Small Business Creativity Archives

Jim Canterucci 07/16/2008 Author of Personal Brilliance: Mastering the Everyday Habits That Create a Lifetime of Success Are you promoting personal brilliance among your staff? Jim Canterucci and Jim Blasingame talk about the importance of innovation and how empowering employees can cause it to flourish.

Karen Post 06/11/2008 The Branding Diva; author of Brain Tattoos and co-founder of OddPodz.com Do you think you're creative? Karen Post joins Jim Blasingame to report on some interesting statistics about creativity and what makes people creative.

Lori Pope 05/23/2008 The creator of an innovative green toy rental program, Babyplays Ladies, do you have an innovative idea? Lori Pope and Julie Aigner-Clark talk with Jim Blasingame about a contest offered by Whirlpool Corporation to encourage women to develop their innovative ideas by offering prize money for the top five entries.

Michael Chandler 05/12/2008 Author of Dreamweaving Michael Chandler talks with Jim Blasingame about the process of writing and publishing a novel. They go on to talk about how to use Michael's "Dreamweaving" system to make sure you're approaching the marketplace effectively.

David Minter 08/28/2007 Co-author of Lightning in a Bottle When is more actually less? David and Jim talk about how more ideas, more people and more words are not necessarily a good thing, and why this is good news for small business.

Dan Heath 01/12/2007 Co-Author of Made To Stick Many great ideas have failed because the weren't communicated properly and Dan talks with Jim about how to make your great small business ideas stick so they have the maximum opportunity to be successful.

Douglas Rushkoff 03/27/2006 Author of Get Back In the Box Douglas joins Jim for the first time to talk about why small businesses should make sure they're operating a 21st century business, not a left-over 20th century one.

Floyd Hurt 03/24/2006 Author of Rousing Creativity and Live Like You Mean It Floyd joins Jim to talk about how to turn the features of the things you sell - and that you love way too much - into the benefits that actually attract customers.

Phyllis Martin 02/24/2006 Author of Word Watcher's Handbook Phyllis joins Jim to talk about using the creative process to find naming opportunities for your business, your products or a marketing campaign.

Stephanie Winston 02/06/2006 Author of Getting Organized Stephanie joins Jim again to try to help him get organized. Today's visit is about how to unclutter and throw things away. Some of this was painful for Jim.

Lee Eisenberg 01/17/2006 EVP and Creative Director, Lands' End; former Editor-in-Chief of Esquire; author of The Number Lee joins Jim for the first time to talk about how to prepare yourself financially for retirement. This is more about who you are and how you think than financial strategy.

Floyd Hurt 06/09/2005 Author of Rousing Creativity and Live Like You Mean It Floyd joins Jim to talk about who to establish your business in the marketplace, including a few things not to do.

Floyd Hurt 11/16/2004 Author of Rousing Creativity and Live Like You Mean It Floyd joins Jim to help him celebrate seven years on the air and to talk about what has changed for small businesses over that time.

Kirk Cheyfitz 10/20/2004 Author of Thinking Inside the Box Jim and Kirk continue their debate on Bush vs Kerry in small business terms.

Douglas Graham 09/13/2004 CEO & Chairman of Circle Trust; co-author of Ideation: The Birth and Death of Ideas Jim and Douglas discus the reasons ideas don't happen and how to correct that.

Floyd Hurt 06/28/2004 Author of Rousing Creativity and Live Like You Mean It Jim and Floyd talk about how to get the most out of advertising for your small business.

Douglas Graham 05/31/2004 CEO & Chairman of Circle Trust; co-author of Ideation: The Birth and Death of Ideas Jim and Douglas talk about why small business uses some ideas profitably and others, not at all.

Floyd Hurt 04/28/2004 Author of Rousing Creativity and Live Like You Mean It Jim and Floyd talk about setting goals and motivating yourself and others around you.

Alan Robinson Dean Schroeder 03/24/2004 Co-Authors of Ideas Are Free Alan and Dean join Jim to talk about the Idea Revolution that is going on and how it is helping companies.

Floyd Hurt 10/14/2003 Author of Rousing Creativity and Live Like You Mean It Jim and Floyd talk about having fun and being creative in your organization.

Floyd Hurt 08/19/2003 Author of "Live Like You Mean It" Mr. Creativity, Floyd talks with Jim about the importance of being creative in our small businesses and has some excellent ideas to offer.

Floyd Hurt 06/03/2003 author of Rousing Creativity Jim and Floyd talk about motivation and how to be aware of where you are during the day.

Floyd Hurt 03/14/2003 author of Live Like You Mean It Jim and Floyd discuss products and services. Since many products look seem the same, Floyd discusses 5 ways in which you can make your product distinct.

Floyd Hurt 10/04/1999 Author of "Rousing Creativity" Buckle up! Floyd is in the building. Mr. Creativity joins Jim to introduce Zing Marketing, which is a new way of creating ideas. You don't want to miss this. Anything can happen when Floyd and Jim work together.

Floyd Hurt 07/28/1999 Author of "Rousing Creativity" Floyd talks with Jim about creativity and something Floyd calls "The Game".

Floyd Hurt 02/26/1999 Author of "Rousing Creativity" Floyd begins his visit talking about his recent visit to Istanbul, Turkey, and some special entrepreneurs he found there. If you think we have it tough here, don't miss this story. He and Jim move on to talk about The Benefit Finder, what it is, how it works, and how it will "benefit" you and your customers. They continue their visit by helping you understand the power of knowing the difference between features and benefits. Later in the hour they take a call from two of Jim's loyal listeners, one of which says Jim and Floyd are geniuses (obviously a highly intelligent individual).