How did the Mass. Senate election impacted small businesses nationally. Karen Kerrigan joins Jim Blasingame to report on how Scott Brown's Senate election changed the legislative direction to benefit small businesses.

Finding high efficiency with all online communication tools is the topic discussed by Christina Cavanagh and Jim Blasingame as they talk about how to be more effective with email, plus email's future amid the plethora of new communication technologies and platforms.

Cinda Baxter joins Jim Blasingame to report on what the 3/50 Project is, how it's saving Main Street one small business at a time, what you can do to help, and the next phase of this grass roots phenomenon.

What is keeping small businesses from hiring? Gene Marks talks with Jim Blasingame about several reasons why small businesses are delaying their plans to put workers back on payroll, including uncertainty about public policy issues, such as health care reform, and others.

How to create real jobs. Karen Kerrigan talks with Jim Blasingame about her audience with the Obama administration on how to create Main Street marketplace jobs, instead of artificial stimulus jobs.

What will the President's state of the union speech have in it for small business? Karen Kerrigan joins Jim Blasingame to discuss some of the specific small business issues the president is expected to include in his speech.