Monday, June 08, 2009
How will the Obama administration's foray into the marketplace ultimately impact small businesses? Ray Keating joins Jim Blasingame to talk about the car czar, the bank czar, the energy czar and the new pay czar. How long will it be before, like during the last czarist regime, there is a revolution? Non-violent, of course.
Having a website that doesn't generate new customers is like having a sales person that doesn't sell.Does your website serve the purposes of the business? Is it a profit center or an expense? Robert Skrob joins Jim Blasingame to talk about the way any business owner can generate more sales from their website.
Do introvert salespeople use social media as a handy tool or a crutch that allows them to avoid face-to-face contact? Pat Weber and Jim Blasingame discuss how social media should be used by all parties, but also how it can actually be a productive lever for introverts. They also talk about the difference between introverted and unsociable.
Following a discussion of how the economy is doing in general and for small businesses, Art Kleiner talks with Jim Blasingame about why he thinks the best years of the auto industry could still to come, including a global perspective.





























