment of conservative groups at the manager level, and not with the Obama administration.
Is the media scandal all the fault of Holder? Bill Brandt joins Jim Blasingame to place the entire blame for the media scandals against the AP and Fox News on Attorney General Holder and no higher.
Are you taking advantage of paradoxes to solve problems? Kelle Olwyler joins Jim Blasingame to explain how to turn a dilemma into a trilemma, or even a quadlemma by using paradoxical thinking.
Don't avoid paradoxes, use them to your advantage. Kelle Olwyler joins Jim Blasingame to explain how paradoxical thinking can help you solve problems and improve working relationships.
Are you mindful as a negotiator? Ed Kopf joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the concept of mindfulness as a negotiation and management practice, and how it can help you get better management and negotiating results.
How intentional are you at controlling your emotions in business? Ed Kopf joins Jim Blasingame to encourage you to be intentional and mindful when faced with a negotiation, so you don't let emotions cost you an opportunity.
Do you "have a word with yourself" before important events? Ed Kopf joins Jim Blasingame to explain how to use self-talk and mindfulness to get into an appropriate frame of mind before a negotiation or other important interaction.
